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The competing process must also be nuclear. There is no chemical fuel, and no chemical changes are observed. They did not know what this other process could be, but later research indicated it is probably some form of D+D =>…

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You are mistaken. Every one of them is sure it is a nuclear anomaly. I do not know any scientist who replicated cold fusion who has expressed any doubt that it is a nuclear effect. The reasons are:

There is no chemical fuel in…

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Perhaps I am missing something but I see only one argument: that Shanahan might be right. I agree with his critics. I think there is no experimental evidence he is right. If that is your only argument the debate begins and ends…

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None of these authors knows anything about the experiments. None of them gives any technical reason to doubt the results.

about zero resistance, it is common to refer to zero or negative resistance as dynamic resistance
(r=dv/di). negative resistance is observed for arc, like for many avalanche/tunnel diodes.

of course, negative resistance is dynamic, or it would mean an…

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We will have our conversations where we please. If you wish to edit your posts, please remove the gratuitous personal attacks of other forum members and stick to substantive points.

That's incorrect, Kev. We do not move everything. You in particular, but others as well, have been pretty uncivil. We've made requests several times for people to be more polite. The mods are having an ongoing conversation about what to do about…

Hi Alain, Ed Storms is testing a few of the hypotheses. In one test, they are trying to make the right-sized cracks that will create the reaction. If they can, we're in business. If not, then we are back to nowhere (cause I sure don't have a device).…

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I'm not hiding behind anything, and personalising the issue - attacking the character of opponents - does not advance your argument.

You have repeated the same mantra: the top hundred…

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Huizenga was correct about the theory, but incorrect when he concluded that it cannot happen, or that it did not happen. The experiments show that it did happen, so his theories are overruled. That's the scientific method. When theory…

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You are confused. The consensus of experts is that cold fusion is real. I do not know any leading electrochemist who disagrees, and I know lots of leading electcrochemists. Perhaps you have in mind the consensus of plasma…

the key to the discussion is that using theoretical arguments against experiments is not the way Science do it.

Most pathoskeptics says it cannot happen so it does not happen, and at best throw wildcard arguments that have not and mostly cannot be…

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As I mentioned elsewhere, there is a consensus among people who have performed the experiments and people who have read the literature. The majority of the ones who have published papers or talked to me believe that cold fusion…

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Jed is right, you just keep moving the goal posts. The goal posts were set and met more than 20 years ago when the top hundred or so electrochemists of the day replicated the Pons-Fleischmann Anomalous Heat Effect and submitted…

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You seem perfectly happy to accept Kirk's theories of how the anomalous heat effect in Pd/D can be explained by something other than LENR, despite the fact that AFAIK he has never performed any experiments to test his hypothesis directly,…

I caught this interesting post making a parallel between Emdrive critics today and Nuclear Fission critics at time of Fermi.
The parallell with LENR critics, is clear.

This article attack the critics based on "it is impossible".
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It seems I recently implemented Poe's law.
My experience is that between a tragedy and a farce, only the reaction of the audience is important.
Wishing, not expecting, I'm wrong.

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Many years ago the people at BLP told me they do not think cold fusion exists. Maybe they have a different opinion now? Anyway, AFAIK, they do not accept it and they are not promoting it.

Rossi is certainly not helping the…

If there is really something behind LENR, that neither Rossi nor BLP do really help to accept LENR at all. With everything promoted by those freaks I completely can understand all "naysayers".