Naval Researchers Organize Cold Fusion Confab
By Sharon Weinberger EmailAugust 08, 2008 | 3:00:00 PMCategories: Nukes
It's like the beginning of a bad joke: If a
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion">cold fusion conference took place in Washington, and no one heard about it, should anybody care?
Even I'm not sure if I know the answer to that question, but I love unusual Pentagon and Beltway news so I'm posting it. The
http://www.iccf-14.org/index.html">fourteenth cold fusion conference is taking place in DC all next week, and two of they key organizers are scientists affiliated with the Naval Postgraduate School and the Naval Research Laboratory (scientists from the latter institution having long been involved in this controversial field).
http://www.newenergytimes.com/">Cold fusion, the catch-all phrase for research that follows in the footsteps of the 1989 announcement by
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Pons">Stanley Pons and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Fleischmann">Martin Fleischmann, has been anathema to much of the mainstream scientific community in the United States. But interestingly, cold fusion -- now referred to by some as "low energy nuclear reactions" -- has long maintained some U.S. military interest, particularly among naval researchers, occasionally at DARPA (at least under the current director), and nowadays at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), which, at one point, was
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/04/is-the-pentagon.html">considering funding some work in the area.
In fact,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Nanos">Pete Nanos, an associate director at DTRA and the former head of the Los Alamos lab, was originally the invited keynote speaker for the conference. But when I e-mailed Nanos to confirm his attendance, he wrote me back to say that he had decided to turn town the invitation.
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