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103 “We are now prepared to stake our reputations” Time, “On the Way: Genuine Fusion.”
106 “partly as a research facility,” Bromberg, Fusion, 64.
107 “entirely as a research facility,” Ibid.
108 “I was so stunned” Sakharov, Memoirs, 92.
108n “One had only to substitute ‘USSR’ for ‘USA,’” Ibid., 100.
111 One disruption Seife, “At the Going Down of the Nuclear Sun,” 95.
113n “I expect that they use a very long thermometer.” Braams and Stott, Nuclear Fusion, 135.
116 One Atomic Energy Commission worker: Bromberg, Fusion, 167.
118 “a significant step toward the long-range goal” Schmeck, “Nuclear Fusion Reported In Lab With Aid of Laser.”
118 “a small but significant initial step” Ibid.
118 “efficient fusion power” Bromberg, Fusion, 186.
CHAPTER 6: THE COLD SHOULDER
127 “We are also human, and we need miracles,” Garwin, “Consensus on Cold Fusion Still Elusive,” 617.
128 “We used to call it” Thomas Valone, Second International Conference on Future Energy, 24 September 2006.
128 “Two scientists have successfully created” Huizenga, Cold Fusion, 237.
129 “ranks right up there with fire,” Taubes, Bad Science, xx.
131 They mused about it Bishop and Wells, “Taming H-Bombs?”
131 “Stan and I thought this experiment was so stupid” Fleischmann, Pons, and others, press conference of 23 March 1989.
132 “Sometime during the night” Bishop, “Heat Source in Fusion Find May Be Mystery Reaction,” 1.
133 “interesting discussion” Alvarez et al., “Catalysis of Nuclear Reactions by µ Mesons,” 1128.
134 “in effect, confines the two nuclei in a small box.” Ibid.
135 “We had a short but exhilarating experience” Alvarez, “Recent Developments in Particle Physics.”
136 “each muon may catalyze hundreds” Jones, “Muon-Catalyzed Fusion Revisited,” 132.
136 “It is now conceivable” Rafelski and Jones, “Cold Nuclear Fusion,” 84.
137 “a bunch of baloney,” Taubes, Bad Science, 25.
138 the competitors had agreed Footlick, Truth and Consequences, 35.
138 Pons and Fleischmann jumped the gun: Taubes, Bad Science, 87ff.
138 “Stan and I often talk” Huizinga, Cold Fusion, 238.
141 “provides strong evidence” Jones et al., “Observation of Cold Nuclear Fusion in Condensed Matter,” 739.
144 “It’s wrong.” Taubes, Bad Science, 141.
145 “There is big money in hot fusion,” Footlick, Truth and Consequences, 49.
145 “The black hats, such as they were,” Ibid., 44.
145 “Within the next few weeks,” Garwin, “Consensus of Cold Fusion Still Elusive,” 617.
146 “Now it appears that chemists” Pool, “Skepticism Grows Over Cold Fusion,” 284.
146 “We do not get the total blank experiment” Ibid. 285.
147 “How is this astounding oversight” Maddox, “What to Say about Cold Fusion,” 701.
147 “urgent work.” Nature, “Cold Fusion in Print,” 604.
147 “in a way that maximized publicity” Bazell, “Hype-Energy Physics,” 7.
147 “The pace of scientific advance” Wall Street Journal, “Fusing the Impossible,” 1.
149 “sure as sure can be” Lindley, “More Than Scepticism,” 4.
149 “By the time the hearings got around to the skeptics,” Park, “A Cold Fusion Institute Was Called for in Hearings.”
150 “polite but generally sceptical reception,” Lindley, “More Than Scepticism,” 4.
150 “We’re suffering from the incompetence and delusions” Waldrop, “Cold Water from Caltech,” 523.
150 “We asked Pons if he stirred,” Ibid.
150 “devastating” Bishop, “Physicists Outline Possible Errors That Led to Claims of Cold Fusion,” 1.
151 “continue to twitch for a while.” Park, “The Corpse of Cold Fusion Will Probably Continue to Twitch.”
151 John Sununu abruptly cancelled Taubes, Bad Science, 267
151 Pons and Fleischmann got more reclusive Ibid., 293, 375ff, 421.
151 Pons’s lawyer threatened legal action Ibid., 355.
151 “I discovered after awhile” Footlick, Truth and Consequences, 42.
152 “modest support” U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Research Advisory Board, Cold Fusion Research.
154 he tried to prove Jones,