[Mongoose]

I wouldn't lose sleep over it.

[colecampbell666]

And Nuke is allowed to be nihilist-fatalist. Look at his username. Now HB, what do you have?

I have an opinion. What's so wrong about that?

(and don't give me some lecture about The Flood or something)

I started to hate Halo after I made haloboy100 my username on HLP.

That was a joke. And no, you're not. Why bother, your opinion is wrong anyways.

[DeepSpace9er]

Now its on engadget: http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/japanese-scientist-claims-breakthrough-with-cold-fusion-experime/

[colecampbell666]

At the bottom:

"Via SlashDot"

[DeepSpace9er]

I know that, I can read. 'Now ITS on engadget...'

[colecampbell666]

Oh.

[achtung]

http://physicsworld.com/blog/2008/05/coldfusion_demonstration_a_suc_1.html

According to this there was a successful demonstration.

[IceFire]

...but with some reservations.  It'd be great if this really was a success and the beginning of a new power technology....but these things never have worked out in the past.  It'd be nice but not holding my breath.  It needs to be extensively studied...either it works or can be made to work or doesn't.

[Mongoose]

I have to agree with several of the comments on that article: using "it stayed warm for a long time" as the sole criterion for detecting fusion is rather laughable.  Where are the particle detectors to pick up the inevitable products of the reactions (which, according to Wikipedia, would be either a proton or a neutron for D-D fusion)?  Where's the structured explanation for the physical process at work?  This is far too much of a hand-wavey argument if these people want to be taken seriously.

[DeepSpace9er]

It would be the end of the energy industry as we know it.. the same industry that raked in record profits last year.

[jr2]

Hmm, it stayed warm for a long time... takes a while to perfect that to power something, now, doesn't it?

[Black Wolf]

The problem I see with that is an almost instant global economic collapse from the sudden non-value of all fossil fuels.  It'd need some very careful planning to avoid an incredibly nasty period of time.

No it wouldn't. It would take years from the successful development of a laboaratory prototype to a practically applicable power plant of car engine, even longer for it to become available to the general public and then even longer for the entire worlds internal combustion "fleet" (Everything from scooters to busses to cranes to generators to diesel submarines to coal and gas power plants to lawnmowers and a million other things) to cycle out to the new fuel. It would be a long, slow, drawn out process, not an instant global collapse.