Jack Cole <[email protected]> wrote: > > My conclusion at this point is that nickel and LiAlH4 does not reliably > produce excess heat, and if it does at all, it is rare. > I agree these results call into question Lugano and Parkomov, but it is too early to conclude that LiAlH4 does not work reliably. Perhaps Biberian and Budko do not understand how to do the experiment correctly. Perhaps this means the patent is not enabling (and therefore invalid), but then again it might mean that Biberian and Budko are not PHOSITA.
I do not think we can judge. We do not have enough replication attempts. We may never have enough. Many claims in cold fusion are never resolved because not enough people try to replicate. For example, Ohmori's claims of cold fusion with gold have not been tested as far as I know. It is a darn shame they were not able to replicate easily. As I wrote before, I think their calorimetry is better than Lugano or Parhomov. That's not a good sign. - Jed
