It is unwise and too early to belittle this fine effort, given their recent history of success with titanium electrolysis – where Deneum has already reported high levels of excess heat.
Apparently - their past success was unknown to those who are quick to be critical. These researchers are credentialed professionals who have had past success in LENR. What we are seeing now is early stage and they chose a strategy to learn as they go. Even so, Deneum can make a valuable contribution without a mass spec or RGA. That is the main point. If they should fail to find the robust thermal anomaly – their error is correctable. As a practical consideration, the motivation for being critical at an early stages can appear to be self-serving and unnecessary. In short - Deneum have the skills to see excess heat in the early time frame, and even if they do not - it is unwise to be critical of such effort in anticipation that it may be null. They are unlikely to be part of some hidden conspiracy - being paid to produce a null result. From: Jed Rothwell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKRt3fa4lfU They are doing a professional job but nothing anomalous is showing up so far. At LENR-forum this person stated that they do not have a mass spectrometer. So they are not doing a professional job. They are working blind with no idea what is going on, and I suppose there is no chance it will work. If it does work, the experiment is much easier and more forgiving than Mizuno or I think it is is. I wrote this at LENR-forum: Let me restate this, as clearly as I can: People who are not skilled in the art cannot do cold fusion. People who do not have a complete set of instruments including a mass spectrometer, and who are not skilled in using these instruments, cannot do cold fusion. People who have to ask me or others how to set up the plumbing between the vacuum pump and the mass spectrometer, or what sort of plumbing to use, cannot do cold fusion. If you have to ask such things, you can't do it. That's what three top experts told me recently. https://www.lenr-forum.com/forum/thread/6017-mizuno-replication-and-materials-only/?postID=116420#post116420
