Because the real purpose behind their actions is to censor the subject in not being posted AT ALL on FR.
Apparently I am the only one here discussing the science!
Well, they're not succeeding at that, are they?
I mean, I read and appreciate every ping Kevmo sends me. Their dumb comments don't bother me at all. Actually, I find them somewhat amusing.
The cold fusion skeptics became old news a long time ago. Let them yammer and rave. Lots of capable people are getting results, and there's even a growing body of theoretical work on what's going in LENR at the scale of nuclear distances. So far no one has found the magic combination of preparation steps that results in someone vaporizing themselves and their lab in a sudden flash of light, but I think that might happen — or perhaps something a bit less dramatic — I just don't know when. Could be next month, could be in five years.
It's pretty clear that the effect has something to do with roughness at an atomic scale, which is why the experiments with pristine 99.95% palladium rods didn't work thirty years ago, and that deuterium loading levels much higher than those originally tried are necessary but not sufficient to see reactions. Some of the new experiments with nanoparticles (like those described in the paper that started this thread) look very promising, and that's exciting.
Genuinely new science generally takes decades to be accepted, particularly when it is as disruptive to the established order as LENR is. Many billions of dollars, and thousands of careers, have been invested in traditional "hot" fusion, and those people are going to have their whole world turned upside down if LENR can be made to work consistently in the laboratory. If a good theoretical model can be made that predicts its characteristics and enables it to be scaled up, it will change civilization, lead to large-scale political upheavals, etc.
Of course there are going to be naysayers. One must expect that.