Having tried to edit something on the wiki E-CAT page and having it
immediately deleted, I ended up writing this on the "Topic Talk" page.
It probably won't do any good but if enough people do this (anyone can)
.... They say there are 1000- 7000 hits per day on the E-CAT page.
This discussion page rambles to the point it is difficult to follow.
There are two main points that are clearly wrong.
1, The statement that no independent test has been carried out. You
can't prove a negative and so can't possibly know that. In fact an
independent test has been carried out. The paper is available for
viewing or downloading at arXiv:1305,3903 It was paid for and commented
about by Elforsk on their official site. Elforsk is a large, well known
R&D organization, equivalent to EPRI. It can't get much more official
than that.
It doesn't matter that it has not been peer reviewed yet, or that some
don't like the experimental procedure. An independent test HAS been run.
There are various secondary sources of confirmation mentioned, such as
Gibbs in Forbes magazine. I expect that several other tests have been
run by large organizations doing their due diligence.
2. The comment on an independent test is followed by a very negative
commentary taken from a blog site run by Ugo Bardi. The comments to his
post were uniformly negative. Mine was censored. What is the
justification for this? I can point to several other blogs run by
scientists, including a Nobel Prize winner and a Chief Scientist at
NASA, that come to the opposite conclusion.
One can only conclude that there are several editors on this topic that
are so convinced that LENR is impossible that they favor anything
negative about it. For example, the selective quote from Elforsk given.
The full quote is shown below. (Google translation)
Swedish researchers have tested Rossi energy catalyst - E-cat
"Researchers from Uppsala University and KTH Stockholm has conducted
measurements of the produced heat energy from a device called the E-cat.
It is known as an energy catalyst invented by the Italian scientist
Andrea Rossi.
The measurements show that the catalyst gives substantially more energy
than can be explained by ordinary chemical reactions. The results are
very remarkable. What lies behind the extraordinary heat production can
not be explained today. There has been speculation over whether there
can be any form of nuclear transformation. However, this is highly
questionable. To learn more about what is going on you have to learn
what is happening with the fuel and the waste it produces. The
measurements have been funded by such Elforsk."
For those the prefer peer reviewed papers, there are several hundred
listed that confirm LENR here. lenr-canr.org
Rossi forecast at the beginning that nothing would convince the skeptics
until working E-CATs were out in the market and he was right. I wonder
what you will say when Defkalion demonstrate their Hyperion at the
National Instruments Week in August.
LENR has now been proven beyond all reasonable doubt. This negatively
biased wiki entry on the E-CAT is doing a great disservice to thousands
of viewers.
