From Tony Kelly
Michael Brooks reports on a possible resurgence of “cold fusion” (17 September, p 34). There must be many others who feel that Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann were treated shamefully in the announcement of their research (). They did not actually say that they had at room temperature in the laboratory tamed the process that powers the sun; merely that they had achieved what looked like significant results. In the ensuing debacle they were made to carry the can for the University of Utah public relations department.
I do think there is every prospect of cold fusion being achieved in our generation.
Crook, County Durham, UK
