Re: cold fusion

[brian whatcott <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>]

At 21:17 9/20/99 -0500, you wrote:
> .... do you happen to know anything
> about the "jelly laser" episode. ... x-ray lasing from a jelly....

> Doug Craigen

Reminds me of being shown a tunable dye laser. It might have
been in Faraday's lab. There was a casual comment that the bright
fluorescent plastic coated rain coat hanging up nearby (de rigeur
in those parts at times) could - maybe - be persuaded to frequency
change the beam and reradiate coherently....

   ... then I read suggestions (New Scientist?) that - maybe -
micro diamond surface layers could be deposited using beer in
hydrogen. (The suggestion was that the 'hydrocarbon in a hydrogen
atmosphere' route was so undemanding, if I recall.)

Sugar of course can provide triboluminescence if you choose your
candy well (and, I suppose, your teeth?)

Tap-L has mentioned an arc discharge in the presence of orange-peel
 (!) of late - as a smog demo.
 Then there's that old favorite - dangling a slice of meat in a beaker
 containing Cola  (or is that just an urban legend - I never tried it!)

The lemon-powered fan motor is a science fair staple, I imagine.
Citric acid is doing all kinds of business lately, it's true.
 As a printed circuit solvent, it has its virtues for
enviro-friendliness, they say.
 But that's quite enough talk of comestibles.


brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
Altus OK