Blaze Spinnaker <blazespinna...@gmail.com> wrote: If Rossi switched out the ash, he's a fraud. End of story. >
Here is something you think about. Why would he switch out the ash? What possible benefit would that bring to him? What motivation would he have? The answers are no reason, none and none. Reasons: 1. The people paying for this work do not care about what causes the effect. They are interested in excess heat. Whether it comes from Ni transmutation or zero-point-energy is beside the point. It will not be more convincing to them if Rossi puts unnatural Ni isotopes into the mix. On the contrary, that will only confuse the issue and delay the research. 2. Suppose he did it. He is bound to be caught sooner or later. If this technology ever goes anywhere it will be independently replicated by people Rossi never meets, in labs he never goes to. It is certain they will find out he is faking. Long term, he will fail. So what short term gain can there be? 3. Along the same lines, if it is not true, he cannot get a patent for it, or a Nobel, or anything else. 4. Since people would soon distrust him, this would get in the way of proving the excess heat is real, and setting up commercial ventures. The excess heat is the only thing with commercial value at this stage, and Rossi is only interested in commercial development. He does not give a fig about science. Levi and Rossi's backers also have zero motivation to fake the Ni results. It would not benefit them at all, for the same set of reasons. Can you suggest any reason he *would* want to do this? Since this is your hypothesis, it is up to you to give a plausible reason why it might be true. - Jed
