a.ashfield <[email protected]> wrote: As for IH then feeding critics propaganda about how Penon's report was > rubbish see Sifferkoll for names like Dewey Weaver (& possibly Jed) >
The test was rubbish. I.H. knew that all along. Anyone who walked into the room and looked at the choice of instruments and configuration would see that in a few minutes. I knew that many months ago. I would hoping the problems would be fixed, but they were not. The Penon report cannot describe anything other than those instruments, that configuration, and the absurd numbers they produced. There was never any doubt what it would say, because it was written by Penon and he designed this farcical test. (Or maybe Rossi and Penon designed it -- I wouldn't know.) The results & data were never secret, and never in doubt. You can read them right off the instruments, as you can with any calorimetry with a stable reactor. Rossi's claim that he couldn't tell if it would "pass" after months or that it takes millions of numbers to do calorimetry are pluperfect idiotic nonsense. Anyone can read the energy balance in a half hour with a handful of temperature and flow readings, if the instruments are working right. These instruments could not possibly work right. - Jed
