Executive summary: Can anyone actually verify that E-Cat has ever been run when
Rossi was not physically present? If not, why not?
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From: Jed Rothwell
> SJ: My best guess: The briefly detected "EMP" is part of the proprietary
> process that has yet to be officially patented.
JR: There was no electromagnetic pulse. Celani had two RF meters as well as
two particle detectors. The former detected nothing.
Well, Celani detected a large pulse of radiation (presumably gamma) before
entering the demo, that is what we are talking about - so let us phrase it as:
"There was no detectable electromagnetic pulse during the operation of the
demo." Which could mean only that Rossi's assistant in the basement finally got
the drive beam focused correctly ;)
Again this is an attempt to play the 'devil's advocate' here, but I wish that
the genius "Randi" or some other out-of-work magician would do the honors,
since as of now the weight of evidence does seem to remain firmly on Rossi's
side.
Nevertheless, it is a mistake not to present the "well designed magic trick"
alternative. Or has this been done?
For instance, that Rossi could not have invented a very efficient "antenna" for
a "directed beam" of focused energy of some kind. Remember that the demo took
place in an industrial building which Rossi rented, not the University
premises. Did anyone check the floor above and below the demo room? Has Rossi
ever allowed the machine to be running when he was not in attendance? Has he
allowed it to be removed to the University?
BTW, the putative "energy beam" hypothesis does conjure up the Tesla tower on
Long Island and it was said that Tesla drove an automobile powered by this
means. Did Rossi improve it to make it a "directed energy beam"?
And there have been a number of recent "wireless energy transfer" breakthroughs
(all of which should be detectable, but did Rossi come up with one which can be
hidden?)
However, this or any other kind of "magic trick" or Tesla-esque scenario could
be cleared up instantly if it is true that the University staff has now been
given free access to testing, and can move and open up the device, but with
Rossi NOT being present.
Unfortunately that does not seem to be the case.
Can anyone actually verify that E-Cat has ever been run when Rossi was not
physically present? He can promise anything - like isotope analysis. As long as
it is "in the future".
Does it all turn on this: That no one really puts on such a show, just to get
their 15 minutes of fame?
I think this is the thing that LENR proponents are assuming - that no one, not
even a crazy Italian who has told more half-truths than Clinton and Bush
combined, would really go to these extremes to get 15 minutes of fame and maybe
a TV deal on Fox.
Heck, Rossi might have been recruited for this ! even planned it out from
Day-one with the help of skeptics like Park & Co (or more likely the Pentagon
or spooks at some 3-letter org) as a sponsor, for all we really know. That
would explain Park's unaccustomed silence. Maybe they want to embarrass the
LENR community to such an extent that funding will never happen.
That is a most ingenious way to protect military secrets, after all?
Jones
