I have been aware of the free download for a while, but figured that Beaudette deserves the few cents he is likely to garner from sales. Even interlibrary loan...(virtually free to you)...gives him at least a few cents.
Only problem with Beaudette is that the book only covers up to (IIRC, 2006), and MUCH new science has been added since. But it "is" THE best source for coverage of the science (and science politics) of the early LENR period.
Also....if you do NOTHING else.....watch the last half of the last days video from the MIT Cold Fusion Short Course (the segment with Mitchell Schwartz discussing his NANOR CF cell). INCREDIBLE. Current cells are putting out 80 watts with 1 watt input, from ~100 MILLIGRAMS of nickel (and a truly insignificant amount of pre-loaded hydrogen).
Schwartz has also shown that Nickel works with deuterium (it has been the previous notion that Palladium worked with D2 and nickel with H2).
There is also a short video segment of a small Stirling engine being driven by one of his LENR cells.
I have been aware of the free download for a while, but figured that Beaudette deserves the few cents he is likely to garner from sales.
***He got his royalty from me. What I find useful is the ability to start quoting sections of his book without having to type it in myself. Also, it removes one more excuse that comes from the PTSIFOM crowd.