Yes, Horace, I read that; but, in baseball, a batting average of 300 is considered good.
Terry On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Horace Heffner <hheff...@mtaonline.net> wrote: > > On Dec 26, 2008, at 7:06 AM, Terry Blanton wrote: > >> General Fusion offers a twist on LANL's research by using spherical >> force focusing reminiscent of Fat Man's explosives: >> >> http://www.popsci.com/node/3051 > > If you continue reading the article to here you find a most provocative > statement: > > http://www.popsci.com/node/30516?page=2 > > "Two things have conspired to hamper evolutionary leaps in peacetime fusion > research. The first is bad press. To the great frustration of people like > Laberge and Richardson, fusion's good name has been besmirched by a handful > of highly publicized failures, most prominently the cold-fusion experiments > of Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann and the "bubble fusion" experiments > Rusi Taleyarkhan conducted at Purdue University. Pons and Fleischmann > announced in 1986 that they had achieved fusion at room temperature, but > later review showed that faulty equipment had failed to accurately measure > the results. The U.S. Department of Energy all but called them frauds. In > 2002, Taleyarkhan published a paper stating that he had used ultrasonic > vibrations to make bubbles in a liquid solvent and that, when the bubbles > collapsed, they had created fusion. His results, too, would later be > discredited, and last year he was stripped of his university chair." > > > Best regards, > > Horace Heffner > http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/ > > > > >
