whoever wrote the article doesn't seem so sure.
What we need is it to happen on a large scale. And for it to produce electricity. Then it is viable.
"On 23 March 1989 Martin Fleischmann of the University of Southampton, UK, and Stanley Pons of the University of Utah, US, announced that they had observed controlled nuclear fusion in a glass jar at room temperature,"
Hmm, maybe
But from what i know, you need extreme pressure and extreme temperature, which is why only stars can do it.
I'd love to see it happen, basically it means that we can have power plants running from water, and water, well the earth is 70% water, so we're sorted.