>From Mark:
...
> ... and one can start by simply scanning all the
> comment sections of websites where a CF story ran, and summarize
> each skeptic's question or statement, and counter it with the facts. Keep
> it short and sweet, with links to references... the list of Rossi's 'c
Pretty decent article:
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/03/denial-science-chris-mooney
Excerpt:
> In other words, when we think we're reasoning, we may instead be
> rationalizing. Or to use an analogy offered by University of Virginia
> psychologist Jonathan Haidt: We may think we're being s
Mark Iverson wrote:
> Now that's a good idea... and one can start by simply scanning all the
> comment sections of websites where a CF story ran, and summarize
> each skeptic's question or statement, and counter it with the facts.
>
I have looked at previous compilations of skeptical assertions
I wrote:
cold fusion is not a free lunch. I is a lunch you are paid to eat.
>
Not me! *It* is a lunch you are paid to eat.
this is how experts describe compact fluorescent light bulbs in Scientific
American. their point was that not only to the balls consume less
electricity but they're much che
On 2011-04-26 16:20, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Rossi claims that the nickel will have to be changed out periodically,
every six months or so. I doubt it.
Not only the powder, it's the whole reactor vessel that has to be
replaced periodically. In my opinion this is probably also a safety
measure in
Akira Shirakawa wrote:
>
> Not only the powder, it's the whole reactor vessel that has to be replaced
> periodically. In my opinion this is probably also a safety measure in order
> to avoid long-term problems due to prolonged exposure to heat, relatively
> high internal pressures and hydrogen em
At 10:50 PM 4/25/2011, Mark Iverson wrote:
FYI:
Here's an article for all you
theorists...
"Scientists suggest spacetime has no
time dimension"
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-04-scientists-spacetime-dimension.html
-Mark
No problem ... progressing from one state to another is pretty much wh
So you don't believe the Ni is transmuted to Cu?
Ron
--On Tuesday, April 26, 2011 10:20 AM -0400 Jed Rothwell
wrote:
Rossi claims that the nickel will have to be changed out periodically, every
six months or so. I
doubt it.
- Jed
According to this story, wind energy in England, is not living up to
expectations.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1361316/250bn-wind-power-industry-gr
eatest-scam-age.html
<>
At 11:31 AM 4/25/2011, Mattia Rizzi wrote:
With 'this
week' i mean between 18 april and 21 april.
Carlos Perez
April 25th, 2011 at 3:45 PM
Dear Ing. Rossi:
I would like to know if Dr. Hanno Essen and/or Dr. Sven Kullander have
carried out further tests to your E-Cat device after the test
Rossi don't discose all the truth.
This is my e-mail to Mats Lewan (NyTeknik) and his response:
Dear Mattia,
I'm gathering info on this and will report within a week.
Mats
Från: Mattia Rizzi [mailto:mattia.ri...@gmail.com]
Skickat: den 24 april 2011 12:35
Till: Lewan Mats
Ämne: Abot Rossi's
*“I do not think the Pentagon and its many friends are going to stand by and
do nothing while other countries develop military technology that can
destroy our entire fleet of airplanes and ships in one afternoon at no risk
to the enemy.”*
* *
* *
*You have neglected a potential very important ro
We are missing the obvious: Rossi et al have enough investors to scale-up to
marketable magnitudes of power, if what they say is true. At the end of the
day, the market doesn't really care where you got the electricity that you are
selling. People understand electricity. At least in the US, the
Axil Axil wrote:
> *You have neglected a potential very important roadblock to cold fusion
> development, the US military, air tight regulatory control, security
> classification, and the proprietary use of cold fusion technology by the
> military industrial complex.*
>
I do not think this will
At 10:58 AM 4/26/2011, Wm. Scott Smith wrote:
Personally, I was more impressed with the smaller units that lacked the
lead; prior to that, I wondered if it was simply an isotope
reactor.
They were just nekkid eCats ... they would be enclosed in lead underwear
before being used.
There are some errors in this article:
"The most glaring dishonesty peddled by the wind industry — and echoed by
gullible politicians — is vastly to exaggerate the output of turbines by
deliberately talking about them only in terms of their 'capacity', as if
this was what they actually produce. Ra
I don't know why but I keep feeling (Red) fish smell
2011/4/26 Mattia Rizzi
> Rossi don't discose all the truth.
> This is my e-mail to Mats Lewan (NyTeknik) and his response:
>
>
> Dear Mattia,
>
> I’m gathering info on this and will report within a week.
