Low-energy nuclear reactions, historically known as ‘cold fusion,’ will get their 12 minutes of fame on CBS TV’s ’60 Minutes’ Sunday at 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time in a program titled ‘Cold Fusion Is Hot Again.’ This is the second TV program on ‘cold fusion to run within the last few weeks. ‘Brin,’ show on Discovery’s Science Channel, ran an episode called ‘Cold Fusion Cracked?’ that aired March 27. According to ‘Brink’ guest Dwight Williams – introduced as a senior science adviser with the U.S. Department of Energy – there might, in fact, be something real about all of this – that is, real science, real hope and, quite possibly, a real source of energy. Jean Paul Biberian, a French researcher who has been working on LENR for 20 years, was quoted many years ago saying, ‘It’s history in the making, what we are living through here.’ The battle for credibility and redemption for the field has been long and hard-fought. German physicist Max Planck predicted the nature of such scientific revolutions. ‘A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light,’ Planck wrote, ‘but rather because its […]