On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote:
1) Deuterium does not convert into helium > Never since the advent of Bacon and the scientific method did a single experiment or set of experiments overturn a whole body of previous *experimental* results. When there's a new result, there's a need for a more sophisticated and encompassing explanation, not the shelving or ignoring of previous experiments (e.g., explaining them away as measurement error). The real challenge continues to be for those who ignore the entire breadth of experimental evidence and focus on a handful of experiments that suit their prior theory. It is ok to toss out individual experiments as being bad (for there are many bad LENR experiments). One is also free to throw out whole clusters of experiments over a period of years that show a common finding (e.g., 4He development), but good luck with that. It seems that Mizuno's experiment, if correct, shows one part of a large parameter space, where under certain conditions in an NiD/H gas system will evolve significant energy and spit out low-mass species. I think few who have done their homework would find this result revolutionary, in light of a range of similar and strange results over the years. It is encouraging, however, that Mizuno and Yoshino seems to be getting significant excess heat. Let's hope that others can reproduce this eventually. Eric
