{"id":179,"date":"2006-10-31T07:01:31","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T06:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=179"},"modified":"2006-10-31T07:01:31","modified_gmt":"2006-10-31T06:01:31","slug":"is-cold-fusion-the-real-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"Is cold fusion the real thing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been extremely sceptical about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cold_fusion\">the notion of cold fusion<\/a>: the idea that one could generate energy from a fusion of molecules near room temperature and pressure using relatively simple devices rather than in the extremely hot circumstances of a thermonuclear device. However, I was invited to revisit my doubts during a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/2006\/10\/impressions_of_paris.html\">long weekend in Paris<\/a> when I met a Canadian scientist by the name of Dr Norman Arrison who happened to be staying at the same hotel.<br \/>\nNorman insisted to me that the experiments of the scientists Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons had been replicated and that cold fusion is a scientifically valid hypothesis that will ultimately transform the production of energy in our fossil fuel-starved world. He drew my attention to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infinite-energy.com\/resources\/faq.html\">this web site<\/a>.<br \/>\nI would like to be convinced but, for the moment, I remain sceptical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been extremely sceptical about the notion of cold fusion: the idea that one could generate energy from a fusion of molecules near room temperature and pressure using relatively simple devices rather than in the extremely hot circumstances of a thermonuclear device. However, I was invited to revisit my doubts during a recent long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}