Inside the superconductivity scandal

In 2020, physicist Ranga Dias claimed to have discovered the first room-temperature superconductor — a material that would not require any cooling to conduct electricity with zero resistance — in a landmark paper published in Nature. It was retracted. Then came a fresh claim in another Nature paper, in 2023 — also later retracted. Now, an investigation by Nature’s news team (which is editorially independent of its journal teams) reveals how Dias distorted the evidence for room-temperature superconductivity — and indicates that he concealed information from his students, manipulated them and shut them out of key steps in the research and review process. The scandal raises questions about how universities, journals and funders deal with research misconduct.

Nature | 22 min read

The key thing here is IMHO less a question (in this matter anyway) of nice or nasty, but of why Gennadiy Tarassenko thinks it a good idea to copy/paste long extracts from old forums. If he keeps doing it I might consider just deleting them as not only 'off topic' - the actual topic is hard to define here- but because they are pretty much irrelevant to almost everything this forum was created to discuss.

To load Ni it is best to use a strong electrolyte solution, like 0.5M K2CO3 at a high temperature- something like 70-80C. Pulsed DC electrolysis is also said to be better than constant voltage/current.

For co-dep in nickel I have been pondering the use of a 25% Watts plating solution (Nickel Chloride/Nickel Sulphate) also warm to hot. The reason for using the Watts solution so diluted is to slow down the process while keeping the voltage up above the Faraday Limit - necessary to split hydrogen from water. If you use full strength Watts solution the plating goes too fast - a matter of minutes.

There is an early paper by Randall Mills in Jed's library that discusses hydrogen loading, but not co-dep.

Jed- of course you are quite right, my apologies to all concerned.

For once, Gennadiy posted a relevant link.

Почему бьет током в урочище Бозжыра в Мангистау

С необычным явлением столкнулись местные жители на достопримечательности нашего региона.

www.lada.kz

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/658224

Above is a good a/c - I no longer have access to this site sadly. (stopped paying.._

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Quote from Drgenek

I asked to post a video showing the step-by-step mass balances and stoichiometry to LENR-New back in November 28, 2023. I am still waiting. Perhaps we can get Alan to let me post it here.

We don/t actually host any videos ourselves, but load them onto Youtube or Vimeo and link them. Please go ahead, it might not end up in our video interview thread but we have no problem with linking it in an appropriate thread.

Quote from axil

Through the agency of the EVO, a half megawatt electrical generator hardly produces any carbon output.

A few miles from my house is a very nice bridge over the Thames. Would you like to buy it?

Quote from axil

LENR reactor developers do not understand the nature of the reaction that they are trying to utilize. This lack of understanding will lead to a destructive situation that will destroy the reactor that they are trying to build.

Are you planning to build a reactor system that will to prove we are all wrong? If so, please do it soon.

Jean-Francois has kindly written an abstract of his paper, which is the opening post in this thread. For convenience I attach a link to the source.

Justifying the possibility for excess heat (abstract)

We start from mathematics with one of its paramount questions which is the continuity hypothesis: Does there exist a cardinal between and ?

We keep on noticing that there are 2 theories dealing with fluids:

• The kinetic theory of gases
• Fluid mechanics

Both have flaws. The former one cannot exhibit any viscosity whereas it makes planes fly. The latter, while dealing with unspecified numbers of molecules packed into a fluid molecule, makes extensive use of continuous calculus such as derivation and integration.

Now we refer to phase change in physics with the dotted line on the following diagram

During this process, one cannot determine the exact time when we are in a gas or liquid phase.We suggest coming back to Ancient Greece physics which discovered the atom through considering a different number of molecules per unit volume depending on the phase (gas or liquid) we are considering.

This brings us, trying to keep rigorous, to consider any fluid as a continuous set of points, each weighed by an infinitesimal mass, and choosing a number of points of for a gas and for a liquid per unit volume.The traditional phase transition through the curves would work according to the continuity hypothesis, but when moving through the fluid phase, intermediary cardinals would appear, physically breaking the continuity hypothesis.

This would therefore bring to the possibility of thermodynamics new effects in relation with those cardinals which generally do not appear.

In brief, if such a process really is at stake, this would incite the physicists of LENR to look for excess heat under such conditions as phase change going around and not through the critical point. This is where we expect to get a positive result.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/378610245_Justifying_the_possibility_of_getting_excess_heat

Quote from Gennadiy Tarassenko

Deuterium is an isotope of Great Britain

I never knew that.

Quote from Trifon

One cubic meter of water contains exactly the same number of protons, neutrons and electrons as one ton of copper.

Not quite, The ratio of protons to neutrons in water is p10:n8 but in copper it is p29:n34 (or n36). So water has more protons than neutrons, copper less.

ETA - the rarer O18 isotope has an P-N ratio of p8:n10 but this is cancelled out by the 2 protons contributed by the H2 part of the molecule, making it p10:n10

Quote from Aleksandr Nikitin

Nobody pays attention to how the mass of the cold fusion generator changes. Is it decreasing or increasing?

I don't think anybody is disputing energy/matter equivalence or conversion - publicly at least.

Quote from JedRothwell

The way Arata acted, he was not far wrong when he said people were out to get him. It was a self-fulfilling prediction.

One of his former junior colleagues told me that he sabotaged an experiment they were performing together because he was desperate to prove that the premise (not Arata's) it was based upon was incorrect.

Quote from orsova

This from Metzler et al. is very useful.

No argument it is useful, but it in many ways a 'metatheory' so not sure if it qualifies for inclusion. I'll read it over the weekend.

Quote from Wyttenbach

Why did they hire untrained monkeys and did not invest in any training or simply:: The valve was never moved for 40 years....

Result:: Pressure corrosion same as natural welding. There was no chance to open it certainly not at 5 minutes before 12 o'clock.

What would a Swiss do? Ask his army friend for some explosives (same outcomes as seen...) or a hole drilling tool with utmost care for the last 2mm..

I was concerned about this at the time, and noticed that the roof panels were held on by bolts as is common with the type of building used. I emailed a Mitsubishi engineer I knew had volunteered to go there to help saying they should just remove one or two roof panels to vent the H2. It never happened because PM Naoto Kan -who I am told had taken a 1 term module on Nuclear Physics about 40 years before - decided he knew best and took over co-ordination of the problem. His first actions included sending all the Mitsubishi guys back home, including several who had designed the plant systems.

Paradoxes! Cant live with 'em, can't live without 'em.