• When you see the news stories that have come out today, and see how they praise Curtis Berlinguette’s work and denigrate LENR researchers in general, and Fleischmann and Pons specifically, do not blame the news media. The news media is only repeating information that Berlinguette fed them via the press release (enclosed).

    From the press release:

    “For decades, many people have sought to prove that electrochemistry can affect nuclear fusion rates,” said Berlinguette, who leads the Berlinguette Research Group. “While there have been previous claims of such an effect, none have been able to reproduce the results for validation by others. Our work is important because it provides the first experimental setup to test claims that electrochemical loading of hydrogen isotopes into metal targets can affect nuclear fusion rates.”

    There is something to be said about a person who puts down others to improve their own stature. Or someone who communicates to the news media such a broad sweeping statement how his or her work is better than everyone else’s work.

    Berlinguette, through his publicist, (see enclosed) claims that he accomplished cold fusion with “repeatable proof that can be independently verified, which is critical in this historically controversial field.” In other words, Berlinguette told the news media that none of the work that many of you, and those that have passed on, counts.

    What did Berlinguette et al actually do? They took a tabletop accelerator, connected it to a D/Pd electrolytic cell and found that electrolysis enhances the nuclear fusion rate. Their experiment produced a neutron yield equivalent to 0.000000001 Watts. That’s less power than Fleischmann and Pons measured in their control experiments!

    Berlinguette was assisted a few years ago by Matthew Trevithick (who is probably on this email list) when he was at Google, who provided Berlinguette et al millions of dollars (allegedly) to attempt a cold fusion experiment. It may have actually been a beam experiment. I have not had sufficient interest to read those papers to figure out whether they were attempting cold or warm fusion.

    After the Google project was over, Berlinguette and Trevithick took the opportunity in 2019 to submit a “perspective” article to Nature reporting their failure and, along with it, bashing Fleischmann and Pons. I have many doubts about what their “Project Charleston” was designed to do.

    Nature journal article
    Nature podcast
    Nature news article

    Here’s a link to the Berlinguette promotional video.

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