[Brilliant]

I suspect that he's not going to convince some people unless and until he can do something practical with it, namely produce usuable energy. If he could produce usable energy, on a net energy basis, it would be kind of hard to say that it was an illusion. Energy doesn't just appear out of nowhere.

[saganite]

I don't believe he needs to prove it can do anything useful although that would be great. As a scientist he's not necessarily interested in the end product. He's more interested in seeing if there's a new undiscovered nuclear process here. That alone would rewrite the science books and probably win him a Nobel.

[cb]

As I recall, cold fusion had a positive energy balance, but no neutrons. This meant that some other chemical reaction was taking place, but not fusion. Neutrons are the signature of hydrogen fusion.

If this is achieved(cold fusion), life as we know it will change dramatically......Kind of like when oil was discovered.