Oh look, someone invented Cold Fusion (again)

The holders of energy in the world would do all they could to keep something like this from seeing light.

They have a lot more power than people give them credit for. Over the years I've heard various stories of people bitching about losing an energy related job where, if I looked into it further later, I found the root of it was usually some Middle Eastern oil tycoon or the coal industry. Ever heard of the project to install widespread oil fields in a few midwest states here in the US? I didn't either until one of my teachers in college who was a project manager for it told me the story; apparently they set up the entire operation, complete with millions of dollars in various utilities such as portable toilets/temp housing/trucks for supplies, then the head guy got a letter from some oil field owner in Saudi Arabia and suddenly the entire thing fell apart, he ordered the entire thing to disperse immediately, after over 2 years of setting up. I'm sure his pockets were significantly heavier after that, too. Apparently, the plan HAD been to extract oil directly from the soil in certain flatlands that had been found to be very rich in it (I believe it was a different process than fracking, but again, the development was completely canned). So, technically that would mean we still potentially have billions of dollars in oil just sitting around in the midwest unused because of this deal.