TWENTY years to the day after two chemists ignited controversy by announcing signs of “cold fusion” at a in Utah, a fresh claim by a separate team was made this week, again in Utah. This time the researchers have been careful to avoid the pitfalls that led to the original claims being ridiculed and dismissed out of hand.
In 1989, Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons at the University of Utah offered the tantalising prospect of abundant, almost free energy from nuclear fusion reactions that they said they had produced in a simple tabletop set-up. Their claims were…
