This stuff would be wonderful if true, but the likelihood of it turning out to be a useful source of energy is lower than the likelihood that it not a scam, and that is lower than the likelihood of 2 chemists with no nuclear physics training finding a whole new nuclear effect at very low energies that is real - and that probability is pretty damn low.
Yup! I couldn’t agree more. Now if someone wanted to talk subcritical thorium reactors or something else under consideration, I would be all ears and would happily engage in witty conversation. It is amazing that scientists continue to stray from the scientific method and enter into the world of alchemy in pursuit of funding.
Yup! I couldn’t agree more. Now if someone wanted to talk subcritical thorium reactors or something else under consideration, I would be all ears and would happily engage in witty conversation. It is amazing that scientists continue to stray from the scientific method and enter into the world of alchemy in pursuit of funding.
I am sympathetic to your view. I will also say that I find it hard to believe that every group focusing on this form of energy production, is acting foolishly.
There must be some basis for their research.
I’m not sure what happened with Pons and Flieshman. I do think that a reaction of sorts occurred. I suppose I could be wrong, but I do not believe these two sought to pull a hoax.
Evidently, enough other groups felt as I did to cause them to do research in this area.
In parting I’ll say this. This is 2012. Pons and Flieshman made their report a long time ago. By this time I would think this area of investigation would have been fully debunked if there was nothing at all there.
I still remain patiently waiting to see what may develop.
likelihood of 2 chemists with no nuclear physics training finding a whole new nuclear effect at very low energies that is real - and that probability is pretty damn low.
***Then it should be a piece of cake for you and other nuclear scientists to completely obliterate the hundreds of peer-reviewed papers in LENR that have been published in the last 23 years, starting here:
http://lenr-canr.org/index/menu/menu.php
Of course, you guys NEVer do that, because you cannot. But it doesn’t stop you from throwing darts like a bunch of wussy chimps.