Why would you say Levi knows what's in the cell? They specifically say they don't know in the report.
On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Blaze Spinnaker <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't find Levi to be credible! I'm enthusiastic too and want to > believe, but Levi was a very poor choice to be primary author on the paper. > > A scientist with a credible track record would be better than Darden, but > Levi is not that scientist. > > The CEO of Elforsk, even the Nasa scientist - these are credible folks. > > The reality is this paper, coming from Levi, seemed more like an attempt > to prove that they he didn't screw up on the first one. Hardly an > unbiased source. > > It should have been different scientists. > > > On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 7:42 AM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Blaze Spinnaker <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I read somewhere that 70% of all papers are not able to be replicated. >>> Or something crazy like that. >>> >> >> Where did you read that, and what sort of papers did it refer to? I >> believe I have read that studies in sociology have poor replication rates. >> That is not true of cold fusion. Many experiments have not been replicated, >> but that is because no one has tried to replicate them. >> >> >> >>> Tom Darden's reptuation is far more valuable than Levi's. >>> >> >> This makes no sense. The issue is scientific. A scientist is a better >> judge of that than a businessman. Furthermore, hundreds of distinguished >> scientists have published compelling proof that cold fusion is real. You >> are moving your estimate by several percentage points in response to the >> opinions of one businessman. Surely, with regard to a scientific subject, >> the relative weight of peer-reviewed scientific papers by experts should be >> a hundred times -- or a thousand times -- that of a businessman's opinion! >> Those papers should be 99.9% of your evaluation, and Darden's opinion would >> be 0.1%. >> >> If you wanted an evaluation of the flight performance of the Boeing >> Dreamliner airplane, who would you ask? A businessman who invests in >> aviation? Or a group of 200 experienced professional pilots who have >> hundreds of hours experience flying the Dreamliner, and thousands of hours >> flying other aircraft? >> >> >> Also, Tom Darden knows what's inside the ecat. He has complete, >>> unfettered access. The same can not be said for Levi. >>> >> >> First, Levi knows what is in the cell. Second, this can be considered a >> black box test. It makes no difference what is in the cell. The calorimetry >> proves that whatever it is, it produces orders of magnitude more energy >> than any chemical fuel, and it works at a high temperature, and high power. >> So, if the effect can be controlled, it will not only be a practical source >> of energy, it will be far better than any other sources. That is what >> matters. >> >> - Jed >> >> >
