The War Against Cold Fusion

Scientists have been working on hot fusion for decades, tens of billions of dollars have been spent by America Europe and Japan, and yet to date not a single volt of electricity has been produced. But in 1989 to distinguished scientists in America claimed to have produced fusion in room temperature experiments. Since then hundreds of scientific papers have been published in journals across the world, (rarely under the name cold fusion) on the phenomenon of excess heat which is given off during electrolysis experiments using heavy water and palladium as an electrode.

But despite this the establishment (top government scientists especially those involved in hot fusion) have met these claims with derision simply claiming that such experiments break all known laws of nuclear physics. MIT was even involved in a scandal where they doctored the results of cold fusion experiments they conducted so that they showed that there was no excess heat given off in the experiment.

Here is a well presented documentary explaining the situation...

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I would be interested to hear from anybody on here who has been involved at any level in cold fusion research, or for that matter from anybody who has kept up to date on the latest developments in the field....

The evidence presented in this documentary is far more convincing than many of the 'zero-point' energy videos, for example.

What I find most shocking is the way such serious research was apparently denigrated and ridiculed once it became apparent it would threaten funding of (fantastically expensive) hot fusion programs. Yet now the data is freely available presumably further research is being carried out at least by scientists in other countries - so even if the US has continued this work behind the scenes it would eventually have to be presented in public.

Cold fusion is a mystery. Happened a few times, rarely if ever repeated in lab setting.

Palladium (way expensive..at least a few years ago) is the key ingrediant, as in its solid form, it natuarally absorbs incredible amounts of hydrogen, becoming an extremely dense material...somehow causing fusion of the hydrogen atoms within the palladium?!?

I have read a few things about cold fusion, but I dont understand how it can be so hit and miss (almost always miss) when tested in a lab.

The reason research was ridiculed was because progress was not being made, since there was no progress, those funding projects looked at it as a wild goose chase...maybe it is

reply to post by LeeTheDestroyer


That's a very measured view of the subject in general.

Yet the documentary suggests there was ample justification for further funding, not least in the light of the abject failure of standard fusion projects to generate electricity, despite mammoth budgets. The evidence presented here suggests politics (both scientific and national) got in the way.

It'll be interesting to see what the general consensus will be.

reply to post by LeeTheDestroyer


No, it was claimed that something kind of like it might have happened a few times, but evidence of it was never, ever recorded.

The experiment you are talking about was performed by Fleischmann and Pons (of Southampton and Utah, respectively). They published their paper on the experiment, and countless laboratories around the world attempted to duplicate their findings. None managed. The state of Utah dumped over $5m dollars into researching cold fusion, and nothing happened.

Fleischmann and Pons later admitted that there very well could have been flaws in their experiment, meaning they actually hadn't performed anything so strange as cold fusion.

The only war against cold fusion is being fought between the cold fusion proponents, and the laws of nature. Any scientist achieving cold fusion will be set for life, as will any institute that helps in its creation. This talk of "wars" against various types of technology is ridiculous, as science simply doesn't work that way. If the technology is as beneficial as people claim, somewhere there are scientists working on it.