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…)
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APS Takes Exception to Its Role as Portrayed in the 60 Minutes Cold Fusion Story
The American Physical Society issued a press statement today (April 22) refuting its role as described in the 60 Minutes report on cold fusion.
In full, their press statement reads as follows:
On April 19, CBS aired a “60 Minutes” segment on “cold fusion,” a process that proponents claim could solve the world’s energy problems. The script stated that “… [‘60 Minutes’] asked the American Physical Society, the top physics organization in America, to recommend an independent scientist. They gave us Rob Duncan, vice chancellor of research at the University of Missouri and an expert in measuring energy.” That statement is false. (more…)
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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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Cold Fusion - CBS TV’s “60 Minutes” Turns Up the Heat
by Steven B. Krivit
Editor, New Energy Times
April 16, 2009
[This article is Copyleft 2009 New Energy Times. Permission is granted to reproduce this article as long as the article, this notice and the publication information shown above are included in their entirety and no changes are made to this article.]
Low-energy nuclear reactions, historically known as “cold fusion,” will get their 12 minutes of fame on CBS TV’s “60 Minutes” Sunday at 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time in a program titled “Cold Fusion Is Hot Again.”
This is the second TV program on “cold fusion” to run within the last few weeks. “Brink,” a show on Discovery’s Science Channel, ran an episode called “Cold Fusion Cracked?” that aired March 27.
According to “Brink” guest Dwight Williams - introduced as a senior science adviser with the U.S. Department of Energy - there might, in fact, be something real about all of this - that is, real science, real hope and, quite possibly, a real source of energy. (more…)
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Breakthrough 60 Minutes Program To Report Cold Fusion is Real
In a landmark broadcast, scheduled to air Sunday, April 19, 2009 at 7pm EST, CBS News Magazine, ’60 Minutes’, is to profile research into cold fusion. Here’s a note and trailer from the CBS web page:
Pelley’s Reporter’s Notebook
Presented in 1989, cold fusion was quickly dismissed as junk science. But today, the experiments could lead to a monumental breakthrough in energy production. Scott Pelley reports.
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