Dear Jed, This is so well written, interesting and depressing in the same time- LENR is so much more than electrochemistry! However I am asking you for permission to offer it to the readers of Ego Out Blog- WITH or WITHOUT my comments, as you wish. Thanks! Peter
On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 11:18 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > A reporter asked me: "Who replicated cold fusion first?" Here is my > answer, which people here might find amusing. > > > Most of the high quality academic scientific work on cold fusion was done > in the 1990s. Most of the researchers are now dead. They were the crème de > la crème of twentieth century electrochemists. People such as Bockris, who > wrote the book on modern electrochemistry *; Yeager, for whom they named > the institute after he died **; and Martin Fleischmann FRS. Most leading > electrochemists tried the experiment, and they all succeeded. They tried it > because they all knew Martin Fleischmann personally. Electrochemistry is a > small world. > > People who were not electrochemists, and who did not include > electrochemists in their research teams, failed to replicate. For example, > 20 of the big-name particle physics labs and plasma fusion labs failed for > that reason. In one case they confused the anode and the cathode. *** That > precludes success -- to say the least. Expecting a plasma fusion researcher > to succeed in cold fusion is like expecting an electrochemist to build a > tokamak reactor. > > * "Modern Electrochemistry," Vols. 1 and 2. > > http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Electrochemistry-Ionics-2nd-Edition/dp/0306455552 > > ** Ernest B. Yeager Center for Electrochemical Sciences > http://chemistry.case.edu/department/research/yces/ > > *** Other examples described on p. 11: > http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJlessonsfro.pdf > -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
