I almost bought the Coldheat soldering iron today as a gift for someone. It looked like a great idea. Then I read the negative reviews on the amazon.com website. What a bummer, it looks like someone is trying to make money off Pons and Fleischmann's research again. ;-)

If you may recall, Pons and Fleischmann, two University of Utah chemists, were looking at ways to facilitate cold fusion in 1989. I was actually taking a high school/college AP Chemistry class at the time, and the excitement over their work was all over campus. There were even t-shirts in the U of U bookstore touting the school as the home of cold fusion. The two scientists held a surprise press conference to announce their breakthrough (taken as quite an affront by the scientific community since they skirted the journals), but other scientists couldn't reproduce the results of the experiments, kind of like how the current Coldheat reviewers on Amazon can't get it to work as advertised.

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