From Tony Kelly
Michael Brooks reports on a possible resurgence of “cold fusion” (17 September, p 34). There must be many others who feel that Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann were treated shamefully in the announcement of their research (8 April 1989, p 18). They did not actually say that they had at room temperature in the laboratory tamed the process that powers the sun; merely that they had achieved what looked like significant results. In the ensuing debacle they were made to carry the can for the University of Utah public relations department.
I do think there is every prospect of cold fusion being achieved in our generation.
Crook, County Durham, UK
