“Surely, if cold fusion occurred and was replicatable, there would be publications in peer-reviewed journals reporting these replications. Instead, cold fusion seems to fall into the “pathological science” category—where a handful of scientists/aficionados just cannot bear to let go of a hypothesis, no matter how little evidence there is in support of the hypothesis.”
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http://www.lenr-canr.org/LibFrame1.html
“Physical law indicates that there is a very high energy barrier to fusion, which is why it must take place at such high temperatures. Cold fusion would be a godsend—a way to achieve energy-producing fusion, while having only to worry about the radioactive emissions (which we have a lot of collective experience in shielding), and not about attempting to contain a reaction occurring at thousands of degrees would be great.”
Don’t look now, but it’s been done. Latest indications are that the theory is finally falling into place as to how the Coulomb barrier is circumvented.
There’s a PDF about the ICCF-16 proceedings that has much detail. Also see stuff on the net by George Miley, and Brian Ahern’s patent.
I already knew that there have been several cold fusion conferences, especially in the first few years after (the now discredited) Fleischmann–Pons report.
I wasn't very convinced when I downloaded JOURNAL OF CONDENSED MATTER NUCLEAR SCIENCE, Vol. 4, Feb 2011 from that LENR website, started skimming through it, and quickly found "In the recent past, Focardi and Rossi have reported spectacular energy gains in the range from 80 to somewhat over 400 from Ni–H experiments [30]" (p. 13, para. 1).
Scammers aside, this topic has all the appearance of a pathological science.
If you want to convince me and the other skeptics, you need to show the evidence. A good bit of evidence would be articles in a variety of peer-reviewed physics/chemistry journals, describing replicable experiments.
http://www.physorg.com/tags/quantum+tunneling/ This periodical carries lots of stuff ~ APS carries their url as a ref on their masthead ~ so even though all the science writers/editors here are just junior grade geeks the big geeks read their stuff (’cause it’s based on the big geeks’ stuff). You can find all about cold fusion from your hot fusion environment by looking for QUANTUM TUNNELING. There’s a mountain of stuff out there. Otherwise the hot fusion guys looking at their grants and such don’t use the term cold fusion (but they know it exists).