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Revisiting the cold case of cold fusion

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  • Curtis P. Berlinguette

    (University of British Columbia
    University of British Columbia
    University of British Columbia
    Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR))

  • Yet-Ming Chiang

    (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

  • Jeremy N. Munday

    (University of Maryland
    University of Maryland)

  • Thomas Schenkel

    (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

  • David K. Fork

    (Google LLC)

  • Ross Koningstein

    (Google LLC)

  • Matthew D. Trevithick

    (Google LLC)

Abstract

The 1989 claim of ‘cold fusion’ was publicly heralded as the future of clean energy generation. However, subsequent failures to reproduce the effect heightened scepticism of this claim in the academic community, and effectively led to the disqualification of the subject from further study. Motivated by the possibility that such judgement might have been premature, we embarked on a multi-institution programme to re-evaluate cold fusion to a high standard of scientific rigour. Here we describe our efforts, which have yet to yield any evidence of such an effect. Nonetheless, a by-product of our investigations has been to provide new insights into highly hydrided metals and low-energy nuclear reactions, and we contend that there remains much interesting science to be done in this underexplored parameter space.

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  • Curtis P. Berlinguette & Yet-Ming Chiang & Jeremy N. Munday & Thomas Schenkel & David K. Fork & Ross Koningstein & Matthew D. Trevithick, 2019. "Revisiting the cold case of cold fusion," Nature, Nature, vol. 570(7759), pages 45-51, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:570:y:2019:i:7759:d:10.1038_s41586-019-1256-6
    DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1256-6
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