Ron Kita <[email protected]> wrote: Greetings Vortex, > > Usually I am agreement with Jed, but polywater was not exactly a mistake. >
I was describing the reaction of researchers who spent months working on polywater, and concluded that it was a mistake. They said that despite this, it was interesting. One said it was the "high point" of her career. This was in the book by Felix Franks. Franks is a leading expert on water. He says water is far more complex than most scientists realize, and there are countless unsolved mysteries about water. I think he said we understand liquid helium better than we understand water. He discussed the structure of liquid water. That is, structures the molecules tend to form, plus the structure of the H2O molecule. That is an excellent little book. I myself do not know much about polywater, beyond what I read in the book. It sounds like a mistake to me. It appears to be an experimental error caused by the fact that the purported effect was so small, it was at the limits of detection. Cold fusion is nothing like that. A ~20 W reaction is way above the limits of detection. The other day I saw a skeptical message in response to a mass media claiming that it takes "millions of dollars of equipment" to detect the heat from cold fusion. The person who wrote that clearly knows nothing about cold fusion. I wonder what motivates a person to make such a bold statement about a subject he is so ignorant of? I wouldn't do that if you paid me. - Jed
