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Jed Rothwell draws lessons from the cold fusion archives: the field's results look inconsistent, but history shows such ferment is healthy in emerging science. By contrast, plasma fusion has broad agreement and solid theory but little progress. Drawing on hundreds of the roughly 2000 documents at LENR-CANR.org, he finds the literature proves the effect is real and teaches how to replicate it. Failed experiments come in two kinds, amateur mistakes and noble failures; avoid the first by reading textbooks and the archive papers and consulting an electrochemist. A noble failure was Srinivasan's six months at SRI attempting the bulk nickel-hydrogen excess heat, and success will come through failures like that.

Lessons from Cold Fusion Archives and from History