I’ll be attending the ACS-Philadelphia conference next week. One of the sessions sponsored by the Environmental division is called “New Energy Technology” on Wednesday morning out at the DoubleTree-Maestro B. The title implies itself to wonderful talks discussing frontiers in applied energy chemistry. Unfortunately, the session is completely dominated by the left-field cold fusion people. A list of the talks are shown below Cold fusion in light of green chemistry (Jan Marwan) Low energy nuclear reactions research: 2008 update (Steven B. Krivit) Overview of LENR research: Critical steps on the pathway to technology(Michael Charles Harold McKubre) Macroscopic quantum dynamics and the problems of loading in Pd-H(D) systems (Antonella De Ninno, Emilio Del Giudice, Antonio Frattolillo) CR-39 studies of Pd/D codeposition (P. A. Mosier-Boss, Stanislaw Szpak, Frank E. Gordon, Lawrence Forsley) Study of the nanostructured palladium deuterium system (Jan Marwan) Sonofusion from deuterons to helium (Roger Stringham) My feelings on cold fusion research have been stated previously here: The difference between cold fusion and cold fusion It would be in good taste to attend the session, and let them have the opportunity to present their research, but I question whether I could sit through it. If you find yourself bored on Wednesday morning and ready for a lively debate, I’d recommend attending this session. P.S. Expect dispatches from the conference. I’ll be covering...