Nothing new here but a decent wrap up, quoting Rothwell and Krivit: http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Cold-Fusion-It-May-Not-Be-Madness-71916.h tml
And there is a slightly contrarian but non-skeptical perspective on the big-picture situation, as it now stands going into Spring 2011. Like or not, unless another experimenter or group - more open to disclosure of the operational details, can approximate the Rossi results of extremely high COP at the kilowatt level, in the next few months leading up to the promised MW demonstration, then it is going to be a frustrating period for LENR researchers at many levels. .since almost no other "typical" incremental results, especially with deuterium and palladium at the few watts level, are going to generate interest (or funding) . that is, with this 800 pound gorilla in the closet, waiting to get out. This situation could discourage a significant percentage of competent researchers from continuing with what they were doing. The demo in Bologna, from that perspective, could be a "net negative" for the field in general, on the short term. However, the one thing that would turn that around, and turn it into a huge positive, would be good results at decent power levels - using what may turn out to be a "good guess" as to what Rossi was thought to be doing - even if the guess is ultimately wrong, but the results are equally strong. Jones
