Cold fusion flies in the face of everything I learned in chemistry and thermodynamics. I’m reminded of a cartoon. A scientist is calculating on three chalkboards. On the left is a bunch of notation. In the middle he has written, “And then a miracle occurs.” On the right he is underlining the answer. Behind him another scientist comments, “Needs work.”
> “everything I learned in chemistry and thermodynamics”
Do you ‘believe’ in the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics? I’ll bet you do.
If there was a counterexample to the 2nd Law, it would make it untrue, imperfect, incomplete, right?
Do you know of any counterexamples to the 2nd law?
It’s close to you but you likely haven’t recognized it.
I think there’s enough evidence that *something* anomalous is happening, *sometimes*...it bears investigation.
Fusion looks to be an expensive dead end, and fission is already dead. Advances working with antimatter are being made, including building whole anti-hydrogen atoms. Currently, it takes more energy to produce free antimatter than can be extracted back out, but someone will eventually figure out a cheap way.
Feynman was correct: experiment trumps theory, every time. The Pons Fleischmann Anomalous Heat Effect has been replicated hundreds of times.
Replicated over 153 times in peer reviewed journals.