https://www.lackluster.org/cf/ Yearly anniversaries of milestones in cold fusion / LENR / energy science, looking 60 days ahead. en Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:16:03 GMT https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#1991-4-30 cf-1991-4-30-2026 Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:00:00 GMT Science Zhang Xinwie et al. experience three explosions in their lab. https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#1998-4-30 cf-1998-4-30-2026 Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:00:00 GMT Key Experiment Key Experiment: Optimal Operating Point Characteristics by Mitchell Swartz. https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#1989-5-1 cf-1989-5-1-2026 Fri, 01 May 2026 06:00:00 GMT Conference Scott Chubb organizes first session on cold fusion at an American Physical Society meeting. https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#1989-5-1 cf-1989-5-1-2026 Fri, 01 May 2026 06:00:00 GMT Conference Physicists at American Physical Society (APS) meeting hotly denounce the work of Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons. https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#1998-5-2 cf-1998-5-2-2026 Sat, 02 May 2026 06:00:00 GMT Demo Leslie Case demonstrates deuterium gas-loaded metallic-catalyst cell. https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#2000-5-3 cf-2000-5-3-2026 Sun, 03 May 2026 06:00:00 GMT Publication Excess Heat How Cold Fusion Research Prevailed by Charles Beaudette is published. 2000. PDF: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/BeaudetteCexcessheat.pdf https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#2018-5-3 cf-2018-5-3-2026 Sun, 03 May 2026 06:00:00 GMT Podcast Cold Fusion Now! Podcast Ep. 011 — Dr. Vladimir Vysotskii: Biological Transmutations and Deactivation of Radioactive Isotopes. https://coldfusionnow.org/cfnpodcast/ Audio: https://coldfusionnow.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/A_CFN_011_Vladimir_Vysotskii.mp3 https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#1989-5-4 cf-1989-5-4-2026 Mon, 04 May 2026 06:00:00 GMT Science Third team at Texas A&M headed by John Bockris confirms Fleischmann-Pons Effect (FPE) https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#1993-5-5 cf-1993-5-5-2026 Tue, 05 May 2026 06:00:00 GMT Federal Edmund Storms testifies before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Science, Space, and Technology. (See also CFN podcast #19: https://coldfusionnow.org/cfnpodcast/) https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#1989-5-7 cf-1989-5-7-2026 Thu, 07 May 2026 06:00:00 GMT Science Mumbai's The Indian Post reports ten teams in India replicate the Fleischmann-Pons Effect (FPE) https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#1989-5-8 cf-1989-5-8-2026 Fri, 08 May 2026 06:00:00 GMT Science F-day at Electrochemical Society Meeting. https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#1989-5-9 cf-1989-5-9-2026 Sat, 09 May 2026 06:00:00 GMT Conference Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons provide additional data at a meeting of the Electrochemical Society in Los Angeles, California. https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#1989-5-10 cf-1989-5-10-2026 Sun, 10 May 2026 06:00:00 GMT Science Fleischmann, Pons, and Hawkins publish errata in Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry. https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#1991-5-12 cf-1991-5-12-2026 Tue, 12 May 2026 06:00:00 GMT Science Navy researcher Stan Szpak et al publish on a new method of initiating the reaction that he developed using electro-deposited palladium-deuteride. 1991 ..... in Journal Electroanalytical Chemistry. https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#2010-5-13 cf-2010-5-13-2026 Wed, 13 May 2026 06:00:00 GMT Movement In the midst of the BP Oil Catastrophe, Ruby Carat forms Cold Fusion Now to promote clean energy from cold fusion. https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#2018-5-13 cf-2018-5-13-2026 Wed, 13 May 2026 06:00:00 GMT Podcast Cold Fusion Now! Podcast Ep. 012 — Dr. Melvin Miles: The Heat-Helium Discovery. https://coldfusionnow.org/cfnpodcast/ Audio: http://www.coldfusionnow.com/podcast/Ruby-Carat-Melvin-Miles-Cold-Fusion-Now-012.mp3 https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#1990-5-15 cf-1990-5-15-2026 Fri, 15 May 2026 06:00:00 GMT Science A.B. Karabut, Ya.R. Kucherov, and I.V. Savvatimova present Cold Fusion Observation at Gas-Discharge Device Cathode. https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#1989-5-18 cf-1989-5-18-2026 Mon, 18 May 2026 06:00:00 GMT Science Ten teams report success replicating the FPE at cold fusion meeting at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) near Mumbai, India. https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#1990-5-19 cf-1990-5-19-2026 Tue, 19 May 2026 06:00:00 GMT Science Edmund Storms of Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) compiles survey of 16 successes in tritium detection, 15 in neutron detection, and 19 successes replicating the FPE. (See also CFN