Today, civilization gets in a few punches:
Put yourself in that man’s shoes, and his chair for a moment. Now stand up.
ReWalk. 150 grand, eight hour battery life.
Felix Thorn is a young feller from Brighton, England, with a penchant for banging on things. He’s a painter, or a composer, or a sculptor, or a woodworker, or a tinsmith, or a computer programmer, or a musician, or a tinkerer, or a delightful syncretist or an annoyance or something.
Go and visit Felix’s Machines.
I need to get one of those chain mail suits to change our housecat’s flea collar.
(Thanks to reader Sean Tompkins for sending that one along)
I’m sorry, but I can’t hear the term “Italian scientists” without thinking of a rabbi and a priest going into a bar, or a blonde woman asking for directions, or any number of trite joke openings. It comes from growing up in a town full of Italians, who only told Italian jokes. People used to have a sense of humor about themselves. Now everyone is Woody Allen: If I stub my toe, it’s a tragedy. If you fall down an open manhole and die, it’s a comedy.
Anyway, Italian scientists have discovered cold fusion. Cold Fusion I say! Bully! Huzzah!
Despite the intense skepticism, a small community of scientists is still investigating near-room-temperature fusion reactions. The latest news occurred last week, when Italian scientists Andrea Rossi and Sergio Focardi of the University of Bologna announced that they developed a cold fusion device capable of producing 12,400 W of heat power with an input of just 400 W. Last Friday, the scientists held a private invitation press conference in Bologna, attended by about 50 people, where they demonstrated what they claim is a nickel-hydrogen fusion reactor. Further, the scientists say that the reactor is well beyond the research phase; they plan to start shipping commercial devices within the next three months and start mass production by the end of 2011. (Physorg.com)
My favorite part is when they explain they can’t get their wonder “peer reviewed” because they don’t know why it works. “Peer reviewed” is my favorite blog comment term now, useful for spotting windowlickers on the Intertunnel. Among people who think this, this is what they think.
I love, love, love the video they have appended to the Physorg article. Their rig looks like a welder and a TV repairman set up shop in the back room of a deli. The scientists should have lied and said it was a Globalistical Warmening experiment, and they could have driven to the press conference in Ferraris, and sat on thrones instead of folding chairs at a card table.
Need cheap energy? Enrico Fermi has a funerary monument in a church in Florence, right next to Galileo and Marconi. Just hook up electrodes to his corpse, and tell him you invented cold fusion but don’t know how it works. It won’t be perpetual motion, but he’ll spin for a good, long time.
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