[Moonman62]

Following the cold fusion furor of 20 years ago in which the scientific establishment declared that low energy fusion was not believable, scattered pockets of ill-funded scientists continued cold fusion research, while the world of big science continued working on multi-billion dollar fusion projects involving magnetic containment and lasers.

Muon catalyzed fusion is a cold fusion that's been accepted by science for over 50 years. The author isn't very good at research.

[Vigilanteman]

Correct. And if somebody ever manages to harness cold fusion commercially, it will be a historic game changer bigger than Edison's invention of the electric light bulb.

FWIW, I used to work in the power generation industry. It was common knowledge that we had a handful of scientists in a lab working on harnessing cold fusion. I do not doubt that there are a few still doing it.