[Wonder Warthog]

"If there were anything to it, it would have been observed before now."

How many times does it need to be observed??? One of the interesting tidbits from the original Pons and Fleischmann paper was historical commentary that scientists had sporadically observed "excess heat" in palladium/hydrogen systems long before science even knew about either fission OR fusion.

And then there are all the papers and talks that show directly the existence of such heat. For your edification, I suggest visiting the LENR-CANR.ORG website and browsing the "Library" section which has MANY papers documenting current work.

[aruanan]

"If there were anything to it, it would have been observed before now."

Your statement above is an indication of how little you've actually studied the subject and, because of people's tendency to think of their own knowledge as the sine qua non of historical understanding, you assume the little knowledge you have to be definitive. It's also like the child who thinks that history began with his birthday.

[Moonman62]

One of the interesting tidbits from the original Pons and Fleischmann paper was historical commentary that scientists had sporadically observed "excess heat" in palladium/hydrogen systems long before science even knew about either fission OR fusion.

Did any of those experiments or any since correctly predict the amount of heat?