You know, I actually am reasonable familiar with the issue.
I am not a fan of hot fusion as a power source, so I’m not raising or lowering any bars at all. Hot fusion has been 20 or 30 years away for as long as I can remember, which is something over 40 years.
Look, the claim is not that there are some hard to detect and explain anomalous effects being found. The article itself claims that these are possible energy sources.
That’s what I want to see proven, not that somebody can detect something with sensitive instruments.
Oddly enough, I think if this were to work out, it would require us to re-examine our entire theory of physics, which might produce even greater value than just a cheap source of energy.
Look, the claim is not that there are some hard to detect and explain anomalous effects being found.
***That is exactly the claim behind LENR. This article itself is just the latest in a series of articles on LENR on FR.
If this article were the magic bullet which proves or disproves the W-L theory, then I’d be pushing hard to have it tested. But W-L would just wiggle away with word salad and weaseling techniques if it turned out that CFLs did not have tiny LENR reactions. That likelihood is about 95% in my estimation.
But what if someone went to the trouble of testing this assertion and it turned out to be the ‘proof’ that skeptics have demanded for LENR all along? It is worth testing the assertion of this article.
You’re right. We have been told over and over for years that low energy nuclear reactions(cold fusion)were not possible. Careers have been destoyed for just saying maybe it is possible so if it turns out to be true all these scientists who called it sci fi dreams should be fired. And I mean every one of them. Clean out all the colleges and labs and start over with people who have open minds.