[SunkenCiv]

While I don't follow CF, I also object to the witch hunt conducted against it in the name of federal funding of research. Fund cold fusion, cut some other research. Hot fusion research has been expensive, but has not produced much of anything besides a lot of test beds which never quite live up to expectations.

The War Against Cold Fusion - What's really behind it?
by Hal Plotkin

Philo T. Farnsworth turned to inertial containment to try to achieve controlled fusion, but died before achieving it. His project was abandoned, but not forgotten.

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The Boy Who Invented Television: A Story of Inspiration, Persistence and Quiet Passion by Paul Schatzkin

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[editor-surveyor]

"It could be the end of the fossil fuel age: the end of oil and coal. And the end, incidentally, of many of our worries about global warming."
-- Sir Arthur C. Clarke

And therein lies the crux of the matter: Cold Fusion would be the end of the ability to control people, and no tyrant can stomach that idea!