Horace Heffner <[email protected]> wrote:
> Fraud or self delusion are of course possibilities I recognize, as do many > others, especially given Rossi's inability numerous times to provide > anything other than highly flawed calorimetry data, or refusal to admit the > importance of such mundane scientific concepts as controls, etc. The lives > of billions of people are affected by Rossi's actions now, regardless the > outcome. Why will he never make the tiny incremental effort required to > properly demonstrate he produces nuclear heat? That's a little unfair. Assume for a moment that Rossi really does have a customer and that Fioravanti is a real HVAC engineer hired by the customer. In that case he has done everything right. You cannot ask for better test than an industrial scale professional boiler test. I think it comes down to a few simple questions: Is Fioravanti who he claims to be? Is that sheet of paper he signed what it appears to be -- a sales contract test acceptance report? If so, then Rossi has done exactly what he claimed he would to all long. No one can fault his business-first approach. The fact that he does not do academic science-style tests with proper controls and so on is irrelevant. A professional boiler test is *far more convincing* and more relevant. As I have often pointed out, HVAC engineers have completely different standards from physicists in academic laboratories. Engineers do not do blank experiments. They do not do controls. That is not part of their protocol. Asking them to do such things is ridiculous. Do not impose the standards of academic science on industrial engineering, or vice versa. The two are very different, for good reasons. What works well in a science lab may not work in a factory. Rossi is an industrial engineer. He makes large machines. Fioravanti tests large machines (assuming he is for real). It makes no sense to demand they use methods appropriate to the lab bench top. As I said, I do not fault his business first-approach. I wish he would pursue business and money more aggressively on a larger scale. - Jed
