On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:29 AM, Chuck Sites <cbsit...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I remember that hit piece in Science from Lewis very well. It was > disturbing and really put the whole of Cold Fusion into doubt. Nathan > Lewis, published a really good analysis on calorimetry of electrolysis and > the physics thermal systems, but he never replicated the P&F effect, for > example the "Heat after death" effect Jed Rothwell talks about. At the > time, it put into doubt whether the P&F effect was even real. After the > Lewis article, CF was kind of dead in the main-stream of science. As it > would happen, I was designing my own calorimeter that I never used. Lewis > just blew it for me. > How could Lewis's critique be taken seriously when he didn't even have the calorimeter design actually used by P&F?
