Paper: “A Technique for Making Nuclear Fusion in Solids” (Richard Wayte)

Quote from Rigel

I hope we have a thread about this. The experiment is well documented so it makes it almost looks easy to reproduce on an LENR budget.
Alas after reading the paper I did not draw the same [fusion, fusion....everywhere ] as I saw no proof of expected radiation in the SM (std. mdl.).
The math seems based on chemical reactions, as no radiation was found. (before I am picked apart).

First of all, we generally to not expect radiation in LENR. Something about it seems to prevent radiation. That's part of the mystery.

However, this paper presents no substantial evidence or analysis that the effects they are seeing are due to nuclear fusion. This kind of paper appearing in JCMNS continues the poor appearance of the LENR community to the mainstream, and we are going to need the mainstream to solve the very difficult problem of cold fusion.

The paper could be interesting as a report of some unexpected effects, but they do not explain why the effects are not expected. There is no analysis of heat production vs mass of "fuel.

When Pons and Fleischmann published, the only evidence they had of "nuclear" was energy density, because they measured heat. They also had some radiation artifacts. And that they mentioned "fusion" was a disaster, they simply did not have the evidence. This paper has much less. No heat measurements, just some explosions. In general, LENR doesn't generate explosions, so they are unexpected from LENR. They are expected from chemistry and there is another factor here, very high pressure which can also make some "bangs."

The problem I'm seeing is that this is labelled "fusion," without evidence, and that then creates the impression that JCMNS is about incautious and overstated claims.