At 4:51 PM 12/2/4, Jed Rothwell wrote: >Look at this, from: > >http://www.newenergytimes.com/DOE/2004-DOE-ReviewerComments.pdf > >Quote: > >"16 (a) The paper by Iwamura et al. presented at ICCF10 (Ref. 47 in DOE31) >does an exhaustive job of using a variety of modern analytical chemistry >methods to identify elements produced on the surface of coated Pd >cold-fusion foils. There are two very unusual aspects of this work: (i) The >energy source is gas pressure, permeation of D2 gas through the foils into >vacuum. (ii) The claim is made that if Cs is coated on the metal surface, >it is converted into Pr; if Sr is coated on the metal surface, it is >converted into Mo. The analytical results, from a variety of techniques, >such as mass spectroscopy and electron spectroscopy, are very nice.
[snip theory arguments] The reviewer somehow overlooks the main point. The data justifies further study. The proposed theories, regardless the source, including the reviewer, are irrelevant to the DOE review. Regards, Horace Heffner
