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2012/10/27 Jack Cole <[email protected]> > The link to the NRL article doesn't work. > > Thanks, > Jack > > > On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]>wrote: > >> More blather, confusion and insults from Gibbs. He cites a paper from >> that nitwit know-it-all Shanahan, the universal expert who thinks he knows >> more about tritium than the PPPL, more about calorimetry than Storms, >> Duncan or McKubre, and -- in short -- more about anything then everyone >> else combined. >> >> He cites this paper from Shanahan: >> >> https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3d7yWtb1doPc3otVGFUNDZKUDQ/edit >> >> My responses, posted at NewWorkWorld, are below. >> >> - Jed >> >> Gibbs writes: "That really underlines what the difference is between cold >> fusion fan boys and completely believe in its existence, and those who >> remain skeptical and demand proof in the form of useful technology, by >> which I mean a technology that delivers real, valuable commercial results." >> >> Useful technology is not and never has been a valid scientific criterion >> to prove the existence of an effect. There are countless scientific effects >> and phenomena that have no practical use, yet which everyone agrees exist. >> Examples include high temperature superconductivity and supernova >> explosions. Many effects, such as electricity, had no practical use for >> decades after they were discovered. Nuclear fission was discovered in the >> 1890s but it had no practical use until 1945. Semiconductor research began >> in the 1920s but did not produce any useful results until 1949. >> >> Gibbs' arguments make no sense. Furthermore, he calls distinguished >> scientists "fanboys" which is an outrageous insult. >> >> >> >> Shanahan's conclusions are completely unjustified. He thinks that his >> opinion -- mere opinion -- automatically overrules rigorously peer-reviewed >> experimental results published in major journals. Results obtained by >> hundreds of distinguished experts from Los Alamos, BARC, the Princeton >> Plasma Fusion Lab and other world-class labs. Despite his ego, Shanahan >> does not know better than these people. The "reasons" given in his paper >> would never pass peer-review. >> >> Cold fusion has been replicated thousands of times in hundreds of major >> laboratories. Here is the latest irrefutable result, from the Naval >> Research Laboratory: >> >> http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/D... >> >> Anomalous Results in Fleischmann-Pons Type Electrochemical Experiments >> >> Conclusions: >> >> * Large excess power (≥ 1kJ) events generated in 5% of Pd90Rh10 cathodes >> >> * Failed to disprove these results --> excess heat results observed at >> NRL are real! >> >> Cells produced 40 times more output than input, and the heat far exceeded >> the limits of chemistry. >> >> Gibbs' demand that researchers produce practical devices is unfair and >> unrealistic given the lack of funding and the academic politics. >> >> >
