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I just watched the Seth Putterman video again and he spent almost a million dollars on not replicating Taleyarkhan. I didn't make the connection correctly before. Of course if he fails to replicate another scientist's work, it's the other guy's fault. What an ego!

I also saw a great quote from Bockris:

Many years ago, John Bockris said "Negative results can be obtained without skill and experience."

I wonder if other scientists even caught on to his cynical sarcasm. It's like the old question, what do you call someone who finished last in medical school? Doctor.
Someone had to be last.

I thought I was smarmy but Putterman, just damn...

I hope this is a simple question to answer. It seems the P&F cells work from the lightest part of the periodic table and Rossi's device (and other researchers) work on the middle part of the table starting with Nickel and ending up with copper.
In your opinion, which option makes more sense in that we'll end up with something we can use?

The only problem with coming in early is if someone else (pure management types) start doing it, they cut into my most productive time, especially when they consider meetings to be productive.

Harness the power of wasted meetings and we would be energy independent.

"I hope this is a simple question to answer."

Sorry. Probably one of the hardest questions there is.

"It seems the P&F cells work from the lightest part of the periodic table and Rossi's device (and other researchers) work on the middle part of the table starting with Nickel and ending up with copper. In your opinion, which option makes more sense in that we'll end up with something we can use?"

In the final analysis, it will depend on availability of materials (and thus economics). In the case of P&F, the materials (Pd and D2) are of "relative" scarcity and thus more expensive. Nickel and H2 are much more abundant, and thus cheaper.

But in most of the LANR business, we are at the same stage as "look, I can make this mixture of hydrocarbons and air explode if I shoot an electric spark into it". If Rossi (or Piantelli, or Ahern, or any of several others) get a reliably working system up an going, we will STILL be at the "pre-Model-T" stage. Once people really get to work exploring the possibilities (alloys, various composites), who knows what other materials will work.

I have long wondered about titanium. It has many of the same properties of absorbing large quantities of hydrogen into its metal matrix as do palladium and nickel, and since it is even further down the periodic chart than either, "should" be even cheaper. It's harder to work (machining-wise).