Mark Gibbs <[email protected]> wrote: Thanks. You are quoted: The E-Cat Testing Team, Real or Ringers?<http://www.forbes.com/sites/markgibbs/2013/05/24/the-e-cat-testing-team-real-or-ringers/> >
I added this "reality check" comment: Note also that the research was paid for by the Alba Langenskiöld Foundation and ELFORSK AB. The latter is an industrial consortium of Sweden’s major energy producers. I do not think an organization of this caliber would pay for a group of incompetent amateurs to investigate this claim. I am confident that experts in Elforsk know these researchers, and have vetted them. This kind of organization does fund a group of nobodies, and it would not allow them to upload a report with errors or a false claim about funding. In other words, the authors are not the only ones risking their credibility. The Foundation and Elsforsk are also, as is Osaka University, and the four other researchers mentioned in the acknowledgements. This is no great risk. Cold fusion has been verified at over 200 major universities and national laboratories, often at high signal to noise ratios. The scientific method works; experiments work. We can be sure it is real. Rossi’s claims are not so different these others, so it is likely that his claims are also true. - Jed
