As one of the pragmatic skeptics, I quote today's Waterloo moment -- in gratitude to Robert Leguillon and Alan J. Fletcher:
from Robert Leguillon robert.leguil...@hotmail.com to vortex-l@eskimo.com date Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:23 AM [ Jed Rothwell : ] "The skeptical, conservative position is to believe in conventional physics and to trust that laboratory grade instruments have worked correctly in thousands of experiments (including this one) and therefore cold fusion must be real." Am I to understand that even the most pragmatic skepticism is to be dismissed? So the open-minded position is that: 1)It doesn't matter if the E-Cat thermocouple was resting on the heat-sink fins, because the thermocouples are laboratory grade and they read correctly. Skeptics are foolish to look at this. 2)Any attempt to quantify the flow rate into the primary doesn't matter. It must have been consistent, and large enough to imply significant power gains. Skeptics are foolish to look at this. 3)The proximity of the secondary thermocouple to the steam input doesn't matter. It may have been influenced by the steam/water input, but it must have been less than a few percent. It's not worth attempting to quantify any effects, because there must have been observed power gains. Skeptics are foolish to look at this. 4)Temperature fluctuations in the secondary-side thermocouple cannot be caused by overflowing water, because specific heats of steam/water don't change the efficientcy of heat transfer to the heat-exchanger fitting. Skeptics are foolish to look at this. 5)The sporadic checking of the output temperature hurts calculations of heat output, but the actual gains don't really matter in the end. They must have been large. Skeptics are foolish to look at this. 6)It doesn't matter if there was never any evidence of heat-before-death, because there is ample evidence of heat-after-death. Cold fusion is a more likely explanation than bad calorimetry or stored heat. Skeptics are foolish to look at this. from Alan J Fletcher a...@well.com via eskimo.com to vortex-l@eskimo.com date Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:45 AM subject RE: [Vo]:The style is the man himself. 9:45 AM (7 hours ago) At 09:23 AM 10/17/2011, Robert Leguillon wrote: "The skeptical, conservative position is to believe in conventional physics and to trust that laboratory grade instruments have worked correctly in thousands of experiments (including this one) and therefore cold fusion must be real." Am I to understand that even the most pragmatic skepticism is to be dismissed? If you'd stopped at #5 you would have had my total agreement.
