On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote:
> Stephen A. Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have corresponded with Randi directly, and I saw his recent video. > Nothing he says about cold fusion has any merit. He knows nothing about > this subject. > Have you corresponded specifically with Randi about Rossi? I wonder what he had to say. One does not need to know a single solitary thing about cold fusion to evaluate what Rossi is doing. One only needs reliable and credible input and output data in an experiment that does not involve Rossi's venue, his input power source, his pump and flow circuit, his hands on the controls and especially not his generation of steam and evaluation of enthalpy. > > >> Having the equipment just happen to not work when there happens to be >> someone on hand who's equipped to perform what might really be a rigorous >> test, rather than a friendly oh-sure-that-seems-good-enough sort of test, >> is *not* a sign of honesty. >> > > Ampenergo supplied and operated all of the equipment in these tests, as > did other people in other tests that have not been made public. They > decided the method. Rossi only operated the machine. The mystery customer > on October 28 also supplied and operated all of the test equipment. > We don't know what tests Ampenergo did -- perhaps it was more of the uncalibrated and error prone heat of vaporization of steam type experiments that Rossi is so fond of doing even though liquid coolant as used by Levi is much easier and better. If you know what they did and what results they got, I'd love to read about it. What reason could there be to keep such a result secret if it's positive? Same reasoning for the other non-public tests. Why have secret tests anyway if they give positive results? No trade secrets are revealed by giving the results of black box testing. As for the mystery customer, I still would like to know how you can be sure it isn't Rossi or someone employed by Rossi. And I'd like to know why none of the scientists and reporters were allowed to see any of the data being taken from the run on October 28.
