I meant to say The amount of power is IRRELEVANT.
It varied between somewhere between 2 and 8 kW. the instrumentation was not good enough to determine whether the low-end was 2 kW or 3 kW. That is annoying, but it has absolutely no bearing on whether there was energy production or not. It is not possible that two sets of thermocouples both indicated the temperature rose and yet there was no energy production. If you believe that might be the case, you are willing to believe far more radical and theoretically impossible claims than cold fusion. That is not a skeptical position. It is one that would trash all of the textbooks in physics and chemistry going back to 1780 to preserve one half-baked, largely untested plasma fusion model that has already been shown wrong by other experiments. The skeptical, conservative position is to believe in conventional physics and to trust that laboratory grade instruments have worked correctly in thousands of experiments (including this one) and therefore cold fusion must be real. - Jed
