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I think that with the money available that was a reasonable approach : vary everything systematically.

I didn't see any mention of stimulus, though.

There is a paper in preparation -- wait and see, I guess.

Re-re-reading the paper. I think the 420 samples are for Ni/H (Rossi hotcat style: they reference G. Levi "indications') .

"We tested the independent variables of temperature, pressure, sample composition, particle size, surface treatment, and others.…

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Hmmm ... but mightn't it be the cracking at the peak-historic-loading that makes NAE-s?

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So their loading values might be different from the 'traditional' lenr numbers. Higher? Lower? I guess we'll just have to wait for the detailed papers.

Edit: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b01243 says they got to 0.96 H

National Geo : https://www.nationalgeographic…ientists-may-revive-quest

Here's a 2015 checklist :

Louis DeChiaro of US Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) on Replicating Pons and Fleischmann

https://e-catworld.com/2015/10…ing-pons-and-fleischmann/

eg #2 : The overall hydrogen loading fraction (ratio of hydrogen to palladium

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Linked from there : UBC https://news.ubc.ca/2019/05/27…cold-case-of-cold-fusion/
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"Progress report" is encouraging.

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On windows (opera browser) ctrl-scroll-wheel changes the display size.

The 400 samples were in several categories ... Pd/H, Ni/Li, Plasma beam etc. So maybe 100 PdH runs with low loading (0.85)

Strange : they don't reference Ed Storms How-to guide.

Or follow it : I see the loading, but not the perturbation.

I guess they read the literature/lore :

Considerable literature and lore about cold fusion has been produced
since 1989 .... (see also …

Study finds scientific reproducibility does not equate to scientific truth
https://phys.org/news/2019-05-scientific-equate-truth.html

Reproducible scientific results are not always true and true scientific results are not always reproducible, according to

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https://www.usguernsey.com The American Guernsey Association

E-Cat world is mentioned in the credits, but shouldn't it have an entry in Social/News Media? (Generally pro-rossi, but reports on LENR news as well. Active forum.)