DARPA is funding room-temperature fusion in solids. They call it MARRS. They explicitly avoid the word "cold fusion." The national security justification is already public.

Most singularity discussions focus on AI compute scaling. But there's a parallel track that gets almost no coverage: solid-state energy. DARPA launched MARRS in January 2026 — a program targeting fusion reactions in solids at near room temperature. Their own statement: "knowing if there is a 'there' there is critical to national security." At the same time: India granted a government LENR patent, Japan's Clean Planet closed Series B with Mitsubishi and KEPCO, China built ¥4 trillion in grid infrastructure designed for "agnostic decentralized energy sources." A cross-language patent scan across Chinese, Russian, Hindi and Western databases using 6 AI systems found these signals converging independently. Western search alone misses most of it. If solid-state energy is real, the compute bottleneck for AGI looks very different. Decentralized modular power changes everything about who can run what infrastructure.