On March 23, 1989, the American chemist Prof. Dr. Martin Fleischmann at a press conference at the University of Utah together with his colleague Prof. Dr. Stanley Pons demonstrated nuclear fusion at room temperature in a simple tabletop experiment. This news about the so-called "cold fusion" went around the world at internet speed and caused all plasma physicists to panic. The excitement died down quickly, however, as no research group in the...