Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
I tried to discuss the work with them and I had trouble finding
someone familiar with the project. I don't recall when Tom Passell
retired from EPRI. He is one of these Energizer Bunny people who
never stops working.
My analysis exactly. You'd have to ask the manager to whom McKubre
reported . . .
That's Tom Passell.
, and it's entirely possible that there wasn't enough interest left
for even that person to remember it.
He certainly remembers the project. He is still involved in cold
fusion. I have often spoken with him, although I have not discussed
this particular issue. What I meant was that I called EPRI about some
other aspects of the McKubre work a few years ago, after Passell
retired. He gave me the name of the person to call. Anyway, this
person and the others did not know the first thing about McKubre's
work. They were asking me questions about it. So they would not
remember a correction he reported years after the fact.
It is a gigantic adjustment from a numerical standpoint, but given
the size of the error bars and the difficulties of the measurement it
is not so big. It just shows that helium studies are still in their
infancy. That's what I told Krivit, but he didn't buy it.
- Jed
