On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Bob Cook <frobertc...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Jed-- > > I hope you get an answer. This question has caused me to resist getting > into a give and take about the camera data. The thermocouple must have > been used to calibrate the camera at operating conditions, IF IT WERE > WORKING. The lack of this obvious information suggests the T/C was not > working properly. They either work on don't from my experience. > > The question being so simple puts them in a bind to answer. If it didn't > work they should, say so. If it did work properly they should provide the > data. Rossi claims there were millions of data points. It would nice to > request that they publish their data base of all the raw data. It all > can't be in the published document if there was as much as suggested by > Rossi. > > However, he may have had some restrictions on the data they could publish > to protect revealing the detailed operating conditions. The researchers > doing the test would have access to the data as it was accumulated and > would have used it to justify their conclusions, despite leaving room for > skeptics to rail on. > > I start with the naive (trusting) assumption that everything the authors of the Lugano report say about the reactor is based on fact rather than guesswork, but they can't reveal why they know them to be factual because it might reveal important IP. Unfortunately, such a situation will stimulate the more distrustful skeptics to imagine incompetence and/or misdirection. Harry
