By David Lee Rickman II
Futurologist.TV
Easter came earlier on the calander this year than it usually does. March 23rd to be exact. It also was the nineteenth anniversary of the University of Utah's rushed press conference announcing cold fusion.
Cold fusion, nineteen years later, is still debated.
The USPTO won't allow patents for cold fusion. However, Asia and Europe
allow the legal protection of a patent to their cold fusion inventors.
March
23rd of this year was also the day after Sir Arthur C. Clarke's
funeral. Many who respected Sir Arthur C. Clarke over a decade ago were
quick to name call when Clarke suggested in the
May 1997
issue of Discover Magazine that cold fusion should be reevaluated.
Luckily, Sir Clarke lived long enough to see the DOE's Office of
Science
perform another review of the subject, albeit still reaching the same conclusions in the end.
Sir Arthur C. Clarke, according to
the late Dr. Eugene Mallove, predicted cold fusion as the catalytic transmutations of a modern alchemy. Clarke predicted that by the
end of this decade,
"The first quantum generators (tapping space energy) are developed.
Available in portable and household units, from a few kilowatts
upwards, they can produce electricity indefinitely. Central power
stations close down: the age of pylons ends."
What is yet to be seen is if Sir Clarke’s dream died with him.