Remember cold fusion? I sure do. When Pons and Fleischmann announced their results in 1989, I was working at the Paoli Research Center and we all felt like excited children. We thought humankind had found a free and safe source of unlimited energy. The future was going to be great! Finally, the age of Aquarius was about to really arrive!! When the experiments could not be duplicated, the disappointment was bitter. Now this.

“Double Crystal Fusion” Could Pave the Way for Portable Device
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a tabletop accelerator that produces nuclear fusion at room temperature, providing confirmation of an earlier experiment conducted at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), while offering substantial improvements over the original design.

The fine print, though, says that you don’t get out more energy than you put in. But still, maybe there is hope.

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