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Last month about 50 researchers decided at a meeting that they would encourage their peers to study cold fusion, although they said they think such research is unlikely to result in the production of a useful source of cheap energy...
Wolfgang H.E. Rueckner, who conducted an inconclusive cold fusion experiment in the Advanced Physics labs in the Science Center last spring, said he supports the committee's recommendation to continue research, even if it is not likely to have applicable results...
Although Rueckner would not speculate about what actually might be discovered, he said it appears that the kind of fusion energy source that was originally anticipated will not be found...
...scientists at the meeting assessed the usefulness of research last spring that attempted to duplicate the original experiment of B. Stanley Pons of the University of Utah and his associate, Martin Fleischmann, who announced on March 23 that they had detected the by-products of room-temperature fusion...
...Fusion, the nuclear reaction that powers the sun, was originally thought to occur only at extremely high temperatures and pressures...