Regarding the question of whether this topic is appropriate for
papers at LENR-CANR.org, let me explain how I decide.
1. Stage one, I decide SHC is off topic and perhaps it would cause
unwanted political or public relations repercussions, so I have not
tried to get any papers on it.
No other stages have happened in this case but if they did, they
might go like this:
2. Someone submits a papers on SHC. I reconsider, and ask Ed what he thinks.
3. If we decide it is still off topic we ask the author to go
elsewhere. I expect there are many web sites about SHC, so this
shouldn't be a problem. Google will readily find the paper no matter
where it ends up. (Roberto Monti did not seem to mind when I told
him we think it is off topic. He is a nice fellow and we get along fine.)
4. Several cold fusion researchers write to say "we think SHC is real
and related to cold fusion, so we think you should have papers on it.
If that happens I say sure, fine, and upload whatever they suggest.
In other words, I have no strong feelings about the content and no
burning desire to exclude anything. I like to keep things in neatly
arranged categories. Nature, of course, does not recognize
categories, such as the distinction between chemistry and physics.
It is conceivable that SHC is related to cold fusion. If evidence for
that arises of course I would include reports of it.
Along the same lines, if the researchers and theorists come to think
that the Mills effect is real and related to cold fusion, naturally I
would take papers on that. Whatever the authors and readers want is
usually okay with me.
I know in detail which papers are popular, and which papers readers
think are important. I can see how many copies of each paper are
downloaded, and which papers are linked to by other web sites. The
web page log files tell me this sort of thing in detail. I try to
upload more of whatever it is people are reading, just as a
bricks-and-mortar librarian would try to stock whatever books readers
often check out. It is not up to me to dictate to the readers what
they find interesting. A large fraction of our readers are
professional scientists and they know what they want.
Web page log files are described here:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/logs.html
- Jed
