Re: [Vo]: Cold Fusion skeptic Dr. Michael Shermer

[Nick Palmer]

Harry Veeder wrote:-

<<It is more like the difference between burning gasoline as a liquid vs 
gasoline as a vapour. While you need to exert some effort to vaporise the 
gasoline, the COP is still much bigger>>

No Harry, the error you made is exactly the one I pointed out using an 
accelerator (gas) pedal as an analogy. I don't know how long you have been 
around, but Jed and I and Ed Storms and Terry Blanton have been commenting 
and arguing about this subject since the news broke in 1989. Many people 
have brought up your point before. Most people "skilled in the art", and 
those who follow them, realise that the electrolysis is only a means of 
preparation of the conditions necessary for CF to occur. The fact that "heat 
after death" is a well known phenomenon, where there is no further 
electrolysis (no input electrical, or other, energy) but heat continues to 
be generated for some time ( approaching "infinite" COP), shows the relative 
meaninglessness of chasing this form of "COP" - which is exactly what Ed 
Storms said originally. Try not teaching your grandmother to suck eggs for a 
change...