>>The Japanese goverment announced in 1992 that Fleischmann and Pons are senior scientific advisors for the five-year, multi-million dollar MITI cold fusion research program. They continue their work ast the Japanese facility, IMRA, near NICE.
So it is the answer to Japan's biggest problem, the importation of energy. Freedom from the Mideast, and, since WW2, freedom from the fear of atomic waste and its health consequences.