Cold Fusion Back From The Dead

misterfusion writes "Looks like the IEEE is warming up to cold fusion with the latest story "Cold Fusion Back from the Dead". This has been a good year for this field with several leading science journals (Physics Today, MIT Technology Review, etc) contributing stories. Things are warming up and if science Research & Development funding can be stimulated with a positive DoE report (due soon), it might be an interesting rebirth."

Almost had a heart attack!

[skrysakj]

I thought the article was referring to Macromedia Coldfusion!
Phew!

Come on...

[Anonymous Coward]

You guys could've fit at least ONE MORE "warming up" pun in the summary. It's like you weren't even trying!

What if Slashdot was right...

[FooAtWFU]

Given the history of cold fusion, the Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. notice seemed strangely appropriate. :)

Better title...

[TopShelf]

How's about "Cold Fusion warmed over" instead?

Unlimited Energy

[Prince Vegeta SSJ4]

Now I can power my car for free, and for an indefinite period of time with all of those unused AOL CD's I saved. Not to mention all of the junk mail that has increased exponentially since the DO NOT CALL list came into being.

Perpetual motion ...

[Dark$ide]

In the next Slashdot story perpetual motion is shown to be possible.

Back from the dead?

[surprise_audit]

Heh... Cold Fusion Back From The Dead is almost as good as Stealing Fire from the Gods

Re:Back from the dead?

[chill]

Heh... Cold Fusion Back From The Dead is almost as good as Stealing Fire from the Gods

For the last time we did not steal it, we borrowed it. We fully intend to give it back one of these days.

Re:Article Summary for lazy people

[PatrickThomson]

Ok, this is beyond a joke. My last 3 posts have all been modded overrated in a matter of seconds. SHOW YOURSELF, STALKER!

Utah Connection

[Mateito]

Pons and Fleischmann, the original perpertrators of Cold Fusion, were from the University of Utah.

What's the bet that this "re-birth" of Cold Fusion has something to do with SCO?

Judge: Mr McBride, do you have anything to say before the jury adjourn to find you guilty and sentence you to death by stoning?

Darl: Look! Excess neutrons!

Jugde: Where? [Looks away]

Darl: [Exit, stage left]

Re:Easy to see why this has had so much resistance

[Aragorn DeLunar]

Quotations - the last resort of people without a valid argument.

Perpetual motion ...

[Dark$ide]

... In the next Slashdot story perpetual motion is shown to be possible.

Re:Back from the dead?

[drinkypoo]

Fire isn't physical property, it's knowing how to make fire that's valuable, and that's intellectual property. In other words, we're all engaged in acts of pyrotechnic piracy. Sooner or later the DFA (Deistic Fire Alliance) will come down on us...

Stop the scientific madness!

[WormholeFiend]

The fission power business depends on massive subsidy, at least in .uk. As for fossil-fuel energy, that may have the clout to squash new technologies in .uk and .us, but I suspect that in .jp, where they're wholly dependent on imported power, any alternative would be welcomed.

We all know that these kinds of experiments opened a blackhole in .cx

I've already got fusion power ready to go

[reverendG]

All I need is tritium, which is so rare that there's only 25 tons of it on the entire planet. And with these fancy new robotic arms that I made, fusion's a snap to control!

Why aren't I mentioned in these articles? I'm far beyond everyone else. So what if I haven't actually done it before, or if I have no safety backups?

Re:Easy to see why this has had so much resistance

[Solder Fumes]

No, it's because the opposite of hot fusion is not cold fusion: it's ugly fusion.

Re:Bob Park

[Proteus]

Nothing is impossible.

Oh yeah!?! What about Cold Fusion! Hah!

Re:Almost had a heart attack!

[techsoldaten]

See, when I hear about a site powered by ColdFusion , I want that to mean the server runs in a large building somewhere getting all it's energy from within a glass jar stored in the basement.

Moreover, when I hear about a site written in C# , I want that to mean a composer orchestrated the score for the site in a beautiful, somber key evocative of Brahms later symphonies.

Also, when I hear about a site written in java , I want that to bring to mind a picture of some nut on the floor of a coffee house writing hundreds of pages of a manifesto by hand using stale coffee beans before publishing his rants on the Web.

For that matter, when I hear there is a site powered by Perl , I want that to mean there is a site solely financed by the pearl trade.

And when I hear about a site powered by ASP , I want it to be an Egyptian site that changes ownership every few months due to the unexplained deaths of previous owners.

Further, where I hear about a site powered by PHP , I want to know that no user has a clue what scripting technology I am using.

The point to all this: I develop in all of the scripting languages listed above. Users don't care what language was used to write a site, they only care whether or not the site does what they need it to do.

M

Phew...

[PhotoBoy]

I thought they meant Macromedia Cold Fusion was back from the dead.

Re:Better title...

[Anonymous Coward]

Is there a mod -1, dork?

Re:Better title...

[tsa]

Oil companies would be richer than ever if this pans out. The oil won't stop being needed, it'll just stop being burned.

So plastic will be much cheaper than it is now in the future. And that us a good thing, since plastic is fantastic!