A couple of years ago, the Japanese government NEDO agency circulated a document suggesting that the government invest in cold fusion.
The CleanPlanet web site describes this: cleanplanet.co.jp/news.php?lang=en This links to an article by Krivit and the NEDO proposal. In Japanese: cleanplanet.co.jp/news.php?lang=jp The Clean Planet links to the Japanese government NEDO page on this project: nedo.go.jp/koubo/CA3_100079.html?from=nedomail You can Google translate it to see the gist of it. This is a proposal from a study group. Two documents are attached: 1. A list of 10 proposed energy-related studies. Cold fusion is #8: "Analysis and control of new thermal reaction in metal hydrides" (金属水素間新規熱反応の現象解析と制御). Four institutions are listed. It is not clear to me whether they are going to give money or get it. They are: Technova, Inc. (a long time player in this field); Nissan Automobile Corporation; Kyushu national University; and Tohoku University Research Center for Electron Photon Science (hayabusa1.lns.tohoku.ac.jp/). 2. Committee members: Chairman Kenji Yamaji Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth Director, Institute Vice Chairman Hideo Kameyama Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology Professor Emeritus, Committee Tomohiko Ikeya Central Research Institute of Electric Power Materials Science Institute deputy research, Committee Ito Mikio Osaka University Graduate School of Engineering, Graduate School of atomic Design Research Center Associate Professor . . . No cold fusion researcher is listed in this group. With the Google customer search box at the top of the page you can also look for additional information on the program, which is titled 環境新技術先導プログラム. Here is a recent project overview showing 15 RFP categories on p. 5: nedo.go.jp/content/100780906.pdf One of them is cold fusion. Item D5: "Analysis and control of new thermal reaction in metal hydrides" (金属水素間新規熱反応の現象解析と制御). Here is the most recent project status document that I could find: nedo.go.jp/koubo/CA1_100102.html It shows that the allocation has been postponed to after June 2016. The application date is closed. As far as I know, no one applied for the cold fusion category. Clean Planet would probably have mentioned it if they had. The qualifications are stiff and I doubt they meet them. - Jed
