peatbog <[email protected]> wrote: As I understand it, Rossi is claiming to do something that people > who know a lot about this sort of thing believe is not possible. >
Not quite. Rossi and several hundred others have published definitive proof that they are doing something that some other people -- mainly hot fusion scientists who claim they are experts -- say is not possible. Until enough people have reverse-engineered his device and gotten > the same amazing performance that he claims . . . People have already gotten the same amazing performance, albeit on a smaller scale. They got that performance back in 1992. Scientifically speaking, cold fusion results then were as astounding, and convincing, as Rossi's results are today. The only difference is that Rossi's device has more commercial potential. , it seems more likely that he and his colleagues have made a mistake than > that they have > an amazing new invention. > It does not seem "likely" because there is no evidence for that. It would have to be that Rossi, his colleagues, everyone else who has observed heat from Ni-H made a mistake. Or, if you go by the standards of the above mentioned hot fusion experts, it has to be that every scientist who has ever observed cold fusion in any form was wrong. It is not possible all of these people are wrong. It is not even possible that the entire Ni-H group is wrong. And Rossi's tests are definitive. The best proof of that are the absurd objections. If the best "objection" anyone can come up with is that the thermocouples shown in the photos, with a 1 L/s flow, might be too close to the cell, all of meaningful objections are exhausted. That's not scraping the bottom of the barrel; it is scraping right through it into the ground. There are only two possibilities here: 1. Rossi, Focardi and everyone else who has examined this cell or reported on it are in cahoots in a gigantic scam, and everything they have claimed is made-up nonsense. 2. It is real. - Jed
