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RESEARCHERS who sunk billions of dollars in hopes of producing energy by nuclear fusion must be kicking themselves. Until recently, conventional wisdom in the physics world had it that the only way to feasibly derive energy from a controlled fusion reaction was to subject hydrogen nuclei to extreme pressures and temperatures of millions of degrees...
Scientists at the University of Utah have apparently discovered a technique to create fusion reactions by a process simple enough to perform in a high school chem lab. The process, dubbed "cold fusion," is performed at room temperature using deuterium, an isotope of hydrogen found in sea-water...
...implications of cold fusion are enormous. The supply of deuterium is virtually limitless. Unlike ordinary fission reactors, a cold-fusion plant would produce very little radiation and no radioactive waste, and it wouldn't produce the chemical pollutants and greenhouse gasses created by burning coal...
Scott Cossu's latest Windham Hill production, Switchback, brings an interesting combination of Latin beat and classical instruments to a fusion style that many recent composers use all too often to create background music rather than an intense listening experience...
Cossu's new album, Switchback, however, tries to push the path of fusion into a new direction. As the title suggests, just as mountain switchbacks take the trail back and forth to reach a certain destination, so is Cossu's music quite repetitive; it is repetitive, however, in an effort to establish a new sound. Cossu achieves a certain originality in his use of cellos and congas in creative percussion sequences...