[Vo]:Levi et al. did measure the DC component of input power
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Jed Rothwell Tue, 28 May 2013 10:50:35 -0700
Alan Fletcher reported a correction by Levi et al. They did measure DC
after all. This might be lost in another thread, so I thought I would copy
it here to a new thread.
May 28, 2013 at 2:26 AM
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> http://cassandralegacy.blogspot.com/2013/05/ethics-of-e-cat.html?showComment=1369733204626#c7691737630487135094
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> Earlier statement :
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> Prof. Essén wrote this paragraph as a comment to this piece of interview
> that appeared on http://www.pureenergyblog.com/?p=1232 :
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> ————————————————
> Interviewer: Have you tried to test the output of the power supply to
> exclude that also a DC current is supplied to the device, which clamp
> amperometers could not detect?
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> Prof. Essén: No, we did not think of that. The power came from a normal
> wall socket and there did not seem to be any reason to suspect that it was
> manipulated in some special way. Now that the point is raised we can check
> this in future tests.
> ——————————————————————
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> [ cleaned up on another blog : ]
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> “In the interview I answered that there was no direct measurement of dc
> (since the clamps could not detect such). This was a bit hasty. In future I
> will not answer such technical questions without conferring with all
> coauthors. After analysing what we checked and measured (which were many
> more variables that those from the clamps) we can definitely exclude
> dc-current. (This is what comes from being nice to journalists.)”
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Alan’s comments:
> I suspect that there may be a revised version of the paper with an
> analysis of this.
>
> So we are left with :
>
> a) The input AND output measurements are valid
> b) It’s all a fraud by Rossi, Levi ....
>
> The latter, of course, is outside of science, and in the field of
> conspiracy theorists.
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So an author admits he is technically incompetent and then makes a technical claim without specifics.