There are a few interesting comment from Robert Godes here: http://sjbyrnes.com/cf/the-case-against-cold-fusion-experiments/
It is the last comment in a long thread and you may not want to read it all… Godes seldom posts to News Groups or blogs, so it is unclear where he stands on some major points – and it would be nice to know that he is capable of defending his claims in the context of Internet armchair experts... a tough audience even when not particularly skeptical. He may be prepping for something, who knows? Thankfully, there are a number of nuggets in this post worth thinking about, but too many extraneous issues going-on… relating mostly to [reportedly dishonest] skeptics. Otherwise there is one detail which strikes me as most important in the Big Picture, even though most people gloss over it. Why? Well it can be interpreted as debasing or marginalizing the P/F effect ... ironically proving that the thermal anomaly exists while disproving the original details of why it exists. Quote: “H is not a control for D. Mike McKubre was shocked when I showed him my results and told him that they were obtained using distilled water. By controlling the underlying physics, it is possible to run the reaction in Pd using ordinary hydrogen…” In the extreme, Godes could be saying that since both H and D are equally active in palladium electrolysis, for producing anomalous heat - there is unlikely to be “nuclear fusion” going on at all. Of course, others have said something similar - but he is closer to being “man of the hour” and a successful fun-raiser to boot. Is Robert Godes positioning to “burst on the scene” as the miracle man of alternative energy? Let’s hope so. But to be clear – this would not mean that the gainful thermal reaction of loaded palladium hydride is not nuclear – it seems to definitely be “nuclear” but it may not be predominantly nuclear fusion. Someone, maybe it was Meulenberg has shown that even a dense hydrogen or Mills effect is deriving energy from the nucleus. Which is to say that mass is being converted into energy somehow - but the underlying reaction is not for the most part actual fusion of deuterium into helium. It can be argued that reaction always produces strong gamma radiation. Jones
