At 10:18 AM 5/31/2006 -0400, Walter Faxon wrote:
And here in the West at least, the experts -- or those claiming to quote
them -- say cold
fusion is bunk.
First, this is not true. After ICCF10, at which we at JET Energy and
Dr. Dash each conducted open demonstrations at MIT,
there was a second DOE meeting on cold fusion. At that meeting, to which
only a small fraction
of the CF community presented their results (and those that actually had a
history of giving open
demonstrations were excluded) 18 anonymous DOE reviewers "split
approximately evenly" on whether
or not there is excess power observed in the cold fusion phenomena.
This, and further, analysis was covered in the previous edition of the
COLD FUSION TIMES in detail,
and some further information is available at the COLD FUSION TIMES website
http://world.std.com/~mica/cft.html
As a result, it would have been more honest to have said, "half of the
experts now feel cold fusion is real".
Second, despite Walter Faxon's false statement about purported fraud, as
for fraudulent data in the cold fusion story,
the only fraud was made by a subgroup of the pathologic skeptics who were
found to have altered curves in 1989.
This was confirmed by an internal investigation at MIT undertaken by the
late Dr. Philip Morrison.
That story has been fully reported in Science and Engineering of Hydrided
Metals Series,
Volume 2 - "Calorimetric ComplicationsThe Examination of the Phase-II
Experiment and Other Select Calorimetric Issues",
Ed. M. Swartz, JET Technology Press, Wellesley Hills, MA, ISBN
1-890550-02-7 (1999)
and partially reported in Swartz, M, "Some Lessons from Optical Examination
of the PFC Phase-II Calormetric Curves", Vol. 2,
"Proceedings: Fourth International Conference on Cold Fusion", 19-1, op.
cit. (1993).
The late Dr. Mallove also published information on
this http://www.infinite-energy.com/images/pdfs/mitcfreport.pdf
Dr. Mitchell Swartz
