News of ‘hot’ fusion success recalls Utah’s infamous claims of ‘cold’ fusion 33 years ago.
(Doug Pizac | AP) Martin Fleischmann, left, of the University of Southampton, England, talks to reporters about cold fusion as University of Utah chemist B. Stanley Pons listens in Los Angeles, May 9, 1989. The pair of scientists claimed they achieved nuclear fusion, but that claim could never be proven and the university was widely ridiculed.
A nuclear fusion experiment that generates more energy than it consumes?
For old timers in Utah, news that scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California have produced such an experiment harkens back to 1989, when the University of Utah made a claim that jolted the world.
Livermore scientists are…
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