More ‘60 Minutes’ Cold Fusion Follow Up
Comments and insights courtesy Craig Stangland & Sterling D. Allan
A report by CBS News' 60 Minutes on Cold Fusion, which aired April 19, 2009, was on the following day listed as their #1 "Most Viewed Videos" online.
The following is excepted from a news item on Sterling D. Allan’s PESWiki concerning the 60 Minutes Cold Fusion program.
First, on April 19, 2009, Craig Stangland <craig {at} sparkprintsolutions.com> wrote the following review of the program:
It was VERY encouraging from several points.
1. 60 Minutes did a great job covering the story that CF (cold fusion) is real.
2. They reviewed the history of CF, even going so far as going to England’s countryside to meet with Martin Fleischman, one of the two renounced electro-chemist scientists that were disgraced by their ever so smart peers. Even today, their names remain as a joke, even though 20 years later the proof to validate their work exists. There are numerous labs throughout the world trying to solve the unreliability of being able to repeatably make it work so as to commercialize it, even though the public still doesn’t know or believe it works. (more…)
CBS 60 Minutes on Cold Fusion: More Than Junk Science
When first presented in 1989 cold fusion was quickly dismissed as junk science [or rather subjected to a campaign to discredit. - Editor].
But, as CBS’s 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelle reported on a program first aired Sunday Night (April 19), there`s renewed buzz among scientists that cold fusion could lead to monumental breakthroughs in energy production.
60 Minutes: Twenty years ago it appeared, for a moment, that all our energy problems could be solved. It was the announcement of cold fusion - nuclear energy like that which powers the sun - but at room temperature on a table top. It promised to be cheap, limitless and clean. Cold fusion would end our dependence on the Middle East and stop those greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. It would change everything.
But then, just as quickly as it was announced, it was discredited. So thoroughly, that cold fusion became a catch phrase for junk science. Well, a funny thing happened on the way to oblivion - for many scientists today, cold fusion is hot again.
For a complete copy of the transcript, visit: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/17/60minutes/main4952167.shtml
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