At 09:09 PM 4/12/2011, Alan J Fletcher wrote:
I've updated http://lenr.qumbu.com/fake_rossi_ecat_frames_v317.php
to include a fake which was actually proposed back in February :
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg42228.html
Although "not likely" I rate it as "NOT ELIMINATED" by ANY of the
experiments or reports.
If people will recall, my position is that it's impossible to
completely eliminate, at this point, all possible modes of fakery.
Because we are not at this point yet -- it will take wide,
independent confirmation to be absolutely certain -- we shouldn't bet
the farm on Rossi. I do know that serious research effort is now
being diverted into work to investigate the nickel-hydrogen system,
as a result of Rossi, but it's being done with eyes wide open, I
hope. Anyone investing in this should carefully consider the risks.
But in the other direction, I see people, such as the administrator
TenOfAllTrades, on Wikipedia, and I suspect he's a scientist, coming
out confidently with assertions that this is bogus, and attempting to
impeach the Swedish reporter, etc.
"Bogus" is unlikely at this point, the modes and mechanisms for
fakery have become difficult enough that relying on them would be
foolish, and these "scientists" are only betting on what we already
know is an error, the supposed impossibility of LENR, which was never
a scientific belief, it was politics and assumption and arrogance,
from the beginning.
I'll say it, Rossi is probably real.
But I and everyone else can, sometimes, be fooled. The only way to
totally avoid being fooled would be to believe nobody, and even then,
we'd fool ourselves, and we'd disbelieve a lot of honest, sincere
people. A loss.
