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In the past couple of years cold fusion has received renewed attention, though it's now been renamed to "low energy nuclear reactions" or LENR for short. In this video I look at what we know and don't know, and how promising it is.
The references for the early cold fusion papers from the 1920s are
Paneth & Peters, Naturwissenschaften, 14(43), 956–962 (1926)
Wendt & Irion, JACS, 44(9), 1887–1894 (1922)
Huw Price has a paper about the entire cold fusion story here https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03776
If you want to get started with reading about the topic, I suggest you start with Huw's paper.
00:00 Intro
00:31 Cold fusion works
05:27 Cold fusion doesn't work
09:41 Something works, but we don't know what
14:12 What does it mean?
18:16 Sponsor message
