DailyDirt: Cold Fusion Sounds Like A Free Lunch (There Ain't No Such Thing)

Clean, cheap and reliable (pick 2!) energy sources would significantly change how the world works. But so far, the technology has eluded us. Various forms of nuclear fusion always seem just a few years in the future -- and meanwhile the sun taunts us with its enormous proof-of-concept activity, just happily turning hydrogen into helium only one astronomical unit away. With that in mind, here are a few quick links on some sorta sketchy ways to get something for nothing.

• Creating copper from nickel and hydrogen -- and producing energy in the process -- sounds like a scam. But when these "Mr. Fusion" units are (or aren't) being exported from Italy later this year, we'll know for sure. [url]
• The Casimir effect and the Casimir-Polder force have been observed in 1948 -- demonstrating that a vacuum isn't really nothing. Here's your free lunch, amateur physicists. Enjoy! [url]
• According to WikiLeaks, Libya traded its nuclear material enrichment program for millions of dollars in other equipment. Did Libyans read The Mouse That Roared in jr. high, too? [url]
• To discover more stuff on alternative energy, check out what's currently floating around the StumbleUpon universe. [url]  

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