Press Release
Solid-State Fusion Now ConfirmedDouglas Pinnow and Kirk Miller
Two Southern California scientists, Douglas Pinnow and Kirk Miller, have solved a 36-year-old puzzle of how to initiate and sustain a nuclear fusion reaction in a solid-state reactor. Their discovery may have an impact on delivering future energy needs and substantially reducing global warming.
The origin of the puzzle dates to a 1989 press conference at the University of Utah, where presenters described a new form of energy production called ‘Cold Fusion’. The announcement received such broad international attention that Time magazine featured it on the cover of its May 8, 1989, issue.
The two chemists who introduced the phenomenon could not reproduce their results and were discredited for not having their ‘breakthrough’ vetted by the traditional peer review process used by the scientific community. Nevertheless, thousands of scientists around the world continued to believe that the two chemists had stumbled upon something significant and have been quietly working to understand the phenomenon and realize its potential.
Today, Pinnow and Miller will explain that ‘Cold Fusion’ was a misnomer for a process better described as ‘Solid-State Fusion’. It is now reproducible by employing a novel trigger. Their research has passed peer review and has been published in the Journal of Condensed Matter Nuclear Science. [J. Condensed Matter Nucl. Sci. 40 (2025) 1-15.]