One point worth reiterating on this thread (although someone will be sure to get in the last bit of negativism) is about the bogus argument of Lawrence and Yugo . that belittles an LENR experiment which was "only successful" one time in ten, or produced "only" 68% gain at most.
GET REAL . these are fundamental Laws of Physics under scrutiny. A fundamental Laws of Physics that is wrong one time in a million - is in fact wrong forever and in fact NOT fundamental at all. Hundreds of thousands of physicist will share in that agony, and they do not want to see this happen. Therefore, any paper from NASA in 1996 is going to be circumspect about ultimate possibilities. However look at it another way. An experiment that produces clean excess energy of "only" 68% over input, or that does it only one time in a thousand - is in fact the most important invention in the history of science ! . since, if and when we discover the precise circumstances and theory which led to the rare anomaly, and then put it into the "system" (turn it over to the product engineers) . then what was formerly a freak occurrence, but a proven freak, suddenly becomes the standard method. The Yugo-esque mentality of years past, firmly pronounced that quantum tunneling was either an observational error, or a freak exception of extremely low probability that will stay in the lab. Fast forward three decades and the same pompous skeptical mentality using computers that performs several trillion "impossible" quantum tunneling operations per second via their CPU. So much for the bogosity of "only" one proved success in ten tries (or 10,000) in an early trial. The one proved success, even if it is one in many - represents the metaphorical "straw" . you know, the one that broke the camel's back. Jones
