Toward a LENR reference experiment

Creator: Florian Metzler

Date: 2021

Summary: Dr. Florian Metzler of MIT discusses the challenges of establishing a repeatable reference experiment that shows convincing evidence of low energy nuclear reactions to the wider scientific community. These ideas were shared at the ARPA-E workshop on LENR that was held in October 2021.

World Business Satellite (Japanese)

Creator: TV Tokyo

Date: 2021

Summary: On this news program, an overview of Japan's involvement in the international ITER fusion project is highlighted, along with Clean Planet, a S-SAFE company based in Kawasaki, Japan.

Documentary: Dream Energy "Cold Fusion" (Eng subtitles)

Creator: NHK

Date: 2021

Summary: This documentary by NHK recalls the history of cold fusion during the Pons and Fleischmann announcement and the key players who were involved in the aftermath. Professor  Narita and other experts comment on the opportunities and challenges in the field. 

NASA Lattice Confinement Fusion

Creator: Subject Zero Science

Date: 2020

Summary: NASA scientists have been investigating lattice confinement fusion, which is the idea of constraining smaller atoms with bigger ones. In this case the crystalline layer of Erbium metal is used to hold deuteron atoms, just like pouring water into sand. The sample is able to hold a billion times more fuel than what magnetic confinement of conventional fusion reactors are able to constrain, increasing the chances of deuterons hitting each other.

Cold Fusion - Real, But Is It Ready?

Creator: MIT Club of Northern California

Date: 2017

Summary: Professor Hagelstein, who is  a principal investigator in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) and an associate professor at MIT, traces the early history of cold fusion, highlighting important results and implications along the way. He  reviews the theoretical issues and present his own model of what is going on, followed by a discussion of an experimental effort to test the model, with some preliminary results. Finally, he will discuss what he considers to be the necessary future directions in order to achieve commercialization.

Cold Fusion Hot Again

Creator: 60 Minutes / LENR Foundation

Date: 2009

Summary: 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. In this episode, Drs. Mike McKubre and Robert Duncan talk about the observations of cold fusion and their potential change our energy system.

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