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Acknowledgments	xi
Foreword	xv
Introduction	xix
Preface	xxi

PART ONE: GLOBAL ENERGY, GLOBAL CONCERNS

1. Cold Fusion Basics	3
2. Immense Hope and Skepticism	13
3. Fuel Scarcity and Climate Change	19
4. Nuclear Fission: A Mixed Blessing	29
5. The Overextended Promise of Hot Fusion	35
6. The Limited Promise of Hydrogen	43
7. The Distant Promise of Exotic New Energies	47

PART TWO: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

8. An Overdue Revolution in Science	57
9. The Moment of Discovery	65
10. Con-Fusion	77
11. Ridicule and Violent Opposition	83
12. A Biased 1989 Review Panel	91
13. False Debunking	95
14. MIT's Fumbled (or Worse) Experiments	103
15. Corroborating Evidence	117
16. Cold Fusion: A Forbidden Topic	123
17. Silence and Neglect	133
18. Pathological Criticism	141
19. Fifteen Years of Progress	152

PART THREE: DISCOVERIES AND MYSTERIES

20. Objections Overturned	161
21. Reproducibility	165
22. Nuclear Evidence: Tritium	175
23. Helium-4, a Harmless Byproduct	195
24. Neutrons Found	203
25. The Race for a Nobel Prize-Winning Theory	209
26. Nuclear Energy from Normal Water	213
27. Nuclear Transmutations Through Chemistry	217
28. Technical Summary of Cold Fusion	220

PART FOUR: REFLECTION AND ANTICIPATION

29. Threats to Academic Freedom	229
30. National Security	239
31. Lessons Learned	245
32. Speculation About the Future	249

Appendix A: University Scientists Interviewed or Cited	263
Appendix B: 2003 Survey of Nuclear Transmutations in Cold Fusion Experiments	264
Appendix C: The Scientific Process	265
Endnotes	267
Bibliography	286
Index	291
About the Authors	297
About New Energy Times^TM	298