US Navy researchers have claimed evidence of cold fusion in a recent presentation that took place at the American Chemical Society’s annual meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Cold fusion, a low-energy nuclear reaction (LENR), is a possible source of energy that is often scientifically questioned, but these experts have believe that they’ve found proof of it’s existence.

It was twenty years ago when the first evidence of cold fusion was presented by  Martin Fleishmann and Stanley Pons, which caused controversy in the scientific community. Their claim, which promised a production of abundant nuclear energy extracted from seawater, could not be reproduced by other researchers. As a result, the study was discredited, but scientists continued to try to develop it.

The idea behind cold fusion is that when electrolysis is executed on deuterons, molecules are fused into helium, releasing a high-energy neutron. The problem was that while there was heat detected by the researchers, they were not able to find the missing neutrons.

The new research, though, has shown that the issue lay in the instrumentation, and instead, they used a special plastic detector, which was able to find and track the neutrons.

“We now have very convincing experimental evidence,” claimed Antonella De Ninno, a scientist with New Technologies Energy and Environment (Rome), who also found excess heat and helium gas.

These studies have instigated and reinvigorated further resarch in understanding cold fusion, and eventually, how to use it.

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