Cold Fusion

it would appear that after some technical problems the 1Mw demo plant discussed there is up and running grid independent. So I'd call that one to watch.

Dunno. Everything about it trips all my scam sensors. They seem awfully shy about letting any independent source, particularly any well-known one, replicate and verify the process - or any of their claims.

All the 'news' about it is only showing up on rather dubious websites, to say the least. The few times it's mentioned by more robust sources, they're just as skeptical.

If the thing worked, would it not make commercial sense to have it given the seal of approval by the world's top physics labs and researchers? All it would have to do is work as described...

I notice a few patent and patent application numbers are mentioned on the linked page. It wouldn't be too hard to look those up and see if any replicable data can be determined there.

Yes. I only read the introduction, but the "Convinced they have already adequately proven this to the necessary parties, they are not in a hurry to give demonstrations to curious scientists" bit set off my warning bells.

It sounds too good to be true.

I am very skeptical. They make claims that cannot be falsified.

That is not science.

My alarm bells were going off the moment I saw the words "cold" and "fusion" together on the same page.

The bells sheared off the retaining bolts and ricocheted across the room about a dozen times, then embedded themselves in a solid steel wall the moment I saw ALUMINUM FOIL.

I don't CARE how good of a neutron reflector aluminum foil is, you DON'T use it for something like THIS!

I'm sorry. There have been too many frauds.

My hopes for cold fusion have been ripped out of my heart, electrocuted, incinerated to dust, ashes mixed with water to make clay, shaped into a dildo, baked in atomic fire, glazed with broken glass and then used to rape my left ear until my brains ran down the back of my throat and got pooped out six hours later and flushed.

I will be convinced when one of these !@&$^%@-heads tells the WHOLE WORLD to go screw themselves and builds a FIFTY-KILOWATT GENERATION PLANT and hooks it up to the grid for a full year.

When that happens, I'll amuse myself with the dream that it could possibly be something that has some potential.

Hmmm...

I should trademark an ad campaign for this...

Cold fusion.
You'll get a lot for your nickel,
including change.

As you can see in my reply to raindrops, I'm just a little skeptical. I'll believe it when one of these things has been built into a full-scale power plant that has been running a city for a full year.

And it needs to be Las Vegas.

The inventor seems as sketchy as the claims. Scroll down toward the bottom of the page to read about him being some sort of eco-martyr after being jailed in the 90s for tax fraud - the claim is that he was being suppressed for inventing a garbage-to-fuel process.

Rather than making it run mega-scale electrical plants, i'd be very happy indeed to find something small-scale and relatively safe. however, their avoidance of Scientists makes me dubious, even as i hope it's true.

Ah. Not eager to demonstrate to those evil curious scientists. 'Cause if there's anyone in the room who's, like, you know, skeptical or anything, Tinkerbelle will die, and the sooper sekrit reactor won't work without her.

When they have one of these things running, and it's reliable enough to work even in front of people who aren't ignorant about physics, then I'll be delighted about it. Until then this sounds like a dozen other fraudster claims for cold fusion. It sounds like thousands of claims for perpetual motion too, for that matter.