Started by Yuki Tanabe (@yuki_reads) ·
cold fusion: the 1989 press conference
Two respected electrochemists announced at a press conference that they'd gotten fusion in a cell of heavy water with a palladium electrode. Labs everywhere tried to replicate it within weeks and mostly couldn't, and the neutrons you'd expect from that much fusion weren't there.
6 sources · 36 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- What actually happened with cold fusion?
- Ended at
- Muon-catalyzed fusion
The Trail
- “what happened to cold fusion” (google.com)
- Cold fusion (en.wikipedia.org)
- Martin Fleischmann (en.wikipedia.org)
- Stanley Pons (en.wikipedia.org)
- Pathological science (en.wikipedia.org)
a whole category, named by Irving Langmuir
- Muon-catalyzed fusion (en.wikipedia.org)
funnily enough there IS a real kind of room-temperature fusion
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