{"id":474,"date":"2009-03-26T22:44:36","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T05:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/?p=474"},"modified":"2009-03-26T22:44:36","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T05:44:36","slug":"signs-of-life-in-cold-fusion-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/2009\/03\/signs-of-life-in-cold-fusion-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs of life in cold fusion research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2009-03\/acs-fr031709.php\">article<\/a> seems encouraging. I&#8217;ve never been able to come to grips with the anti-CF bias of the scientific community. Sure a few researchers made fools of themselves two decades ago, but what has that got to do with falsifiable hypotheses? A small amount of research goes on with minimal funding, under the newer name of Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR), and the signs are encouraging.<\/p>\n<p>From the article, researchers used plastic as a permanent record of neutron movement and found that, indeed, neutrons are being produced, leaving tiny tracks behind.<\/p>\n<p>Another recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.analogsf.com\/0904\/altview.shtml\">article<\/a> from Jeffrey Kooistra has more details of current research. Good stuff, and important if it works. Heck, it&#8217;s important if it doesn&#8217;t work, because that still expands what we know. -m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article seems encouraging. I&#8217;ve never been able to come to grips with the anti-CF bias of the scientific community. Sure a few researchers made fools of themselves two decades ago, but what has that got to do with falsifiable hypotheses? A small amount of research goes on with minimal funding, under the newer name&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33,28],"tags":[689,688,298,687,691,690],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annoyance","category-everythingismiscellaneous","tag-bias","tag-coldfusion","tag-energy","tag-lenr","tag-neutron","tag-science"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eo8l-7E","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}