OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson wrote:
Alan sez:
Is it too much to ask for ONE TEST in which EVERYTHING is done correctly:
Yes,
Get over it.
My thoughts exactly!
Alan: if you want to see a test in which EVERYTHING is done the way YOU
want it, TRY DOING IT YOURSELF. Stop expecting other people to do things
the way you want them to. Everyone has his or her own idea of what
constitutes an ideal experiment, and no experiment can meet all goals.
No single experiment short of the 1 MW reactor running for months will
be totally convincing. You have to look at the totality of the evidence.
Do it yourself, and you will see that these things are harder than they
seem. Your own test will not be fully satisfactory. You might even find
out that Levi et al. know more than you do, and their methods are better
than yours in ways you did not anticipate.
As I said in my book, flow calorimetry is wonderfully simple in
principle, but in practice it is like trying to maintain an HO scale
model railroad. That analogy is totally lost on the younger generation,
I discovered. See footnote 27. After several months of it you will
appreciate the beauty of Seebeck calorimetry. Unfortunately that cannot
be done with Rossi's system.
- Jed
