Sorry -- I'm afraid I crossed over the line in my previous post into
"sneering".
The truth is I feel kind of bitter about this whole thing.
Ever since I put together what I knew about the early results with the
statements made by Rossi, Levi, and Galantini it's been obvious to me
that something stinks in E-cat land. Unfortunately some of the folks on
this list, including some I admire, have apparently been totally taken
in, and are in the process of riding the train right off the cliff, with
behavior worthy of any True Believer including accusations of unreason,
nonsense, and "taking the easy way out" directed at anyone who questions
the conclusions.
I don't like food fights and I certainly don't like food fights with
people I'm used to agreeing with.
So now I'll shut up again, and go back to doing something sort of
useful, while we all wait to see what Rossi's exit strategy is going to
be, and wait to see whether he can throw enough dust into the air to
leave some people permanently convinced that he "really had something"
before ... whatever ... happened.
On 11-09-15 01:11 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:
On 11-09-15 10:49 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Horace Heffner <hheff...@mtaonline.net
<mailto:hheff...@mtaonline.net>> wrote:
More importantly, the claim that all the water was being
converted to steam, the repeated, defended, and heralded basis
for thinking something practical has been created, the basis for
the "calorimetry" of the public demos, is now shown to be without
basis in fact. The hose was taken off. Water pulsed out of the
outlet right at the exit of the E-cat in large quantity. It
obviously did not condense there.
That is true. However, in the Krivit test and other previous tests,
the flow rate was lower, so I do not think you can compare them. Also
if they had put a probe into this stream of steam and water and
withdrawn it, it would have come out wet, whereas in previous tests
it was dry.
And we know the probe came out dry because Galantini said so. Right?
Galantini, the man who claimed to have tested the steam and determined
that it was dry, for sure, believe it, Jack, it's *dry*.
Galantini, the guy who got testy and less than clear when pressed for
details of exactly how he tested the steam, what he measured, and what
the measured value was.
Galantini, whose testimony is worth exactly as much as your /faith/
tells you it's worth.
