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"I don’t criticize the effort. I think it may well be a total waste of time but we usually learn many things from the experimentation.

What would be a total waste of time??? Reading Beaudette's book??

"But you have to see the obvious here..."

I'm a PhD chemist, with a Nuclear Science minor. I think I'm reasonably qualified to "see the obvious", and sometimes the "not so obvious"

"Transmutation of elements has been pursued for centuries. In the past and even in the present it has been to manufacture gold, but with todays science knowledge and social needs changing, the goal is now energy which is just as valuable as gold."

And now transmutation is done on a daily basis. Heck, even "I" used to do it, back when I was carrying out analyses by neutron activation analysis. And transmutation has been identified and validated as happening in "cold fusion" (by both Toshiba and Mitsubishi.....companies with a reasonable reputation for competence).

"In comparison a gold bug with dreams of gilded walls is replaced by the low cost energy bug with dreams of walls covered with dollars and the idea that he saved the planet is also high on the list of dreams...

Any scientist worth his degree would be motivated to do so, either from monetary remuneration, to benefit humanity, or both.

"Saved the planet from what, would be my question but I digress...

More like saved the human race from (eventual) extinction. Controlling fusion is the key to getting mankind off this planet and onto (or into) other locales. I don't know about you, but I think a high-energy usage future is better than a low-energy one.

"For me, until the secrecy of the catalyst and perhaps some spectrometer analysis to back up whatever the claims of the contents and byproducts are, I will always see this one as a likely exothermic reaction.

Both of the above have been done and validated...though not for Rossi's system (yet). The palladium/deuterium system has been thoroughly examined, and the reactants, products and energy balanced.

I'm a PhD chemist, with a Nuclear Science minor.

So you claim, but you don't act like one or have provided any proof.

And transmutation has been identified and validated as happening in "cold fusion" (by both Toshiba and Mitsubishi.....companies with a reasonable reputation for competence).

Yet in 15 years they haven't been able to do anything with it.

Both of the above have been done and validated...though not for Rossi's system (yet). The palladium/deuterium system has been thoroughly examined, and the reactants, products and energy balanced.

Yet you won't give any specifics or defend them.