Well, it is clear to me from his comments that Jeb does not believe the Penon ERV report, and also does not consider Penon a competent tester.
Are you challenging that summary of Jeb's opinion, or the fact that I agree with it? I'll suppose the latter, because the former is easily validated.
The reasons for my having a similar view are as follows:
(1) I have for a long time had strong evidence that Rossi's tests generate fake results. Rossi has a record of inventing energy devices that don't work. And the claimed device in this case is LENR, and hence requires extraordinary evidence.
(2) Jed has a different prior view than me. He is confident that LENR is real, that therefore results such as Rossi claims are quite plausible to him. Nevertheless he will have similar reservations about Rossi that I do.
(3) I am aware that the various rumours are IH's spin (most probably) on the matter. And that Rossi's comments are not compatible with this although when it comes to facts they do not exactly contradict the IH spin. Rossi just leaves things out and so his remarks seem very different. Irrespective of the other matters, given such a disagreement between Rossi and almost any other entity, I would reckon the other entities version to be more likely reliable then Rossi's. In this case claiming Rossi's stuff does not work is very bad PR for IH. They would not do it without strong reasons.
(4) I have specifically here published the reasons why on the basis of his previous Rossi testing record I consider Penon to be a very unbelievable tester.