On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The role of correlation and real-world control factors is often > overlooked, even by supporters. This is critically important. Cold fusion > heat with the Pd-D system is correlated with several control factors, > including: > > * Heat appears with D but not H. > > * Heat only appears with high loading. > > In the first place, as Storms points out, neither of those are true. Even in electrolysis, there are claims of heat with H as well, and again as Storms says, probably the main reason the claims are scarcer is because far less effort has been put toward it, mainly because P&F thought it was DD fusion. High loading correlation seems to be necessary in electrolysis but not in gas loading, and at the subatomic level it's hard to see why that should make a difference. > Here is the critical thing about these control parameters: they cannot > affect temperature measurements. They cannot cause an artifact that looks > like excess heat. > > When nuclear physicists say nuclear reactions in that context can't produce measurable heat, they are called closed-minded. Has it occurred to you that you are being closed minded by excluding artifacts that might correlate with loading, or with the procedures required to produce the loading. I'm not saying I can identify a plausible artifact, but then you can't identify a plausible nuclear reaction that fits the observations either. And between them, nuclear reactions are far less likely, in the view of people who actually have experience with nuclear reactions. > > (Alain: You should use an English spell check program. I depend on one!) > > > A logic and coherence checker would help too.
