Several people have proposed that Rossi has secretly installed equipment in the wall circuit to deliver more electricity than the power meter shows. Common sense considerations show that this is so unlikely we can dismiss it. People should do a reality check.
First, let us define the hypothesis, in general terms. You say there is a method of arranging electricity with hidden DC or something else that will fool a certain kind of power meter. Let us call it meter Type A. There must also be a meter of Type B that will detect this trick. You do not assert that it impossible to detect this power with any instrument on the market. That would be absurd. You are saying that Levi et al. brought the wrong kind of meter. Here are some problems with this hypothesis: Rossi did not know what kind of meter they intended to bring. He might have gone to a lot of trouble to fool Type A only to see them show up with Type B. His scheme would fall apart. Rossi does not know what kind of meter they will bring to the next test. They might show up with Type B, putting an end to his scheme a few weeks from now. Sooner or later, someone is bound to try Type B. Or they will try plugging it into another circuit. Despite all the blather to the contrary, it is a fact that Rossi has allowed several completely independent tests of his machines, in Italy and the U.S. He was not present. He wasn't even on the same continent. They plugged the machines into their own wall sockets. There is not the slightest chance anyone will give him a large sum or money without independent testing. I know some of the people who might give him money, and who have given him money. They are not fools. Perhaps you assert that Levi may have brought Type A because he is in cahoots with Rossi. The same set of conditions apply. Sooner or later someone will try power meter Type B and the scam will collapse instantly. Levi knows that. If he knows how to conspire to select the wrong kind of meter, he will also know the right kind, and he will know there is no chance of keeping this under wraps indefinitely, and no chance of cashing in on it. He knows that he will be caught sooner or later. This applies to all of the other far fetched notions about IR lasers and so on. I would also point out that despite all the noise from Krivit, neither he nor anyone else has caught Rossi cheating so far. They have caught him making stupid mistakes, with a plugged up reactor. Suppose Rossi had allowed me to come with my instruments. Or suppose that I had gone with Krivit and used Rossi's instruments. I would measured a few things, sparged the water, and I would have said, "Andrea, this thing is not working. It is plugged up." That is exactly what happened to the people at NASA. It took them little time to figure this out. It would not have taken me much longer. I have spent several months making similar measurements. I may not know much, but I can tell when X liters per minute are going in but only a fraction of X is coming out, and I darn well would check for that. Anyone who has ever done flow calorimetry would. The cooling water flows everywhere. It leaks. Always. Krivit got the idea that Rossi was cheating because neither Krivit nor Rossi measured anything or made any effort to see what the machine was doing. It is not an attempt fool someone when the method is so simple that I or anyone else who bothers to look will find it within minutes. - Jed
