Please allow me to interject some comments here.chrismb wrote:It means taking certain things as true which others claim but have no evidence for it on one particular interpretation of a thing, whereas you choose not to accept as claimed things that the doubters of that thing say.Axil wrote:What is “being partisan” mean? Am I somehow saying something you don’t want to hear?
In this case you are taking it one step beyond that, which is to actually start trying to construct what could possibly be in this 'reactor' of Rossi's. You'll probably end up designing something which he did not. Anyway, you are in full unmitigated support for whatever Rossi has done in that 'reactor' as if it were a true innovation, rather than thinking about what it could be that it isn't a true innovation.
Rossi says [paraphrase] "I'm generating power from an unknown reaction" and I say "He may be generating power from a known reaction that may not be fully understood", and you are choosing the former and have yet to make a comment as to why it might be the latter.
So what you are doing isn't researching the subject, because it is unbalanced nor has a disprovable null hypothesis.
I think Axil is taking a good path to understand what going on. It is not a mater of being pro or against it. It is a mater of be open minded.
Personally, I am an engineer, so my approach is that as long as a process works, I really do not care if the theory is correct or not. The important to me is to apply the technique correctly in a safe manner.
Now, physicists will argue to the end until they agree about the model that represent the reaction is the correct one, which is fine to me, but it should not be at the expenses of discrediting some working processes on the basis that they do not fit accepted theories.
Now, it is not only Rossi that has succeeded in observing effect in Ni-H systems. So, the reaction in partially confirmed independently. I think the best approach here is to see that this reaction is fully confirmed, and that the technique becomes wildly disseminated so that it cannot be lost due to some dramatic events.