Since Jed decided to debate me in absentia here on the Vortex, I thought I'd respond.
Rothwell said: "No, as Ian Walker already pointed out to you, it says in the Appendix they checked for it. Also they told me they did. Figure 1 shows a direct connection to each of the 3 wires (for voltage) in" Suggesting that a schematic wiring diagram “proves” the exact details of the physical setup is silly. Are you suggesting that the connection for phase 3 is about 1/3 closer to the control box as the connection for phase 1? I hope not. From the report: "The three-phase power cables were checked and connected directly to the electrical outlet. It was established and verified that no other cable was present and that all connections were normal. The ground cable was disconnected before measurements began." It’s clear that the authors of the report were using the term “cable” to refer to a single, insulated wire. They were looking for extra wires. Nothing in their description even suggests that they were looking for extra conductors in a single wire. The two “cheese” videos would easily pass the precautions as described. The creator of those videos didn’t need an extra “cable”, and was able to measure both continuity and voltage with the wiring trick in place. Rothwell said: "He keeps insisting we can’t be sure the heat originates from inside the cell because they measure the temperature at the outside wall." You are distorting what I said. My reading of the report suggests that the actual “E-Cat” is a metal tube with sealed ends, which slides into the central cavity of a conventional tube furnace. But even if I was mistaken on this point, it doesn’t affect my argument. The device in the photos is a tube containing Rossi’s magic gadget AND conventional electrical resistance heaters. There is no way to prove that the heat being radiated from the surface came from the E-Cat and not the electric heaters. The testers used a finicky, 4th-power function to try to estimate how much heat is being produced. This is a dodgy way of determining how much of the heat came from the actual E-Cat, even if they could be certain that there wasn’t a trick to feed in extra power (and they failed miserably to prove that). But, all they know is that the device on average, produced about 2.5 times as much power as they measured going in. If their input measurements were wrong, then their estimated COP was wrong. Rothwell said: “There is not an extra wire. It is not dead. This is 3-phase power. Please look that up if you do not understand the concept." Look that up yourself. 3-phase power has three HOT lines, PLUS a neutral, plus a GROUND (which, according to the report, was disconnected). The report indicates that, although the device was connected to a 3-phase power outlet, only 2 phases were being used. They specifically state (and show in Fig. 3 of the Appendix) that only 2 phases were supposedly carrying any current. The 3rd phase wire “appears” dead. If this is correct, then Rossi was only using 2 of the 3 phases, and only for 1/3 of the time (i.e. a 33% duty cycle). Each of the “non-dead” phases was drawing about 400 Watts when turned on. At the very least, it is very suspicious that Rossi included a “dead” wire between the power source and the device, unless it wasn’t really “dead”. If the wiring trick had been used on that 3rd phase wire (the one that appeared to be dead), we can make a prediction about the apparent COP from such a deception. Let’s assume that the 3rd phase was carrying the same current as the other two phases (400 W), and that Rossi left it turned on 100% of the time (better for the fraud, and less likely to be detected than if it were being cycled on and off). So, instead of 800 Watts (2 phases of 400 Watts each) for 33% of the time (average Power: 266.6 Watts), the real electrical input would be 1200 Watts (2 + 1 hidden phase) for 33% of the time plus 400 Watts (1 hidden phase) for 66% of the time (average Power: 666.6 Watts), for an apparent COP of 2.5 (really a COP of 1.0). That’s exactly what the report claims to have found. So, without hidden laser beams or magic coatings to mask the power coming out, and without the need for LENR, we only need a single hidden conductor, capable of carrying 400 Watts, to fake the reported results.
