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Cold fusion back in the NEWs 60 minutes they call it a nuclear effect.

Belfast · 2009-04-26 15:17:42

CBS) Twenty years ago it appeared, for a moment, that all our energy problems could be solved. It was the announcement of cold fusion - nuclear energy like that which powers the sun - but at room temperature on a table top. It promised to be cheap, limitless and clean. Cold fusion would end our dependence on the Middle…

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CBS) Twenty years ago it appeared, for a moment, that all our energy problems could be solved. It was the announcement of cold fusion - nuclear energy like that which powers the sun - but at room temperature on a table top. It promised to be cheap, limitless and clean. Cold fusion would end our dependence on the Middle East and stop those greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. It would change everything.

But then, just as quickly as it was announced, it was discredited. So thoroughly, that cold fusion became a catch phrase for junk science. Well, a funny thing happened on the way to oblivion - for many scientists today, cold fusion is hot again.

"We can yield the power of nuclear physics on a tabletop. The potential is unlimited. That is the most powerful energy source known to man," researcher Michael McKubre told 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley.

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.
the rest is on the link below

Cold Fusion Is Hot Again
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/17/60minutes/main4952167.shtml

60 minutes video
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4967330n

It seems some labs have been able to reproduce the excess energy, but not replicate it consistently.

Still no accepted explanation as to where the energy is coming from.

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