a.ashfield <a.ashfi...@verizon.net> wrote:
> Did anyone tell you why it was "bad"? > That I cannot discuss. Sorry. I find it very hard to believe one could make an error of x50. > It is hard to believe. But we have all seen errors of this magnitude on a small scale, and even on the kilowatt scale at Defkalion. Plus, as I said, Rossi's public 1 MW reactor test proved nothing. And Rossi has made many terrible mistakes, most memorably when he almost killed the people from NASA. That was a kilowatt-scale mistake. There may have been no excess heat (it is impossible to judge) but he thought there were kilowatts of excess heat, because he thought there was fluid flowing through the reactor carrying off heat. In fact, the flow was blocked, and the heat and steam pressure were building up inside the reactor. Everyone makes mistakes. I have made many, including some where I thought there was many times input when there was nothing. Here is the thing though. Rossi's reaction to this mistake proves there is something deeply wrong with him. I mean it when I say he almost killed those people (and himself). When a heavy steel boiler with no safety valve explodes from steam, that can be devastating. The fact that he even built the reactor without a safety pressure relief valve is extraordinarily rash. It is senseless. If you or I or any normal person nearly triggered such an accident, we would be mortified. We would apologize. We might fear a lawsuit. We would do everything in our power to assure the observers that this was a terrible mistake and it will never happen again. The people from NASA -- who were braver than I -- offered to come back the next day to see a properly done demonstration. It goes without saying that if you or I were in that situation we would make every effort to fix the problem and do a demonstration the next day. So what did Rossi do? He flatly refused to try another demonstration, and he demanded that they pay him millions of dollars based on what they had just seen. When they refused, he went ballistic and threw them out. This reaction is pathological. It is crazy. Anyone who would do that is either mentally ill or he is an extremely stupid fraud. Anyone who would do that cannot be trusted. His technical judgement is so bad, and he is so rash, he is probably capable of making an error of 50 times input. I know that Rossi is stubbornly unwilling to admit to any mistake, no matter how obvious it is. I have seen that in my own interactions with him. I am not going to speculate as to whether Rossi is a fraud. But this incident, and others like it, prove beyond question that his judgement is deeply flawed, he is a dangerous person, and you cannot believe his claims unless they are independently confirmed. That does not preclude the possibility that he is also a genius. - Jed
