A hotbed of cold fusion Answered

Just close your eyes. Think of the beach. A nice, warm beach. Cool, clear, sparkling turquoise water. Sugar-white sand. The gentle sound of the waves lapping on shore. Listen...

There, better? :D

Augh! There's sand in my shorts! And my shoes! And now there's a f--ing horseshoe crab biting my heel! That's why I hate the beach. Where are my nice fluorescent lights, and my WiFi connection?

Right on!!!

Yeah!?!?!??!!??

I only dislike it when I get sand in the hotel and then eventually into bed.....makes for a really itchy night.... still, I miss going

The worst I was ever bitten by (and it is debatable if one can say they actually bite) were small jellyfish.

There are so many things which can make for really itchy nights. At least you don't need antibiotics for sand...

_{^{Okay, okay, that violates the be nice policy. Too bad}}

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HA!

....like sand fleas..... ;-)

They sting

Ugh. I got stung by manymanymany red jellies last time I went to the beach. Some like bee stings, others like long whip lashes. >_<

yeah, they are not the best part of the beach, for sure...

I invited you to my Happy Place - and you rejected it! :'-( I has a sad.

I hate beach. I like mountains.

:'( Not want to make you sad. My happy place is different than yours _{^{See below}} :-)

Rejection!!

LOL

Just close your eyes.Think of the workshop.A nice,warm workshop.Cool,blue,flickering fluorescent bulbs.Brown floor planks.The creaky sound of the WiFi modem pinging....Listen...
There,better? XD

And the reassuring steady yellow and green lights on my VME controller module... Ahhh....much better :-)

i see that every day as i live in the virgin isles on a sail boat (hehe its ok for some)

Home in Hawai'i.

Can someone make it into .gif animation?

Well, it's a bit better thought out than the usual science fiction "adamantium-plated unobtanium dioxide" explanation, but "unstable carbon 12 nuclei"? Funny, last time I checked C₁₂ was stable and unlikely to undergo spontaneous fission..

They have some nice CGI though :) but I thought the initial diagram was going to be a toroidal-armature railgun (ie plasmazooka) or something else cool like that.

Good catch, that's very strange that they would say that.

Here is some, perhaps, slightly more reputable information on "cold fusion", enjoy.
http://www.spawar.navy.mil/sti/publications/pubs/tr/1862/tr1862-vol1.pdf
http://www.spawar.navy.mil/sti/publications/pubs/tr/1862/tr1862-vol2.pdf