> From: "Jed Rothwell" <[email protected]> > Mark Gibbs < [email protected] > wrote: > > I don't have the time to review the huge amount of literature you > people have already looked at ... > > > Then I suggest you read the papers listed in the main page at > LENR-CANR.org, especially the ones by Storms, Nagel and McKubre. See: >
if you're only going to read one, read Storms. (Published in a "real" journal too, so you don't have to worry about being contaminated). > http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/StormsEastudentsg.pdf (2009) <======= > http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/NagelDJscientific.pdf (2009) This is a summary of papers at ICCF-15 (2009), so it doesn't review the history. > http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/McKubreMCHcoldfusionb.pdf (2009) >From the perspective of SRI ... Both Storms and McKubre have excellent coverage of the history, progress (and erronious debunking) of Pd-D, but don't have much (if anything) on Ni-H. They both make the comment that the normal scientific method has been reversed : if it can't be explained then it can't be real. Storms : Having an explanation for a strange behavior is NOT initially necessary, although eventual discovery of an explanation is important. This is a good method and has served mankind well when it is faithfully applied. Science fails when these rules are ignored. McKubre makes the interesting comment : Another way of making progress is by engaging in the process of creating a product. Here we might take advantage of the growing public and political interest in real alternative energy solutions. The FPE produces real and useful energy, process heat. In Energetics experiment L64, in a single burst, twenty five times more heat was produced than entered the cell as electric power. This heat was produced at temperatures sufficient to boil water. Such an effect has practical value. Obviously taking an experiment to the market as a product requires several steps that are non-trivial. This exercise however may be an effective means of gaining an engineering understanding of the effect even before the scientific. Segue to Rossi, Defkalion .....
