@ Hi all,
first comment here.
Referring to the first Ecat tests of 2011, Abd Ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
- "A humidity meter was used to "measure steam quality," a face-palm error, showing how those involved with these measurements were inexperienced."
Alan Fletcher added:
- "That wasn't Rossi ... that was an invited expert at the very first eCat demo, from the Bolgna team led by Levi."
The reality is quite different.
The "humidity meter", Levi said to have been used in order to verify the steam dryness, appears only in his report, but it was not at all used in the demo of January 14, 2011. So, not only it was an inadequate instrument for the purpose, but it wasn't there! Its presence has been invented in order to support the idea that the water exited the Ecat as dry steam.
Photos taken during the test show clearly that the probe inserted on top of the Ecat is not the Delta Ohm probe cited in the Levi's report (1). There is no way to think that the author of the calorimetric report was not aware of that discrepancy. It's not a matter of inexperience, he was a member of a Physics Department, and had a plenty of knowledge to assess the importance of that measurement and how to properly do it. And moreover, just typing HP474AC on Google, he could have immediately got many pictures of an object (the real Delta Ohm probe) which is completely different from the probe that was in front of him during the test.
Considering that the missing probe wasn't the only flaw in the January 14 calorimetric report (2), it makes no sense wondering about the soundness of the results reported by him, including those in the reports of the HotCat tests held in Ferrara and Lugano of which Levi is the lead author. IMO, the credibility of all the data he reported can be taken into consideration only after he will have explained the rationale of the flaws contained ìn his January 2011 report.
(1) http://i.imgur.com/YC4W0Ax.jpg
(2) http://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=3219628&postcount=83