Michael McKubre, PhD

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, is an electro-chemist in the forefront of cold fusion

Cold fusion

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 energy development and one of the most respected scientists in the field. McKubre was director of the Energy Research Center at SRI International

SRI International

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 in 1998. He is a native of New Zealand.

From 1989 to 2002, he has been researching cold fusion in the SRI. Unlike other researchers in the same field, he has obtained mainstream funding during all his research: first from the Electric Power Research Institute

Electric Power Research Institute

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, then from the Japanese government, and in 2002 he had funding from the U.S. government In 2004 he and other cold fusion researchers asked the United States Department of Energy

United States Department of Energy

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 (DOE) to give a new review to the field of cold fusion, and he co-authored a report with all the available experimental and theorical evidence since the 1989 review. As of 2010, he was still making experiments with palladium cells in the SRI, and collaborates with the ENEA

ENEA (Italy)

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 laboratory, where the most reliable palladium is being produced. McKubre more recently took part as one of the 22 physicists of the Steorn

Steorn

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 "jury".

Personal life

In January 1992, in a SRI lab, a cold fusion cell exploded, killing one of his collaborators and wounded three persons, McKubre among them. During years he had to return nearly every day to the room where the death happened and work behind bulletproof glass, and he still has pieces of glass embedded in his side.

Works

(manuscript) Paper listing the available experimental evidence of cold fusion.

External links

• Interview with CBS
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  ' 60 Minutes
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