Bennett Daviss wrote an article for New Scientist on May 3 as a follow-up piece to the in-depth article on the SPAWAR San Diego research by Steven Krivit and Daviss published in New Energy Times in November.

For the record, the term “cold fusion” was never chosen by Fleischmann and Pons; it was wished on them by the press. It was and is a poor descriptor for the phenomenon. The concept of fusion remains highly speculative, a variety of phenomena are clearly not fusion, and then there is the Widom-Larsen not-fusion theory.

Related New Energy Times stories:

Report on the 2006 Naval Science and Technology Partnership Conference (Sept. 10, 2006)

 Extraordinary Evidence  (Nov. 10, 2006)

Extraordinary Courage: Report on Some LENR Presentations at the 2007 American Physical Society Meeting (March 16, 2007)

Charged Particles for Dummies: A Conversation With Lawrence P.G. Forsley (May 10, 2007)

Steven Krivit
Editor, New Energy Times