On March 23rd, 1989, two Electrochemists from the University of Utah, Martin Fleischman and Stanley Ponds, took part in a press conference where they announced to the world that they had achieved sustainable desktop nuclear fusion. The events which followed were what

is called in scientific circles a dumpster fire. Yet despite everything, 30 years later,

there's a small but growing community in the world of physics

who are sure that something happened.

Learn more about the story of Cold Fusion on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. everything everywhere daily.

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checkout. If you have noticed that we do not have an unlimited supply of clean energy at our disposal,

then you've probably also realized that the promise of cold fusion

never quite delivered. It's worth the time to go back to see what happened and where

everything went wrong. It began innocently enough with the experiments done by the above-mentioned

ponds and Fleischman when they conducted a rather simple experiment with the

element Palladium, heavy water, and electricity. Pladium had been known to have a unique ability to store hydrogen within its metal

matrix since the 19th century. That part is not controversial. There had been periodic reports

in the early 20th century of scientists who found anomalous results.

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