OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought Krivit had been "honored" with a so-called demo when he visited > Rossi's lab. Unfortunately, all the evidence we had been presented with > suggested the fact that the demonstration Krivit had personally witnessed > had been a fake. No anomalous heat had been produced at that time. Mr. > Krivit quickly saw through the ruse. > I doubt it was a ruse. Neither Krivit nor Rossi made a record of the flow rate or some other critical parameters so it is hard to say what happened. Maybe --
It worked a little. It did not work but it seemed to work because the cell was plugged up. That is what the people from NASA found, I think at about the same time. My guess is the latter. Rossi is sometimes sloppy. I mean *really* sloppy. He does not bother to check things. He has too much confidence; he assumes everything is fine. I have seen him do this with his tests, with his instruments (such as when he did not bother to insert an SD card), and also his web page, his announcements, details of his autobiography and academic degrees, and various other things, large and small. He once gave me the wrong company name once and I spent several days floundering around until I asked again. He said: "Oh, did I tell you X? I meant Y." It is strange how a detailed-oriented engineer sometimes throws discipline aside and blunders ahead like an amateur. I am a big fan of structured programming with meaningful variable names, but I once dashed off a quick and dirty program for Chris Tinsley, which he gleefully pointed out was full of spaghetti code and variables such as "A" and "T1." He got a good laugh out of it. - Jed
