News item for the evening From Rolling Stone Why isn’t Wall Street in Jail? By Matt Taibbi February 16, 2011 7-10 Minutes Sterling Allan presents the latest Alternative Energy News 15-20 Minutes Feature Presentation Cold Fusion from Pons/Fleischmann to Rossi/Focardi Cold Fusion article - from WikiPedia Play Clip from the TV show "Phenomenon the lost archives" From YouTube search "Cold Fusion Suppressed Technology" 13 minutes - historical reference - the politics and economics of the scientific establishment Play Clip from YouTube video "Cold Fusion by Rossi and Focardi" Clip is in Italian with English subtitles ... 5 minutes SSC-Zero Discussion The points to make ... 1) Nearly all the electricity we use today is generated by STEAM ... a technology that is a couple hundred years old 2) Current nuclear power plants are really nothing more than advanced methods of boiling water to make steam to power generators 3) Suppose we had a method of generating the heat required to make steam more efficiently than a nuclear plant and without the waste? We discuss why it has been a suppressed technology for the past 20 years now ... center on research funding for hot fusion reactors and fear within academia that funding for their cash cow pet projects would be killed off if a safer, cheaper, more viable method of achieving the goal were pushed forward ... no conspiracy theories, just greed and human nature at work ... To be discussed is the potential that the process has been miss-named ... early on, it was assumed that the excess heat observed could only be explained by a nuclear reaction ... some evidence of tritium and helium byproducts appeared to support the idea that a nuclear reaction was taking place ... however, the lack of neutrons tends to co...