I'm just interested in what kind of unpowered system can use insulation to increase its temperature after the power has been shut off.
It seems to me Jed has a point. Sent from my iPhone. On Oct 17, 2011, at 21:37, Robert Leguillon <robert.leguil...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Mr. Rothwell never attacked me personally. He merely labeled all remaining > skeptics as ignorant/blind/foolish/etc. I think that there is still room to > question the results, and I'm certainly not the only one. I think that the ad > hominems can stifle open communication, and I thought that they did not have > place here. > Now, in questioning the thermocouples, I'm apparently violating the laws of > physics and > without a 7th grade education. A public forum should be a safe environment > from ad hominems, but maybe I misunderstood. > I may not have a "degree in Japanese", but I was studying quantum mechanics > at Fermilab while still in high school. Nevertheless, I'll take a back seat, > or "get out of the kitchen" if this is how you guys cook. > > Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Stephen A. Lawrence <sa...@pobox.com> wrote: >> >> >> >>> >>> On 11-10-17 03:50 PM, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson wrote: >>> >>>> Robert, >>>> >>>> You state: >>>> >>>> You [Mr. Rothwell] may disagree, and now be 100% convinced, but it's your >>>>> personal attacks that are troubling. >>>>> >>>> Where has Mr. Rothwell attacked you personally? >>>> >>> >>> Well, if Robert is claiming that there was no energy generated, then the >>> item from Jed which he quoted would apply to him, and that sure sounds like >>> an ad hominem to me: >>> >>> "Skepics who claim that ... there was no energy generated ... are ignorant. >>> They lack 7th grade knowledge of physics." >>> >>> That is not an attack on the arguments. That is an attack on the skeptics, >>> themselves. Jed has personally attacked /all/ "Rossi skeptics", it would >>> seem. >>> >> >> It would not be an attack on Robert if Robert is, in fact, in the 7th grade. >> He might be. Or his science education may have ended then. >> >> There are many people who have no knowledge of science beyond junior high >> levels. I have met some high and mighty Wall Street investment bankers >> interested in cold fusion who would not know the Second Law of >> Thermodynamics if it bit them on the butt. >> >> Such people are common in the U.S., and always have been. Read Mark Twain >> and you will see. >> >> Being ill-educated it not dishonorable. What is dishonorable is to refuse to >> educate yourself more; to challenge your assumptions; or to perform a simple >> test in the kitchen to see what happens to hot water in a poorly insulated >> metal vessel in 4 hours. >> >> I am pretty sure this is junior high level material because somewhere I have >> a junior high physics textbook, in Japanese. I recall this kind of thing was >> covered in it. Granted, their classes tend to be more advanced than ours. >> Anyway, I can't find it. >> >> - Jed
