Posts by IH Fanboy

Quote from JedRothwell

This is how people on Planet Rossi respond to technical discussions, such as how pumps rated at 3 gpm might produce 6 gpm.

We did not answer in silence. It was pointed out that Smith apparently didn't even read the manual, which states that the actual maximum pump rate is several times the rated output.

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This is how they respond when I ask them why Rossi did not simply point to the heat exchanger and collect $89 million.

Again, we did not answer in silence here either. Rossi's position has always been that the COP can be determined despite what was behind the wall. And he is right! And for the GPT, it was the COP that mattered, not the type of heat exchanger used.

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They refuse to answer the questions, or even address them.

Wrong.

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They change the subject.

Wrong. If anything, we are accused of doggedly pursuing the subjects of interest here.

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They talk about imaginary missing glass which magically appears when you look at the window from a different angle.

Show me one example of reflections in the two left panes of the window at issue. As you'll find out (if you take the time to investigate as did I), there aren't any (besides the single cloud/steam shot).

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Or they invent some weird reason to dismiss the facts. IHFB, for example, finds what may be an inconsequential error made by Penon -- the 1.5" size of the pipe. He then ascribes this error to Murray instead of Penon; he declares it is a
gigantic error, and he then dismisses everything Murray said because of it. In short, he points to a non-error not made by Murray as the reasonto ignore textbook physics.

It wasn't a gigantic error. It was an IH PR magnificence. Dewey said that they had taken pictures of and measured all of the pipes. They apparently knew all of that before depositing Exhibit 5 on the docket.

Quote from Bob

DN40 or DN80? Does not matter

Now with the heat exchanger, the exit pipe would need to be even larger!

This is the one nugget worth responding to. As we now are told, the exit pipe is larger. 4.5 inches inner diameter, which is more than enough.

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But it still would not matter.

Okay Jed. Got it.

Quote from JedRothwell

Perhaps Penon got the wrong pipe size. As I said, it makes no difference. 1.5", 3" or 1 foot would not matter.

Of course it makes no difference to you NOW.... now that it is know to be pure bunk. And you might remember from months ago when we were in the heated battle over this: I promised that if it turned out to really be a single DN40 exit pipe, that I would mark up Rossi and his team as totally incompetent or worse. Why did I do that? Because I have a pretty good sense for FUD and this one had all of the hallmarks.

@Jed

No, as pointed out numerous times here, the "was reported" does not modify the last affirmative phrase "the piping is DN40." Basic grammar.

Quote from JedRothwell

No, it was not the most prominent reason. Not by a long shot. You have made this a fetish, but I and others hardly noticed it. There are many other reasons more compelling, such as the fact that the data is fabricated and impossible; there has to be some back pressure so the temperature of 103 deg C means there was no steam; and the flow meter was the wrong kind, incorrectly installed. There are more reasons. You will never address them, but they are there.

Data: I see little evidence that it was fabricated or impossible.

Pressure/temperature: this has been answered countless (dozens?) of times, so need to grace this one again any time soon.

Flow meter: it was calibrated by an outside professional entity at the same flow rate used in the actual plant. When that evidence was presented to Murray, he balked.

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The heat exchanger is the living end. The most absurd nonsense yet. You seriously, honestly believe the heat exchanger was real, yet no one could see it, no one saw the pipes, and Rossi he casually threw away $89 million just to reuse some old pipes. He didn't even bother to take photos of the equipment. He worked overnight to hide every trace of the machine, and remove the electric wires. You're good with that, right? You really, sincerely, believe that?

The heat exchanger is your last best hope. I honestly don't know how this one will play out. But I'll be right here to dispel the FUD until the end.

Quote from JedRothwell

You make it sound like he committed a Federal Crime for asking the size of a pipe.

Fetish, cock, out of your ever-loving mind. Your very language reveals the doubt that you harbor. And no, he didn't ask whether it was a DN40. He stated it as if it were a fact, and once having built his straw man, he proceeded to topple it. And the lenr-forum erupted in adulation.

Quote from JedRothwell

It is an OPTICAL ILLUSION. A trick of light. It goes away when you look at the window from another angle.

No it doesn't.

Quote from Bob

It seems that only one person can see these missing panes, . . .

Actually, I tested this with a young child, under the age of 8, who quickly identified the two missing panes versus the glassed panes. So that makes at least two.

