[dennisw]

I’m only interested in cold fusion if it can heat water high enough to run steam turbines which a friend says is optimally about 400 degrees. I doubt that it can

If there is another way to harness cold fusion and is commercially viable then great nd let’s do it

I thought the whole point of cold fusion was an energy revolution. Meaning mankind gets a new source of energy. Not scientists getting rocks off by producing 2 watts of anomalous energy

[grey_whiskers]

My post 149 was meant to illustrate that a world class theoretician had calculated that cold fusion in a palladium matrix was possible -- in other words that the experiments to date were not "by definition" in error.

I agree that the amount of heat generated would be the determining factor in the usefulness of this phenomenon as a widespread energy source.

But even as a minor energy source, if it is cost-competitive with oil/coal/solar/etc. etc., will help.

Cheers!