Boeing - a cold fusion pioneer ?? Stumbled upon this old Boeing patent application, with priority going back to 1990
Cold nuclear fusion thermal generator EP 0461690 A2 Abstract A method and apparatus are provided for generating heat energy by the cold fusion of hydrogen with boron or lithium in an electrolytic cell. This was probably a case of a "strategic" filing, coming after the big announcement in Utah and based more on informed speculation than "reduction to practice" - and one wonders if Boeing actually built a working prototype. Here is a presentation by the inventor from 1983 ! which indicates that Boeing was interested in a portable fusion device long before P&F http://commons.erau.edu/space-congress-proceedings/proceedings-1983-20th/ses sion-iia/2/
