Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <a...@lomaxdesign.com> wrote: Jed, you have previously stated that you have private information on which > you base your conclusions as to the reality of Rossi. Please cut the rest > of us some slack! We have no way of knowing if your private information is > sound, or if you have been misled, or if you have drawn unsound conclusions > from what you know. >
Mainly what I know was revealed by McKubre in his recent talk: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/McKubreMCHwhathappen.pdf See where it says "AmpEnerco Run I" These were independent tests done by Ampenergo before they made an agreement with Rossi. Various experts participated, including someone McKubre knows well. He trusts his expert. I know some of those people too, and I trust them. That is not to suggest that I can judge calorimetry as well as McKubre can! Far from it. But it isn't hard to judge these results. These tests were similar to the public tests conducted by Rossi, only they were independent, with someone else's instruments. Somewhat better instruments, proper computers and so on, but basically the same sort of HVAC test procedures. Okay, ask yourself this. Suppose you know that tests similar the 18-hour February test and the October self-sustaining tests were done, with instruments supplied and operated by someone you knew to be an expert, and a trustworthy person. Would that convince you? If the answer is yes, you can see why McKubre and I are pretty confident this result is real. On the other hand, if the HVAC-style testing does not satisfy you, then you will not be convinced. Mary Yugo has said she demands a blank run. As far as I know they did not do one. I think she wants to see a Seebeck calorimeter. I am sure they did not use that. So she would not be satisfied by these tests. That's all there is to it. I have no knowledge of Rossi's personal business. For all I know he might be robbing dozens of investors. I do not think he is. I have absolutely no knowledge of any such thing, no evidence, and frankly I could not care less if he is robbing people. I am sure his claims are real. That does not preclude the possibility that he is defrauding people; it would mean he is defrauding them with a genuine cold fusion reactor. Not my problem. Here is a key issue. Rossi's personality is an open book thanks to his website. That is unique to the 21st century. People who dismiss him because of his personality should think about that. Suppose in 1879 Edison had a kept an Internet blog while he invented the incandescent light. Suppose everyone could follow along with his trials and tribulations and his frequent crazy ideas. Now, 140 years later, you can read detailed biographies of him. You can read the lab notebooks. You can see why some of his investors lost their nerve and sold out for pennies on the dollar as he floundered around spending rivers of money, changing the design radically, apparently getting nowhere. In my opinion, his comments were no less extreme than Rossi's; his behavior no less erratic. That is true of many other famous inventors. It is also true of many ordinary programmers, chemists and others doing creative work that is worthy, difficult, but never becomes famous. It is true of some top notch gourmet chefs; a guy I know who can climb and cut down just about any tree with minimal equipment but frightful risk; and many farmers and fishermen in Yamaguchi. People who do extraordinary, creative, or dangerous things are sometimes odd. If they were not odd, they would do these things. In the past, we did not know how odd people such as Edison were until long after they became rich & famous, when all their sins were forgiven. Now, with Rossi, we learn of it in real time. My guess is that people such as Mary Yugo cannot look past Rossi's personality because they have not read many biographies, diaries and personal papers left by famous people. They have not met a broad range of people from other cultures, or eccentric people, or downright crazy people. I have. I mean that literally. I grew up encountering people who were diagnosed with mental illness, in the era before effective psychotropic drugs. You can read about them here: http://books.google.com/books/about/The_psychiatric_halfway_house.html?id=8wsEAQAAIAAJ (The authors are my mother and my aunt.) In other words, I am used to discounting personality quirks, and looking at the content of the work. That is not an easy thing to do. It is not always a wise thing to do. It just happens I am good at it, because I have had a lot of practice. - Jed
