At 02:19 PM 8/1/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote:
I think there is good evidence for Rossi's claims. I hope that
Defkalion soon publishes good evidence for their claims, with more
rigorous & professional reports than Rossi and Levi et al. have
produced so far. I do not think that any of the arguments against
Rossi have merit, especially not the ones that attempt to disprove
the 18-hour flowing water test.
What test? What exactly was done, what data was generated?
We have seen how the public demonstrations turned out to have hidden
problems, problems that were not immediately obvious, and Rossi and
Levi stonewalled, basically, and have yet to even acknowledge the
problems, much less address them straight-on. Everything reduces to
"You'll see in October!" So, big surprise, Jed, we are waiting till October.
"Disproving" a test that hasn't even been reported in detail is a
fool's errand. I've raised a couple of possible problems with the
flowing water test, but remember how long it took to get the problems
with the boiling water demos straight? And that was with far more data.
As you well know, raising a problem is not any kind of disproof. It's
just a problem. At best, something to be addressed. A sober scientist
will simply address it. Are there any sober scientists around?
I think so, and I think some have written comments that Krivit
reproduced. Krivit himself isn't particularly sober, he gets
personally involved. But he did a pretty good job collecting those
comments. We could supplement that. On Wikiversity, perhaps, under
the Rossi subpage, http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Cold_fusion/Energy_Catalyzer
