I can tell you from first hand experience that SEM analysis is MUCH harder than it sounds. I have had access to a good, but not great SEM for analysis of my powders. Features at the nanoscale simply were not resolve-able with that SEM. Perhaps with the world's finest SEM, you might be able to get a picture of a nanosite and be able to resolve some useful information from it, BUT, the smaller you look, the smaller the area you get to search. It is not like you know just where the LENR was taking place unless something obvious happens at a macro-scale and then by that time the NAE is not functional anymore.
You may have to do XRF imaging to look for spots where spurious transmutations may have taken place and then search inside this. This kind of work will require a top notch SEM and operator to find a needle in the haystack. New instruments may need to be created to find and analyze the NAE. All of it comes back to $$ and time - but nothing like what has been spent on hot fusion research. In the mean time, there is always luck and intuition that we can hope for. In the worst case, we wait and buy one of Rossi's products and take it apart! On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> They need an SEM and other expensive toys to do an analysis of the metal >>> before and after. Without that they are flying blind. >>> >> >> Before and after _what_? >> > > Before and after the cold fusion test. To see what changes occurred in the > metal, and to correlate these changes with excess heat production. > > - Jed > >
