More blather, confusion and insults from Gibbs. He cites a paper from that nitwit know-it-all Shanahan, the universal expert who thinks he knows more about tritium than the PPPL, more about calorimetry than Storms, Duncan or McKubre, and -- in short -- more about anything then everyone else combined.
He cites this paper from Shanahan: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3d7yWtb1doPc3otVGFUNDZKUDQ/edit My responses, posted at NewWorkWorld, are below. - Jed Gibbs writes: "That really underlines what the difference is between cold fusion fan boys and completely believe in its existence, and those who remain skeptical and demand proof in the form of useful technology, by which I mean a technology that delivers real, valuable commercial results." Useful technology is not and never has been a valid scientific criterion to prove the existence of an effect. There are countless scientific effects and phenomena that have no practical use, yet which everyone agrees exist. Examples include high temperature superconductivity and supernova explosions. Many effects, such as electricity, had no practical use for decades after they were discovered. Nuclear fission was discovered in the 1890s but it had no practical use until 1945. Semiconductor research began in the 1920s but did not produce any useful results until 1949. Gibbs' arguments make no sense. Furthermore, he calls distinguished scientists "fanboys" which is an outrageous insult. Shanahan's conclusions are completely unjustified. He thinks that his opinion -- mere opinion -- automatically overrules rigorously peer-reviewed experimental results published in major journals. Results obtained by hundreds of distinguished experts from Los Alamos, BARC, the Princeton Plasma Fusion Lab and other world-class labs. Despite his ego, Shanahan does not know better than these people. The "reasons" given in his paper would never pass peer-review. Cold fusion has been replicated thousands of times in hundreds of major laboratories. Here is the latest irrefutable result, from the Naval Research Laboratory: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/D... Anomalous Results in Fleischmann-Pons Type Electrochemical Experiments Conclusions: * Large excess power (≥ 1kJ) events generated in 5% of Pd90Rh10 cathodes * Failed to disprove these results --> excess heat results observed at NRL are real! Cells produced 40 times more output than input, and the heat far exceeded the limits of chemistry. Gibbs' demand that researchers produce practical devices is unfair and unrealistic given the lack of funding and the academic politics.
