Posts by Baar McFly

COLD FUSION is BACK with 'anomalous heat' claim

Re: Having not read the paper yet

Why Lubos! Unsurprising to see you here under the pseudonym HFGhost! Critiquing the font and formatting? Has it really descended to this since Harvard fired you? Since you are too lazy to attempt to understand the paper you cannot expect readers here to take you more seriously than say, Carl Sagan would Bozo. And that's who you sound like commenting on emissivity ... Even a theoretical physicist of your ilk should be able to muster the margin of intellect to learn something about thermal propagation. Sad Lubos... very sad.

Re: "It's presumably converting its mass into energy."

Your calculations are on target. Worst case figures at 242GJ/kg is nothing short of astonishing. But this is not converting the mass of nickel or H2 to energy in any previously known way. It is clearly not chemical. So where is all that energy coming from?? Looks like an entirely new form of nuclear activity - which is why the acronym LENR Low Energy Nuclear Reactions is commonly used by scientists.

This study has badly shaken old school physicists.

Re: "Over to you, readers of El Reg; we await your comments with fascination and trepidation."

Indeed. From the comments so far few here have had an attention span long enough to have ACTUALLY READ the 28 page report written by 11 scientists and engineers. What we do see is deep denial of the mountain of LENR data generated over 23 years from the likes Naval Research Lab, SPAWAR, LANL, Stanford Research, NASA, University Missouri, MIT, Italy's ENEA, Mitsubishi Heavy, DARPA, Boeing Research, etc.

For any who do not elect to put their heads where the sun shines less, here is a helpful explanatory link: http://iccf18.research.missouri.edu/