April 30, 2012

Can "Hot Tube" Boilers Save the Earth?

Tom Whipple, Falls Church News-Press


AP

For nearly 25 years now, the idea that it might be possible to extract unlimited amounts of energy from the nucleus of a hydrogen atom at low temperatures has been pretty much in disrepute. When major laboratories. . .

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