«It was unfortunate that cold fusion was initially publicized in 1989 as a new fusion energy source instead of simply as a new scientific curiosity,» says electrochemist Melvin H. Miles.
«If you compare the fuel we use with the devices we have, we're very limited,» says Leonard Tender, an electrochemist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. «We can look at how microbes do it and use them as a model.»