Peter Heckert <[email protected]> wrote: This explains why the e-cat leaks and fails when really serious customers > and NASA scientists are present. >
In all seriousness, I expect it does. It also explains why he ran the October 6 demonstration without bothering to put an SD card into the thermocouple meter. He just does not sweat the details. It is not as if he was trying to hide the temperature data. He asked Lewan to please write down the numbers. I gather he dragooned Lewan into doing it. He assigned the job to him. It does not matter to Rossi that the data was collected every 10 or 15 min. that way, whereas the meter would have recorded it automatically several times a minute. Either method is fine with Rossi. > I think he will care about details when he counts the money. > He cares for the details when they matter. When they have a technical impact. He cares a great deal about things that matter, and not at all about anything else. The thing is, objectively speaking, collecting the temperature data every 10 or 15 min. really is as good as recording it on the SD card. If your goal is to prove the reaction is real, either method is fine. The people here who are obsessed with the temperature readings and the finer points of where the thermocouples are placed are missing the point. As I have said, you can throw away all instrument readings, and look at the physical arrangement of equpment and first principles only, and the test is 100% irrefutable. If you were tell physicists back in 1880 that this test is inadequate because the instrument readings are questionable, they would think you are crazy. Even back when I was in grade school, physics experiments proved things by the arrangement and action of the objects, such as an egg being sucked into a milk bottle by a vacuum. Nowadays people would demand some sort of digital instrument proving there is a vacuum, and they would look at the damn numbers instead of the egg in the bottle. >From Rossi's point of view quibbling about minor details such as the thermocouple temperature readings is silly. I'm sure he would say "go ahead and ignore that if you like; just look at the physical facts." If you want to impress modern scientists and engineers with your professional technique and the care you bring to the experiment, you will do it carefully and record lots of useless extra digits of precision and thousands of extraneous data points that prove nothing. It has to be on a computer, even though an old-fashioned paper & pencil log is just as good. Rossi is old school -- as am I. The difference is, he doesn't get where the modern whippersnappers are coming from and why they want all that digital data, whereas I get it. I know what they are thinking. I cannot explain this to Rossi. The Lord knows I have tried. Would not buy a used car from him. I would not buy a fingernail clipper from him. - Jed
