“Yes... from what I can tell about where some of those claims are published, the claims are as credible as Rossi himself. There’s nothing yet in a peer-review journal.”
“Elemental Analysis of Pd Complexes: Effects of D2 Gas Permeation” Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. Vol. 41 (2002) pp. 4642–4650
Part 1, No. 7A, July2002 The Japan Society of Applied Physics
Full paper available at:
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/IwamuraYelementalaa.pdf
The released energy for eq. (1) can be estimated by mass defects if we postulate that four deuterons react with Cs. About 50.5 MeV should be released per reaction. Figure 4(a) shows that there exist about 1014 atoms of Pr at the surface of the test piece because the reaction surface area is 1.0 cm2. Therefore released energy can be estimated to be 800 J. The average power is calculated to be 1.8mW when the reaction time is assumed to be 120 h. Even if 1.8mW were released as heat during the experiment, we could not detect or notice the released heat.That doesn't look good for energy production or Rossi the Fraud. The amount of heat produced is below their ability to detect it. They also detected no gamma rays, nor were they able to detect the amount of D2 consumed.
It's a curious result, though. The paper is 10 years old.