There has been steady progress in the world of Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR), better known as Cold Fusion, in the last few months. The main commercial players have been quiet — although April is likely to be make-or-break for ‘Energy Catalyser’ (E-Cat) inventor Andrea Rossi — but the open-source Martin Fleishmann Memorial Project (MFMP) has made some big steps towards its goal of proving the reality of LENR to a skeptical world.

Bob Greenyer is one of the driving forces behind the MFMP. He’s a successful entrepreneur, having run a diverse portfolio of businesses in the fields of pharmaceuticals, finance, advertising and education. But now he’s in a business that costing him money rather than making it, and he loves it. Like the other MFMP team members, he has put in a lot of his own time and money because he believes in the cause.

While Rossi’s Leonardo Corp and rivals Defkalion are working in close secrecy with the aim of making money, the MFMP has no interest in intellectual property, says Greenyer. It wants to share it with the world.

One of the MFMP’s first aims is a cheap, simple apparatus that can be easily replicated and which shows that ‘new […]