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Assuming that cold fusion is real, then I can think of several good
reasons that it wouldn't have evolved as a power source for organisms:
1> Palladium & D2O are fairly rare (compared to all the hydro carbons
out there).
2> Generating the energy necessary to start the fusion is farily
prohibitive (ie. an organism would have to already have a system for
producing energy).
3> Fusion generates radiation which is damaging to orgamisms.
4> Fusion produces heat energy and a system to utilize heat energy
would have to evolve since organisms utilize chemical energy (usually
stored in ATP)

I'm sure I could come up with some more, but needless to say there is
a LOT of problems... As for encorporating fusion into new/existing
organisms, well you would have to solve all the above problems (plus
some others I'm sure), and there is not a real need for it, ie it
would be much simpler to have fusion powered lights for growing plants
inside.  As for adding fusion to people, bological systems are pretty
complex, and we don't really have enough knowledge to do something
that extensive... yet.  In any case I'de really be very satisfied with
Fusion powered cars, as they would run a lot cleaner and use less
precious resources then gasoline cars.  Is fusion real?  Wait and see,
once P&F actually publish the full specifications for a cell, then it
will only be a short while before cold fusion is confirmed a fact or a fantasy.

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