At 02:19 PM 6/20/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Another factor is that I have some unpublished information about
this test, and about some other private tests. I do not have a huge
amount of information, but enough to give me more confidence in the
results. Stephen Lawrence does not have this information so
naturally he is more skeptical than I am. That's reasonable.
I want to underscore this. It's pretty obvious, at this point, that
skepticism about Rossi and the E-Cat is reasonable, no matter what
Rossi says. Jed has additional information, and my experience with
Jed is that he's likely sober about this.
But that's certainly not any kind of proof.
I'm rather turned off by the crap about Krivit and "fake reporter."
Rather, they have reacted very strongly, it seems, to some transient
personal impressions, in the Levi interview, and from the -- harmless
to this observer -- preliminary report by Krivit. The video by
Krivit, I just reviewed a little. I see no attempt by Krivit there to
be hard-nosed about what he was being shown. Knowing Krivit, in fact,
I'm a little disappointed!
"Ah, Mr. Rossi! So there is water in the hose, even if only a little,
as you say. How much? Can we watch this thing for while, then, this
time, you empty the hose into a bucket so we can see how much water
accumulated in so many minutes. Can we have the hose empty into the
bucket for a while? I know that people are interested in this
question of water in the outlet hose, that is "how much" is "only a little"?
"Let's see, may I mark the input water jug while we watch this thing
for a time? Or measure the water level distance from the ground? Then
we can pour in a measured amount of water to restore that original
level, to see how much water was pumped through the system, as a
visible confirmation in my video."
"Are there variations in the input power, or does this thing operate
at constant input power? Mind if I take an occasional picture of that meter?"
Asking to see steam at the vent would have been too much for this
set-up, I can easily see Rossi refusing it. But a close-up of the
hose held at right angles to the camera, very close, so that the
margin can be seen clearly, should have been possible. The point
would have been to have the hose held firmly without it moving....
Jed has nailed the basic problem here, that Rossi was just doing a
presentation for an ordinary reporter, who frequently won't ask very
technical questions. I can understand why Rossi would come to think
that Krivit wasn't a "real reporter," because Krivit, in a sense,
knew too much. But I'd think Mats Lewan would also ask questions like this....
In the Essen report we just saw here, Essen looked at the steam
valve. My sense is that he saw it to be dry steam, or he'd have made
a great fuss! At that point, there should be no flow out the hose at
all, it should really be shut off with a valve, or it introduces a
possible error.
