Press Release - ​INDEPENDENT TECHNICAL VALIDATION REPORT COMPLETED ON BRILLOUIN

Antoine Guillemin actually exists and he indeed holds a master in applied physics but since he has not worked in the field of nuclear science since his ph. d. and since he is not a renowned/respected professor in this field, this won't change much.

But, however, he is affiliated with the very renowned Ecole Polytechnique in Lausanne

http://people.epfl.ch/101794

The competence required for good calorimetry is not nuclear physics.
I would say, from past "experiences", that this competence is more a problem here.
"Applied" is what we need for this kind of measurement.

I put much hope in that sentence:
"The tests, in which 95 channels of data were recorded and then investigated, included multiple technical changes to validate the thermodynamic results."

Note that here the report is more than independent, it is done to protect one's investment.
If they are wrong, they lose their money.

I hope this will help to close conspiracy theory...

Where is the report itself?

Too bad the the report is available on demand with some NDA (what kind?).
This is due diligence for investment.

The notion of third party is to question here.
In a way any third party that invest after the test can be considered non-third-party, but It seems absurd to say it reduce the credibility to invest after the test done while you were not yet investor.

In a way a physicist that replicate an experiment, and continue working on the subject is said to be "member of the club of the believer". This is a catch-22 fallacy.

To be honest I would be more convinced by a test done by engineers, in industrial chemistry. The profile of the testers seems nearer to that, than usual physicist.

Anyway NDA is a problem for public credibility, but investment fund only have to convince investors, not the public. Money talks.

It is clear they need funding to develop their technology and catchup with [lexicon]IH[/lexicon] on the big markets.

On E-cat World, a comment by builtitnow reports precision from Robert Godes
http://www.e-catworld.com/2015…lease/#comment-2387825410

Quote from builtitnow

I called Robert Godes and discussed the meaning of "Lab-scale excess heat" stated in the "Independent Technical Validation Report".Robert told that the unit tested was a very small (tiny) prototyping model used to rapidly refine the product inexpensively. As a result of the small size the power output is also small, in "the tens of watts".
The larger commercial version will have much more power.Scaling could even be done with multiple of these very small units, however the obvious approach is to make larger versions for commercial use.As an example, in the video tour taken in Jan 2014, Robert said that the liquid version was capable of 30kW (and needed further refinements for reliability), see my comment below.

My opinion follows;
My guess is Brillouin wants to improve the COP and test longevity, and reliability etc. first, using prototypes.
The HHT version is a relatively new development for Brillouin and has the advantage of using inexpensive nickel and hydrogen and achieving higher temperatures (about 600C) than the liquid version (about 200C). There appears to be rapid progress on the HHT version so I look forward to more good news in the future.

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