Mattia Rizzi <[email protected]> wrote:
> >Cold fusion has been replicated thousands of times in hundreds of labs, > and ****conclusively verified**** by people such as Levi and *Kullander*. > > You are too ethusiastic. > Even Hanno Essén said (on Italian's Skeptics Society (CICAP) magazine > (Query)) that the test performed on March 29 was a PRELIMINARY TEST. Don't > say conclusively because it's not true. > E&K's report says: . . . 0.11 gram hydrogen and 6 grams of nickel (assuming that we use one proton for each nickel atom) are about sufficient to produce 24 MWh through nuclear processes assuming that 8 MeV per reaction can be liberated as free energy. For comparison, 3 liters of oil or 0.6 kg of hydrogen would give 25 kWh through chemical burning. *Any chemical process for producing 25 kWh from any fuel in a 50 cm3 container can be ruled out.* The only alternative explanation is that there is some kind of a nuclear process that gives rise to the measured energy production. (Underline in original) That sounds conclusive to me. Academic scientists do not write strongly affirmative, underlined sentences unless they really, really mean what they say. If they had doubts they would use weasel words such as: "tentatively ruled out" or "it does not seem plausible that . . ." Furthermore, there are hundreds of other cold fusion reports with equally affirmative statements, such as EPRI's: "This work confirms the claims of Fleischmann, Pons, and Hawkins of the production of excess heat in deuterium-loaded palladium cathodes at levels too large for chemical transformation." Frankly, since all of these other experiments were definitely positive, it makes no sense to suppose Rossi may not be. Replication is important. This is a replication, and the previous works lend strong support to it. Rossi's s/n ratio is extraordinarily high and his methods are not open to rational doubt. Apart from the remote possibility that Rossi, Levi, Kullander and the others are engaged in fraud, there is no reason to doubt these results. - Jed
