Dear Jed, Which experiment of all (except the 1kW Patterson Cell) was the best ever?
Peter On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sigh . . . Another ignorant article by Gibbs. > > Here is what I just wrote in the Forbes article comment section: > > > > The author wrote: "Even so, the Defkalion tests were, as far as any cold > fusion experiment performed to date has gone, the best so far and they > were witnessed by someone who is, for want of a better description, a > serious scientist." > > This statement is preposterous. Cold fusion has been replicated in > hundreds of major laboratories, in thousands of test runs. Many of these > runs were far better than the Defkalion tests witnessed by Nelson. Many of > these other tests have been witnessed by world-class experts in > calorimetry, such Robert Duncan of U. Missouri. This was shown in "60 > Minutes." > > The Defkalion tests were not bad, but tests at SRI, Los Alamos, BARC, > China Lake and other major laboratories used much better equipment and > produced much larger signal to noise ratios. In some of these other tests > the ratio of input to output was larger than Defkalion's, and in some there > was no input, so the ratio was infinite. > > Hundreds of mainstream, peer-reviewed journal papers have been published > describing experiments more convincing than the Defkalion tests. Gibbs is > ignoring this peer-reviewed literature and looking instead at few > preliminary documents published on the Internet. He is ignoring the gold > standard of established science. > > > - Jed -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
