For those of you who have been intrigued by the reports of
ROOM TEMPERATURE!!! fusion experiments by the two scientists
at the university of Utah, I have a limited number of copies
of a science times article from last week about the issue.
Considering the earth-shaking implications of the news, it 
is puzzling that there has been very little discussion of the
issue in the press, especially considering all the hoopla
afforded the recent advances in superconductivity.

It is also intriguing that the scientists who developed the process
felt they had to go public in such a big way.  They say that
a reporter in Utah was about to write a story about their
experiments, but I wonder if they were afraid of their discovery
being suppressed. With the extremely powerful interests who
will be effected by a potentially very cheap source of
fusion energy small, simple, and safe enough to be placed in
your car for propulsion or basement for heat, it would not
suprise me in the least that someone might try to prevent
the information from being released.  Fortunately, with
the current publicity, the cat is now out of the bag.
The technique is simple enough that you could duplicate it
in your kitchen, given the necessary heavy water and 
palladium wire.

Of course, the whole question is moot if the process doesn't work,
but given the solid reputation of the scientists involved, and the
relative ease of confirming that fusion is occuring (unexplained
energy release, presence of helium-3, presence of released neutrons)
I think it probably does.  The energy release is particularly
telling; they are claiming a 4 to 1 payback in energy ouput
versus energy input.  This should be impossible to miss, and
unless Drs. Stanley and Fleishmann are intent on throwing
their careers away, I'm sure they got it right.

Still think it doesn't work, and that the government has nothing
to do with what's going on?  News flash this morning:  The current
head of NASA is leaving his job to oversee the Utah fusion project!
See you on Mars in 1995, folks, in our personal fusion powered
spaceships.

					Max