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You’re the one hyping cold fusion without anything substantial to back it up, other than telling us that someone, somewhere is making a claim that Wonder Warthog accepts without question.

"You’re the one hyping cold fusion without anything substantial to back it up, other than telling us that someone, somewhere is making a claim that Wonder Warthog accepts without question."

Since you refuse to check out suggested sources, how would you know whether I had "anything substantial" or not??

But, I did do the Google search for Fralicks report. It took a whole minute to find the reference. It can be found here:

http://ecatsite.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/nasa_1989.pdf

And the relevant information to prove that contamination was not a possible source of error...."a final fill of hydrogen or deuterium was preceded by filling and pumping three times". Any analytical chemist (like me) will tell you that a 3X "empty and fill" cycle reduces potential contamination by 99.99% or so.

But I suggest reading the whole report (I know you won't bother, but I'll suggest it anyway). It is a real shame that this quite substantial proof of excess heat without neutrons wasn't followed up. It presaged the later work of Arata in 1992-2001 and would have given the US a head-start on a new clean energy source.

Speaking of Arata. Here:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/39624711/Yoshiaki-Arata-Paper-on-Cold-Fusion

is an interesting paper honoring his memory after his death. Lots of very good details about his cold fusion work collected in one place.

Since you’re apparently terminally lazy, here are “clickables” to get you to the sources above:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/39624711/Yoshiaki-Arata-Paper-on-Cold-Fusion