On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Joshua Cude <joshua.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > Means nothing. What scale was it on? Did a hyperthyroid patient (treated > with I-131) walk past? It takes very little to put some meters off-scale. > And yes, some (older) welding rods can easily do it. Many old glazed ceramic > dishes will do it to, as will KCl, although the latter takes a sensitive > meter.
This is getting ridiculous. The Geiger counter was on the scale that allowed Celani to say with a straight face that a short but INTENSE emission of gamma radiation had taken place. Because Celani is perfectly qualified (hello, he is working at a nuclear physics lab!), he probably wouldn't qualify as intense the radiation emitted by a bag of bananas or some irradiated mammal. Also, nuked patients walk at finite speeds. Therefore, they wouldn't register as a short spike. > Again, if cold fusion can't find some systematic, reproducible, meaningful > evidence to hang its hat on, The systematic, reproductible, meaningful evidence is the industrial amount of heat that has been harnessed by Rossi et al. over the last years. > it's just not gonna get respect from "some guy's meter went off > scale somewhere at about the right time". Deliberate "Some guy"... right. You and I are "some guy". Celani and Focardi are not. > attempts to measure radiation in correlation with the operation of ecats > have not measured anything. That should mean much more. First of all, radiation is not a necessity. If the Rossi device produces no radiation at all, that's fine by me, as long as it produces a good amount of energy. Which I don't have any reason to think that it doesn't. Secondly, did someone insert a radiation probe INSIDE the reactor? Did someone use any kind of ultra-sensitive equipment? No. They used ordinary scintillators and probes. There was a hole in the shielding, but there's plenty of material left to shield the reactions. So you just cannot say that there was or wasn't low-energy (< 200 keV) gammas. Finally, why all the hate? -- Berke Durak
