Jed, I like you because you are romantic. I think a little too optimistic but I can see your heart is in the right place. I hope you are right. Giovanni
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <a...@lomaxdesign.com> wrote: > > Jed, you have previously stated that you have private information on which >> you base your conclusions as to the reality of Rossi. Please cut the rest >> of us some slack! We have no way of knowing if your private information is >> sound, or if you have been misled, or if you have drawn unsound conclusions >> from what you know. >> > > Mainly what I know was revealed by McKubre in his recent talk: > > http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/McKubreMCHwhathappen.pdf > > See where it says "AmpEnerco Run I" > > These were independent tests done by Ampenergo before they made an > agreement with Rossi. Various experts participated, including someone > McKubre knows well. He trusts his expert. I know some of those people too, > and I trust them. That is not to suggest that I can judge calorimetry as > well as McKubre can! Far from it. But it isn't hard to judge these > results. These tests were similar to the public tests conducted by Rossi, > only they were independent, with someone else's instruments. Somewhat > better instruments, proper computers and so on, but basically the same sort > of HVAC test procedures. > > Okay, ask yourself this. Suppose you know that tests similar the 18-hour > February test and the October self-sustaining tests were done, with > instruments supplied and operated by someone you knew to be an expert, and > a trustworthy person. Would that convince you? If the answer is yes, you > can see why McKubre and I are pretty confident this result is real. On the > other hand, if the HVAC-style testing does not satisfy you, then you will > not be convinced. > > Mary Yugo has said she demands a blank run. As far as I know they did not > do one. I think she wants to see a Seebeck calorimeter. I am sure they did > not use that. So she would not be satisfied by these tests. > > That's all there is to it. I have no knowledge of Rossi's personal > business. For all I know he might be robbing dozens of investors. I do not > think he is. I have absolutely no knowledge of any such thing, no evidence, > and frankly I could not care less if he is robbing people. I am sure his > claims are real. That does not preclude the possibility that he is > defrauding people; it would mean he is defrauding them with a genuine cold > fusion reactor. Not my problem. > > Here is a key issue. Rossi's personality is an open book thanks to his > website. That is unique to the 21st century. People who dismiss him because > of his personality should think about that. Suppose in 1879 Edison had a > kept an Internet blog while he invented the incandescent light. Suppose > everyone could follow along with his trials and tribulations and his > frequent crazy ideas. Now, 140 years later, you can read detailed > biographies of him. You can read the lab notebooks. You can see why some of > his investors lost their nerve and sold out for pennies on the dollar as he > floundered around spending rivers of money, changing the design > radically, apparently getting nowhere. In my opinion, his comments were no > less extreme than Rossi's; his behavior no less erratic. That is true of > many other famous inventors. It is also true of many ordinary programmers, > chemists and others doing creative work that is worthy, difficult, but > never becomes famous. It is true of some top notch gourmet chefs; a guy I > know who can climb and cut down just about any tree with minimal equipment > but frightful risk; and many farmers and fishermen in Yamaguchi. People who > do extraordinary, creative, or dangerous things are sometimes odd. If they > were not odd, they would do these things. In the past, we did not know how > odd people such as Edison were until long after they became rich & famous, > when all their sins were forgiven. Now, with Rossi, we learn of it in real > time. > > My guess is that people such as Mary Yugo cannot look past Rossi's > personality because they have not read many biographies, diaries and > personal papers left by famous people. They have not met a broad range of > people from other cultures, or eccentric people, or downright crazy people. > I have. I mean that literally. I grew up encountering people who were > diagnosed with mental illness, in the era before effective > psychotropic drugs. You can read about them here: > > > http://books.google.com/books/about/The_psychiatric_halfway_house.html?id=8wsEAQAAIAAJ > > (The authors are my mother and my aunt.) > > In other words, I am used to discounting personality quirks, and looking > at the content of the work. That is not an easy thing to do. It is not > always a wise thing to do. It just happens I am good at it, because I have > had a lot of practice. > > - Jed > >
