Michel Jullian wrote:
Experiments were conducted with photographic film in close proximity
of the cathode. After development, the film showed a grid pattern due
to the Ni screen cathode and was attributable to the emission of soft
X-rays.>>
I imagine some mundane explanation was later found for the ten fold
tritium increase, otherwise no additional proof of nuclear reactions
would have been needed !
That's a strange thing to say. People have seen much more than a
10-fold tritium increase. See, for example, Will et al. of the
National Cold Fusion Institute (NCFI). None of these findings have
been retracted or found in error as far as I know. As I recall,
Bockris tallied over 100 reports of tritium before he "stopped
counting." Yes, of course no additional proof of nuclear reactions is
needed. By 1990, the tritium results alone should have convinced
everyone in the world that cold fusion is a real nuclear effect.
After Will published, people should have poured billions of dollars
into cold fusion. Instead they closed down the NCFI and treated Will
-- one of the world's top electrochemists -- as a pariah.
I spoke to Will about this, and years later I read his correspondence
in the U. Utah cold fusion archives. He is not a likable man, but I
felt awful for him. He seemed bewildered by the treatment meted out
to him. His letters to the junior researchers he was forced to fire
were heartbreaking. Here he had gilt-edged indisputable results. He
told me, "I shopped them around to all the major corporations and
universities and not one of them even look at the data."
No good deed goes unpunished!
- Jed
