Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: I cannot understand this obsession with excess heat as the sole criteria > for the existence of the LENR reaction. >
You cannot understand it because it does not exist. No one is "obsessed" with excess heat. However, as Martin Fleischmann said heat is the principal signature of the reaction. He meant in comparison to other nuclear reactions. I don't see how anyone can argue with that. > Transmutation of elements is undisputable proof of the existence of LENR. > This transmutation can be determined with extreme accuracy if its > preparation and evaluation are done with care. > Not according to David Kidwell. He thinks the evidence for transmutation is actually contamination. Transmutation into radioactive tritium is easy to detect, but transmutation into nonradioactive species with odd isotopic ratios is difficult to detect. Transmutation from deuterium to helium is very difficult to detect, because helium is ubiquitous. > Transmutation is the essence and crux of a nuclear event. > Yes, but it is very difficult to detect, because nuclear reactions produce millions of times more heat per gram of fuel than chemical reactions do. So you have to look for nanograms or picograms of material, and you do not even know what you are looking for. > Cold fusion apologists should switch their line of argument to > transmutation from excess heat. > There is no such thing as a cold fusion apologist. Transmutation evidence is not convincing for most people. The excess heat is convincing to those who understand the laws of thermodynamics and the limits of chemistry. Apparently no one at Wikipedia, *Nature* or the American Physical Society understands these things. - Jed
