There are several problems 1) They had every opportunity to coat the reactor with black refractory paint. In fact Rossi did this on numerous other tests.
2) They did not calibrate above 450 C and this was not done ON ORDERS FROM ROSSI 3) There is every reason to believe that the same gain would have been seen in the dummy had they calibrated it high enough. 4) They should have used pyrometer of platinum thermocouple in any event 5) The were highly criticized in the first report for the IR Camera but ignored the criticism 6) In short this report is non-scientific and should not be passed-off as evidence of anything. From: Alan Fletcher The good news : In fig 6 the transmittance of alumina drops off by 5um,, and drops off quicker at higher temperatures. The bad news : In fig 7 the emittance varies greatly by wavelength (1.0 to 0.15), and also varies by temperature. Levi et al do not mention the variation by wavelength, only temperature (Fig 6, plot1). I don't know whether the IR camera system takes this into account. And we still have the problem of a system calibrated at 450C being used at 1400C _____
