Google revives controversial cold-fusion experiments
> <i>"The Google team explored three experimental set-ups that have been proposed to generate cold fusion — two involving palladium and hydrogen, and one involving metallic powders and hydrogen. None found  evidence of fusion. The results have been published across 12 papers over the past 2 years: 9 in peer-reviewed journals and 3  on the arXiv preprint server."</i><p>It seems obvious to me that you can't achieve fusion using a catalyst.   Catalysts are great if you're doing chemistry, but nuclear fusion is a lot different.   You've got to force two positively charged nuclei to merge and I just don't see how a catalyst could accomplish that.   That it didn't work for them seems to vindicate my casual dismissal, but I'm left wondering why they thought it worth trying in the first place.  What were they thinking of that I haven't?<p>> <i>"Trevithick recruited 30 researchers who had no strong opinions on cold fusion."</i><p>Surely 'having an open mind' about cold fusion is itself a <i>"strong opinion"</i> about cold fusion.