On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com>wrote:
> I have often cited this paper, which describes the final results from > Toyota's lab in France: > The results were presented in 1996. The lab closed in 1998. How could they be final, unless they got nothing in the last 2 years. > FAKE. This was published by Toyota researchers at conference sponsored by > a Japanese government agency (NEDO). It would be out of character for > Toyota or NEDO to countenance fake data. They would surely know it is fake. > > I don't know if they were fake, but between out-of-character and revolutionary physics, the former is more likely, especially in view of the subsequent shut-down of the lab, and absence of any subsequent comparable results. > MISTAKE. As you see in the paper, the temperatures were high and easy to > measure, and the input to output ratio was high. I do not think there is > any chance this was a mistake. > > But it was inferior calorimetry, and it used boiling water. Rossi is a master at the boiling water fake, getting a factor of 7 out of it. Pons only managed a factor of 2 or so.
