[Moonman62]

Looking at the referenced presentation, here's what I see. A palladium-silver hydrogen purifier is heated to about 360C (page 12). There is no temperature anomaly when hydrogen or deuterium is pumped into the purifier. There is a brief and small 15C temperature differential spike when deuterium is pumped out of the purifier compared to when hydrogen is pumped out of the purifier (page 13). No neutron or gamma radiation was detected for either hydrogen or deuterium. No control experiments were run.

How could this tiny and brief temperature increase possibly be used to power a spacecraft or anything else? (It's not continuous, but only when deuterium is first pumped out.) I guarantee this experiment wasn't suppressed by a conspiracy. The hot fusion guys were probably laughing too hard to care.

[Wonder Warthog]

"No control experiments were run."

What do you think the hydrogen runs are???

"How could this tiny and brief temperature increase possibly be used to power a spacecraft or anything else? (It's not continuous, but only when deuterium is first pumped out.) I guarantee this experiment wasn't suppressed by a conspiracy. The hot fusion guys were probably laughing too hard to care."

The question at this point is "does cold fusion exist at all". This very simply and easily replicable experiment answers that question once and for all, and in the affirmative. Next question....can it be scaled up. This is currently being answered. Celani's latest data is showing 1800 watts/gram for Ni/H and 400 watts/gram for Pd/D. But I'm sure you didn't bother to watch his presentation, since it was only for janitors and other cleaning personnel.

As to how, I thought the "Stirling engine" design proposed in the same set of slides was a very elegant approach to doing precisely what was needed to harness the effect.

And I expect the "hot physicists" are filling their underwear as the data mounts. I wondered why Obama was planning to cancel the "hot physics" fusion effort at MIT.