Both decentralized small home power units and vehicle systems, as well as central power stations, are envisioned. Cold Fusion, dismissed by the physics community since there was no theory that fit the experiments and they could not be easily reproduced, is alive and struggling toward the markets in several countries. Fusion Technology, the refereed journal in the fusion field, has carried many articles that report positive results. The editor, Dr. George Miley, will leave in June 2001 to work with a new firm that will commercialize a thin film variation of his invention. Now known as LENR, Low Energy Nuclear Reactions, there is no harmful radiation and nuclear waste.
Thermal energy is the output.
Transducers now under development seem likly to produce electricity at highly competitive cost. LENR has been validated by experiments at SRI International, U.S. Navy laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists and many others. The government laboratories have not wanted to publicize their research. Substantial work is also taking plac in Japan, some involving highly respected scientists. Both of the above use water as fuel.