It (cold fusion) was complete bollocks as you say. Actually, if you think back, the hole in the ozone layer was captivating environmentalists and so was acid r

It (cold fusion) was complete bollocks as you say. Actually, if you think back, the hole in the ozone layer was captivating environmentalists and so was acid rain. Remember the photos of Scandinavian forests of fir trees stripped of their leaves? Remember the moratorium and then ban on CFCs (Chloro fluoro err thingies) and how the Arctic was errr fixed? Our cars used to run on leaded petrol. I can still remember the odd yellow coloured verges of the A303 (UK, SW England). If you were headed west to go on holiday to Devon or Cornwall, you would see quite a few laybys with a stall flogging strawberries. Mmmm mildly lead flavoured! Yum! Nowadays we have rather odd weather to deal with and a massively reduced biodiversity. I also remember nuclear fusion and being told by some chaps at the JET in Oxon that NF is about 25 years away. I also had the joke about NF being 25 years off explained to me in around 1998. NF is still roughly 25 years away but actually I think it really is, give (or don't bother to take) say 25 years.