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An essay from a researcher affiliated with an MIT team that was awarded some of the ARPA funding. Gives his view of CF history. In his opinion, excess heat is not the most compelling evidence for CF. Instead, he says focus on observations that indicate nuclear reactions and pins his hopes on an "irrefutable reference experiment".

Fusion Runs Hot and Cold

The Breakthrough Institute is an environmental research center based in Berkeley, California. Our research focuses on identifying and promoting technological…

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An essay from a researcher affiliated with an MIT team that was awarded some of the ARPA funding. Gives his view of CF history. In his opinion, excess heat is not the most compelling evidence for CF. Instead, he says focus on observations that indicate nuclear reactions and pins his hopes on an "irrefutable reference experiment".

Fusion Runs Hot and Cold

The Breakthrough Institute is an environmental research center based in Berkeley, California. Our research focuses on identifying and promoting technological…

thebreakthrough.org

Discussed here RE: ARPA-E LENR funded projects news and updates

By Josh Mitteldorf, who took QM from Schwinger. Mostly history, a little theory.

Prospective Energy Sources, Part 2: Cold Fusion’s Ice-Cold Reception - WhoWhatWhy

There is no chemical reaction in the world that could generate that kind of damage from a tiny chip of metal. It had to be nuclear.

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Coming soon in Part 3: Powerful interests are hellbent on keeping cold fusion technology from the public. Are there other reasons besides the economic conflicts?

Josh Mitteldorf holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Pennsylvania.

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...as physicists like to say, no experiment should be believed until it has been confirmed by theory.

This statement is irritating and I doubt any physicist has ever said such a thing unless it was as a joke.