A Superlative paper on LENR/CANR by Bockris

[Richard Hull]

The issues you speak of are very old and have been routinely addressed since 1990 by anyone in the field with a serious bent.

No metal can be purified to much better that six nines and most not even that far. Most researchers have always started with 4 nines and take borings and surface scrapings with diamond wedges and drills as controls. Where the controls differed, the metal was rejected for use outright. Hoover and Strong was forced to take back about $3,000 worth of 4 nines palladium by one researcher as his controls were just everywhere. It is now a virtual given that numerous controls are taken and acceptable starting points of the controls all lie well within similar materials and abundances. Several papers were written on the methodologies used in this effort back in 1993.

Chemists are especially careful as they know the analysis will be in tens of parts per million. Sometime 100's of parts per million are seen in thin films especially which are way beyond simple comtamination. Some few have gone to vacuum vapor deposition sampling and used these as controls and active elements. Still, some show results, others don't yet the best researchers remain convinced that they knew the materials via multiple controls and samples of selected materials. The strangest work involves the production of several non-earthly isotopic abundances of common elements that were never present in the controls to the level of hundreds of parts per million. There are a lot of papers out there.

If this process is real, there is a key no one is seeing in obtaining warranted replication. The best of the researchers admit this readily. It makes them fume and smolder under the surface. This is why so many think there is new science of a totally unexpected nature.

If it were easy, it would have been easily picked up on far earlier. It is only with the advent of about 4 different methods of testing to parts per million and a price reduction in the machines that do this that has allowed this viel to be peered through only recently.

What used to take a million dollar machine taking up a full room worked by 4 operators, 4 days to determine, can now be done by one technician with a desk top machine in minutes. The machine costing under $100,000. More parts per million samples, faster, cheaper, easier, is starting to become the norm. This never existed even in the 80's.

You and I will never be able to play here, now, but then in the 50's we couldn't have been making amateur fusors either.

Richard Hull