James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> wrote: To what faked results are you referring exactly? > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Robert Lynn < > robert.gulliver.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> What I would run screaming from is someone who faked results with a >> straight face (as we saw in one of the demos last year)... >> > As Bowery says, there is no evidence any of those results were fake. The NASA results were a fiasco but it was obvious the outlet tube was blocked. That isn't fake. It is incompetent. Rossi's reaction -- going around the bend when they pointed out the problem -- was nuts, but not fake. You don't conduct a scam by that method. Anyone can see where there is no steam emerging from the hose!
You definitely should run screaming from the room when some guy has a hand-made reactor, and he is so sloppy he does not notice the outlet is plugged up. That's a good way to blow yourself up. I do not know of *any* cold fusion results which look fake. I know of dozens that were mistaken or so poorly done there is no way to know what to make of them. Anyone who would invest a plugged nickel with Rossi, given his refusal to allow testing and his sloppy work, would have to be crazy. I and many others have told him we can get him hundreds of millions personally, and billions to develop the technology, if he will only act the way any businessman will demand. He absolutely refuses to give one inch. He will not depart from his own self-imagine -- from the heroic, defiant role that he envisions he must play in life. Exactly like Coriolanus! The parallels are uncanny. See the movie. See the first part, where he cannot bring himself to go through the ritual of a candidate for office. He cannot praise the public even for a moment, because he has such contempt for other people, and because he is so caught up in his own martial ethic. Like Richard Nixon, he can't stand to hear others praise him. He refuses to go through with the ancient ritual in which he shows his wounds to the public and says his victories were out of patriotism (even though they actually were patriotic, and he is basically a selfless person). A fantastic portrayal of a great man destroyed by his own fantasies, his own self-image, and his alienation from other people. - Jed
