Mary Yugo <[email protected]> wrote: > However calorimatric criticism is not relevant, because Rossi has > > never forbid for observers to do accurate calorimetry and check all > > the necessary calibrations with their own instruments. >
I do not know who wrote that, but it is incorrect. Rossi does not usually let people use their own instruments. He has on some occasions. > Jed maintains that HVAC and boiler engineers don't run blanks but > those people don't have to prove that a new, almost incredibly > powerful technology really exists! > Does anyone seriously doubt that if Fioravanti is telling the truth, there can be any doubt the 1 MW reactor is real? Are you seriously suggesting that a measurement using standard industrial techniques, performed by an expert, showing 66 kWh input and 2,635 kWh might be in error?!? You can't be serous. If that is the last remaining argument you have against cold fusion, you have jumped the shark. That measurement is *far more* reliable and the results more certain than any laboratory technique. Ten-thousand blank experiments followed by ten thousand laboratory scale tests would not hold a candle to it. To say you need a blank in an industrial measurement on this scale is absurd. This is a lot like suggesting that on July 16,1945 they should have fired off a blank nuclear bomb with a copper core instead of plutonium, and since they did not do that, we cannot be sure the plutonium bomb really worked. - Jed
