Come on, it doesn't make sense to keep experimenting for 20 years when you have an undisputable proof at hand, and tritium decay counts are the most undisputable proof you can dream of.
Besides, I dug out the original paper ( http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/SzpakSonthebehav.pdf ), it doesn't say that the tritium _content_ increased ten fold, it says that the tritium _concentration_ increased ten (seven, actually) fold, which is quite different, and can much more easily have a mundane explanation. Michel 2009/1/19 Jed Rothwell <[email protected]>: > 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 None of these findings have been retracted or found in 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 > >
