Dear Jed, Have you read the interview with Defkalion re their business strategy? If yes you can see to which people they have responsibilities. Let's be serious, we here are kind of electronic paper tigers with no impact, no real influence, no capital, no fame; can we change, improve or stop something?
Peter On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Peter Gluck <peter.gl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Their responsibility is not toward people who are just curious >> and unpatient. >> > > I think it is irresponsible for anyone to make claims of this nature > without at the same time presenting independent confirmation. If this were > an ordinary industrial process there would be no need for independent > confirmation, but no one has ever seen cold fusion reactions on such a > large scale. > > Rossi, for all his faults, has presented semi-independent evaluations by > various observers such as E&K. They are not independent enough for my > taste, but better than nothing. > > If Defkalion does not wish to present independent data, in my opinion it > would be best for them to say nothing and present nothing. Frankly, if I > were you, and I did not have independent data, I would say nothing -- > nothing positive or negative. That standard does not apply to > laboratory-scale claims of a few watts. They have to be published before > anyone can evaluate them. A cold fusion reaction of 250 mW is itself a > replication of earlier claims from other labs, so it does not need to be > independently verified. > > - Jed > > -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
