Large amounts of anomalous energy have resulted from proposed nuclear reactions involving normal hydrogen when used as a gas or as H 2 O in electrolytic cells. These observations suggest an even greater challenge to conventional theory. Because of these threats to conventional theory, acceptance of a nuclear source has been slow in coming. It is surprising that this one simple question does not generate more interest. Nevertheless, these strange and unexpected observations need an explanation.
Skeptics base their rejection on unrecognized error or misinterpreted normal phenomenon.
This approach is having an increasingly harder time making a credible case, as will be addressed later in the discussion. Two major requirements were realized from the start. First, for any of the nuclear reactions to occur at all, the coulomb barrier must be overcome by a more efficient process than is presently accepted. Second, the energy from the resulting nuclear reaction must be largely coupled to many atoms rather than to individual nuclear products. A third requirement recently appreciated is that the nature of the chemical environment determines which nuclear reaction will occur.