At 03:35 PM 9/30/2009, Rothwell wrote:
Steven V Johnson have expressed confusion, such as:
I'm left with two conflicting perspectives. I don't understand why
Mr. Rothwell wasn't able to "read/scan" what I presume were
hardcopy documents allegedly given to him by Dr. Swartz at a prior
encounter. Presumably such "hardcopy" could have been scanned. . . .
Rothwell: "Actually, he sent a CD-ROM which I could not read. Later
I got electronic copies of all ICCF-10 papers from Peter Hagelstein.
I have printed copies of Swartz's papers in books, and I could
always scan them."
Well at last, Rothwell finally admits he did receive those copies
from me. Seems his previous story, based on falsehoods, is eroding
little by little.
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Rothwell: "However, this has nothing to do with our dispute."
Ah yes. The indelible dispute.
The real dispute is that a number of years ago
I exposed Rothwell's scientific error
on flow measurements, along with several others on spf.
He was running an experiment claiming "kilowatts". Some noted
that kilowatts of power dissipation produce a lot of damage
to the materials. Others noted he was measuring without a
pressure head, and I noted that he failed to account for
Bernard instability. Basically, by failing to calibrate,
and by using a bad paradigm involving flow in a vertical path,
Rothwell got a phoney 1 kilowatt, a false positive,
henceforth "kilowatt". Now, when Dr. Patterson's cell
was used in a correct configuration it appears to have
gotten a very respectable 0.8 watts excess heat, which
is impressive if done for a long amount of time, and with
calibrations.
Note that the reason Jed does not like my papers is that
we demonstrated that Bernard instability was giving
over-estimations of excess heat
in vertically positioned flow calorimeters.
I published a series of papers on how flow calorimetry was
susceptible to vertical flow in the flow calorimetry system,
and all hell broke loose by Jed. Rothwell has periodically
decompensated (like now).
But phoney "calibrations" like Rothwell's need to be
examined, studied, and revealed. The sooner the better.
Furthermore, this is important because it is a large error,
and the error could be correctable.
Experimentally, the "kilowatts" would always disappear when
horizontal flow was used (which avoids the Bernard instability).
Analyzing the data, the false positive effect is correctable,
by simple consideration of the continuum electromechanics.
I wrote a paper on it (1), and without the correction,
fractions of a watt of excess power were shown where they could
appear as a "kilowatt" [which is what made Jed infamous on
spf at the time.(2)
NOTA BENE:
The problem is that false positive amplification hurt cold fusion for
more than decade because the "kilowatts" were not kilowatts,
and therefore excuses were made.
1. Swartz, M, "Improved Calculations Involving Energy Release
Using a Buoyancy Transport Correction", Journal of New Energy,
1, 3, 219-221 (1996)
2. Swartz, M, "Potential for Positional Variation in Flow
Calorimetric Systems", Journal of New Energy, 1, 126-130 (1996)
To this day, Rothwell gets an immunologic anaphylactic
reaction to these papers which is characterized by his
conveniently forgetting about this.
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Rothwell: "You have to understand that Swartz uses this and other
forums to ran an extortion and intimidation racket. He has been
doing this for years. He tried to nail me twice, and he nailed some
other people who contacted me. I don't know if this is a hobby or a
business. You can see half of his scheme in the messages he posted
here. It works like this:
I never did this.
Rothwell is frothing at the mouth again. I have contributed to cold fusion
education through the COLD FUSION TIMES and have
lost money doing it for two decades. We even hosted
a free seminar, the LANR Colloquium at MIT this year.
Where was the extortion? What the hell is Rothwell
talking about?
Rothwell is challenged to prove it, or admit he is a screwball,
afflicted with paranoia.
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Rothwell: "1. He goads the mark, as he has done here with me. Or he
makes nice."
When I gave Rothwell a ride from Gene Mallove's funeral in NH to Boston
Newbury Street (and handed him a CD which he never admitted
until the above) he exited the car and did not even say "thank you".
Being nice to him has always been a waste of time, generated
out of goodness of heart, not because anything was wanted.
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Rothwell: "Several researchers have denied permission to upload
papers. Of course that is their right and I have no objection. Some
are hostile toward LENR-CANR and have taken steps to stop others
from contributing to it, or spread false rumors about it. Of course
many skeptics despise it. The ones at Wikipedia made it impossible
to add a link to LENR-CANR anywhere in the English Wikipedia, and
one of them (an American who reads no Japanese) tried to do the same
thing in the Japanese edition. So I have many enemies who cause
mischief. But Swartz is the only one who has tried to use LENR-CANR
to extort money from me!"
- Jed
Rothwell shows he is having another of his breakdowns.
Extort money? It is a lie.
I never did this. Nor would I ever.
Rothwell fabricates because I once invoked Bernard
instability, and noted Gene Mallove's correct observation
that the LENR/CANR website is censored.
[Though I disagree with Jed and Gene that it is
'politically' censored. It is censored for self-serving reasons).
Rothwell fabricates because we simply cannot allow him to edit
our work because he has made errors over the years,
such as confusing "anode" and "cathode".
Note that Rothwell's paranoia and paranoic behavior allows him
to make claims on one line ..... but they are immediately contradicted
by the next -- such as before on editing, or here where
he says he "erased the records"; so convenient.
Rothwell is challenged to prove it.
At the end of the day, what because this thread is that I
noted that Prof. Dash and I were not included in the table
of papers that went to the DOE in 2004 --- even though
Dash and I were the only ones who had
open cold fusion demonstrations in the USA at a
national meeting.
Rothwell's screwball behavior
does not help cold fusion's image. Never has.
Mitchell Swartz
