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Just because it hasn't been done in 50 or 100 years doesn't mean it can't be done. You may just need the right tech to come along or a stroke of luck/inspiration...or both. There's plenty of examples in history of scientists that stumble onto something, research it, become outcasts in the scientific community of the day and later they are proven right & they change the world.

I'll point you to the Israeli chemist that won the nobel prize this year for his quasicrystal research. He was ridiculed by the same academia system that you say needs to 'prove' things... and in the end he was proven right. His discovery was almost accidental to boot.

The thing with the Rossi LENR (E-cat or whatever) is that he would reveal the entire process once he is given a patent. If its bogus then that's that and the patent becomes worthless. However... if it does work that patent makes the guy sole financial beneficiary of the thing and that you can be sure has the established energy infrastructure elites sh*****g bricks. Blocking this patent by whatever means is no different than what large corporations do when they muscle individuals using the law: delay the process for so long the individual gives up, settles on terms beneficial to the large corp or just how insurance co's do it, delay+deny until the problem dies.

It's kind of like the mythical hundred-MPG-carburetor that way - if such a thing existed, various car companies would be fighting to be the first to bring it to market, not trying to bury it! Imagine the sales of a Ford that lets you fuel your car the way you always have, and drive it the way you always have, but gets 100 MPG at the same time...

Similarly, if either cold fusion or any other version worked, you'd see Con Ed, PG&E, the Bonneville Power Administration, and half a dozen other companies in the US alone willing to assassinate each other's agents in order to be the first company to bring this technology to market. The financial potential of such an invention is hard to overestimate.

Meanwhile, in the harsh world of consensual reality, here we have the story of a man who has built a fusion reactor in his garage. Of course, it's not considered remarkable either scientifically or politically, because its output is completely unimpressive, and it still takes more power to run the device than it produces...

i thought that cold fusion could be done using cavitation?
not in any meaningfull way but enough to show that there was neutron radiation.
i might be wrong, has anyone heard of this?
(here cold fusion is defined as fusion where no external heating is required, the process itself develops a bit of heat)

//edit// (a quick wiki search turned up failed attempts at replication) //edit//