Lennart Thornros <[email protected]> wrote: > Still to decide that they are proof for anything is jumping the gun > I do not understand who you mean is jumping the gun. Do you mean Rossi? Rossi has been saying for months that he will publish the report. Obviously he never intended to do that. It cannot be because his lawyer suddenly told him not to. This is not a rushed decision on his part.
If you mean I am jumping the gun, you are wrong. I saw this coming weeks ago. It was clear that I.H. did not believe Rossi's results when they published the March 10 statement: "Embracing failure as well as success is important . . . . . . any claims made about technologies in our portfolio should only be relied upon if affirmed by Industrial Heat and backed by reputable third parties who have verified our results in repeated experiments." There is no doubt this meant "we do not agree with Rossi's report." That is what they repeated in their recent press release regarding the lawsuit. That is also what they told me, in no uncertain terms. I.H. has rejected the report because they think the conclusions are wrong, and they think there is no heat. As I said, their expertise in calorimetry is far better than Rossi & Penon's. Sight unseen, I am sure their analysis is correct and Penon's is wrong. As I said before, if this were McKubre versus Rossi, sight unseen you could be sure McKubre is right. McKubre is an expert in calorimetry, whereas Rossi and Penon have made many stupid mistakes. I am assuming here that both analyses are honest, and both I.H. and Penon are reporting what they believe to be true. I make no allegations that either side is dissembling in their reports. Let me add that some people have asserted it is not possible or not likely anyone would make a mistake on this scale. I disagree. You can make stupid mistakes in calorimetry just as easily on the megawatt scale as you can on the small scale. I have seen many stupid mistakes at every scale. Some of Rossi's kilowatt scale tests were obviously wrong. Levi et al. screwed up on the kilowatt scale at Lugano. Everything Defkalion did on the kilowatt scale was a travesty, according to Gamberale. Actually, I think it is more likely you will screw up on the megawatt scale than you will from 1 to 100 W. Below 1 W it gets tricky. Above 100 W it gets dangerous and it starts to be difficult in some ways. As I pointed out before, many boilers explode because people make mistakes in megawatt-scale calorimetry. (That is not the only reason for accidents, but it is one.) The Three Mile Island accident was caused by a gigantic mistake in calorimetry that continued for many hours. The reactor retained much more heat and less cooling water than the instruments indicated. The instruments did not reveal there was a large valve stuck open. (Very large: the size of a person.) Both the instruments and the written plant management procedures were at fault. That same mistake was made in other plants of this design on 3 or 4 occasions previously. These incidents did not result in a catastrophic melt down because the other reactors were not at full power. - Jed
