At 09:58 PM 12/30/2012, Jed Rothwell wrote:
To take another example, Huizenga said that if someone detected
helium commensurate with heat he might change his views. Miles and
others did detect helium, and they told Huizenga that, in person, at
ICCF4 and elsewhere. He never acknowledged it. I am sure he did not
believe it, any more than he believed the excess heat and tritium from Amoco.
Jed, I suggest you take a look at the second edition of Huizenga's
book. Do you have a copy? He explicitly acknowledges Miles and the
importance of Miles' work.
Okay, maybe I see what you are saying. He never aknowledged that incident.
Huizenga did acknowledge the early helium work from Miles, as I
recall, but it was the later work, showing heat/helium correlation,
that Huizenga noted as an amazing result, that would "solve a major
mystery of cold fusion" if confirmed.
So Huizenga was, in his second edition, confirming his (earlier?)
comment. To my knowledge, he never did review the confirmations. As
far as I know, he may simply have stopped following the field. He may
have attended conferences as a social activity. He is still alive,
apparently, but in what condition?
