Display MoreAxil: As I said in my last post, and you ignore, I fully understand the possibility of deterioration.
What you need to explain is why IH DID NOT OBSERVE deterioration. Specifically they had a whole load of these reactors on test, all giving the same positive results. They did not observe slowly decreasing results. The results were stable and positive from day 1. The issue was that these possitive reuslts were in fcat (as they dicovered0 a measurement artifact. Therefore a whole load of Lugano-style reactors given to IH by Rossi as working product, in fact never worked.
Do you understand that? How could the IH reaction to never-working reactors documented in discovery be deterioration? Were that true they or Rossi would have been able to validate the devices by making a new one.
In addition, if Rossi's previous technology suffered deterioration how does that fit with the Penon super-flat graphs of power out vs time over a year? If you believe those, which of course sensible people do not...
I suspect that there were at least two completely different LENR reactors under development/evaluation at IH during Rossi's tenure there at IH. You'll are mixing thing up. There was the Lugano style tube reactor and the wafer fueled reactor. The Tube type reactor produced Rossi's Russian comment, not the wafer reactor that underwent the dural testing.
The Tube reactor was an IH reactor. IH patented that reactor. Rossi was just engineering it for IH.