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To: long-gone who wrote (36469)	7/4/1999 9:49:00 AM
From: Casaubon	Respond to of 116756

I agree, cold fusion is possible. I heard the concept bantered around by the media, when Pons and Fleischman came up empty handed, as being impossible. But, I never heard an explanation from a physicist explaining the implausability of the concept. The concept of cold fusion is based on the idea of chemical catalysis. The result of chemical catalysis is to lower the energy barrier of activation to achieve a reaction from state A to state B. That nuclear physics would have an analogous energy profile, would not surprise me. I see no inherent reason to believe that the energy barrier required to perform a fusion process could not be catalyzed, so that the process could be done at temperatures which we could physically manage with known material science limitations.