@Alan,

No, it was more sinister than that. Murray suggested that all of the flow (i.e., 1398 kg/h) was forced through a DN40 pipe. He then went on to state that the pressure differential required to overcome losses in the pipe would preclude it (which of course was true had it really been a DN40 pipe). This was a big deal back then. It was--at the time--one of the most prominent reasons why the IH camp was calling for heads to roll. It was an IH PR masterpiece. And Jed road that one all the way to the end.

@Jed,

And yet, it appears that Smith didn't even reference the user manual of the pumps, and therefore made false assumptions. It also appeared that he included a photo of the front of the building, and drew big red arrows at everything except the most important part: the two missing panes of the window. Murray claimed a DN40 pipe in Exhibit 5, and has lost all respect from me since it was revealed as pure bunk. I'm surprised you still have respect for him given that you were hung out to dry on that one.

Quote from JedRothwell

earn $89 million by taking people outside a building and pointing to some fans on the second floor, would you do it or not? If IHFB or Gluck come up with some preposterous excuse to say they would not, they are trolling, and not engaged in a serious discussion.

I think your persistent accusations of trolling is trolling. Once Rossi went down the JMP ruse path, it made it very difficult for him to switch things up mid-test and say "hey y'all come back here and see what we got 'cookin." The first part of the two-part blunder is that Rossi initiated the JMP ruse, probably after the disappointment with the actual Johnson Matthey. It was a fateful decision. The next part of the two-part blunder is that Darden hired the wrong experts, who understand little to nothing about LENR, and render clumsy reports. What other choice did Darden have at that point other than to believe his experts? At the point of filing the lawsuit, Rossi probably believed that JMP could escape unscathed by claiming trade secret, etc.

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@IHFanboy

So bad, some jokester (ab)using your nickname. - Or is it really you who wrote this on JONP?

I remember, I it's not the first time that I read this "Thank you for spamming this comment" on JONP.

You'll never know for sure, will you? Such is the nature of sock puppets.

Quote from Malcolm Lear

Well if there was glass missing in some of those 4 panes, it would be pretty obvious in that last photo for sure.

It is obvious. There is no reflection in the left-most panes of the subject window. There is what appears to be equipment behind a screen of some kind.

Quote from Alan Fletcher

Thanks IHFB ... third section from left, left door of 2 makes it door #5 from the left, #4 from the right.

At any rate, I showed that nudging the street view makes reflections come and go.

No problem. The Rossi affair takes a village to decipher.

I have to respectfully disagree with you that nudging the street view shows reflections in the two left-most panes of that window. The only view that looks remotely like a reflection is the cloud/steam shot.

@Alan,

Third from the left.

Quote from Alan Fletcher

Is THIS the right unit then?

I can't tell from this picture because it is cut off. But if you look from the front, count over (from the left) three building sections, and that is the one.

Quote from Paradigmnoia

Wait a second.

Wong was there Feb 10 2017.

In July 2016 there is glass.

So WTF? Who cares about April?

I agree! And this is what the window looks like with glass. As you can see, there is a very stark difference. Everything that you see in 2015 suggests no glass in the left two panes of that window (except for the special cloud/steam shot).

Rossi says he was "substituting" the windows in Feb. 2017, whatever that means.

Quote from Alan Fletcher

Here's Wong A2 Apr 2015 ... is there / isn't there glass ?

Nudge left (North) a smidgeon :

I say there are glass reflections in the top-left, bottom-left and bottom-right panes.

Link : https://www.google.com/maps/@2…0000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

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You're on the wrong side of the building! It is the third section of the building from the left when looking from the front.

Quote from Alan Fletcher

On the glass/reflections ... I have wandered up and down streetview, and seen reflections in particular windows change with angle. I am convinced that there was glass in the window on Feb 12, 2015 (Bing, 7 days before the 1MW started operations), April 2015, July 2016 and therefore most likely all the way up to Wong's Feb 10, 2017 visit when he says the panes were missing (with emergency-call workers on site!).

I come to the opposite conclusion. There is a single candidate for reflections in the two left panes of the window in question (the special cloud/steam shot). All other shots (and most especially the photo included in Smith's report) show that the two left panes in that window were missing.

Quote from Paradigmnoia

Rules against doxxing prevent me from being explicit, but DT (from Russia with love) has signed off at least once with another pair of initials familiar to us.

Do you believe any of the recent visitors to lenr-forum are socks? We have quite a few newbies here in just the last week or so.