as far as I remember there is some reason to think that neutrons and tritium, produced at less tha million less quantity than expected with hot fusion, are not even produced when there is much anomalous heat... Pamela Mosier Boss seems to think it is anticorrelated
Heat+He4 on on side, n+T on the other side some <500keV gamma in both case? Maybe Ed could make a summary. if that experiment, and many replications, are used to rule-out some theories, like W-L, that is science. the comments about thermalization, seems supported by many physicist, and on that point I think they are competent... at worst there is a new mechanism required to complete WL and explain 99.9999% cross-section. if absence of neutrons is used to ruleout heat observations, it is the usual aristotelian anti-science that spread in Wikipedia, SciAm, Nature/Science, APS/caltech and similar churches and comics. note that if they observe the small usual neutron flux in plasma cell, it is LENR. they have to admit something happen... not what they imagine, but it happen. but I'm sure they are not honest enough to admit it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink Type I: Overestimations of the group — its power and morality 1. *Illusions of invulnerability* creating excessive optimism and encouraging risk taking. 2. *Unquestioned belief in the morality of the group*, causing members to ignore the consequences of their actions. Type II: Closed-mindedness 1. *Rationalizing <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalization_(making_excuses)> warnings* that might challenge the group's assumptions. 2. *Stereotyping <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype> *those who are opposed to the group as weak, evil, biased, spiteful, impotent, or stupid. Type III: Pressures toward uniformity 1. *Self-censorship <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-censorship>* of ideas that deviate from the apparent group consensus. 2. *Illusions of unanimity* among group members, silence is viewed as agreement. 3. *Direct pressure* to conform placed on any member who questions the group, couched in terms of "disloyalty" 4. *Mind guards*— self-appointed members who shield the group from dissenting information. Groupthink, resulting from the symptoms listed above, results in defective decision-making. That is, consensus-driven decisions are the result of the following practices of groupthinking[14]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink#cite_note-Kamau-14> 1. Incomplete survey of alternatives 2. Incomplete survey of objectives 3. *Failure to examine risks *of preferred choice 4. Failure to reevaluate previously rejected alternatives 5. *Poor information search* 6. Selection bias <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias> in collecting information 7. Failure to work out contingency plans. 2014/1/13 Alan Fletcher <[email protected]> > It will be interesting if they report excess heat AND no neutrons. > > Of course, if they report NO excess heat and NO neutrons then it's just an > experimental blank. >
