Bob,
The best answer for the “Celani incident” three years ago - and the burst of radiation detected then, is that initially - Rossi required radiation triggering in order to start the reaction, but once started, the source was not needed. Thus the incident with Celani is fully explained. Then after 2012 and in later demos – Rossi found a way to avoid the need for radiation triggering and he also dropped the lead shielding, after he was fully convinced that there was no high energy radiation at all. This has been discussed here for some time – that a radiation source could somehow set the stage for a novel reaction, which did not itself produce added radiation. Peter suggested a cobalt-60 source… There are reasons to suspect that it was something else http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l%40eskimo.com/msg51243.html (an alpha source has been used – and it was for QM “probability enhancement” – which goes back to Nelson Ying, Baron of Balquhan. That is another strange story in the annals of LENR…. From: Bob Cook You may be right. However, Rossi in later demos was upset at observers trying to monitor the radiation from his 2011 test as I recall. In addition Focardi was advising Rossi at that time and had been helping him for some time before that with theory of the reaction. Focardi was an expert in radiation monitoring and I do not believe he would not have known how to monitor the co-incident gammas from the positron-electron reaction. Its easy if you have the correct equipment. I did it in a 2nd year physics class in the late 50’s. It sounds to me that the test you talk about in Bologna may have been a bad test. One would expect to see some decay of the electron capture reaction with a subsequent positron. It was apparent that Rossi would not let people do the monitoring. I think he carried that policy on up to the current TPT. We will see what comes from that testing soon I hope. Bob, That claim was dropped years ago. Do you see it after mid-2013? In fact, in an early test at Bologna, an expert was employed with a specialized detector for positrons, and saw absolutely nothing. I say “absolutely” since the curve was flat – not even much noise. AFAIK – there is no reliable data on any form of EM radiation coming from any Rossi device.
