{"id":6412,"date":"2004-09-07T15:38:07","date_gmt":"2004-09-07T22:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/09\/07\/the-science-that-would-not-die.html"},"modified":"2004-09-07T15:38:07","modified_gmt":"2004-09-07T22:38:07","slug":"the_science_tha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/09\/07\/the_science_tha.html","title":{"rendered":"The Science That Would Not Die!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cold fusion is back<\/a> — or at least being Officially Looked At Again.<\/p>\n

Later this month, the U.S. Department of Energy will receive a report from a panel of experts on the prospects for cold fusion\u2014the supposed generation of thermonuclear energy using tabletop apparatus. It’s an extraordinary reversal of fortune: more than a few heads turned earlier this year when James Decker, the deputy director of the DOE’s Office of Science, announced that he was initiating the review of cold fusion science. Back in November 1989, it had been the department’s own investigation that determined the evidence behind cold fusion was unconvincing. Clearly, something important has changed to grab the department’s attention now.<\/p>\n

The “something important” has been a lot of scientists and engineers working to demonstrate that something <\/em>is going on, even if it’s not yet altogether clear what.<\/p>\n

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