Cold Fusion Gets a Boost From the US Navy

Tjeerd writes in to alert us to the publication in a highly respected, peer-reviewed journal of results indicative of table-top fusion. The US Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center in San Diego, CA (called Spawar) has apparently been conducting research on "cold fusion" since the days of the discredited report of Pons and Fleischmann. They are reporting on the reproducible detection of highly energetic charged particles from a wire coated in palladium-deuterium and subjected to either an electric or a magnetic field. Their paper was published in February in the journal Naturwissenschaften (which has published work by Einstein, Heisenberg, and Lorenz). New Scientist also has a note about the fusion work but it is available only to subscribers.

curious

[User 956]

The US Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center in San Diego, CA (called Spawar) has apparently been conducting research on "cold fusion"

I wonder why they chose that over ASP .NET or J2EE.

LERN

[Skrynkelberg]

"... low energy nuclear reaction (LERN)" Someone needs to LERN to abbreviate correctly. (-:

I hope this means ...

[WrongSizeGlass]

... that one day I'll be able to use the melted ice in my 'Cold Fusion' brand beer cooler to recharge my laptop and my iPod ... or even my TV remote.

Re:curious

[Bender_]

Computer geek vs. science geek battle alert!

I will take the science side any time! Web technology fads come and go, science will stay.

I won't believe it for real until...

[Glowing Fish]

I won't believe the Navy has really discovered anything until they commission The Village People to write a song about it.

Re:curious

[Jessta]

Because Myspace proved that you can make a solid, easy to use, and efficient website with it. :P

Cold fusion

[Oshkoshjohn]

The experiment would probably work better if they built the prototype in a cup of tea!

Cold Fusion

[NotFamousYet]

When I saw the title I thought it was about ColdFusion and started wondering why the hell would the Navy want to improve MySpace :)

Obligitory...

[bronzey214]

...Yvan Eht Nioj

Re:Low Energy Nuclear Reactions

[evilviper]

nuclear catalysts could cause a bit of a stir in isotopic dating.

Yes, that could be an issue... But that's absolutely, positively, NOT SCARY, in any way, shape, or form.