Responses towards Pons and Fleischmanann from the media as they fled to France :
New York Times (April 30, 1989) “in one word it’s garbage”.
NBC TV Report Bazell “I know what is possible and what is not....I think it’s a bunch of junk”
Nature - Editor, John Maddox...”a milestone in the history of entertainment”
Nature, David Lindley “ Pigs don't have...wings”
Time: “ I don’t think that data is worth anything”
Steven Koonin, Cal Tech “They found something that didn’t exist”
Robert Park, American physical society”...a seance of true believers”
Herman Fesbach, MIT “ I don’t want to see any more...evidence. It’s a bunk of junk”
The negative approach was largely confined to the U.S.
and Britain. In Japan in 1991 about 2 percent of the hot fusion budget was devoted to cold fusion. The U.S.- NONE. In India, a broadly based cold fusion program was continued under the Indian atomic board. In Russia, in spite of troubled times, about 15 million rubles were allocated to twenty laboratories in the four years between 1991 and 1995 for cold fusion research.
Pg. 2, 3, 4 Cold Fusion, The Secret to the Energy Revolution
The book is a brief overview on Cold fusion and Martin fleischmann’s discovery of it. And of course the refuting of such methodologies. The author is adamant about it not only solving future energy needs but even as an exit strategy to the Middle East (which I disagree, geothermal would be more practical). Theirs commentary on how not only the media , the DOE in the US refuted the claims even after institutions like NASA, Shell have all tested the theorem of cold fusion being conclusive as a technological methodology of effectiveness. The author states some US institutions may have publicly refuted conclusions, however on the other hand still pursued the technological methods under the guise of secrecy.
Personally my view of cold fusion is quite simple, it’s an effective electrolysis methodology that can be utilized for certain fabrication refinement but because of its excessive heat. This excess in thermal emittings may be indicative to, shape and exact measure of the diameter of the vessel, shape and form of cathode, as well as purity of material contents amongst other things.