Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote:
> Rossi may have been premature and sloppy in testing, but Ni-H is “the next > big thing” in the World Economy. Rossi has demonstrated that the Thermacore > results of the early nineties, validated by NASA in 1996, were the biggest > missed opportunity in all of modern science. > Yes but . . . It wasn't exactly missed. As I pointed out, Srinivasan and other devoted a lot of effort to this system. It isn't their fault they failed. They did not overlook it in any sense; they were unable to replicate. Ed Storms devoted a terrific amount of effort to replicating Case, another gas-loaded system with promise. He is a skilled person. But he failed to get any heat out of it. McKubre suspects Storms cleaned up the catalyst too much with his automated technique. Furthermore, Rossi has make tremendous contributions to improving the technique, despite his sloppiness. You can be sloppy and still make valuable contributions. Case was notoriously sloppy. Some people who are careful, methodical, and the opposite of sloppy yet they end up contributing little or nothing. As I have said several times, Rossi's business affairs, his blog and his personal predilections have no bearing at all on the scientific validity of his claims, or the importance of his claims. I cannot understand why so many people commenting here are unable to understand this! In a science forum, once you know the effect is real, you should put aside all discussion of the person. It is irrelevant and distracting. - Jed
