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[Steven Krivit]

Someone (who wishes to be anon) wrote the following to me recently. I'm 
interested in the thoughts and comments in response to it from Vortexians:

-Steve
The ERAB council "proved" that cold fusion isn't DD fusion.  The point is, 
"So what?", there are a zillion nuclear reaction paths that are 
exothermic, other than DD (well, there are a large number and basically 
every path that takes a neutron from a deuteron and gives it to any other 
atom is exothermic...including by the way, if it goes to a heavy nucleus 
above iron, that is also exothermic, something many people don't realize 
given that we are told that fusion above iron is endothermic...iron plus 
iron is endothermic, but iron plus a neutron is exothermic in the Fe (d,p) 
Fe +1 reaction path.  I have had nuclear fusion scientists be confused by 
this one until they thought about it for a while.

So, proving that cold fusion wasn't DD fusion was a trivial and silly 
accomplishment.  It absolutely didn't prove that cold fusion wasn't 
nuclear.  And, IMO, cold fusion is neither cold nor low energy...it is 
some sort of blazing hot high energy nuclear reaction path just like every 
other nuclear reaction.