Nuclear Fusion

Man if these guys have actually pulled off nuclear fusion... the effects will be enormous, just think. Cheap, renewable power.
No more need for Oil. Sorta makes the Iraq war a waste...
And just think of what it would do to the global economy...
Just enormous.

Although no one has tried repeating the latest work, Lee Riedinger, deputy director for science and technology at Oak Ridge, says that, it went through an "extraordinary level of review" before being accepted for publication by Physical Review E.

The fact that it actually got published means that the proof has to be there, sorta like the boy crying wolf, but instead of letting the little kid get eaten by the wolf, they instead got him to point it out.