Bob Cook <[email protected]> wrote:
> I forgot to mention the Japanese ( I think Misuno) R&D work. They are > not above spoon feeding. They even pay as a dessert course. I trust you > remember your job as a consultant on calorimetric measurements for their > experiments. > That has nothing to do with the Japanese government. Mizuno has been retired for a decade. He did that with his own money. The government knows nothing about it. > As I recall Dave Robertson with my input finally convinced you that the > ambient air temperature had an influence on the water cooling system > temperatures in the Japanese tests. So much for the adequacy of HVAC > knowhow. > You did not convince me of anything. As I wrote in the first version of the report, a calibration is needed. Mizuno agreed with me. It took him a few months to do the calibration. As soon as he did, the problem was apparent. That is what I wrote: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJreportonmi.pdf This was his mistake, his problem, and his lack of HVAC equipment. I will grant that I should have seen it earlier, but I did say we need a calibration to be sure. > You have a short memory, if you think the Government’s opposition to cold > fusion is “simply absurd.” > As I said, some factions oppose it. However, nearly all funding for cold fusion from 1989 to the present has come from governments, including the U.S. government. The would have been forgotten long ago if it were not for government support and funding. You can confirm that easily. Governments have spent millions, and they have published their reports. Some of the best research was done with government money at Los Alamos and China Lake, and the Italian ENEA. SRI was funded by DARPA. To suggest that these agencies and researchers are also secretly plotting to discredit Rossi or to fool me is absurd. Rossi has discredited himself. Time after time, he has failed to meet his obligations, or do what he said he would do. He promises to do a test and then reneges. Then he becomes furious because the people who agreed to fund him based on the test pull out. To suggest that I.H. spent $11 million and now for some mysterious reason they are lying and claiming it does not work is utterly absurd. It is crazy. They want it to work! Why would they spend all that money if their purpose was to discredit him? They could have ignored him. He would be long gone by now. They did everything they could to make it work. They gave Rossi all that he asked for. They were prepared to give him $89 million more. If it worked, they would be thrilled to give him the money. But he failed to show any sign of excess heat, just as he failed so many previous tests with other private venture capitalists, and with the Navy, NASA and others. I.H. will get nothing out of the deal. No intellectual property. Nothing. Because they did not pay the $89 million. If they actually thought it worked, why would they turn their backs on it now, and write off the $11 million? There is no intellectual property in any case, because the gadget does not work. Everyone else working with I.H. agrees with me that they are honest, knowledgeable, they offer generous terms, and they stick with the researchers through thick and thin. Only Rossi claims they have been unfair. - Jed
