Keeping up with the neighbours can be a real headache. You have just put down a new patio, and then the Bernsteens at Number 34 trump this by building a home cinema. Where do you go from there? Well, Italian inventor and entrepreneur, Andrea Rossi, may have developed the ultimate in home improvements, one which will leave your neighbours scurrying off to take out a second mortgage and prise the solar panels from their roof: your own personal nuclear reactor.
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It used to be China that was considered to be at the forefront of the development of fusion energy (the same energy the sun uses), but now it appears to be–of all places–that lovely tourist destination of southern France where the largest fusion reactor every constructed is being built.
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After twenty years of controversy and obsessive debunking in the scientific community and the media, US Navy researchershave confirmed that cold fusion reactions can be reliablyreplicated in the laboratory. This is the kind of fusion that works through the electrolysis of heavy water, not the kind that needs Helium 3 as a fuel. It’s almost like changing from fossil fuels towind or solar power?all the effort to conquer territory and mine the earth (or in the case of Helium 3, the moon) may, in the future, be seen to have been in vain.
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