My response: The article contains a ludicrously understated assessment of the situation:
"Indeed, several physicists are skeptical of these results precisely because they appear to contravene physical law." Here's reality: Within a mere 5 weeks of the March 1989 press conference by Pons and Fleischmann, virtually all physicists joined together in a united front that was not only "skeptical" but prepared to destroy the careers of anyone who so much as attempted to replicate the work of Pons and Fleischmann. This despite the fact that the full experimental protocol had yet to be published and despite the fact that when published the experimental protocol clearly showed a minimum of 6 weeks preparation were required to sufficiently load the Pd with Deuterium. The preamble to the DoE's 1989 cold fusion review panel's report reads: "Ordinarily, new scientific discoveries are claimed to be consistent and reproducible; as a result, if the experiments are not complicated, the discovery can usually be confirmed or disproved in a few months. The claims of cold fusion, however, are unusual in that even the strongest proponents of cold fusion assert that the experiments, for unknown reasons, are not consistent and reproducible at the present time. However, even a single short but valid cold fusion period would be revolutionary." --Norman Ramsey Dr. Norman Ramsey Jr., Nobel laureate and professor of physics at Harvard University was the only person on the the 1989 Department of Energy cold fusion review panel to voice a dissenting opinion. Ramsey insisted on the inclusion of this preamble as an alternative to his resignation from the panel. The committee acquiesed because he was its co-chair and the only Nobel laureate on the committee. Dr. Ramsey's condition has been fulfilled hundreds of times over the last quarter century and there has been absolutely no acknowledgement by the APS of its crime. See Los Alamos nuclear chemist Ed Storms's peer reviewed paper published in the German counterpart of the British "Nature": Status of Cold-Fusion (2010) http://coldfusionnow.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/StormsEstatusofcoa.pdf On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 7:05 AM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > See: > > > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-h-bailey/low-energy-nuclear-reacti_b_6189772.html >
