Posts by andrea.s

Quote from guest111

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Rossi has nothing of any "intellectual property" value (same with IH). An issued patent in ITALY (!), yea that's really valuable), and hoards of patent applications that are not worth the paper they're written on--they mean nothing unless/until granted, and judging from his track record of patents, experiments, data and physics, the ONLY ones that will be issued are in Italy (likely by leaving a milk-jar containing a pittance of his ill-gotten gains on the stoop of the an Italian bureaucrat), well, maybe also in Timbuktu, Fiji etc. [...]

I suppose Rossi doesn't help in dissipating prejudice and stereotypes.

And we Italians have a habit of self-deprecating ourselves which serves us right.

Rossi's sale of his fabulous IP in the US closely recalls the sale of the Trevi Fountain in Rome to a rich American tourist in a famous* movie of the early sixties.

(* in Italy, Fiji and Timbouctu)

Quote from IH Fanboy

The input power X1/3 was debunked, in my opinion (and yes, I did follow all of the twists and turns of that debate back in the day).

How was this debunked?

The Lugano result indeed does not need an input power mismeasurement, given the favorable errors achievable with a wrong emissivity setting.

But there still is the unexplained 6:1 ratio of "Joule heating" between experiment and dummy run, versus a 2:1 ratio of declared input AC powers: for this a reversed clamp is an easier explanation than a three-fold drop in resistance, and compatible with the waveform in the infamous figure 5.

The Lugano report mentions the initial attempt to use thermocouples, soon removed due to the alleged unreliable contact to the ridged reactor body: in this initial phase a reversed clamp would come handy. Then when relying on IR camera only for the long-term test, such a gross mistake can be corrected, replaced by a (self)deceiving emissivity setting.

IH Fanboy

"For many years to come"

Oh that's reassuring.. I was starting to look for a new hobby!

ZenoOfElea

I was trying to be sarcastic with the lecture thing.

Malcolm Lear

Your sock puppet leak explanation is the most credible. But the sock puppet went too far disclosing (in spite of the NDA) this absurd idea of computing input power as the power dissipated on the current sensing resistor. This is much better than the Muppet show!

Likely a training course in electric theory. You know, Ohm's law, Kirkhoff's laws. Abstruse stuff that one may want to refresh, remember the Lugano currents in the 3 phase delta loads?

Quote from THHuxleynew

[...]. In that case we have unknown input power as well as arbitrarily (could be 10s or even 100s of times) mismeasured output power. I still think my spiky waveform mismeasurement, which does the same thing, is cleverer.

You have to hand it to the guy for bare-faced chutzpah. Were the deceptions he practices not so loathsome you'd admire him.

I think your original narrative still holds. What was missing was a high enough voltage to initiate an arc across 1.5 cm in some medium within the microtube. I wish I had posted the suggestion of a transformer prior to publication of this illuminating email exchange between AR and Bass. But your idea of computing power as the product of average voltage and average current is an excellent COP generator, where COP is the inverse of the duty cycle. Then if one is not satisfied, IR cameras are there to help.

Quote from Eric Walker

I wonder if there's a manual or discussion somewhere on the Internet in the manner of the Anarchist's Cookbook that goes into how to trick flow meters, whose recommendations parallel some of what we know about the Doral setup (other than the discussion in this site).

Yes there is. It's again my friends at GSVIT.

https://gsvit.wordpress.com/20…ositioning-an-instrument/

Quote from barty

andrea.s

Can you upload it here?

I guess it is easiest to connect to

https://gsvit.wordpress.com/

They intend to have an English version some time soon.

There are many aspects that make the Rapporto41 unsatisfactory, and the aura of mistery undeserved.

Little room for conspiracy theories if Rubbia (Nobel prize leading ENEA at the time) redirected the research, after being the one who promoted it.

The primary result of the report is the detection of 4He allegedly resulting from the reaction. But there is no way the spectrometer could distinguish this from De2 nor can the authors prove that De2 was eliminated totally by the getters. Quite the contrary, as one of the calibration plots shows traces of De2 and H in spite of a plot scale five orders of magnitude larger than the later one where the peak attributed to 4He (but likely De2) is found.

The GSVIT article was released today. I had the privilege of a preview. There are really smart guys in this group.

"The debate is useless" seems to be debating with himself. He needs the debate so much that in the first post he is impersonating the total skeptic, in order to raise a debate. This place is full of interesting personalities.

