David Roberson <[email protected]> wrote: So, it would not surprise me too greatly to find that Penon became > extremely bored making the same readings day in and out until he placed > data into the log that assumed everything continued as it had for many long > previous periods of time.
That might be true of the temperatures, which vary, then start repeating, and then vary again. But the flow rate and pressure was the same for every single day of the test, as noted by Murray. Penon did not start off off recording actual values with variations, and then later repeating values. He stuffed 36,000 kg into every day, for the entire test. By the way, as Rossi noted in the Lewan interview, Penon arbitrarily reduced the flow by 10% down to 32,400 kg. Both numbers are shown. I think 32,400 kg is used to compute heat. If a 10% reduction is valid, why not 20% or 90%? It was sloppy of Penon to record positive flow rates, elevated temperatures and 1 MW heat production on days when Rossi in his blog said the reactor was turned off. Eyewitnesses confirm that it was actually off. If you are going to commit fraud, you should at least try to make it look convincing. These people were just phoning it in! - Jed
