Jones,
Thank you for your polite reply. I am indeed familiar with Mallove but
it seems academia still does not accept cold fusion ever worked. I know
for a fact that DOE's office of science doesn't. I thought the clincher
was the published work showing relationship with Palladium loading to
the cell working.
I don't know why Rossi refuses to hand over a working reactor but what
he says is that even then academia would not believe it. Also, that he
knows any device will be back engineered and he thinks his only
protection will be to be able to flood the market with reactors that are
cheap enough to put off the competition. So he will not release full
details until he is in production.
I don't see that he has anything to lose by this strategy except bad
press in the blogs. I think the proof will be if he manages to get a
working commercial unit up and running round about the end of 2016
The new QuarkX complicates the issue as Rossi seems to think this is the
future and it does not sound like it is close to commercialization.
On 8/10/2016 1:52 PM, Jones Beene wrote:
RE: [Vo]:Reality check of the day
*From:*a.ashfield
Do you believe Pons & Fleischmann showed excess heat in their original
experiment? Despite the "expert" hot fusion physicists from MIT and
CalTech claims?
Actually, if you are familiar with the history of the field – and the
name Gene Mallove of Infinite Energy magazine, you would realize that
MIT did indeed replicate P&F, did find excess heat, and did
“recalibrate” the results to look like a null experiment. That is fact.
And more relevant to the Rossi case, that Chuck Haldeman, the highly
respected senior engineer at Lincoln Labs (MIT) twenty years ago,
fully replicated the nickel hydrogen experiments of Mills at fairly
high gain. Again, MIT refused to publish his results for fear of
losing hot fusion funding. That is fact.
Thus, it is very likely that Rossi “could have” and even “should have”
witnessed thermal gain at some point in his progress, especially
before Focardi died, but either could not, or would not, share that
result at a later date with IH. He may have been playing them for
fools, as the motivation for not sharing is completely mysterious.
In any event, it is hard to imagine what happened to make Rossi decide
not to demonstrate gain if he was able to do so - for IH. But if is
pretty clear to any reasonable person, that if Rossi can do it now –
it is self-destructive not to turn over a working device to a
competent scientist. To hell with trade secrets, he is finished,
otherwise.
Rossi may have over-played his hand, thinking IH were complete fools,
who knows? I can tell you that there is no valid legal reason that he
could not supply one of his old working cells, if he has one, to an
independent physicist for testing, despite the ongoing case.
University of Miami has a competent physics program.
