At 06:58 PM 9/30/2009, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Rothwell; "Anyway, say what you like, but don't try your little
tricks on me, in public or in private. And if you sincerely want
your papers uploaded at LENR-CANR (as if!), you know the drill and
you know why I insist on it. Everyone else now knows. You have to:
1. Upload your papers to your own damn web site.
2. Give me explicit, public permission to copy them.
If I see you have erased them from your site I will erase them from
LENR-CANR faster than you can say knife, so don't try that cute
little trick either. Anyway, it'll never happen. You will never
publish anything on line, and now everyone knows why. Game over for
you. You'll have to find some other way to intimidate people.
- Jed"
Clever rouse. Complicated. But already exposed as hype.
Beside, I only care about the science and engineering.
Actually, probably the two most important papers which
show Rothwell's errors (which result from his disdain for
calibration) are
1. Swartz, M, "Potential for Positional Variation in Flow
Calorimetric Systems", Journal of New Energy, 1, 126-130 (1996)
and
2. Swartz, M, "Improved Calculations Involving Energy Release
Using a Buoyancy Transport Correction", Journal of New Energy,
1, 3, 219-221 (1996)
But, despite Jed's twisting of this (and I did not think
it was possible to twist anything such as he has here)
"POTENTIAL FOR POSITIONAL VARIATION IN FLOW CALORIMETRIC SYSTEMS"
has been at the web site since 1996.
The url is http://world.std.com/~mica/posvar.html
Is paper 1 on the LENR-CANR web site?
Not there.
Why? Because the paper discusses scientific error
on flow measurements, made in the past
along with several other very insightful
criticisms of Jed made on spf. Jed
was running an experiment claiming "kilowatts". Some noted
that kilowatts of power dissipation produce a lot of damage
to the materials --- but not in Jed's system.
Others noted he was measuring without a
pressure head. 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.
The potential errors from flow calorimetry arranged
vertical in Earth g-field are flow related.
They can potentially cause a large error, a false
positive amplification.
The error can be correctable, so why not just fix it?
Dr. Mitchell Swartz
