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Here are some final conclusions as formulated by a Naval researcher in 1996: 1. The choice of cathode material is crucial to the outcome of the experiment. Table 10 shows that some sources of palladium nearly always produce excess, and some never work. 2. The fact that helium is correlated with the excess heat has been confirmed many ways, but perhaps most dramatically with a simple true/false statistical test. "The odds are . . . approximately one in a million that our complete set of 33 heat and helium results could be obtained from random experimental errors in our calorimetry and helium measurements. A more rigorous treatment in Appendix C gives the probability as one out of 750,000 for our set of 33 heat and helium results." 3. This research area has the potential to provide the human race with a nearly unlimited new source of energy. We hope that other scientists will continue to investigate this difficult research area until the challenging problems impeding progress are solved.

I can dig that report (PDF form) out and send you the link if you are interested. Basically, they are packing hydrogen atoms into the lattice work that makes up metals and use an electric current to induce the metal to tranmute into another element or the hygrogen to transmute into helium - cold fusion - releasing gobs of energy. The problem has always been repeatability. Rossi says he has solved the problem.