Jones, you're really going of the wall here. The IR literature recently posted here shows that IR calorimetry CAN give temperatures with 2% accuracy. But more importantly, once calibrated the method is a very quick AND accurate way of looking at differences, which is clearly what Rossi is doing here. It may not be scientifically satisfying, but it's what engineers do. (Not to mention that Rossi has access to the internal thermocouple, so he's now probably more interested in the distribution of heat and how to get it out of the tube.)
It's also clear from the Greenyer video that the hotcats are intended to be used as plug-in heater elements for commercial heaters, operating in the 1000C+ range. Rossi didn't release this picture -- it was taken during an interview by Vessey (Vessela Nikolova) for his book - OVER A YEAR AGO. The book has just been released -- so the release of the photo now is promo for the book, not for Rossi or to mislead the MFMP. Since then IH have (apparently) sold a 1MW warm-cat to a commercial customer, so it's no surprise that Rossi is currently spending most of his time on that. (And he posted just today that he was having trouble with the gas-cat, but that he'd thought of a way round it. And I don't think he's given up on electric generation either). ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jones Beene" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 3, 2014 9:31:56 AM A wealth of information can be gleaned from this … More likely - a wealth of disinformation. First and foremost –despite the criticism of thermometry in the first and second iterations – he seems to persist with a technique which none of his critics will find acceptable, if this is not a further charade. There is little valid rationale for avoiding flow calorimetry – other than that the results would be embarrassing. His supporters then argue that he doesn’t care about the critics. He has no interest in what others think. OK. Then why the hell release anything at all? This photo changes nothing in the mind of critics and it can only have one use. The only possible use which I can see is to further confuse anyone who might be trying to replicate the Lugano report. Rossi may have sent this specifically to Greenyer - in order to throw MFMP into further disarray. For months Rossi has been saying that his attention has shifted away from the HT version and to the so-called megawatt unit which is low temperature. The only scenario for this photo release - which makes any sense is that Rossi had noticed what MFMP was planning to do with the “dummy” - and thought that they were getting too close to the truth, so he wants to lead them astray now - if he can.
