On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]>wrote:
> When many experiments in different laboratories all show anomalous heat > from metal hydrides, with Pd, Ni and Ti, most people say they are mutually > supportive. That is why replications are considered valuable. The > similarities seem obvious to me. > Sure there are similarities. But there are differences too. P&F and also Arata claim it works with deuterium and not hydrogen. Rossi claims it works with hydrogen, and if I remember correctly, it is quenched with deuterium. But the main point is that the validity of P&F claims are not strictly equivalent to that of Rossi's. P&F could be right, and Rossi could still be wrong. P&F could be wrong, and I don't see how that would exclude the possibility of H-Ni reactions. Such a claim would doing exactly what skeptics are accused of: rejecting experimental results based on theory (established by previous, different, if similar, experimental results). Rossi claims way more power and uses different materials. >> > > No, he does not claim way more power. Adjusting for the mass of reactant > it is about the same as Fleischmann and Pons boiling experiments. > He does claim way more power. You're arguing he does not claim more power density. Scaling up has been a big problem for cold fusion, so claiming more power is important, which of course, is why Rossi is getting so much attention.
