Joshua Cude <joshua.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I will say, however, that his views seem to boil down to an assertion > that conventional instruments and techniques do not work. > > > Wrong. I have never asserted that, and I do not believe it. I will assert > that tools do not make a carpenter, and that my views boil down to an > assertion that cold fusion researchers are bad carpenters. > For this to be the case, they would all have to be incompetent. Every last of them. If even one of them is correct about the calorimetry, tritium, helium and other evidence, then the effect is real after all. There are some inept cold fusion researchers. Many mistakes have been made. That is true of any field of science. But there are also many hundreds of world-class experts such as Flieschmann, Bockris, Miles, Storms, Iyengar and Lonchampt. Lonchampt was a commissioner on the French AEC and the chief designer of their fission reactors. Those reactors, unlike ours, have not blown up or melted down. I realize that you think these people have made mistakes, and they are inept, but you are wrong. Let's look at just one example of the kind people we are talking about. See: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/EPRInsfepriwor.pdf Look at p. 13.3, the CV of Roland A. Jalbert: *25 years working with tritium and tritium detection *involved in the development, design, and implementation of tritium instrumentation for 15 years *for 12 years he has had prime responsibility for the design, implementation, and maintainance of all tritium instrumentation at a major fusion technology development facility (Tritium Systems Test Assembly ). *Consultant on tritium instrumentation to other fusion energy facilities for 10 years ( Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor at Princton ) You apparently believe that you know more about tritium than Jalbert does. You believe he is incompetent and incapable of detecting tritium. You also believe that of Storms, the Safety Division at BARC (whose lives depend on detecting tritium correctly) and several hundred other distinguished experts in that field are wrong. If you sincerely, actually think that you know how to measure tritium better than these people, and every single one of them has made a stupid mistake, even when they measured it at 10E18 times background, then I suggest you are suffering from an extreme case of egomania. I am certain you are wrong, and these people are right. I do not know much about tritium, so I cannot judge whatever technical claims you might make to show these people are wrong. I do understand x-ray film, helium detection and calorimetry, and without going into details I am sure that your arguments have no merit. - Jed