Guys your arguments are fun but can we get this name right please? Fabiani with an "i" as in "ingegnere"

Quote from IH Fanboy

Maryyugo wrote:

"Why not simply generate electricity with any simple thermoelectric converter near the hot end and use its output to furnish a few milliwatts to drive the reactor? "

MY, do you have evidence that this has not been done? [...] Maybe this is being done as we speak.

Rossi has often claimed to have proven infinite COP or the so called "self sustain mode" with his demos of the early ecat. Also, an ill founded attempt was made by Levi & co to explain in TPR1 that the "off" portions of the time period were proof of "heat after death" of the hotcat. The problem so far is that this "proof" of output energy with zero input energy was systematically compatible with the thermal inertia of the devices.

Rossi will certainly do something similar with the quark x. So keep an eye on the size of the feedback and control box when he does. And think whether it may have enough energy storage capability to provide the output energy that will be recorded during the demo after unplugging.

Quote from JedRothwell

As I noted, the American Bar Association experts disagree with you. Who do you think knows more about jurisprudence?

Context does help, but still to a non-native English speaker an expert of the American Bar Association sounds like someone familiar with alcoholic beverages more than law. In Italy an American bar is a classy cocktail bar as one may find in five star hotels. Admittedly it has nothing American, like Italian dressing has nothing Italian nor a French kiss anything French about it...

Quote from ele

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the argument of emissivity factors cancelling is true and your is disinformation.

Is not a coincidence that after a long time of silence you came out now with that.

I was silent because I was and am a bit bored, so I keep an eye but feel less involved. When I found fatal flaws years ago in Rossi's demos and supporting articles by Levi et al I felt it necessary to intervene. Now the sItuation is clear even to LENR enthusiasts. Oh, I don't remember seeing your nickname back when I most posted in this Forum: maybe it is a new nick for an old participant in this saga. I must say it does intrigue me when I recognize English mistakes common among Italians in posts here, so maybe this is what motivated me to write again.

Hi. I haven't been around for a while.

The argument by ele of emissivity inputs canceling out has been dismissed a thousand times.

As Magicsound states, total emissivity is fine to be used to compute power radiated once you know the temperature. But it cannot be used as an input to the narrowband infrared sensor, which needs the emissivity in its sensing range: (for the thousandth time) this was shown live by MFMP to be much higher (0.95 or so) in agreement with known data of spectral emissivity of alumina in the IR band. Use of the Lugano settings was shown to overestimate temperature by more than 500°C.

has it been said yet?

Merry Xmas to all!

Quote from Paradigmnoia

Then it looks at its user emissivity setting and says "According to the user, this thing I'm looking at is x% of a blackbody, so I will reduce the temperature accordingly, using this bunch of century old math".

..should read "so I will increase the temperature accordingly (since I still sense the same power but I am told it is not as well irradiated away as a blackbody would do)"...

That is why when MFMP tested the replica dog bone the temperature went sky-high when inserting the (wrong) Lugano total emissivity instead of the spectral emissivity (well estimated by the pyrometer) that matched the thermocouple reading.

@Paradigmnoia

There is no chance that a person somewhat educated in physics still misunderstands this issue.
To simplify and condensate in one sentence: the camera senses power irradiated in a spectrum region where alumina has an emissivity much higher than average, and thus it computes a higher temperature than real if one inputs the average (i.e. total) emissivity.
The amount of this blatant overestimation was proven experimentally by MFMP live on camera.
One can accept that the original mistake by Levi and co was done in good faith. But the reiterated confutation by Randombit0 can only aim at confusing the uneducated.
Randombit0 likely has her motives, but I am astonished by the silence of the coauthors of the Lugano paper.

Quote from Shane D.

I used to follow Nevanlinna on Cobraf, but the translations were just too difficult to decipher/understand, so I gave up on the site.

No wonder, as he does it on purpose, by using a somewhat archaic style and by nicknaming in a very personal way the protagonists of the Rossi saga (Rossi being "Quinlan" - from Orson Welles's "Touch of Evil"- more often than not). He is an interesting character indeed, beyond his investigating skills. And he does enjoy a good laugh when referenced by ECW folks who appreciate his findings but systematically fail to understand his comments.

Thanks to a grant by Big Oil I did some doxxing on Bert Abbing back in March 2015 (*). I paste the result below:

B o
E velyn
R oland
T orbjorn

A s
B aseline
B ut
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N ecessary
G iuseppe

(*)
http://www.cobraf.com/forum/topic.php?reply_id=123581900&topic_id=5747&ps=20&pg=650&sh=0
12 Marzo 2015 07:55