My response to this blather: "'LENR+ does not exist. It is a figment of Gluck's imagination. Ni-H cold fusion is no stronger or more reproducible Pd-D. It may not even exist.'
That means total denial of Rossi's multiplicative excess heat but also of the Piantelli-Focardi NiH, of Parkhomov and many other replicators, of MFMP, Lugano experiment denial of the role of high temperatures . . ." I said it "may not exist." That DOES NOT mean "total denial." It means partial denial, or calling something into question. Specifically: Piantelli-Focardi NiH -- not replicated yet. Parkhomov -- two major attempts to replicate have been performed, at U. Missouri and elsewhere. They included many individual tests. Both projects failed. Parkhomov's calorimetry is poor, so I expect his results are in error. And many other replicators -- there are no other confirmed replicators yet. A few others have tried, but their calorimetry has been very poor. The tests in China failed because the thermocouples overheated and malfunctioned in hydrogen. MFMP -- They have not reported any success. Lugano experiment -- they did not calibrate, and the temperature of their device did not exceed 800 deg C. We know that because the incandescent color was orange, and because it would have melted. There is no way they saw excess heat. Regarding Rossi, Penon's description of his setup, which you quoted here, proves that his results were fraudulent. The pressure could not have been zero (a vacuum) as he claimed. In fact, it was high enough to keep the water from vaporizing. He did not even include an instrument to check steam quality, because he knew damn well there was no steam. That, combined with the problems with the flow meter explain why the heat was 50 times less than he claimed. The only thing in the pretend customer site was a small radiator, which was only capable of cooling ~20 kW. - Jed
