Michel Jullian wrote:
Back on topic, I understand why you are mad at Steve krivit for pushing his POV that the heat/helium = 24 MeV/He is bogus, that's because that correlation is what made you believe CF might well be real. You don't want to doubt again.
On behalf of Abd, let me say: nonsense. The only reason we are upset with Krivit is because used cheap tricks and ad hominem arguments.
Plenty of people doubt the 24 MeV ratio. That does not upset Abd, me or anyone else. During the press conference Hagelstein said in response to a question from Krivit that the ratio does not apply to some reactions such as Iwamura, but he sees no reason why that fact should cause a person to doubt that it applies to the Pd-D system. That seems sensible to me. Different systems and different starting reactants produce different products. When you burn aluminum it does not produce the same product as when you burn wood. I do not understand why Krivit has difficulty understanding this. I do not recall anyone in the last 15 years has maintained that cold fusion is exclusively D+D => ~24 MeV heat + helium. That's a strawman argument.
- Jed
