Thanks to Bob Greenyer for posting a link to a new video just posted on the popular Megaprojects YouTube channel titled: “Could Cold Fusion Replace Nuclear Energy?”
The video reviews the cold fusion story, and the gist is that despite the condemnation of Pons and Fleischmann by the scientific community in general in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when the cold fusion was given the label of pseudoscience, there have been enough unusual and positive experimental results produced by LENR scientists over the years to make it difficult to dismiss the field entirely. The authors of the video think that there is value in continuing LENR research because the potential benefits are so large.
Here is a quote from the video:
“Still, supporters argue that we may be dealing with a new kind of interaction, one that sidesteps traditional expectations. The lack of working prototypes adds to the uncertainty. No laboratories produced a system that generates continuous reliable energy on demand. There are test rigs that have shown energy output above input levels, but these results fade quickly and often fail to appear under repeated trials. Even well-funded labs with high precision instruments have struggled to replicate promising data. That inconsistency is what keeps LENR on the fringe even as small signs of progress continue to emerge. Still, researchers in the field, they’re not discouraged. Some of them believe that the problem is not the science, but the control systems.”
The video seems to have reached a wide audience. The Megaprojects channel is very popular with over 10 million subscribers. After only one day there have been over 100k views, and over 600 comments.
I think it’s a fair review of a field that has been largely dismissed by mainstream science. I am glad to see that LENR has not been completely obliterated despite early verdicts condemning the field outright.
Video is below:
