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To: ZGuy
something sounds too good to be true here. I remember pons & fleichman's cold fusion breakthrough.

has this been peer reviewed? published in a scientific journal? has anybopdy duplicated the research?

if not then there's a good chance it's PR generating bunk.
2 posted on 02/13/2004 7:36:54 AM PST by camle (keep your mind open and somebody will fill it with something for you))
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To: camle
The media thinks they are a peer review.
3 posted on 02/13/2004 7:41:24 AM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (I may grow old but I will never grow up:) 64 going on 19)
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To: camle
If it promises to be a very lucrative technology, publishing it in a journal and exposing it to peer review aren't the best first steps. If they've got it they've got it and the market will prove it to the world. They ought to be well advanced in the patent process before getting any publicity.
5 posted on 02/13/2004 7:42:03 AM PST by Triple Word Score
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To: camle
Next step coming: make the ethanol from hemp...
6 posted on 02/13/2004 7:42:27 AM PST by JimRed (Disinformation is the leftist's and enemy's friend; consider the source before believing.)
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Here is the link to the article from today's issue of the journal Science : Renewable Hydrogen from Ethanol
(Free registration is required to access the article)
8 posted on 02/13/2004 7:46:02 AM PST by ZGuy
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To: camle
Cold fusion generates helium 4 from deuterium.
and is a better source of net future energy (has to do with mc2)
Cold fusion demonstrations in Cambridge MA
including FR thread entitled "Cold fusion gets cold shoulder from many scientists"

This report seems to describe generation of hydrogen from ethanol for fuel cells, as it says.

9 posted on 02/13/2004 7:46:11 AM PST by Diogenesis (If you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us)
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To: camle
Yes...I'm a bit chary of bold claims like this without any scientific criticism.
17 posted on 02/13/2004 7:59:04 AM PST by tcuoohjohn (Follow The Money)
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To: camle
This is a chemical reactor. It processes ethanol into hydrogen. It also probably requires some outside power, but if it is cleverly designed, not too much.
34 posted on 02/13/2004 8:29:15 AM PST by eno_ (Freedom Lite - it's almost worth defending)
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