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Most of the replications failed, except some. My theory is that nuclear reaction in hydrogen loaded palladium is initiated by cosmic gamma rays or cosmic muons,
by drran 5y ago
Most of the replications failed, except some. My theory is that nuclear reaction in hydrogen loaded palladium is initiated by cosmic gamma rays or cosmic muons, thus those laboratories which were open to cosmic rays, such as at top floors or in mountain areas, are able to reproduce results, while shielded labs are unable.
I planned to set up a similar experiment and bombard a hydrogen loaded target with muons, or move the experiment to the top of a Carpathian mountain, but the institute of nuclear research in Kharkiv, Ukraine is under attack, so it's not possible.
The idea of using ErD3 instead of Nickel or Palladium is very good, because it saves weeks of time to load the target with Deuterium.
- pfdietz 5y agoLook, P&F's putative results cannot be the same thing as what these NASA guys are claiming. The NASA people are claiming ordinary DD fusion reactions are occurring, just at an enhanced rate. P&F's putative heat excess would have killed P&F from neutron radiation if it had been the ordinary DD reactions. Physicists knew P&F's nonsense was garbage because it required multiple miracles (that fusion would occur, that the ordinary fusion reactions would not, that some weird non-standard fusion reaction would occur instead.) Far, far more likely was they just were bumblers. And when replication failed (and it did fail; other vaguely similar but different sporadic results are not "replication") that prior was validated.