Peter Gluck <[email protected]> wrote: Rossi says the input is 600-700 W. Output at least 14 x input.
My comment was directed at people who do not believe Rossi, or who suspect there may be a complicated waveform at work, which makes it hard to measure input power. Such arguments always arise when people make claims about cold fusion when electric power input is needed. Even the simplest DC power is questioned. What I am saying is that we can short-circuit these objections by pointing out that the power supplies themselves could not draw 10 kW, so the waveform and methods of measuring input power are irrelevant. I pointed out this same fact about the Patterson experiment. To no avail. People raised that objection again and again, and they probably still do. Heck, for that matter, they claimed the water was not mixed and the temperature may not have been uniform, even after I stated that I mixed it myself, in a 1-liter graduated cylinder, using the mercury thermometer to stir it. The water coming out was many degrees hotter than the reservoir temperature going in. Anyone who thinks you can have a thermal gradient of several degrees when you stir liquid in a cylinder is very stupid, has no grasp of physical reality, and has zero credibility. As it happens, Taubes raised that objection in his book, and here at Vortex, Mitchel Swartz raised it repeatedly. As far as I am concerned, that erased their credibility. - Jed
