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A halogen lamp filament is hot! Who knew?

"When you're hot, you're hot. When you're not, you're not" and Rossi most definitely is not. Unless he has a Joule heater up his a__ under his hat.

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I think Maryyugo was making a story that the audience was endangered by the heat

or that the stated temperature was impossible

If Rossi's inane kludge were anything but a collection of spare parts drawer junk, and if it did really contain a plasma made by nuclear fusion, it would be exceedingly dangerous, inasmuch as it has neither adequate backup cooling, thermal and impact shielding, a way of dumping the reactants and fuel, or any visible means of control at all. That Rossi uses a cheap electrical tape with a service temperature not much above room temperature to cover up the whole messy piece of trash, tells me that he does not expect anything to get very hot. That many of the parts are plastic and appear to be common household or garden pipe fittings tells me the same thing. It's either a complete fake or Rossi has no regard for human life. I know which of those it is though.

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or perhaps it was just the usual zillions of attention -seeking

Oh right. Because your contributions are so sterling and illuminating.

It's nice that Lewan, after six years of ignoring it, has finally come around to "insisting" that Rossi do "dummy measurements." He means blank or control or calibration perhaps but "dummy" is more apt in this instance. Rossi doesn't do the same exact trick all the time. Absent the waveform, frequency and amplitude of the power input to the "reactor" and absent the "reactor's" electrical properties, Lewan's dummy run with simple resistors is worthless.

With the information he provided, which as always is insufficient to demonstrate the performance of his device, Rossi has again *easily* out thought and bamboozled Lewan as completely as in the past-- just with a different method. It isn't that Rossi is so clever though I admit he is resourceful at finding ways to deceive, mislead and to make a test look real when it isn't remotely even a test. But it's more that Rossi's believers and acolytes are so eager to get fooled that they will swallow just about any weird performance as proving Rossi's point. Then, when this is pointed out for them, they fall back on saying critics will never believe until the gadget is in Home Depot for sale. Well, that certainly would prove the point but so would a set of properly performed and independent measurements and you can wait until hell freezes over until that happens and until Rossi's believers demand it.

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That Rossi only has to convince his backers prpbably never crosses your mind.

You're joking. I and the other critics always point out that Rossi's appeal is to the lowest common denominator of easily flummoxed believer, to investors with more money than sense and that he has no chance of EVER convincing anyone with a single critical muscle in their body. Never anyone who requires a properly performed independent test by real experts in thermal and/or nuclear physics. And he never had such a person though eventually, IH, after a year of no performance whatever from Rossi, had to get smart and with predictable results.

Yes, Rossi only has to convince one rich investor and I wouldn't bet against him on that one. New marks come along all the time. Madoff depended on a succession of them so he could use new money to pay old debts. Rossi is following his old script with elements of Steorn's thrown in but without the classy looking gadgets and expensive components Steorn bought with the farmer/investors' generous cash. And he will end like Steorn. With a going-out-of-business sale of whatever junk he has left.

Alan Smith after sleep

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I had a chat with Mr Hurley. His employees own refineries all over the USA. He told me 'we are big users of process heat'.

I believer you meant "employers" rather than employees.

Did Mr. Hurley provide an analysis of the experiment, it's quality and the results? If so, what was it? And does he know the input waveform, frequency and amplitude of the electric power sent to the reactor? Does he know the purported contents of the "reactor"?

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I am sure after the initial contact, Rossi ran this young man through the weeding out process to determine if he had the right stuff.

You mean a high tolerance for confusion, an eagerness to please Rossi so as to stay in the loop, and gullibility sufficient to take Rossi's word on just about anything? That would be the "right stuff" in this instance.