> > Even if Rossi were to run the thing for 40 hours or 40 days, I am certain > you would demand more. You would still be finding excuses not to believe it. >
There may be other reasons not to believe in it but certainly a 40 hour run is more persuasive than a 4 hour one, especially when there is no compelling legitimate reason to stop early. I've made jokes that maybe Rossi has another appointment? Or that his bladder is too small. But I'm sure that's not what it is. As for there being no way to cheat with the experiments Rossi has done so far, how do you know? Do you know every possible way there is to store energy in an 80 kg device? Do you know every possible way there is to bamboozle the instrumentation and the observers? If you don't know for sure EVERY possible way, you can't be sure that one wasn't used. That's why independent experiments are so essential. People who are not convinced by this duration will not be convinced by any > longer duration or higher power. You will have to wait for some major > customer to buy a reactor and then go public. Probably you will not even > believe that. You will say that General Electric is conspiring with Rossi > to defraud the public. > Longer duration and higher power would make a lot more sense than the anemic and brief tests that we've been subjected to thus far. It would also be helpful if Rossi had not dropped the power density so much. From a small device (what? 10 kg maybe?) providing up to 130 kW (Levi) to an 80 kg one that makes only around 4. Rossi said it was running at 1/3 capacity. Why? And how do we know? And a far better designed and simple test, like the one Levi supposedly did (etc. etc.)-- you know the rest. I suspect that if Rossi sells reactors to any legitimate customers, we will eventually get an independent test that will be convincing to most. But many people are not convinced that Rossi even has or had a customer other than himself. I know little evidence if any that he did other than what he and Engineer F. said (sorry, can't remember the spelling).
