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Cold Fusion is Hot again

(CBS) 60 Minutes wondered what Richard Garwin would think of the Defense Department’s appraisal.

“The experiments leave ‘no doubt that anomalous, excess heat is produced,’” Pelley told Garwin.


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(CBS)  Twenty years ago it appeared, for a moment, that all our energy problems could be solved. It was the announcement of cold fusion - nuclear energy like that which powers the sun - but at room temperature on a table top. It promised to be cheap, limitless and clean. Cold fusion would end our dependence on the Middle East and stop those greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. It would change everything.
“We can yield the power of nuclear physics on a tabletop. The potential is unlimited. That is the most powerful energy source known to man,” researcher Michael McKubre told 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley.
McKubre is an electro-chemist who imagines, in 20 years, the creation of a clean nuclear battery.
The same would go for cars. “The potential is for an energy source that would run your car for three, four years, for example. And you’d take it in for service every four years and they’d give you a new power supply,” McKubre told Pelley.
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The Immaculate Designer Prosthesis

Human morphology is not only  matter of biology it is also a matter of fashion. Atztecs had a practice of reshaping their skulls. Chinese were reshaping females’ feet. This is only the next step

Amplify’d from ieet.org

Something that’s always bothered me about traditional prostheses is the constant attempt to mimic normal human morphology. Artificial legs are supposed to look like real legs and artificial arms are supposed to look like real arms, right?

This is exactly the perspective of Hans Alexander Huseklepp who believes that prostheses should go beyond mere functionality and become objects of fashion and identity. To this end he has designed the ”Immaculate” which explores new possibilities for assistive devices.
Immaculate is a neurological prosthetic that will be connected to a user’s central nervous system. The exterior of the prosthetic is textile clad in Corian plates which, in principle, will allow embedded technology to be seamlessly integrated. This material will also give the prosthetic a clear graphical identity. In addition, each joint is a globe joint, allowing a larger freedom of movement than a normal human arm. Read more at ieet.org