From: Daniel Rocha
… some of them [MFMP] did yield COP>1, at least that's what I understand from Bob Higgins. And these are not perfect replications. Last Sunday there was a Bay Area Meetup group. Alan Goldwater presented his latest MFMP results. He is doing top quality work –superior in data to anything we have seen from Rossi or anyone else. Alan has another run planned after this one (ver 5.3). He is getting great assistance from Mark Jurich. Although there are strong hints of an anomaly, the slight thermal gain is still in the noise level - and Alan makes no claim for COP>1. There was a single (likely) bremsstrahlung burst, which would be a “smoking gun” but that has not been reproduced. It is highly probable that there is indeed slight gain, as most of the attendees thought - but there is no scientific proof of it. This particular setup understates positive results, but it is wrong to suggest that MFMP has proved that gain exists…. This leads us back to the Lawsuit. It is incomprehensible that Rossi does not also have some gain – in the range of COP~1.2-1.5. There is no evidence in anything he has done for more than that, and there is evidence of some gain at Lugano, despite the sloppiness of the Levi team. But that low level gain, and as important as it could be scientifically - is not tolerable for Rossi’s financial needs. Follow the bucks. This is where it turns ugly… and not just for Rossi. Let’s make it clear that IH is partly to blame. If Rossi has any gain at all and demonstrated it, IH is then at fault for not admitting that there is some gain, instead of what they claim is no gain. That could be legal posturing, but their attitude affects the entire field – which is what we should be most concerned about on this forum – rather than who is scamming who. IH could hire competent engineers to reproduce slight gain- except this step would be seen as a partial admission that Rossi has something of value. The crux of the situation is that a low level of gain, whatever it is – is scientifically important in the big picture, but is far from enough to satisfy the megabucks terms of the contract – and thus Rossi did what he has always done – he cheated. This will not end well for Rossi or Penon, nor for IH. We can only hope that the episode will not kill off the entire field and the 27 years of slow progress. There is clearly valid technology in LENR, but the problem, as always, is that it is low gain, and it will remain that way until someone figures out why there is any gain at all.
