From James Watt
Some 20 years ago, under the pseudonym Iain James, I published an April Fool’s Day joke in New Scientist (2 April 1981, p 41). My article proposed a system of bubble containment for cold nuclear fusion.
It was therefore with some interest that I discovered your article on cold fusion research in the US with its subtitle “Will popping a few bubbles solve the world’s energy problems?” (9 March, p 4). Is this yet another case of “invented in Britain and developed abroad”?
Birmingham
