On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 1:18 AM, Marcello Vitale <mvit...@ucsbalum.net>wrote:
> Gee, I guess their behavior seems highly suspicious :-))) > It seemed a little evasive, but in spite of that, in 1904 the prestigious journal Science wrote: "The newspapers of December 18 contained the announcement that Wilbur Wright had flown a distance of 3 miles with an aeroplane propeled by a 16-horse power, four-cylinder, gasoline motor, the whole weighing more than 700 pounds…. "But to the student of aeronautics, and particularly to those who had followed the careful scientific experiments with aeroplanes which were being made by Orville and Wilbur Wright, it meant an epoch in the progress of invention and achievement, perhaps as great as that when Stevenson first drove a locomotive along a railroad." They proceed to admit wide skepticism because of many failures, but then say (remember, in 1904): "Mr. Wright's success in rising and landing safely with a motor-driven aeroplane is a crowning achievement showing the possibility of human flight." Nothing like that has ever appeared in Science about cold fusion, or about Rossi. They clearly actively avoided the press until the were really ready in 1908, when their demonstration left no doubt. Rossi has claimed working ecats for 4 years or so, and claimed to have heated a factory with one for 2 years. He didn't invite the press until his big show in Jan 2011. He has since had a dozen demos with invited press *with* video cameras, and with invited scientists. But although he has claimed he is ready for the marketplace, whereas the Wrights clearly weren't, Rossi's demo falls far short of satisfying the skeptics, let alone catapulting him onto the world stage. And instead of actually *showing* the public what an ecat can do, by using it to heat something, or to do some obvious work, he sends all the claimed energy down a drain or into the sky, and then reports measured temperatures, requiring his audience to trust his measurements. The Wrights in 1908 did not depend on trust. They showed the world how far they could jump.
