Robert Leguillon <[email protected]> wrote: So, you will go on the record? The demonstrations have proven excess heat? > This is irrefutable? >
Unless someone refutes it, I suppose. I have not seen any credible refutations yet. If the Krivit hypothesis is the best the skeptics come up with, I would say the debate is over. I cannot fully believe a claim until it is "widely replicated." This is experimental science and replication is the acid test. There is no substitute for it. How many replications you need is a matter of taste. I would like to see 4 or 5 other labs observe this before I am fully convinced it cannot be a mistake or fraud. Apparently this claim has been independently replicated by Defkalion. If I see credible proof from them that will pretty much wrap it up. If this was a brand new unprecedented claim such as Steorn's, or an antigravity machine, or a particle moving faster than light, I would probably hold out for 10 or 20 solid replications, rather than 5. However, this is similar to many other cold fusion claims. We already have Mills, Piantelli and several other Ni-H claims, so this is not such a stretch. There is a very slight chance of fraud, but it is so small I do not take it seriously. The likelihood that some skeptic such as Krivit, Murray or Park will come up with a credible, believable explanation is even smaller. They have nothing. Zip. Bupkis to 5 significant digits. I find it hard to believe they themselves take their hypotheses seriously. I thought that Krivit understood more about heat and calorimetry, and he would not come up with that ridiculous notion that you can "store heat" such that not one joule comes out until you wave a magic wand, and then it comes out in varying levels, rising and falling, in complete disregard for Newton and his silly old law. Ignorant people have been saying that sort of thing since 1989. You would think Krivit has heard that before, and understands why it is impossible, but apparently not. It reminds me of Steve Jones and his claim that recombination can magically explain all results, including McKubre's in a closed cell where total heat far exceeded I*V. These things are not "explanations." They are magic spells. You are confronted by an ugly truth. A fact you cannot face. You have made a dreadful mistake, and you are far out on a limb. You repeat "recombination, recombination, recombination" or "heat storage, heat storage" until the ugly facts vanish, and you are back safely in the world of your own imagination. - Jed
