Joshua Cude wrote: > Surely you're aware of the Jones' challenge to Miles' results in Jones & > Hansen, "Examination of Claims of Miles…", J. Phys. Chem. 95 (1995) 6966. > > Ah yes. That one slipped my mind. The recombination hypothesis.
That is even more pathetic and preposterous than Morrison. As Miles pointed out, Jones uses a cell in a shape than no one else would think of using, and he set the power level a thousand times lower than Miles. Miles said: "Why not throw a handful catalyst powder into the electrolyte while you are at it, just to make absolutely sure you have recombination." My suggestion was to put the cathode above the anode. There are other ways to ensure recombination. The thing is, there are also many ways to prevent it, and to verify that you have prevented it. For example, you measure effluent gas. Miles, along with EVERYONE ELSE uses these methods, so what Jones asserts is not only preposterous and unrealistic, it is factually wrong. Jones reached the living end -- the final frontier! -- when he boldly asserted to me that recombination can explain McKubre's results, even though McKubre uses a closed cell with a recombiner. At that point I figured that either Jones had taken leave of his senses, or Jones thought I understand absolutely nothing about cold fusion or grade-school chemistry. The fact that Cude still flogs this kind of nonsense tells me that he, too, has employed a warp drive to move light years beyond rational, fact-based argument, into the netherworld of recombination causing false excess heat in closed cells. This is why I stopped paying attention to people such as Jones and Cude 15 years ago, and why Cude is on my auto-delete list. Note that the Wikipedia article still flogs the recombination bugaboo. It did last time I checked, a few years ago. That is a handy litmus test. When a person says "recombination might explain the excess heat!" you can disqualify them. I will grant, there are a few other attempts to critique experiments, by Shanahan. I have some of his papers at LENR-CANR.org - Jed
