Thanks to Jed for the update. There are lots of Monday morning quarterbacks around today, so hopefully a few serious ones, with expertise in a very narrow field have focused on saving-the-world from OPEC, instead of a hyped up game that only fan-boys will remember next week. (apologies to cheese-heads).
Consider this detail: Rossi told [Celani] "we can't let you take a gamma spectrum because that will tell you exactly what reactions are going on, and we cannot reveal that information until we can get a patent." That remark alone is revealing, isn't it! Comment: Revealing ?? well, not really or should I say "yes and no". I hope that experts will weigh-in on this detail - of precisely what reactions could possibly have turned up as an obvious signature - one which is truly revealing. Assuming everything else reported by Levi is true - that the reactor was lead shielded and that a positron annihilation meter was allowed, any potential revelation poses a number of difficult questions. We can assume that positrons are out (did not register) and that low energy betas are out (would not get through lead anyway) that alphas are out - yet the "signature" that Rossi wants hidden is obvious enough on a handheld meter that even if was known, it would given something away in the patenting situation. This pretty much leaves by default the 2.45 MeV signature (for D-D fusion) as the most obvious one which he would not want to share. BUT DEUTERIUM WAS NOT USED. So yes, that one is strange enough to be revealing if it were seen, but the probability is near zero. Are there any others even close (besides 23.5 MeV) ? Problem with any know signature for fusion is that prior art in LENR going back to 1989 has most reactions so well covered that it is almost irrelevant to include it in a patent. And moreover - the known signatures for hydrogen fusion would already include the positron annihilation which did not register. The nickel-to-copper scenario has literally dozens of lesser spectra, none of which are revealing. On his blog, Rossi has already listed the nickel-copper spectra and finding one would help his credibility - not hurt. Bottom line: what signature, even if fully known, could be so revealing that it would really matter for a patent which is already filed? Jones From: Jed Rothwell Rob Duncan was supposed to give one of the keynote addresses. Unfortunately, the blizzard in the U.S. shut down Chicago and he was unable to come. He e-mailed his comments and they were read by Melich. They were excellent. I hope to get a copy soon. Anyway, one thing he said was that the heat in many of these experiments is "definitely real." I think he also said it is definitely not chemical..
