Jed, Do we get a chance to see what other projects were proposed (at least titles)? It may be that these eight were the best of a poor selection.
On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 10:04 AM Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > I put this DoE announcement in the LENR-CANR.org News section. Today I > added this somewhat pessimistic note: > > Some cold fusion researchers feel that these eight projects were poorly > chosen. The goals are framed as if cold fusion is the same as plasma > fusion. People made this mistake in 1989. For example, several projects > focus on neutrons. The first one says, “University of Michigan will provide > capability to measure hypothetical neutron, gamma, and ion emissions from > LENR experiments.” Some cold fusion experiments have produced neutrons, but > most do not. It seems likely that neutrons are a secondary effect with a > prosaic cause such as fractofusion, rather than being a primary signature > of the reaction. Excess heat correlated with helium, or tritium production, > can occur without neutrons, so looking for neutrons is not a fruitful way > to detect or analyze a cold fusion reaction. >
