There has been only one colder fusion experiment that got anywhere close and actually released neutrons.
*** “Our finding is very significant,” says study co-author and analytical chemist Pamela Mosier-Boss, Ph.D., of the U.S. Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR) in San Diego, Calif. “To our knowledge, this is the first scientific report of the production of highly energetic neutrons from an LENR device.”
It is a near certainty that there will never be true cold fusion unless some exotic matter is found.
***It is a higher certainty that you don’t know what you’re talking about. I’ve noticed that naysayers who talk the loudest all scurry away when the time comes for them to put their money where their mouth is.
#1 LENR device aren’t fusion devices cold or other wise
LENR = Low Energy Nuclear Reaction
LENR don’t call their experiments cold fusion
My comment was on cold fusion and still stands.
I've often wondered how a skeptic might "put his money where his mouth is". It would be an easy way to make money, if a mechansim were available.
Personal bet? Transaction costs too high, market too thin, chances of welshing significant.
Pure stock play? I've never heard of a stock in any of these technologies that was publicly traded and thus could be sold short. Even then, as with all short selling, there's the matter of timing.
Index fund? There, you could bet against the technology regardless of there being no actual investment to bet for or against.
Does an index exist for the E-cat?
Again, dila813 is correct, kevmo.
Pamela Mosier-Boss’s work does not show proof of cold fusion, namely nucleon-nucleon fusion. The triple track is indicative of an impact of a high energy electron to a carbon nucleus to produce 3 alpha particles.
Here, the issue is not so much that the elements are Nickel or Palladium per se but the surface topology on the electrode surface. The electric field is most intense where you have sharp edges and points. Now, what Mosier-Boss needs to do is to embed into the plastic elements other than carbon to see if one finds quadruple tracks, quintuple tracks, etc..
You see Kevmo, the main difficulty with fusion is the electrostatic barrier of 2 nucleons which are positively charged. There is no such barrier between electron and protons, especially when the electron is very high speed with respect to the nucleon (ah no: A ground state hydrogen atom will not collapse to a neutron (without an anti-neutrino) or to a hydrino (and I have talked to you about both the contradictions from a mathematical and physical point of view)).
If anything, Pamela Mosier-Boss’ work demonstrates facilitated FISSION, not fusion.
Sorry Kevmo.