Even more depressing. I am locked out of Slate, unable to respond to this article. Maybe everyone is?
Here is the response I was trying to post. If someone else could post it I would appreciate it. I have a collection of papers on cold fusion. It includes 1,200 peer-reviewed papers from mainstream journals, copied from the library at Los Alamos, and 2,000 others from conference proceedings and institutions such as EPRI, Los Alamos, China Lake, Mitsubishi and the NSF. This literature proves beyond any doubt that cold fusion is real. Here is a typical conclusion from the literature: "EPRI PERSPECTIVE This work confirms the claims of Fleischmann, Pons, and Hawkins of the production of excess heat in deuterium-loaded palladium cathodes at levels too large for chemical transformation. However, the phenomena were obtained in only about half the cells. From the conditions of loading, initiation time, and current density on the successful observations of excess heat, it is understood why the phenomena are so difficult to attain." The effect was detected at over 200 major laboratories. According to a tally published by the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, it has been measured in roughly 14,000 positive tests. The signal to noise ratio is sometimes high, for example with heat a 100 W with no input power, or 10E18 atoms of tritium.
