Wally Rippel: The Human Side of the Cold Fusion Equation Is Even More Interesting than the Science

Wally Rippel pointed out to me that the human side of the equation is even more interesting than the science. There has been a calculated effort to discredit the idea of cold fusion. For obvious reasons, cold fusion threatens existing energy-related interests, and those interests have been intensely aggressive with throwing people off the trail.

When I asked him about this, he affirmed that researchers from Cal Tech and MIT did, in fact, find nuclear products; they fudged the numbers to get the DoE off the case. The US Navy and Lawrence Livermore have also found clear evidence of nuclear results.

Here is more information on Wally Rippel and his contribution to Renewable Energy – Facts and Fantasies (by Craig Shields, published by Clean Energy Press, 2010).