My Question to Defkalion ICCF18

During this Q&A, the Defkalion spokesperson discloses that they have observed a huge "magnetic anomaly," which does not surprise me. I expect it.

Hello. I'm attending the 18th International Conference on Cold Fusion - ICCF-18 at the University of Missouri this week. Yesterday, a European company called Defkalion gave a live demonstration of their "anomalous excess heat" device via internet. They are using light-hydrogen (H2) and nickel in their apparatus, so this is NOT d-d cold fusion, but something else.

But as I have said repeatedly (including during my poster talk at this very conference), the anomalous heat can indeed be a REAL effect, but that does not mean that the source of the energy is necessarily nuclear.

We were permitted to ask questions of the Defkalion staff. I asked what products and emanations had been looked for/observed, along with the anomalous excess heat. My question and their response begins at about the 3m 45s mark.
From my observations, this is a project well worth paying attention to - interesting work and the team is showing admirable courage to open the project to scientific scrutiny in this manner.

Note: I apologize for turning the video camera around at the start -- I was trying to catch a sense of the large size of the auditorium at the University of Missouri where the conference on anomalous heat is being held.

[brian.josephson]

In correspondence with a science writer I've heard an interesting explanation of this non-coverage which may well have some truth in it, that since these things are commercial enterprises editors may not want (in effect) to act as promoters for the companies involved. Perhaps if it was completely certain the demos were genuine they would be less concerned. However, governmental science advisers should be giving serious consideration to this and it is not clear that they are.