podcast #19: https://coldfusionnow.org/cfnpodcast/) https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#2002-5-19 cf-2002-5-19-2026 Tue, 19 May 2026 06:00:00 GMT Conference ICCF-9 — International Conference on Cold Fusion held in Beijing, China. Proceedings / info: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/LiXZcondensedm.pdf https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#2014-5-20 cf-2014-5-20-2026 Wed, 20 May 2026 06:00:00 GMT Patent Edmund Storms granted US 8,728,235 — Method and apparatus for cold fusion based on the Hydroton model of nuclear-active environments in palladium hydride. https://patents.google.com/patent/US8728235/en https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#2000-5-21 cf-2000-5-21-2026 Thu, 21 May 2026 06:00:00 GMT Conference ICCF-8 — International Conference on Cold Fusion held in Lerici, La Spezia, Italy. Proceedings / info: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/ScaramuzzVprocofthe.pdf https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#2002-5-21 cf-2002-5-21-2026 Thu, 21 May 2026 06:00:00 GMT Publication The new field journal is named the Journal of Condensed Matter Nuclear Science (JCMNS). Archive: https://www.iscmns.org/CMNS/publications.htm https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#2008-5-21 cf-2008-5-21-2026 Thu, 21 May 2026 06:00:00 GMT Science Yoshiaki Arata publicly demonstrates cold fusion cell generating 25x return. https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#1989-5-22 cf-1989-5-22-2026 Fri, 22 May 2026 06:00:00 GMT Science Case-Western Reserve, Texas A&M, U. of Florida, U. of Washington and the National Institute of Nuclear Physics at Frascati, Italy have all confirmed parts of the Fleischmann-Pons Effect. https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#1991-5-22 cf-1991-5-22-2026 Fri, 22 May 2026 06:00:00 GMT Publication Fire from Ice: Searching for the Truth Behind the Cold Fusion Furor by Eugene Mallove is published. https://archive.org/details/firefromicesearc0000mall https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#2008-5-22 cf-2008-5-22-2026 Fri, 22 May 2026 06:00:00 GMT Science Yoshiaki Arata of Osaka University and Yue-Chang Zhang of Shanghai Jiao Tong University publicly demonstrate cold fusion cell that generates 25 times energy return. 2008 ...for the public. https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#1989-5-23 cf-1989-5-23-2026 Sat, 23 May 2026 06:00:00 GMT Conference The Workshop on Cold Fusion Phenomenon held at Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico is the first cold fusion conference ever held. https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#1989-5-25 cf-1989-5-25-2026 Mon, 25 May 2026 06:00:00 GMT Science A team of Mexican scientists report confirmation of solid-state fusion. https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#2025-5-26 cf-2025-5-26-2026 Tue, 26 May 2026 06:00:00 GMT Conference ICCF-26 — International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science held in Morioka, Japan. Proceedings / info: https://www.jcfrs.org/iccf26/ https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#2019-5-27 cf-2019-5-27-2026 Wed, 27 May 2026 06:00:00 GMT Key Experiment “Revisiting the cold case of cold fusion” published in Nature by Berlinguette, Chiang, Munday, Schenkel, Fork, Koningstein, and Trevithick — Google's four-year, $10M multi-institution program (UBC, MIT, LBNL) revisits palladium hydride excess heat and develops new measurement techniques for the field. Nature 569: 581–588. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1256-6 https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#2005-5-28 cf-2005-5-28-2026 Thu, 28 May 2026 06:00:00 GMT Conference First LANR/CF Colloquium at MIT organized by Mitchell Swartz. https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#1991-5-31 cf-1991-5-31-2026 Sun, 31 May 2026 06:00:00 GMT Science Cold Nuclear Fusion in Thin Foils of Palladium by Peter Gluck and Evelina Palibroda reports finding neutrons. https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#1824-6-1 cf-1824-6-1-2026 Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:00:00 GMT Deep History Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot published first theoretical understanding of steam power in Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire. https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#1997-6-3 cf-1997-6-3-2026 Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:00:00 GMT Conference American Nuclear Society Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida features Low Energy Nuclear Reactions Panel session. https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#2018-6-3 cf-2018-6-3-2026 Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:00:00 GMT Conference ICCF-21 — International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science held in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. Proceedings / info: https://iccf21.com/ https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#1998-6-5 cf-1998-6-5-2026 Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:00:00 