Abstract

Believers and doubters locked horns again a week ago in Salt Lake City at the 1st Annual Conference on Cold Fusion. By the time everyone went home, few minds had changed, and the nature of the anomalous phenomenon that some call cold fusion remained as murky as ever. However, several scientists attending the meeting said they were more convinced than ever that the curious phenomenon discovered by B. Stanley Pons of the University of Utah and Martin Fleischmann of the University of Southampton, U.K., involves a nuclear process. The two chemists electrified the scientific community one year ago when they announced they could produce energy from nuclear fusion at room temperature in a simple electrolytic cell. Since then, some two dozen other laboratories have accumulated evidence for the production of excess heat, tritium, and/ or neutrons during the electrolysis of heavy water using a palladium cathode. Many more groups, though, have been unable to reproduce ...

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