>
> Mats
>
>
>
> *Från:* Mattia R
I was impressed by "no lead," because we then knew there was no surreptitious
fission going on; for example, radioactive isotopes, such as strontium. Isotope
Reactors do not rely on chain reactions, like newly-spent nuclear fuel rods, it
is the relatively short-lived isotopes that can produce m
*“How confident are you about the tungsten vs nichrome question for element
material? is SiC another reasonable possibility? Or is it too dangerous to
have any C around?”*
* *
I have no confidence at all. The construction of the internal heater/cathode
is the most intricate and problematic part o
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Jones Beene wrote:
> According to this story, wind energy in England, is not living up to
> expectations.
>
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1361316/250bn-wind-power-industry-gr
> eatest-scam-age.html
Of course storage technology could have a major effec
As to the question in the subject header, we don't know, without
knowing the secrets he's keeping, whether his real reasons are
legitimate or not.
As I wrote from the beginning on this, there is no limit to human
ingenuity, so "fraud" cannot be ruled out except by the normal
process: truly in
Control of the Rossi reaction is a complicated thing.
The energy density pumping mechanism you site may be only one mechanism of
many that play into the complicated interplay of many factors in which the
Cat-E might be controlled.
Rossi’s revelation that the “secret catalyst” makes the Rossi
Gene Mallove and I used to say that if we only had a demonstration kit we
could persuade the world that cold fusion is real. I think Rossi has shown
we were wrong. Even a good demonstration does not persuade the world, at
least not overnight. But there is no denying that commercial cells will
event
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
As I wrote from the beginning on this, there is no limit to human ingenuity,
> so "fraud" cannot be ruled out except by the normal process: truly
> independent examination and probably replication.
There is another way to rule out fraud. You can allow experts examine
The engineering game is a difficult place to set up a successful fraud;
having said that, con-men are most often the smartest men in the room. They
enter banking, the board room, the stock market, hedge funds, the money
management industry, The SEC regulators, or even the Federal Reserve. As Bernie
Axil Axil wrote:
The engineering game is a difficult place to set up a successful fraud;
> having said that, con-men are most often the smartest men in the room.
>
McKubre is brilliant and he has 22 years of experience working with flow
calorimetry, but he could not devise a method of faking a r
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Axil Axil wrote:
> The engineering game is a difficult place to set up a successful fraud;
> having said that, con-men are most often the smartest men in the room.
Enron
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1016268/ "The Smartest Guys in the Room"
was chump change compa
I wrote:
Levi, Essen et al. are convinced the machine is real because they understand
> that there are only a few limited ways to fake a reaction of this nature,
> and they are certain they have checked all such ways. I wasn't there, so
> that leaves me all-but-certain. I can't imagine a professio
Nice.
Natural gas: We couldn't possibly allow natural gas to be piped into urban
areas -- it would be way too dangerous -- people could blow up their
neighborhood if there were a leak, or kill themselves by asphixiation or
carbon monoxide poisoning..
Electricity: We couldn't possibly allow elec
Here are some Edo-period hanging marketplace weight scales:
http://www4.airnet.ne.jp/sakura/hakari/hakari_fr07.html
They are ingenious and perhaps more complicated than you might think. I
have seen people use them in recent times.
Naturally there were ways to hide weights in these things to che
In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Tue, 26 Apr 2011 10:20:36 -0400:
Hi,
[snip]
>Rossi claims that the nickel will have to be changed out periodically, every
>six months or so. I doubt it.
If 50 cc is filled with Ni powder, and the density is half that of the solid
metal, then there is enough N
There is something that is inherently risky about staking your energy and
economic future on the whether. Farmers have known this since the dawn of
civilization.
Wind and solar energy production may be dramatically affected by climate
change. When the north and south Polar Regions heat up and al
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:14 Axil wrote
Control of the Rossi reaction is a complicated thing.
The energy density pumping mechanism you site may be only one mechanism of
many that play into the complicated interplay of many factors in which the
Cat-E might be controlled.
Reply --Agreed and it m
At 04:46 PM 4/26/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote:
There is another way to rule out fraud. You can allow experts
examine the machine closely and look for the physical equipment
needed to commit fraud, such as hidden wires and pipes. Rossi has
done this. There is only a vanishingly small chance that a f
At 05:31 PM 4/26/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote:
McKubre is brilliant and he has 22 years of experience working with
flow calorimetry, but he could not devise a method of faking a
result with a flow calorimeter that I would not spot in the first
five minutes. I mean that.
I know you mean it, but I
At 06:29 PM 4/26/2011, you wrote:
If it turns out Levi is really, really stupid then I can imagine
some ways Rossi could commit a fraud. For example, if Levi shows up
and Rossi gives him the power meter, thermocouples and other
equipment and insists he use that equipment only, not his own, it
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