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Old 05-29-2009, 02:02 PM
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There was a show on the Science channel the other day about this subject the other day. They are working on it from many angles and they did have a small demonstration where they got 3 times as much power out as it took to make it work. But as the head scientist said, cold fusion is a long ways from being a viable answer to power generation on any scale other than small tests. I would like to see them prefect it, but it will take much longer than I will be around. However they do seem to have some good ideas about how to go abut it now.

Steve,

I like the nuclear power plants. Two big things worry me. The waste fuel rods and the paid off people who build them and use cheap material and don't built them correctly. Remember, it was a valve that cause 3 mile island to almost melt down because it was installed incorrectly. Built the way the engineers design them, they are very safe if ran by competent people, and maybe some day they will find a way to do something with the fuel rods besides argue over them. The worst thing is people hear nuclear and immediately think of mushroom clouds.

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