Posted on 05/24/2013 6:35:28 PM PDT by Kevmo
I could hear the pages of wikipedia fluttering.
Is LENR a scaleable technology ?
***I think so, yes.
you're an idiot!
And that, my FRiend, is why many people are skeptical, and that was my point.
***Rossi has a terrible reputation. Those 7 scientists knew that, so they were extra careful to check & double check their results. In this way, the fact that Rossi is untrustworthy lends more credence to the results.
As in the phrase “A stopped clock is right twice a day”, it is possible that though continued work, Rossi has stumbled onto a concoction that works consistently. After all, Thomas Edison FAILED to invent a ‘consistently working’ light bulb for years.
***I think that’s very close to what happened here.
As far as trusting these 7 scientists, I don’t know them personally,
***That never seems to be a requirement for other scientific endeavors. Only LENR.
but it would seem that Rossi has worked on other projects with at least one of them, and those projects turned out to be scams. Is this not true?
***No.
Since GLOBAL WARMING EXPERT SCIENTISTS have made claims that are proving to be false, why would the average individual trust a few more scientists from Sweden?
***Because the measurements are so simple: power and temperature. Have you ever used a multimeter? A thermometer? When measuring your child’s temperature, how possible is it that you’d consistently make a measurement of 150degF? With several other people present... And then you throw out that thermometer and get a new one, same result. Even with this analogy, you are only supposedly making a mistake of 50%, not 10X.
The scientists you listed , on the average, are no more qualified in their fields than the GW scientists.
***They are qualified to make power measurements.
Basically, I am saying it’s hard to trust anyone these days when everyone seems to be compromising their integrity by SELLING OUT to the highest bidder. That is the reality that surrounds us that we must deal with.
***Then you’re stuck with an expanding conspiracy theory.
You may trust them, but, as you can see, others are not so quick to just blindly accept their ‘results’.
***Do you trust that the anomalous heat effect has been replicated more than 14,700 times, before Rossi ever came on the scene? These 7 scientists are putting their reputations on the line. Do you trust them to be able to read a multimeter and a thermometer?
Raising the bar for cold fusion while lowering the bar for hot fusion. Hot fusion has consumed $hundreds of billions, so where’s my flying hot fusion car?
Like Abe Lincoln’s answer to the reporter who asked how long his legs were — long enough to reach the ground.
How long will circumvention take? As long as it takes.
Yes
You’re avoiding this question.
You’re avoiding this question
Where is the proof you claim?
You’re avoiding this question
why do you put a quote around the word?
You’re avoiding this question
There are just so many things wrong with this so-called verification
***Then address them. If someone measured a resistor by Power-in and Heat-out, do you require them to open up the resistor to see how it works?
No. If it had, don't you think someone would have figured out 'how' this is working?
Did I mention hot fusion ?
Hot fusion has consumed $hundreds of billions, so where’s my flying hot fusion car?
That's the same question I have, except I don't care whether it's hot or cold.
Why don’t you? Do you think scientists made some error 14,700 times in a row?
If it had, don’t you think someone would have figured out ‘how’ this is working?
***Nope. This thing is very difficult, very tricky, it suffers from stigma and funding is virtually nil. Under those conditions, it takes more than 25 years to generate a breakthrough.
Then you wouldn’t mind if, say 10% of the funds for hot fusion, which has given us NOTHING, would go to cold fusion, which has given us 96 hours and 116 hours respectively of an independent test. Just the latest, by the way. Hagelstein’s test ran for 6 months.
It's difficult to answer invisible questions.
you are avoiding these questions
***Because the measurements are so simple: power and temperature. Have you ever used a multimeter? A thermometer? When measuring your child’s temperature, how possible is it that you’d consistently make a measurement of 150degF? With several other people present... And then you throw out that thermometer and get a new one, same result. Even with this analogy, you are only supposedly making a mistake of 50%, not 10X.
Proof of what?
BTW, here is an interesting link.
"There are just so many things wrong with this so-called verification"
I think you got me mixed up with someone else.
I haven’t avoided anything. I enjoy the debate, and hopefully will learn from it. I am here to learn. What are you here for ?
May I ask, how come you seem to just lock onto ONE THING at a time and repeat it until everyone gets tired of you saying it?
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