cold fusion research, he says, was killed by a similar process
Well, it never went to zero, it continues to this day, as one institution then another (e.g. Google a year or two ago) randomly starts a program (...then usually eventually drops it), among other things. I’ve heard the number $500M as an estimate of the amount spent on cold fusion / LENR research in total. (But I can’t immediately find where I heard that.)
I actually spent quite a lot of my free time over several years blogging about that topic, see https://coldfusionblog.net/. I started the blog with an open mind but wound up strongly agreeing with the mainstream scientific consensus: there’s no such thing as cold fusion / LENR. See especially my last post The case against cold fusion experiments. :-)
Well, it never went to zero, it continues to this day, as one institution then another (e.g. Google a year or two ago) randomly starts a program (...then usually eventually drops it), among other things. I’ve heard the number $500M as an estimate of the amount spent on cold fusion / LENR research in total. (But I can’t immediately find where I heard that.)
I actually spent quite a lot of my free time over several years blogging about that topic, see https://coldfusionblog.net/. I started the blog with an open mind but wound up strongly agreeing with the mainstream scientific consensus: there’s no such thing as cold fusion / LENR. See especially my last post The case against cold fusion experiments. :-)
Very interesting