Pomp and Unsettling Circumstances Open Cold Fusion Olympic Games
By Vince FerrarPublished: February 11, 2006
TURIN, Italy, Feb. 10 Four cold fusion scientists were suspended, and the world's top-ranked calorimetrist, the British Martin Fleischmann, was barred from the Cold Fusion Olympic Games here on Friday.
Hours later, Olympic competitors marched into the opening ceremony to the sounds of disco music. Stanley Pons, who missed this year's Ground Hog day festival on Feb 2nd, was reportedly back in France and disappointed waiting for the return of Sheryl Crow at the Tour de France 06, and would not be attending. Nonetheless, there are cold fusion experimentalists who have trained hard and were ready to compete before being disqualified because of high altitude training.
Ed Storms, a nuclear chemist who has trained hard for this years' Olympic event at high altitude back in Sante Fe is known for his calorimetric free style and was reportedly to have said "see you back in the states" when he heard the disappointing news that disco was making a comeback.
"I've heard enough of K.C and the Sunshine Band for one lifetime," Storms said. "I miss the rock and roll."
Dennis Cravens, another cold fusion chemist also trained at 8,000 feet in Cloudcroft, NM and is an avid fan of "Weezer's Island in the Sun." Although he's a chemist, he's free of steroids unlike a lot of the hot fusion scientific community who he suspects is behind the effort to revive disco.
"Hot fusion is focused on steroid use and I suspect they are good at masking those steroids," Cravens said. "We like to use natural chemistry as a stimulus to coax out a LENR reaction towards a cleaner energy future with cold fusion someday."
Storms continued, "It may take a lot of pressure, but we need better funded cold fusion R&D. Like Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant says, 'Shine it all around, well, we're still waiting for more sunshine.'"
The retired Alpine skier Alberto Tomba, a three-time Olympic gold medal winner from Italy, accepted the Olympic torch at the end of Friday night's opening ceremony in Turin.
