At 10:48 AM 7/3/2011, Jeff Driscoll wrote:
Rossi has not done a definitive test. I don't trust him on his input
mass flow rate (2 grams per second) or whether or not it was turned
to vapor or just spurted out as liquid slugs of water into the drain.
Or something in between.
Levi has a lot to gain monetarily so I don't trust his high flow rate
test (where there was no vapor produced). I'll be less skeptical,
when independent groups definitively show a large tank of water being
heated with input power carefully monitored.
or the like.
My skepticism comes from:
1. Rossi used a water vapor based analysis that could be easily faked
(i.e. faked input water mass flow rate or faked vapor output). He
could easily have done a test and made 30 gallons of hot water but
multiple times he chose the "vapor down the drain / hide the evidence
method".
2. Rossi's assertions of that steam quality can be measured with a
Relative Humidity meter (it can't).
The rest is circumstantial evidence. There is also circumstantial
evidence that Rossi is real. The serious flaws in the public
demonstrations, that there is water in the hose, don't prove that the
heat was not generated. They are only evidence of lack of
demonstration, not of nonworkability.
3. Rossi is not trained as a scientist (diploma mill college degree -
is that true?) and virtually comes out of nowhere with huge claims.
4. Past legal convictions related to a waste disposal company.
5. His fiasco with the thermoelectric device contract.
6. Lack of quality scientific reports showing measurements and methods
used to measure.
There is probably more, but I'm not following Rossi close enough to
know it all.
Does anyone have comments they can make for or against Defkalion
regarding their legitimacy?
They look well-funded. They also look hyped. Again, circumstantial
evidence. They, as well as Rossi, could arrange a public demo that
was convincing. As far as I know, they haven't done this. What does
that mean? I don't know.
