News Conference, 23 April 1989

Item — cassette: 4

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

A press conference intended to update its members on cold fusion is held at a Los Angeles meeting of the Electrochemical Society of America. Present are Dr. Stanley Pons, Dr. Martin Fleischman, Electrochemical Society President Bruce Deal, Eldon (?), Lawrence Cairns and Dr. Steven Jones. A short history of electro-chemistry is given. Topics include the validity of the experiments (Nathan Lewis and Robert Huggins); aspects of energy output; confirmation, by John Appleby of Texas A & M, of "anomalous heat" and proposition of an alternative explanation; commercial aspects of fusion; confirmation and disputation by various researchers. Comments from (?) Landau, a researcher, after the press conference.

Dates

23 April 1989

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