Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. History as Seen from the Los Alamos National Laboratory - and Beyond -- 3. Personal Experience Investigating Cold Fusion -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Search for Tritium -- 3.3 Effects of Crack Formation -- 3.4 Anomalous Energy Production -- 3.5 Study of Palladium -- 3.6 Study of the Loading Process for Palladium -- 3.7 Surface Composition Explored -- 3.8 Writing Reviews -- 3.9 Trip to the NHE Laboratory (Japan) -- 3.10 Exploration of Errors in Calorimetry -- 3.11 Experience with Flow Calorimetry -- 3.12 Surface Deposits -- 3.13 Experience with Seebeck Calorimetry -- 3.14 Attempts to Replicate the Case Effect -- 3.15 Replication of the Letts-Cravens Effect -- 3.16 Development of Better Seebeck Calorimeters -- 3.17 Conclusion -- 4. What is Known or Believed? -- 4.1 The Myth of Cold Fusion -- 4.2 Why was Cold Fusion Rej ected? -- 4.3 Excess Power Production -- 4.3.1 Heavy Hydrogen (Deuterium) -- 4.3.2 Light Hydrogen (Protium) -- 4.3.3 General Behavior -- 4.4 Helium and Tritium Production -- 4.4.1 Tritium -- 4.4.2 Helium -- 4.5 Transmutation as a Source of Nuclear Products -- 4.6 Emissions as Nuclear Products -- 4.6.1 Prompt X-ray Emission -- 4.6.2 Prompt Gamma Emi ssion -- 4.6.3 Prompt Particle Emission -- 4.6.4 Radioactive Decay -- 4.7 Patterns of Behavior -- 4.8 General Replication -- 4.9 Questions About Individual Success Rate -- 4.10 Duplication of Results (the Bottom Line) -- 4.11 Explanation -- 4.12 What Next? -- 5. Where Does Cold Fusion Occur and What Influences its Behavior? -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Cracks -- 5.3 Nanosize Particles -- 5.4 Dendrites -- 5.5 Role of Lithium and Other Alloys -- 5.6 Deuterium Flux -- 5.7 Role of Hydrogen Isotope Content -- 5.8 Role of the Hydrino and Hydrex -- 5.9 Role of Neutrons -- 5.10 Role of Super-Heavy Electrons as a Shield of Nuclear Charge.

5.11 Role of Superconductivity -- 5.12 Role of Electron Cluster -- 5.13 Role of High-Energy Environment -- 5.14 Role of Wave-Like Behavior -- 5.15 Living Organisms -- 5.16 Conclusion -- 6. What Conditions Initiate Cold Fusion? -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Initiation Methods -- 6.2.1 Living Organisms -- 6.2.2 Ambient Gas -- 6.2.3 Proton Conductors -- 6.2.4 Electrolysis Under Faraday Conditions -- 6.2.5 Electrolysis Under Plasma Conditions -- 6.2.6 Plasma Discharge -- 6.2.7 Laser Light -- 6.2.8 Sonic Implantation -- 6.2.9 Crack Formation -- 6.2.10 Ion Bombardment -- 6.3 Summary -- 7. What Is Detected and How Is It M easured? -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Neutron -- 7.3 Tritium -- 7.4 Gamma and X-ray Radiation -- 7.5 Charged Particle Radiation -- 7.6 Beta Radiation -- 7.7 Transmutation -- 7.8 Helium -- 7.9 Heat Energy -- 7.9.1 Adiabadic Type -- 7.9.2 Isoperibolic Type -- 7.9.3 Double-Wall Isoberibolic Calorimeter -- 7.9.4 Flow Calorimeter -- 7.9.5 Dual-Cell Reference Calorimeter -- 7.9.6 Seebeck Calorimeter -- 7.10 Accuracy of Calorimetry -- 7.11 Summary -- 8. Explanations, the Hopes a nd Drea ms of Theoreticians -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Limitations to Theory -- 8.2.1 Limitation #1: -- 8.2.2 Limitation #2: -- 8.2.3 Limitation #3: -- 8.2.4 Limitation #4: -- 8.3 Plausible Models and Explanations -- 8.3.1 Proposed Sources of Heat and Helium -- 8.3.2 Proposed Sources of Transmutation Products -- 8.3.3 Proposed Mechanism to Initiate LENR -- 8.4 Conclusions -- 9. What Should Happen Next? -- 10. Brief Summary of Cold Fusion -- Appendix A: Calculation of the "Neutral Potential" -- Appendix B: Construction and Evaluation of a Seebeck Calorimeter -- B.1 Introduction -- B.2 Description of Construction -- B.3 Calibration -- B.4 Measurement of the Heat -- B.5 Calculation of Enthalpy of Formation -- B.6 Summary -- Appendix C: What Makes P alladium Special?.

C.1 Introduction -- C.2 Phase Relationship in the Pd-D System -- C.3 What Happens When Palladium Reacts with Deuterium (Hydrogen)?. -- C.4 Deuterium Pressure over the Pd-D System -- C.5 Consequences of Reacting Palladium with Deuterium in an Electrolytic Cell -- C.6 Measurement of Surface Activity -- C.7 Proposed Complete Phase Diagram of the Pd-D System -- C.8 Surface Characteristics and Deposits -- C.9 Crack Formation During Loading -- Appendix D: Conference Proceedings -- Appendix E: Enrichment of Tritium During Electrolysis -- Appendix F: M ethods for Measuring the Amount of Hydrogen (Deuterium) in Palladium -- F.1 Introduction -- F.2 Weight-Gain Method -- F.3 Orphan Oxygen Method -- F.4 Pressure Change Method -- F.5 Resistance Change Method -- F.6 Electrolytic Deloading Method -- F.7 X-ray and Neutron Diffraction Method -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Appendix E -- Appendix F -- INDEX.