LENR

An introduction to LENR

Last time, I talked about cold fusion, which was strangled at birth by Big Science vested interest. Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons gave their press conference on March 23rd 1989 in Salt Lake City. Just over a month later on May 1st 1989, eighteen hundred physicists in Baltimore gave a standing ovation to accusations of incompetence and delusion. A whole host of organisations piled on the opprobrium, including the Brookhaven National Laboratory, Caltech, CERN, the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, MIT, Nature, the University of Rochester, Science, and…

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Cold fusion

I feel unhappy that so many physicists have been so disparaging about cold fusion for so long. Not because the 1989 cold fusion experiment by Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons didn’t seem to work. Not because we still don’t have a hot shower that runs off an AA battery. Au contraire, I feel unhappy because the disparaging physicists still don’t understand the neutron¹, and they still don’t² understand the nuclear force³: Image from History Rundown. Caption: all nucleons, both protons and neutrons, attract one another by…

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