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Me: "Let me make your assignment crystal clear: prove the heat is an
experimental error."

Tom D: "That is not the way science works, Jed.  Experiments are published
with enough detail for replication."

Yes. I know that. I am not giving out your normal, everyday scientific
assignment here. Instead, I have in mind that someone should "debunk" cold
fusion the way the American physicist R. W. Wood debunked "N-Rays" on
September 29, 1904. Wood did not need to "replicate" the experiments (which
was impossible, in any case). All he had to do was to show that the method of
detecting and measuring the effect was bogus.

CF is exactly the same. No "skeptic" needs to replicate anything, or perform
any experiment in order to debunk it once and for all. You do not need to
know anything about the cell construction; not a single detail. All you have
to do is prove that calorimetry does not work.

It is simple! For 200 years, we have been measuring heat by generating linear
temperature calibration curves, and then running samples that generate
unknown amounts of heat. We see how hot the calorimeter water gets, then by
referring back to the calibration curve, we see how much heat was generated.
Either this method works, or it does not. The so-called skeptics say that all
excess heat results are invalid, therefore they are saying that this method
does not work. They are asserting that heat does *not* raise water
temperature in a linear, proportional manner; or they are asserting that
thermometers do not measure temperature. These are very simple, very
straightforward assertions, so they should be dead simple to prove.

The issue is not what is in the "black box" cell, or what nuclear or unknown
processes it is undergoing. The issue is far simpler than that: can we, or
can we not, measure the heat that comes out of a cell? If we can, then the
skeptics are utterly wrong and misguided, and the Japanese are entirely
justified in spending money to enhance and commercialize the effect.

- Jed