As an investor I would be quite OK with it being unreliable, as long as he was open and honest about it, allowed proper instrumentation and calorimetry, and it worked sometimes, R&D by competent scientists and engineers would soon get to the bottom of the unreliability.
What I would run screaming from is someone who faked results with a straight face (as we saw in one of the demos last year), you couldn't trust a word that comes out of their mouths, and without a very careful full-access test you could never be sure that there wasn't some hidden power source. I wish Rossi would just disappear, he is currently little more than a LENR saboteur. On 10 September 2012 15:14, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Robert Lynn <robert.gulliver.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> And any trust that may have been re-established in Rossi is now totally >> destroyed. >> > > No one in his right mind would ever trust Rossi. However, some of his > measurements have been inherently trustworthy despite the poor quality of > the tests and instruments. Some of his results were clearly in error, > especially during the NASA visit when the outlet hose was plugged up. > However, there have many other Ni-H results lately, and that fact plus the > fact that some of Rossi's results are credible makes me think he does have > something. > > I suppose his results are intermittent and unreliable. That's what you > expect with cold fusion. That is what you have to expect with any > technology at this stage of development. It is nothing to worry about. It > should not affect anyone's decision to fund the research. > > - Jed > >
