At 12:55 AM 7/18/2011, Joshua Cude wrote:
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
At 09:14 PM 7/17/2011, Akira Shirakawa wrote:
So most of the time he now performs stress tests on his modules in
self-sustaining mode, apparently. That's an amazing claim! Just
demonstrating one of those running for a reasonable amount of time
would have rendered pointless most of the discussions and criticisms
on steam issues made so far, even Julian Brown's.
Now consider this possibility: Rossi wanted this exact situation,
that he'd look like a complete scammer. He need to make the demo for
some reason, whether it was personal for Focardi, or whatever, it
doesn't matter, but he had a contrary need, to throw others off
track, to inhibit attempts to replicate what he's doing. If he looks
like a fraud and a scammer, that will seriously impact the ability
of others to get funding to try to figure out what he's doing.
The only problem with this theory is that it doesn't explain his
boast about running the ecat without input, or for that matter,
getting 120 kW in the 18-hour test.
No theory explains everything, it is an intrinsic limitation of all theories.
However, we know that Rossi is, shall we say, enthusiastic, and not
terribly careful about what he says. The 18-hour test allegedly
showed a transient temperature phenomenon that has been interpreted
as 120 kW. Just for starters, that might be explained, for example,
by some scale whacking the flow drastically for a short time.
Or it might be that the thing actually produced 120 kW for a short
time, which would make me really worried about putting one of these
in my basement! It is possible to have too much of a good thing!
