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Old 01-24-2011, 03:02 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by devilsadvocate View Post
The discovery of genuine cold fusion would be the end of the world. Post-scarcity makes a lot of capitalists nervous, and a bunch of smaller countries would go BOOM trying to replicate it themselves.

The search would be more productive if instead of "near-room-temperature" they shot for something more practical, like a few hundred degrees Fahrenheit.
Well, except "cold fusion" as supposedly defined is a controlled reaction. Certainly not something that would take place spontaneously in nature and not without certain conditions being maintained.

I doubt it even exists, but if it does the odds of going "boom" are low.

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