cold fusion?

[rone]

No, i'm not talking about my company's inherited product.  palecur alerted me about this report.  This section,

The new cold fusion experiment went something like this: scientists inserted a small pyroelectric crystal (lithium tantalite) inside a chamber filled with hydrogen. Warming the crystal by about 100 degrees (from -30 F to 45F) produced a huge electrical field of about 100,000 volts across the small crystal.

provoked this response.

<lammah> dilithium!

The best part, for me, was in the summation at the end:

The current cold fusion apparatus still takes much more energy to start up than you get back out, and it may never end up breaking even.

"May"??  You mean there's a possibility we could defeat the specter of entropy?  Zounds!