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was shut down by Barty.
This topic was discussing the most substantive current issue on LENR today, the Rossi Memorandum filed in his lawsuit, opposing dismissal of the case.
I had extensively studied the Memorandum and posted on what I found, in a series of posts which each focused on one item; there were nine of these in all.
Sifferkoll -- and others -- extensively ridiculed this, and Dewey Weaver and Sifferkoll exchanged the usual usual. Sifferkoll extensively references his blog, which makes what he writes here seem calm and mild. Dewey Weaver is the only insider posting here from direct experience of the Rossi affair. Yes, he's pissed. HOwever, again and again, comments in that thread show that people -- including Sifferkoll -- have not studied and do not understand the issues. For example:
With this post I wrote:
Quote[H]As anyone else noticed that the Validation test and the General Performance test do not actually specific power output? You could technically satisfy the test requirements with a few watts.There also is no reliability requirement. Because there is no power requirement, there might only be one device actually working.
Axil responded:
QuoteIn section 5 of the licence agreement, a COP of 4 is required and the temperature of the steam is specified.
Yes, indeed, COP 4 is required, and so is the temperature of the steam as 100 C or greater. However, that provides no information about the power, unless one knows three things: flow rate of cooling water, inlet temperature, and then how much water was actually evaporated. Water and steam can be flowing in the output line, together, at the temperature specified, and this could be done with a few watts. Certainly it would be trivial to do it with a kilowatt. "COP 4" tells us nothing about the power level, unless we know the input power. And steam temperature is almost useless, and this was all covered extensively in discussions of the early Rossi demonstrations. At atmospheric pressure, 100 C could be entirely water, unless there is a steam separator -- and Dewey is claiming Rossi removed one that IH had installed. And then one still needs to know the volume of the steam (or the quantity of water flowing in a bypass after the steam separator). In other words, Axil's comment would merely be likely to confuse the ignorant, and does not negate what I wrote. Of course, maybe he was agreeing with me, but I suspect not.
Then there was Sifferkoll, with one of his last posts before the thread was locked. From amidst the general and routine incivilities, in large and bold font:
QuoteSo, what we know for sure is that at least Woodford visited the MW plant several times and then invested $50M on the information from due diligence including the 1st and 2nd ERV reports, which we know are the same as the 3rd and final reports. Why is it so important for the FUDders to hide this fact?
I answered this earlier today, but in the Playground. Sifferkoll thinks he has found a Really Important Question, so he's asking it in many places. This is classic troll behavior.
Sifferkoll is using scattershot posting to lenr-forum.com as a platform to seek outraged response from Dewey and others. In the thread just locked, about Rossi's Memorandum, he fills the thread with frivolous flames, using insulting attributions, ... but not actually links to the content he is responding to. (I found this to be commonly true with Sifferkoll's claims. No links so they can be easily verified. I've pointed this out before and his response was that one could find sources with Google. Yes, one can, but the lack of links suppresses verification.) His attributions in the thread:
June 19 "theFUDweaver" wrote:
June 25 "DeweyDodge" wrote:
June 25 "Abd" wrote:
June 25 "Abd" wrote:
June 25 "FUD by Abd" wrote:
June 25 "FUDing Abd" wrote:
June 25 "Maaary" wrote:
June 25 "Maaary" wrote:
June 26 (the same post as linked above) "FUDing Abd - trolling Jed - dogding Dewey - Renzzzie + little Maaary" wrote:
June 26 "Pigeon Dewey" wrote:
Only two of these posts did not lead with gratuitious insult. Those were to replies to me, and were almost civil. However, the thrust of the first one was "stop writing," and the second was an excuse to call Dewey and others what he translates as "a-holes," but which dictionaries show as "bastards."
Sifferkoll is a real person, his name is known and published. So is Dewey, so am I, so is Jed Rothwell. Mary Yugo is well known, and his identity is known. However, looking at the upvoting and downvoting patterns in that thread and others the meaning of "Planet Rossi" becomes clear. Sifferkoll and another would downvote a post that was a direct answer to a question, on topic, and with the one asking the question thanking, where the content was not controversial, just because of who wrote it, it's obvious.
Sifferkoll is a troll. Dewey is provocative, as would be expected from his personal history. In a sane forum, he'd be restrained, to be sure, but I am not seeing that lenr-forum is sane. There are remarks by administrators in the thread that are gratuitously insulting. What is demonstrated is administrative incompetence. That is not uncommon, there is no School for Administrators. It's remediable, if the administrator cares to learn from those with high experience.
The thread topic is notable and of high current interest. And Sifferkoll is right about one thing: the thread is inundated with irrelevant comments, he calls it FUD. But one of the primary offenders is him and some of those who consistently vote with him and who comment similarly.
I completed my examination of the Counts in the Rossi Memorandum, and to my knowledge this is the only such study on the internet, so far. Tomorrow we should see more, the IH response is due.