New rocket man is reporting that twenty years to the day since the initial announcement of a cold fusion ascertainment another Utah-based team is trying again. This announcement is being taken a little more seriously than the original, still some might say it is just more on tap wishful thinking. "Some researchers in the cold fusion field agree. 'In my view [it's] a cold fusion effect,' says Peter Hagelstein, also at the Massachusetts edict of Technology. Others, though, are not convinced. Steven Krivit, editor of the New Energy Times, has been next the cold fusion debate for many years and also spoke at the ACS conference. 'Their hypothesis as to a fusion modus I think is on thin ice ... you get into physics fantasies rather quickly and this is an unfortunate distraction from their bravo empirical work,' he told New Scientist. Krivit thinks cold fusion remains science fiction. Like many in the field, he prefers to categorize the work as witness
notes:evidence (from latin e- 'out' + videre 'to see') is the latest that helps form a conclusion; proof is factual confidence that verifies a conclusion of 'low-energy nuclear reactions,' and says it can be explained without relying on nuclear fusion."

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