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.
I’d be happy to discuss Pamela Mosier-Boss’s work on one of the threads dedicated to it, like this one
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2212864/posts
My comment was towards the “near certainty” that there will never be true cold fusion unless some exotic matter is found. If you’re saying he’s right, then prove it. The remainder of your post was about other things besides what I wrote.