Jones, what you write here is pure speculation. I share some concerns about the temperature measurements and how they might influence the output power, but there is certainly no serious evidence that Rossi was able to impact the testing in a serious manner.
Why do you continue to suggest a scam of some type? If anything happened in error I for one believe it was an honest mistake. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Jones Beene <[email protected]> To: vortex-l <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, Oct 16, 2014 12:13 pm Subject: RE: [Vo]:temperature of the resistor wire. From: Robert Lynn Well I can argue that there is no excess heat - The thermography is proven to be wrong (inconel resistance wires melt at 1300-1350°C << 1412°C surface reactor temp claimed, and wires would have to be much hotter than reactor surface). Robert, Even if the thermography were not in error, meaning the internal wiring was tungsten or another conductor, and even if there was strong apparent excess heat, or no excess heat - everyone keeps overlooking the fact that Rossi intervened to prevent calibration of the so-called “dummy” reactor. That is FATAL to this report, which is little more than junk science because of that one overwhelming issue. Some observers want to blame Levi instead, but if Levi was not planning to fully calibrate anyway, that only shifts the blame, but does not change the conclusion of gross incompetence, at best - and deliberate deceit at worst. That is because it is possible, even likely - that there never was a “dummy” reactor. (to be explained) Rossi proponents either aren’t listening or do not understand that he has a long history of not playing by the rules, or else they do not understand the full implication of intervening in an “independent” report at all of the critical stages. But the lack of calibration is the key issue which dooms this report. Everything else is a footnote. The ironic thing is that failure to calibrate does not mean that there is no excess heat. In fact there is a fair to good chance that there is more excess than claimed. What the lack of calibration does mean is that Rossi is hiding something - and has used trickery to promote an agenda which includes more than financial gain. He has plenty of motive, even if his royalty deal has no milestones and even if the patent office is not impressed with these shenanigans. My best guess is that there never was a “dummy” and that the reactor which was tested came already engineered to produce excess heat, no matter what was put in it. He could have loaded it with bat guano and it would have worked. The “magic act” of loading and unloading “salted” powders then becomes the sham, which was a ploy to convince the patent office of something while throwing off the competition, and buying time. It could also be evidence of a contractual milestone in a multi-year royalty agreement. Yet Rossi may have invented something of great value. That is the irony. Let me reiterate that the odds of finding pure Ni62 (assuming that it was not salted into a sample) is greater than the proverbial monkey typing out the Twelfth Night with no typos. Rossi may well be a genius inventor, or just plain lucky but he is his own worst enemy if my suspicion is correct. That suspicion is that he staged this entire episode as a carefully crafted charade to not only fool potential competitors and the USPTO, but perhaps his benefactors at IH as well. He has thermal gain, and he justifies everything with the rationalization that if caught – he still has discovered a paradigm shift in physics. Worst of all – Rossi may well have a secret that he does not want even his benefactors to understand at this time since he does not understand it himself, and until he does, he has no one else he can trust (in his own mind). But since he is his own worst enemy, the reasoning becomes circular. This report stinks and it sets back LENR many years.
