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!
Yeah, but what else, Sir Arthur?Arthur C Clarke demands cold fusion rethinkThe author and visionary Sir Arthur C Clarke says society has made a huge mistake in rejecting out of hand the idea that cold fusion may be possible and mocked editors and journalists at the British Association's Festival of Science for not giving the technology serious consideration. Cold fusion first hit the headlines in 1989 when researchers Martin Fleishmann and Stanley Pons suggested it was possible to generate heat through the fusion of atoms at normal temperatures. But when leading scientists failed to reproduce their results and Fleishmann and Pons retracted some of their early claims, cold fusion was dismissed as nonsense. However, the research has gone on, with little funding and largely underground, and Sir Arthur said the results coming out of some labs demanded attention. Sir Arthur also said he believed we were entering the Carbon Age. He prophesised that the discovery of molecules like C60 - the soccer ball-shaped cage of carbon atoms - would lead to extraordinary new materials.
by Jonathan Amos
Monday, 11 September, 2000
BBC New Online
...at the same time calling "stupid" anyone who doubts that the Moon landings took place.Arthur C. Clarke Stands By His Belief in Life on MarsClarke spoke last night, June 6, via phone from his home in Sri Lanka as key speaker in the Wernher von Braun Memorial Lecture series held here at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. Pouring over images on his home computer taken by the now-orbiting Mars Global Surveyor (MGS), Clarke said that there are signs of vegetation evident in the photos. Clarke repeated several times that he was serious about his observations, pointing out that he sees something akin to Banyan trees in some MGS photos.
by Leonard David
Monday, 11 September, 2000
Space.com
Clarke"s Believe It or NotAldrin said, "To put this into a perspective where Arthur and I agree: It may take 200, 300 or 400 years, but it's going to take zero-point energy to get us to Alpha Centauri." Turning to Clarke, he added, "Correct?" "I'm glad that Buzz has raised this rather controversial question," Clarke said. "A lot of my scientist friends [think I'm] crazy to believe there's anything in this. It started with this so-called cold fusion business, which everybody laughed out of court. But I'm now convinced that there are new forms of energy, which we are tapping, and they make even nuclear energy look trivial in comparison. And when we control those energy sources, the universe will open up."
by Andrew Chaikin
27 February 2001
Space Illustrated