From: Jed Rothwell
No cold fusion device has ever produced a cold area. None of them is a heat pump. Not exactly true, depending on how you define 'cold fusion.' To clarify - in recent testing of nano-nickel by Brian Ahern using various alloy nanopowders (similar to both Arata and Rossi) BOTH heating and cooling regimes have been documented, and in a repeatable fashion, depending on the specific alloy. It is either one or the other, not both (depending on the elements in the alloy). The full report has not been released yet for publication by the funder, so you will have to be content with anecdote for the time being - but Brian has reported the same results to CMNS. IOW - with resistance heating at a fairly high level (>500 C) a certain alloy powder can produce an active cooling effect ! repeatedly and for extended periods. Caveat: this testing does not involve sophisticated calorimetry at this point in time, so there could be other explanations that will need to be explored, if and when continued funding is available. Bottom line - Probably means that the from the totality of effects which have been seen (both anomalous heating and cooling with no gamma radiation) this nano-niche with gas phase - does not involve "fusion" at all - and thus cannot be 'cold fusion' per se. Therefore, the original comment is accurate, unless we might desire to expand the scope of the field to include "all thermal anomalies at the nanoscale" - which does seem like the wisest way to proceed, especially if you look at the field as having the potential to spawn many derivative technologies, which will surely serve to help in understanding what is going on the hot side. Jones
