At 04:20 PM 5/24/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: (His usual tendentious missing the forest for the trees blather.)
I may own Cude an apology, because I relied on media reports for the January demonstration information. It is conceivable that his criticism of the length of time that the device was producing power is cogent. If I cared, I might even check it out. I don't.
Basically, it doesn't matter. The January demonstration was way unconvincing to a lot of people. My own conclusion has been that Rossi did not want it to be fully convincing, his motivations are complex. He doesn't need public demonstrations at all, for his business purpose, it seems to me. He's got strong business reasons for confusing the evidence trail, if the E-Cat is not fraud. And, of course, if it's fraud, he has the same motivation.
The case bristles with reasons to be suspicious. But there are also other factors.
I'm far more familiar with the evidence for cold fusion, and it's conclusive, and Cude's assumption -- which is also found in quite a bit of criticism of Rossi (or even praise of Rossi) -- that cold fusion evidence isn't solid is the same old same old we've been hearing for years.
It can't make it past peer review, whereas CF papers are, routinely. CF is the new mainstream, even if a huge number of mainstream scientists, unaware of the evidence, imagine otherwise.
Cude is anonymous, with zero credibility. He may mix fact into his pie, but most of it is mud.
