>Academic science is a small world. Everyone knows everyone else. There are a lot of people capable to do a simple calorimetric test.
>You should. It is physically impossible to measure what he did if it was >caused by a chemical reaction, It's physically possible. In February test (the PRIVATE test) the second temperature probe was put *inside* the reactor. Yes, Levi ispected the reactor, but the probe isn't in a good position. There could been an hidden heat resistance close to the probe hard to find. An independent examiner shoud place temperature probes OUTSIDE reactor, as prudential check. Levi trusted Rossi. >get 1 GW of chemical energy from a 1 liter cell You are confusing power with energy. From: Jed Rothwell Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 4:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Vo]:Independent test of Rossi E-Cat Mattia Rizzi <[email protected]> wrote: > This is an informal board. The problem is: Levi was related with Rossi during 14 January test. You mean he had a professional relationship, not that he is a relative (family member). Academic science is a small world. Everyone knows everyone else. Just about every one of the first 100 people to replicate cold fusion knew Fleischmann personally. Some were his grad students (such as McKubre). Others wrote books together or were leading members of the electrochmical society when Fleischmann was president, or they had been friends and rivals for decades (Bockris -- who himself has dozens of grad students who are now professors, such as Mizuno). They all had professional relationships with him at many levels. Rossi's collaborator and close friend Focardi has been working on Ni-H cold fusion since the early 1990s, along with Piantelli and others. If you insist that an independent replication can only be performed by researchers do not know one-another, or have never collaborated, then there would seldom be any replications of anything. Cold fusion would have begun and ended in March 1989. I will grant this is a problem. It does make evaluations and replications less objective. It also calls into question the value of peer-review. But in the real world, people who devote their lives to a narrow academic subject are going to know one-another. They are likely to be close friends or bitter enemies. They are people. They have lives, loves, and feelings. > I think you should grant this is an independent test. Absolutely NO. Independent tests are performed with people *not related* with Rossi. Not friends or acquaintances. If there were any people like that among Italian cold fusion researchers in January, there will not be any left in a few months. Every single Italian researcher is learning as much as he or she can about Rossi, and trying to establish a professional relationship with him. They have been talking about him for two years, and talking about nothing else since December. That's what Celani and others told me, as did Rossi. There will soon be no one left in the world who is capable of doing this experiment but who is not a friend, acquaintance or an enemy of Rossi. If Levi said "there isn't chemical reactions inside" with a test performed outside U. of Bologna, i cannot trust him. You should. It is physically impossible to measure what he did if it was caused by a chemical reaction, and there are no hidden wires or pipes big enough to account for it. See Alan Fletcher's analysis: http://lenr.qumbu.com/fake_rossi_ecat_v310.php The location of the experiment cannot change physical facts. Rossi could do it on the Moon or in Times Square, but he still cannot get 1 GW of chemical energy from a 1 liter cell. That's 100% impossible. And no one can fake water at 40°C and 1 L per second. - Jed
