Comments:Leading Japanese researcher demonstrates publicly a cold fusion reactor

"Distinguished" would probably be a better description than "leading"; Arata has been out of the mainstream for some time now, but he is both an important and a revered researcher. I think this will probably turn out to be a more important event than other cold fusion stories, one way or another, and we should keep up with this one. Dank55 (talk) 17:01, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

insufficient certainty for these assertions
At the moment we have a propagating report that a claim of successful solid fusion has one backer who allegedly observed the demonstration. On a personal note I hope it's true, and thanks for the timeliness, but we must remain skeptical absenting reports from reputable sources of independent repeats of the test by reputable entities.

Of course 'repute' is a subjective term but for the masses it is a relatively local currency, and those with it are slow to risk it. I'd expect at least caution if not disregard from the mainstream media, sadly news of the major scientific breakthrough to solve worlds energy problems genre is a hot potato not just since Pons and Fleischman but more recently Steorn. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.100.111.48 (talk) 13:32, 25 May 2008 (UTC)