On 11-12-20 03:09 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Defkalion asked an independent expert to contact me and discuss some
aspects of the company and their technology. This person is well known
to me and I trust him completely. For the time being he asks to remain
anonymous, for good reasons.
OK, so you cite someone you know, who is unnamed, who claims to have met
someone he now knows, but whom you haven't met, and claims that that
person conducted him around the site and showed him things.
Well this is certainly a good FOAF story.
A little more information would turn it into something more, of course.
But that information isn't forthcoming.
You're a good observer, Jed. Isn't it strange how you never get to
observe anything in this saga? You just hear claims that other folks
(who, your affirmations of trust aside, may or may not be good
observers) got to observe stuff which they then can relate orally.
The expert has examined the machines and discussed their business
plans. He has made an independent in-depth evaluation lasting several
days. He cannot publish that evaluation now, but he was free to
summarize it to me. He did not go into much technical detail because I
prefer not to hear confidential information. He gave me a broad
summary; the sort of thing a company would present at a trade show.
Let me summarize what he said:
The engineering and business operations at Defkalion are highly
promising. These people are highly professional.
Meaningless subjective statement.
What's more, to the extent that it does mean anything, it's patently
false, given the bizarre public statements they've made in response to
their little problem with a board member. If these people are behaving
in a "highly professional" way then I'm Bill Gates.
Their science and engineering are first rate. Their laboratory
equipment is first rate.
"First rate" is an undefined token sequence. It's like "good", or
"without sin". Without more context to qualify it, it carries no
information.
Their upcoming products are revolutionary. They are the best LENR
implementations ever produced. The expert says the prototype products
are consistent with the specifications described in the web site.
Good. Nice. The prototypes (mockups?) apparently look pretty, and the
paper specs look good. (So did the Batmobile I saw at a car show some
years back. It had great specs, too, by the way.) But do they work?
Do they do anything at all? This statement says *nothing* about that.
No tests were done by this observer. This is what engineers call a
"site visit" in anticipation of doing a test.
OK, no data.
Defkalion is working to resolve internal business matters such as the
misunderstandings with board members. They ask for our patience on
this matter.
Right, they've been accused of doing everything with smoke and mirrors,
and the accusation came from someone who should know as much about
what's really going on as anyone we've heard from, and they haven't even
so much as denied it in any clear way, and they certainly haven't
provided any actual evidence to the contrary.
