There was some speculation from several years ago that Google’s interest in LENR was driven by their own AI engine they had been developing.
“There was some speculation from several years ago that Google’s interest in LENR was driven by their own AI engine they had been developing.”
Google Ran A Secret Experiment To Search For Cold Fusion. Did They Find It?
Unfortunately for Pons and Fleischmann, whose reputations were forever tarnished, the 1989 experiments were fatally flawed. Many scientists tried to reproduce the results, but they all failed, and the criticism mounted quickly. Pons and Fleischmann never published their findings*, and cold fusion later became a meme for flawed or impossible scientific results. Even today, calling something “cold fusion” is form of ridicule.