GMT Conference Physicist and science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke calls ignoring cold fusion “one of the greatest scandals in the history of science.” https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#2019-6-5 cf-2019-6-5-2026 Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:00:00 GMT Podcast Cold Fusion Now! Podcast Ep. 024 — Dr. Sveinn Olafsson: Ultra-Dense Hydrogen and Rydberg Matter. https://coldfusionnow.org/cfnpodcast/ Audio: http://www.coldfusionnow.com/podcast/Ruby-Carat-Sveinn-Olafsson-Cold-Fusion-Now-024.mp3 https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#1991-6-7 cf-1991-6-7-2026 Sun, 07 Jun 2026 06:00:00 GMT Federal Eugene Mallove formally resigns as MIT News Office Chief Science Writer. https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#1994-6-7 cf-1994-6-7-2026 Sun, 07 Jun 2026 06:00:00 GMT Patent James Patterson / Clean Energy Technologies Inc. (CETI) granted US 5,318,675 — System for the electrolysis of water using a porous matrix of micron-sized beads. https://patents.google.com/patent/US5318675A/en https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#2021-6-9 cf-2021-6-9-2026 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:00:00 GMT Conference ICCF-23 — International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science held in Xiamen University, China (online & in-person). Proceedings / info: https://iccf23.iscmns.org/ https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#1997-6-11 cf-1997-6-11-2026 Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:00:00 GMT Business ABC-TV shows Good Morning America and NightLine feature Clean Energy Technology, Inc. (CETI) Patterson Power Cell on the same day. https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#2011-6-11 cf-2011-6-11-2026 Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:00:00 GMT Conference LANR/CF Colloquium hosted by Mitchell Swartz held at MIT. https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#1989-6-12 cf-1989-6-12-2026 Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:00:00 GMT Publication First issue of Fusion Facts is published by Hal Fox announcing cold fusion is real and has commercial possibilities. https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#1991-6-16 cf-1991-6-16-2026 Tue, 16 Jun 2026 06:00:00 GMT Publication Fusion Facts publishes a review of 242 positive papers from 23 countries. https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#2011-6-18 cf-2011-6-18-2026 Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:00:00 GMT Business David J. Nagel forms NUCAT Energy, LLC. (See also CFN Podcast #1: https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#2018-1-3) https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#1995-6-19 cf-1995-6-19-2026 Fri, 19 Jun 2026 06:00:00 GMT Conference First Conference on Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (Transmutations) held at Texas A&M University. https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#1989-6-23 cf-1989-6-23-2026 Tue, 23 Jun 2026 06:00:00 GMT Science P.K. Iyengar and Mahadeva Srinivasan et al. measure four-fold increase of tritium from cold fusion cell. (See also CFN Podcast #7: https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#2018-3-23) https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#1997-6-23 cf-1997-6-23-2026 Tue, 23 Jun 2026 06:00:00 GMT Business The Cincinnati Group presents a process of radioactive waste remediation and offers a LENT-1 thorium activity reduction demonstration cell as a commercial product. https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#2007-6-25 cf-2007-6-25-2026 Thu, 25 Jun 2026 06:00:00 GMT Conference ICCF-13 — International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science held in Sochi, Russia. Proceedings / info: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/BazhutovYNproceedinp.pdf https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#1989-6-26 cf-1989-6-26-2026 Fri, 26 Jun 2026 06:00:00 GMT Reaction MIT Plasma Fusion Center holds Wake for Cold Fusion Party at 4PM claiming cold fusion is dead. https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#1989-6-26 cf-1989-6-26-2026 Fri, 26 Jun 2026 06:00:00 GMT Science Edmund Storms and Carol Talcott from LANL detect tritium “in significant amounts” from Pd-D electrolytic cells. (See also CFN podcast #19: https://coldfusionnow.org/cfnpodcast/) https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#1991-6-28 cf-1991-6-28-2026 Sun, 28 Jun 2026 06:00:00 GMT Science Robert Bush and Robert Eagleton report record amount of excess heat at ICCF-2. https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#1991-6-29 cf-1991-6-29-2026 Mon, 29 Jun 2026 06:00:00 GMT Conference ICCF-2 — International Conference on Cold Fusion held in Como, Italy. Proceedings / info: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/BressaniTtheicc.pdf https://www.lackluster.org/cf/#2007-6-29 cf-2007-6-29-2026 Mon, 29 Jun 2026 06:00:00 GMT Federal High Energy Science and Technology Assessment from U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) supports cold fusion research.