Let's Hope This Time It's For Real

Scientists in Possible Cold Fusion Breakthrough

Researchers at a US Navy laboratory have unveiled what they say is "significant" evidence of cold fusion, a potential energy source that has many skeptics in the scientific community.

The scientists on Monday described what they called the first clear visual evidence that low-energy nuclear reaction (LENR), or cold fusion devices can produce neutrons, subatomic particles that scientists say are indicative of nuclear reactions.

"Our finding is very significant," said analytical chemist Pamela Mosier-Boss of the US Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR) in San Diego, California.

"To our knowledge, this is the first scientific report of the production of highly energetic neutrons from a LENR device," added the study's co-author in a statement.

The study's results were presented at the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The city is also the site of an infamous presentation on cold fusion 20 years ago by Martin Fleishmann and Stanley Pons that sent shockwaves across the world.

The good news: it's the U.S. Navy reporting, not Fleishmann and Pons, although I've always suspected they were on to something, they just couldn't replicate it.

The bad news: since it is the U.S. Navy, and if it pans out, the government will be in control of unlimited safe energy and, at the rate we're morphing into the old U.S.S.R., We the People will probably play hell getting any of it.