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I often enjoy Jed Rothwell's comments on Vortex-L. So I think I'll post a few here. Re: [Vo]:Minor progress Jed Rothwell Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:49:32 -0800 Aussie Guy E-Cat wrote: Some more inside shots > > http://www.nyteknik.se/**incoming/article3295952.ece/** > BINARY/w468/kall_fusion_rossi_**sprattad_lada_1_468_320.jpg That's a good photo. Boy, what a mess! It looks like an old automobile radiator. It must have been run for a hundred hours. People say that when you are there in the room, looking into it, you can see there is nothing much below the cell or above it except the cooling fins. You can see approximately how big the cell-sandwich inside it is. Anyway, as I said, you can tell there is nothing big hidden below it by displacement. Eureka! -- as the bald guy said, bounding out of the bath buck naked. One person looking at it seemed disappointed, and said, "what, is that all there is to it?" It is an unprepossessing object. Mary Yugo finds it hard to believe that Rossi and Fioravanti would treat this test and this reactor with such a casual attitude. Almost with disdain. They express no gravitas. They sign off on a report that mainly cites continued leaks with gaskets. This is just another work-a-day event for them, not an historic occasion. I told her that is typical of people doing research. The thing is, this *was* just another in a series of tests. Rossi has been doing this for years. You can see from the rust that he has been testing this module for months. Ed Storms says that seeing a cold fusion reaction is about as interesting as watching paint dry. Experienced cold fusion researchers do not get excited when they see cold fusion. It is no big deal to them. The other thing about many of these researchers is their safety standards are nonexistent. People such as Ohmori thought nothing of having an open, cracked quartz glass test tube full of boiling lithium heavy water, spewing drops around. That's highly toxic. Mizuno would stand at door to Ohmori's lab, which was hidden in an abandoned building, filled with ancient instruments and equipment from a junked high energy physics experiment -- a classic bootleg experiment that the university wanted to deep-six -- and Mizuno would say to me: "You go in if you like. That place scares the hell out of me." This, from a guy who scavenged old stainless steel vessels and ran them at higher pressure and temperatures than the manufacturer ever intended. Believe me, I had good reasons for worrying that Rossi might blow himself up. I know these people! - Jed

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat / philosophical remarks Jed Rothwell Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:55:18 -0800 Horace Heffner wrote: > The question though should be which premise is more consistent with > Rossi's behavior, he believes his own claims, or not?" > The premise that best fits his behavior is the same one that fits Harrison, Patterson, William Shockley, and many other people with a personality similar to Rossi's. They are intensely possessive. They want to micromanage every aspect of the technology. They consider it their baby, and they cannot bring themselves to allow others to develop it. they think they know best and they refuse to listen to anyone else's ideas or advice. This kind of behavior is widespread. You can find countless examples in biographies or the history of technology, or science, or for that matter commerce or war. This is how generals lose campaigns even when they have a large advantage going in. I have seen many programmers like this as well. Most of them work for corporations and they are not allowed to act on their desires. If Shockley had had his way, the transistor might never have emerged from the laboratory. He failed at every subsequent venture because he thought he knew best and he insisted on micromanaging. See: http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJtransistor.pdf Rossi also wants to micromanage people, including me. - Jed