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Tests showing similar results were presented at the 2012 LENR conference, and probably before. I really wish they hadn’t been discounted as erroneous without a
by pjkundert 6y ago
Tests showing similar results were presented at the 2012 LENR conference, and probably before.
I really wish they hadn’t been discounted as erroneous without attempts to replicate by the larger scientific community. We’d be much farther along by now, in capturing this extremely interesting result!
- cromwellian 6y agoBut what about a control experiment? How about letting the PdAg sit in a vacuum for the same amount of time under similar conditions and see what develops? How do they rule out contamination, such as by cosmic rays?
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoIf I read the abstract right, they did in fact have a control. They had the exact same palladium/silver mix in it, but didn't cycle D2, H2, or He in and out. It wound up with much fewer of the surprising elements.
- marcinzm 6y agoCouldn't that be explained by the cycling introducing contamination (ie: along with the D2, H2, He it also brought in a few other atoms from the plumping or whatever)?
- Filligree 6y agoEasily.
- jiggawatts 6y agoBut the "control" wasn't. It was a different coil, and they didn't characterise either of the coils' metallurgy prior to the experiment.
- lumost 6y agoThe addition of deuterium will open new avenues for reactions by cosmic rays.
- phkahler 6y ago>> I really wish they hadn’t been discounted as erroneous without attempts to replicate by the larger scientific community. Sure. But what if LENR is real? They may be opening pandoras box.