lenr-forum.com sheds some more light. Apparently Darden visited the
Lugano team to explain that they got erroneous results and no heat was
generated.. (Confirmed by Mats Lewan ) It seems they had thermocouples
that they used intermittently and found the readings disagreed with the
IR camera. It is reported the Lugano team has now understood there is a
problem and are working on a revision of the paper..
This presents several difficulties for me.
1. It is not easy to get good reading with a contact thermometer. It
really needs to be in a hole.
2. IH had two representatives there. Why did they not compare their
results with the Lugano team at the time?
3. As I wrote then, it was bad practice not to use type S thermocouple
in the first place. My direct experience with IR cameras taught me how
difficult it was to determine the emissivity, particularly on a curved
surface.
4. This does not rule out my earlier supposition that the problem IH has
was trying to reproduce the results. They manufactured the Hot Cats
used and we have heard little about them from Rossi.
5. There would probably have been six Lugano people plus two IH people
watching Rossi unload the charge. Is Rossi a good enough magician to
swap that without being caught?
https://www.lenr-forum.com/forum/index.php/Thread/3196-Cutting-Through-the-Fog-Surrounding-the-Rossi-IH-Dispute-Josh-G/?pageNo=46
ps. Rossi stated yesterday he would release the ERV's report after it
had been entered in court.
