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Cold fusion - fact or fiction?
Cold fusion is making a big comeback after being thoroughly debunked 20 years ago. Upon conducting experiments on this intriguing phenomenon, the Pentagon has concluded that there is "no doubt that anomalous excess heat is produced in these experiments."
The intrepid investigative team at 60 Minutes have done an admirable presentation on some of the science and history behind the often-scoffed cold fusion research and current developments in the field.
This engaging coverage (text on CBS website available here) has spawned related articles on ABC News, a Wall Street Journal blog, CNET news, and more. An informative Scientific American article from a month ago adds more fuel to the fire.
If this unusual technology turns out to be a viable energy source, the implications for the future of our world are stupendous. As mentioned in the 60 Minutes special, once tamed and made consistently accessible, cold fusion devices could power not only our cars for months without a recharge, the technology could also be used to build entire power plants at relatively low cost and with minimal pollution.
Here are a few key quotes from the fascinating segment on 60 Minutes.
Scientists today like to call it a nuclear effect rather than cold fusion. At least 20 labs working independently have published reports of excess heat – heat up to 25 times greater than the electricity going in. And we've found that the Pentagon is saying it too. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, known as DARPA, did its own analysis and 60 Minutes obtained an internal memo that concludes there is "no doubt that anomalous excess heat is produced in these experiments."[Michael] McKubre says he has seen that energy more than 50 times in cold fusion experiments he's doing at SRI International, a respected California lab that does extensive work for the government. McKubre has been working on this since that first discredited claim of cold fusion made headlines 20 years ago. "To work on this issue is almost to put your scientific credibility at risk and I wonder why you've done it?" Pelley asked. "My belief is that if there's a one percent chance that Fleischmann and Pons were correct – and I now believe that possibility is 99 percent – I have a duty to work on it," he replied.
You can watch the entire, fascinating 12-minute segment below. Shortly after the first successful experiments using table top cold fusion were announced in 1989, the cold fusion debate was quickly settled by top scientists and the mainstream media. The phenomenon was thoroughly debunked and declared dead in the water. The scientists who made the announcement became the laughing stocks of science and the media. Yet they never recanted their belief in their work. One of them appears in the 60 Minutes segment.
Yet even back in 1989, dozens of scientists were getting positive results in attempting to duplicate the cold fusion experiments. The work of these scientists was suppressed. Most of them were mocked and ridiculed, with some even having to leave their work as a result. Hundreds more later joined the little-known cold fusion movement, only to find that they, too, were scoffed at by their colleagues. Even though their carefully conducted experiments showed striking anomalies and excess heat as a result of apparent table-top fusion happening near room temperature, these scientists had great difficulty finding any funding for further verification.
Dr. Eugene Mallove was the Chief Science Writer at MIT when the cold fusion news broke in 1989. The story of his personal involvement is quite revealing.
"One day while at MIT, I inadvertently was looking through some piles of paper by physicists doing their repeat of the [cold fusion] experiment. To my utter astonishment, I can remember sitting at my desk and seeing two sheets of paper. The July 10 control experiment showed in the raw data excess heat. But then, on July 13, it was shifted completely. It was altered. Clear fraud—no question. I asked for a review at MIT. I got nowhere. Yet today, MIT data is held up."
Here's a quote from a Nov. 16, 2004 article in the Washington Post on another convert to cold fusion:
"Brilliant," "genius" and "reclusive" were words used to describe [SRI scientist Peter] Hagelstein. 20 years ago ... he made his mark designing the X-ray laser that was to be the centerpiece of Reagan's "Star Wars" anti-ballistic missile system. As Hagelstein explains it, leading physicists came out swiftly and prematurely against cold fusion. He has seen enough cold fusion data to convince him that the science is clearly real. [After exploring cold fusion], Hagelstein faced a series of personal reverses. He has tenure at MIT, but he never made full professor. When his funding ran out, he eventually lost his lab space, his secretary, even his office.
There is much more to the cold fusion debate than most people know. The media has only rarely focused on the many successes in the field. To watch a powerful, engaging documentary which goes much further than CBS in showing clear fraud and suppression, click here. Those who stand to lose many billions of dollars if these inventions succeed will often go to any lengths to stop them. For an excellent, two-page summary of intriguing new energy inventions and a brief history of their suppression, click here.
Here's the groundbreaking 12-minute segment from 60 Minutes.
Important note: A reader informed me two days after I made this post that the CBS video I had posted below was no longer working. I went back to check the original which I had embedded from the CBS website at this link. Someone at CBS replaced the 12-minute segment there with a much weaker piece under two minutes. Why? Did someone pressure them to take it down? I searched the CBS website and found another link to the longer segment under most popular videos. Yet if you go to the link, you will see that the video there no longer functions at all. Hmmmm. As a replacement, I've changed the video below to give you the best documentary on cold fusion yet, called Heavy Watergate. If you want to understand how these things are censored and suppressed, this video is well worth watching.
Special addendum 4/25: Likely thanks to the dozens of people who emailed CBS, the 12-minute video clip has now been posted at another link. You can watch it here. Thanks so much to all who emailed and supported us in this.
The exciting news is that with the increasing transparency of the Internet, suppressing these exciting new discoveries and inventions is becoming ever more difficult. There are dozens of websites covering these topics which the mainstream media rarely gives much attention. For lots more information and what you can do to help transform our world through these new energy inventions, see the box immediately below. We also invite you to comment below and let us know what you think. How far would those who stand to lose billions of dollars go to suppress these inventions?
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Fred Burks served as personal language interpreter to Clinton, Bush, Cheney, Gore, and other top dignitaries in secret meetings. As part of an international network of researchers and news analysts, Fred obtains and disseminates key, reliable information about powerful, yet little-known forces which shape our world. For more, see articles and links in the right column of this page.
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