On May 9, 2013, at 8:12 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
It is well-known that people engaged in wishful thinking often see
patterns where there are none. This is why a gambler believes in a
lucky talisman. It is less often noted that people in extreme denial
sometimes look at a clear pattern and fail to see it. Any reasonable
person looking at McKubre Fig. 1 can see that high loading is a
control factor for excess heat, and that the results are not erratic
or random:
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/McKubreMCHcoldfusionb.pdf
Cude not only fails to see this pattern, he mixes up two numbers:
1. The number of tests that fail to achieve high loading and
therefore do not meet necessary conditions. These never produce
heat, which is good evidence that high loading is necessary.
And this behavior is exactly what would be expected. Deuterium is a
reactant. Therefore, its concentration will determine the reaction
rate. When the concentration is too low, the rate of power production
drops below that which can be detected by the calorimeter, hence
appears to be zero. Consequently, Mckubre observed exactly the
behavior that must occur regardless of the explanation. Furthermore,
everyone who made composition measurements while measuring heat,
including myself, found the same relationship. As people keep pointing
out, this and other correlations that cannot result from error support
the FACT that cold fusion is a phenomenon of nature.
If Cude wanted to make a contribution, he could ask questions that
would reveal facts that he and others might not know rather than
giving a counter argument to every support for CF. This discussion is
exactly like one about the earth being flat or the Moon landing being
a fake. Reality does exist. Cude is either playing games with us for
fun, as he claims, or he is insane. In either case, this is a waste
of time.
Ed Storms
2. The number of tests that achieve high loading and produce high
heat. Nearly all of them do. This is irrefutable evidence that high
loading is necessary, but not quite sufficient.
- Jed
