I don't recall exactly Beaudette's breakdown of "assignment of blame" but I do recall being rather peeved that it was not admitted candidly by Beaudette that if Fleischmann had had the good sense to partner up with someone in the Ivy League (including CalTech and Stanford of course) or the University of Chicago, the exact same press conference could have been held and there would have been an immediate DoE crash program.
Basically the degree system has defaulted into a peerage granting life patents of nobility -- and the royal bloodlines must be defended at all costs -- even millions dead as collateral damage. On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Alain Sepeda <[email protected]> wrote: > > the quote about the 4 articles is in chapter one >> > > Thanks. > > > >> The first report came in 1989 (N. S. Lewis). It dismissed the Utah claim >> for anomalous power on grounds of faulty laboratory technique. >> > > Lewis, N.S., et al., Searches for low-temperature nuclear fusion of > deuterium in palladium. Nature (London), 1989. 340(6234): p. 525 > > Well, it was more a report on Lewis' own work. It was a pretty good paper > except of the conclusion. I learned a lot from it. It had a lot of valid > information about what can go wrong with calorimetry. I can't upload it, > but I wrote about it here, and you can get the gist of it: > > http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJhownaturer.pdf > > > > >> A second review was produced in 1991 (W. N. Hansen) that strongly >> supported the claim. >> > > Hansen, W.N. Report to the Utah State Fusion/Energy Council on the > Analysis of Selected Pons Fleischmann Calorimetric Data. in Second Annual > Conference on Cold Fusion, "The Science of Cold Fusion". 1991. Como, Italy: > Societa Italiana di Fisica, Bologna, Italy Y HansenWNreporttoth. > > > >> An extensive review completed in 1992 (R. H. Wilson) was highly critical >> though not conclusive. >> > > Wilson, R.H., et al., Analysis of experiments on the calorimetry of > LiOD-D2O electrochemical cells. J. Electroanal. Chem., 1992. 332: p. 1 > > Beaudette discussed this in detail in a chapter at the end of the book. > > > But it did recognize the existence of anomalous power, which carried the >> implication that the Lewis dismissal was mistaken. A fourth review was >> produced in 1994 (D. R. O. Morrison) which was itself unsatisfactory. >> > > I guess this refers to: > > Morrison, D.R.O., Comments on claims of excess enthalpy by Fleischmann and > Pons using simple cells made to boil. Phys. Lett. A, 1994. 185: p. 498 > > http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Fleischmanreplytothe.pdf > > - Jed > >
