I wrote:
> In other words, he thinks that loading is an attribute of a necessary > condition, but it is not itself that condition. > > In other words, an underlying condition causes both high loading and the > cold fusion effect, so high loading always accompanies the effect. > In the second sentence I described a common cause: one effect causing two things. That is not what Ed is saying. He says high loading causes stress, and stress in turn causes cold fusion. After cold fusion begins the high loading can go away, as it does during heat after death. But high loading is not strictly necessary. Conditions other than high loading can cause stress. Or, it may be that other things can give rise to the same surface conditions that stress gives rise to. These surface conditions are the cold fusion nuclear active environment (NAE). Anyway, Ed's latest data clearly shows that heat after death continues even while the cathode de-loads to levels below the putative threshold for cold fusion. This observation shoots down many theories about cold fusion. - Jed
