Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
What is incorrect is Cude's claim that smaller effects -- in smaller experiments -- are necessarily demonstrating this.
Indeed, they are not. The Energetics experiments, for example, use much smaller cathodes than were common in the 1990s. These are thin foils that flex around, made by the ENEA. They weigh a fraction of a gram, compared to the old ones that typically weighed 1 to 10 g. They produce as much as 20 W where the cathodes back in the 1990s usually produced a fraction of 1 W. Obviously there is a lot more NAE with the new cathodes. The gas loaded nanoparticle cells have even less Pd. I think some of the ones that have worked lately have only 5% Pd.
And an adventuresome experimenter could do any or all of this themselves, and could vary the protocol, add stuff, pee in the cell if they want, to play on an old anecdotal story from 1989-1990. It would all come out in the wash. You want to trash cold fusion work, unfairly? Buy a cell and pee in it.... I rather doubt this would happen often!)
That would be the thiourea approach. Sort of. With S replaced by O and lots of impurities.
- Jed
