A long time ago a couple of guys claimed they succeeded at producing nuclear fusion in a jar. The year was 1989, the day was March 23, and the 20th anniversary of that event just passed us a few weeks ago.
The physics community (though not quite all of its members) met the announcement with scorn and derision, claimed it was at best junk science, at worst outright fraud, and declared the whole thing dead before the year was out.
However, rumors of its death were premature. Several researchers in the US, and many more around the world, continued to investigate the claims. I won't recount the assorted successes and failures, but over time, as experience was gained, it became easier to replicate the original CF effect (which is difficult to do). I have known for certain for over ten years that CF is real--which is to say, heat in excess of what could have been produced by any known chemical process was occurring. Exactly how it was happening, and if it would ever be a source of commercial energy, have remained open questions.
I found out this morning that the show 60 minutes is going to be talking about CF this weekend. It would be worth your while to tune in and see what they have to say, I hope. If, in the end, they drag in some hot fusion "expert" who hasn't paid an ounce of attention to the CF field since 1989, and who has yet to notice his own field has been surviving on unfulfilled promises for the last thirty years, to say it's all bullshit, then, once again, the public will have been cheated out of the true story.
Read more here:
http://newenergytimes.com/v2/news/2009/60MinutesTurnsUptheHeat.shtml
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