Your answers sound reasonable; I will follow your posts with an open mind...
Please, please, please read Beaudette's book. It is very much what I would have written if I had the time.
This quote from page 341 explains all:
"This book was written by one who loves science. I wrote it in the hope that this new field of scientific research, misnamed cold fusion, might become known to mainstream science rather than being known only to a small cadre of scientists working in an intellectual ghetto."
Like Beaudette, I love science, and the bastardization of science that the pathological skeptics have promulgated REALLY ...... me off.
As physical chemist, this is the sort of investigation of the mechanism I have been wanting to see: clear, stepwise, using several iterations of materials and conditions -- with multiple, repeated runs producing excellently-overlapping results from standardized, repeatable measurements.
Iwamura's folks do experimentation as it should be done! Only one who comprehends all the variables he explored and reported can appreciate the vast amount of time, work, and attention to detail involved in that report.
By comparison, Rossi's "I fired it up and it got hot!" method naturally leaves genuine professional experimental scientists dissatisfied and unconvinced.
Note that Iwamura focused on the transmuation mechanisms (and variables that affect them) -- and never (yet) reported on the energy effects that the "short-cutters" in the LENR field have taken a "go directly to energy commercialization" approach toward hyping.
Does anyone really think that the likes of Rossi would ever characterize intermediate materials of higher work function (as Iwamura did) -- knowing that their effectiveness should be less or nil -- instead of concentrating solely on the "optimum" material because it would produce "the most results" -- NOW?
If LENR is ever going to become "mainstream" -- careful, "plodding" work on understanding the mechanism MUST be done first. Iwamura is to be congratulated. Rossi, et al, ...well... they do more harm than good...
Another problem is that there are too many dumb@$$3$ who leap to shout spectacular things like
"The Inconceivable Embarrassment From Cold Fusion!"
instead of simply announcing,
"Mitsubishi Reports Progress on Validating and Understanding LENR Transmutation Mechanisms".
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