“It’s crazy, don’t waste my time. It’s possible, but it’s not worth doing. I always said it was a good idea.“
Arthur C Clarke
Futurist
Mats Lewan
Mats Lewan is an author, international keynote speaker, futurist, consultant, journalist and research analyst focused on future and technology. He has been working for more than fifteen years as technology reporter for the leading Swedish technology magazine Ny Teknik.
He also started the forward-looking Swedish digital magazine Next Magasin for which he was managing editor. Previously Lewan worked internationally as a freelance journalist, and as a reporter for CBS CNET News in San Francisco while attending the Innovation Journalism Program at Stanford University. Mats Lewan holds a Master of Science degree in Engineering Physics from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. Mats Lewan is the author of the book An Impossible Invention—The True Story of the Energy Source That Could Change the World.
Presentation
An Impossible Invention, An Energy Revolution That Might Change the World
Cold fusion is an energy source that could provide clean water to Planet Earth, zero-emission vehicles with unlimited mileage, a solution to the climate crisis and much more. It is clean, compact, simple, inexhaustible and . . . physically impossible.At least that is what science has considered since an infamous and rejected scientific claim in 1989.But in January 2011 the Italian inventor Andrea Rossi demonstrated a sloppily-wrapped device that boiled water with heat emanating from something that seemed to be cold fusion. Too good to be true, some said. Fraud, according to others. Journalist and futurist Mats Lewan tells the story about how he covered this energy invention since 2011.
