The Energy Report: Cold Fusion

How Cold is it? How cold is it going to get? Pons and Fleishman rejoice! Cold fusion is back! It’s time to give up the oil gig because we will have an endless supply of cheap and clean energy. Way back in 1989, two electrochemists, Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons, reported that they created a machine that produced anomalous heat (“excess heat”) of a magnitude they asserted would defy explanation except in terms of nuclear processes. It was cold fusion. Yet they were later dismissed and even ridiculed because others were not able to duplicate that experiment until maybe now.

The FT reports that US government scientists have made a breakthrough in the pursuit of limitless, zero-carbon power by achieving a net energy gain in a fusion reaction for the first time, according to…