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[MadMojoMonkey]

Cold fusion apparently does work. An italian i forgot his name made a cold fusion reactor a few months ago and it was peer reviewed and ok'd from the scientific community. Someone at the university of a russian friend of mine bought one of his reactors ($30k it costs apparently) and my friend even went to check it out it seems to really work.

Links, please.

[jackvance]

Links, please.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/markgibb...nge-after-all/

[MadMojoMonkey]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/markgibb...nge-after-all/

OK, this is news to me. It does seem as though some preliminary verifications are coming in. No one has a physical model for the process yet, so that's interesting.

The inventor, Andrea Rossi, has had a dubious history with false claims and tax fraud / waste dumping fiascoes that ended his previous businesses. So it wouldn't at all be surprising if this is another scheme or scam. Also, his paper was reviewed and the scientific community basically responded by saying that his designs were inconsistent with any accepted theoretical model.

That said, there is a research group in Bologna, Italy that claims to have reproduced Rossi's results. If that's true, it basically ends the scientific criticism for a while... until more experiments can be performed to reproduce the results.

In short, this is either a spectacular, ground breaking invention/discovery, or it's just a flash in the pan. If it truly works, then physics is going to have to catch up a bit and figure out what's going on.

I have to say that the author is a bit hyperbolic and speculative in his linked articles. The E-CAT web site is completely useless as to describing it.