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Researchers rush to check out a startlingly simple experiment that could be the breakthrough in nuclear fusion they have sought for nearly 40 years...
Bureaucracy Watch: There are two teams of Harvard researchers racing to help confirm the results of a University of Utah fusion report that could revolutionize science and, possibly, American society. One of the Harvard scientists, whose experiment will likely be finished on Monday or Tuesday, said that he might have been able to run his experiment yesterday had it not been for a faculty meeting he was required to attend...
...science concentrator roommate assures me that, unlike the last dramatic physics breakthrough--superconductivity--cold fusion may see commercial applications in a few years rather than a few decades. Fusion-heated homes, fusion-generated electricity and fusion-powered cars could be the wave of the future...
...drawback to the process is that it requires electrodes made from the rare metal palladium, which is commonly used as a component of dental fillings. Palladium doesn't come cheap. Before the cold fusion breakthrough, it sold for about $5 million per ton, and the price is now rising...
...incentive for the U.S. increase the pressure for reform on the Pretoria government. Whether by democratic reform or violent revolution, South African Blacks are certain to eventually overthrow the apartheid regime. The last thing the U.S. needs is hostile relations with the people who could govern the fusion equivalent of Saudi Arabia...