You misread me. That post it in response to Jamestown1630’s post #4. Nothing more, nothing less.
Back in the day I was right in there with Fleischmann and Pons, I proposed here on FR that the mechanism was the hydrogen/deuterium was crowded close together in the platinum, and that those atoms lost their close association with their own electrons in the sea of electrons that define a metal. Effectively naked nuclei crammed together.
That, to me, sounds like a recipe for fusion.
I further speculated that the history of the platinum was crucial, the structure needed to be just right, perhaps a very fine grained structure with zillions of grain boundaries to gather hydrogen would work better than a single crystal chunk? That’s why there was little success in duplicating their work.
Just my 2ยข. I want cold fusion to get figured out and go commercial!
Pd not Pt, that’s what I get for posting at 3:39 AM while up sick.
The thing to keep in mind is that cold fusion threads are unique in the scientific pursuit genre. They attract seagulls on a massive scale. So when you start joking around
[Which we don’t mind] it attracts dozens of seagulls who make Lotsa noise and leave their droppings behind [which we do mind].