X-Nico

2 unusual facts about Cold Fusion


John R. Huizenga

In 1989, Huizenga co-chaired a panel which debunked claims by two University of Utah chemists that they had achieved nuclear fusion at room temperature.

Power Macintosh 7100

Other models released conjointly were codenamed "Cold fusion" and "Piltdown Man", and he was displeased at being associated with what he considered pseudoscience.


Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion

Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion is book of science history by Gary Taubes about the early years (1989–1991) of the cold fusion controversy.

Cart32

Version 4.3 adds many new features, including support for MySQL and SQL server, much stronger public/private key encryption of passwords and credit card numbers, integrates well with ASP, Cold Fusion, and Microsoft FrontPage, validation of expiration dates, and more.

Faraday-efficiency effect

Lacking any other plausible explanation, the anomalous excess heat produced during such electrolysis was attributed by Pons and Fleischmann to cold fusion.

Patterson Power Cell

George H. Miley is a professor of nuclear engineering and a cold fusion researcher who claims to have replicated the Patterson Power Cell.

Science by press conference

In 1989, chemists Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann held a press conference to claim they had successfully achieved cold fusion.


see also

Irving Dardik

Dardik appears in "The Believers", a 2012 film about cold fusion, in which he claims to use his theories to both explain cold fusion and to treat Martin Fleischmann for his Parkinson's Disease.

Patterson Power Cell

In 2002, John R. Huizenga, professor of nuclear chemistry at the University of Rochester, who was head of a government panel convened in 1989 to investigate the cold fusion claims of Fleischmann and Pons, and who wrote a book about the controversy, said "I would be willing to bet there's nothing to it", when asked about the Patterson Power Cell.

Wayne Green

He was formerly editor of CQ magazine before he went on to found 73, 80 Micro, Byte, CD Review, Cold Fusion, Kilobaud Microcomputing, RUN, InCider, and Pico, as well as publishing books and running a software company.