World War One’s aftermath forbade Germany to construct arms until 1926 when restrictions were relaxed and airship construction began again. Hydrogen airships were prevalent throughout the world until the year 1937, when the tragedy of the Hindenburg airship explosion in the United States resulted in that hydrogen was replaced with the non-explosive helium.

The transfer from hydrogen to helium placed Germany at a disadvantage because the major industrial producer of helium gas, the United States, loathed providing Germany with such a commodity relatively soon after the war. To bridge the technology gap German scientists, notably the chemists Fritz Paneth and Kurt Peters, worked to find an alternative method for producing helium.

The chemists quest was amidst the discoveries that laid the foundation for modern nuclear physics, an example is Einstein’s famo

The two German scientists theorized from their knowledge of the atomic nucleus and periodic table that two hydrogen atoms brought together would create a helium atom, this assumption is correct and today known as nuclear fusion. As chemists the metal palladium, a gray colored metal similar to platinum, was an apparent choice for the reaction’s medium, because at room temperature the elemental metal has an ability to absorb 900 times its volume in hydrogen.

Superconductivity was a real effect previous to the 30 years, and the same is true with cold fusion. Cold fusion is a theoretically complex phenomenon that has some similarities with superconductivity. Both require certain forms of metal, preparation, and conditions to trigger the effect. Consequently, a cold fusion theory and reproducible experiment may take some time, 10 years have passed and progress has definitely been made.

More research is need on the subject, in the words of the Naval Research Laboratories Project Manager “the cold fusion phenomenon definitely worth pursuing” Time will tell whether cold fusion becomes a chapter in history or the title of future energy production.

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