The results were highly irreproducable and the energy balance was very hard to measure properly.
We did, however, detected neutrons and some pretty impressive exothermic events that suggested that fusion was occurring.
Fast forward to 2025 and the University of British Columbia has just published a paper documenting a 15% excess energy and an unambiguous neutron flux that strongly supports fusion.
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Considering all the current hype, and huge projected financial investment, and devotion of other resources such as land, power and water for cooling, AI will need to do far better, and much quicker, than cold fusion, in terms of improving life and human society, or this guy’s initial implied parallel will hold, and Trump or his U.S Prexy successor(s) will need to find a new technology to champion (or stop championing unproven technologies entirely).