Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > * > http://blog.newenergytimes.com/2011/01/19/rossi-and-focardi-lenr-device-probably-real-with-credit-to-piantelli/ > *<http://blog.newenergytimes.com/2011/01/19/rossi-and-focardi-lenr-device-probably-real-with-credit-to-piantelli/> > > But he is still giving the most credit to Piantelli, when probably that is > completely wrong, and the three things which led to this breakthrough were(in > order of importance): > > 1) The previous Rossi/Leonardo TEG work with nano-nickel > > 2) The published work of Randell Mills > > 3) The published work of Arata/Zhang, Kitamura, etc > Yup. I find this blog posting of Krivit's exceptionally weird, even for him. His obsession with the Windom Larsen theory and these assertions that Ni-CF cannot be fusion are bizarre. Krivit knows even less about the science than I do, and I would never presume to take sides in the theory debates. I cannot image why he thinks he is capable of judging these matters! I can't figure out why it makes the slightest difference to him which theory is correct. For all he knows, none of the theories are right.
The way he harps on personalities, people's backgrounds and foibles is unscientific. That's what you expect from the mass media, or from anonymous people in Wikipedia. It has no place in a serious scientific discussion. We all know that criminals and crazy people have made important contributions to science. The only time you should consider a person's background is when you have nothing else to go on -- no experiments, no replications, no hard data. When all we had to go on was Rossi's own words about his claims, we were forced to look at his personality and the name of his website and other extraneous, indirect indications. We were forced to guess. Now we have photos of his experiment and measurements made by legit professors. We will soon have data. It is already clear that he had no means of faking the experiment. All considerations of his personality as a means to determine the truth should now cease. The methods of science -- data, thermocouple readings and heat of vaporization -- constitute an infinitely more reliable way to judge the truth than mere reputation, or your attempt to read Rossi's mind or untangle his English. Okay, we don't know what to make of his claim about 1,500°C, so let's put that on hold. Okay, he may be a crook. Who knows? Who cares?!? He could be Robert Stroud reincarnated, but he cannot fool a thermocouple, so let's put that aside. - Jed
