Re: Cold fusion is back!

In article <be1f2b09-e29d-47f7-88ad-3330b9df7b78@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Citizen Jimserac <Jimserac@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

: I see that he has no problem in regarding the results of Szpak et al
: as "so-called" "positive results" and that their work is "much more
: reasonably explained as a combination of wishful thinking and
: incompetence". Incompetence!!??

Have you actually read either the paper in question or my discussion
thereof? Of course you haven't. Do you have any experience making
spectroscopic measurements on sensitive equipment? Of course you haven't.
Which of us is in a better position to judge the quality of Szpak's work?
Not you.

: Here RS references a "quote" (NO LINK given) that the Naval
: Researchers have claimed the be the FIRST group to have detected
: energetic neutrons in a low energy nuclear reaction and then states

From the article found at http://tinyurl.com/dfao5j

?Our finding is very significant,? says study co-author and analytical
chemist Pamela Mosier-Boss, Ph.D., of the U.S. Navy?s Space and Naval
Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR) in San Diego, Calif. ?To our knowledge,
this is the first scientific report of the production of highly energetic
neutrons from an LENR device.?

: that "Apparently, they never read Pons". I need to know NO chemistry
: at all to find this assertion HIGHLY UNLIKELY.

Then how do *you* explain their claim?

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Richard Schultz schultr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University
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". . .Mr Schutz [sic] acts like a functional electro-terrorist who
impeads [sic] scientific communications with his too oft-silliness."
-- Mitchell Swartz, sci.physics.fusion article <EEI1oz.43q@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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