Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote:
> Jed Rothwell has put countless hours and his own funds over 25 years to > memorialize the efforts of dozens of scientists and thousands of papers. None > of these experiments going back to 1989 – representing 25 years of blood, > sweat and tears - has demonstrated that neutrons are a relevant factor in > LENR and none of them has shown that gamma radiation is a relevant factor. > I appreciate the shout out. This is an important point. The literature on cold fusion includes many marginal papers and many mistakes. HOWEVER, as Jones says, if there were large numbers of neutrons and gamma radiation, this would have been observed and reported many times. The literature is not *that* wrong. What's more, it is easy to determine this. Just go to LENR-CANR.org, and at the top of the page where it says "This Google™ Custom Search finds files at LENR-CANR only" and enter the search term "neutron." You will find many papers describing the neutrons that have been detected, from Pd, Ti and other metals. You can see the levels are low and the emissions are sporadic. Ed Storms thinks these neutrons are the product of fractofusion or some other conventional reaction. Okay perhaps the neutrons are a "relevant factor" in some sense, but since the reaction often occurs without them, clearly they do not play an essential role. There really is no excuse for not knowing this. - Jed
