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2025 University of British Columbia experiment

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I have no education in physics beyond a high-school Newtonian physics class, and no background in chemistry. I've not been a follower of LENR research.

But I believe the 2025 UBC experiment that became public news last August is probably worth a mention. If there's any hope in the LENR field, it seems as though this may be a valuable step.

What do you think?Joel Russ (talk) 20:53, 16 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

That sort of thing has been ongoing since Pons and Fleischmann, and "somebody does this" is not news. There is no reason to assume that it will suddenly work. --Hob Gadling (talk) 13:51, 17 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

That's a press release for this Nature paper. I don't think it belongs in the article because it's a paper about fusion from an accelerated plasma, not cold fusion. If the authors produce follow-up work about cold fusion someday, we can discuss it then. --Steve (talk) 03:11, 24 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

DARPA Believes in cold fusion

https://www.darpa.mil/research/programs/marrs-mechanisms-amplification-fusion-reaction-rates-solids ~2026-16184-78 (talk) 04:33, 14 March 2026 (UTC)Reply

No, that call explicitly includes proposals for firing high-energy photons into a cold metal lattice - e.g. Lattice confinement fusion. There used to be an explanation of types of fusion here to classify that sort of thing as 'globally cold, locally hot' fusion. Fusion where the bulk is cold but the reaction site is at millions of degrees isn't in scope for this page. --Noren (talk) 18:29, 14 March 2026 (UTC)Reply

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2025 University of British Columbia experiment