Dave, One other thing. I mention this because your opinion is important here, so please consider this: Tom Darden says that he has seen no thermal gain from Rossi.
Tom Darden is an honest man and put $10 million of his money up front. Jed Rothwell has visited him and affirms that he is an honest man and wants to put more money into a valid device. His reputation is clean. Rossi’s reputation is not just soiled, it stinks. But above the reputations there is the science, and as you suggest – if a COP of 1.5 could be staged by linking many levels -- so that COP of 6 was the result, then please tell me why Rossi never could do this and present it to Tom Darden? If Rossi had done this, we would not be witnessing this soap opera. From: David Roberson If you accept that Rossi can achieve a COP of 1.5 then you must realize that adding insulation can be used to increase that number to any desired level. Not true at all, Dave The COP of 1.5 requires good insulation to begin with. We have been thought this before, if you will remember. Achieving net gain requires a trigger, but every experimenter in the field has noted that a thermal trigger is no sufficient. Look at the old posts. An electrical trigger of some kind is also necessary, otherwise – the units could be linked in stages. There are dozens of posts in the archive on this – some from you, IIRC.
