In this case, you need first of all a good calorimetrist. Whether friendly or not with Rossi they would note issues in the setup. But it would also be wise to have a magician since many reckon Rossi to be duplicitous, and his behaviour has not exactly ruled that out.MSimon wrote:A professor of experimental physics.parallel wrote:tomclarke,What we DO know, is that Kullander and Essen, professional scientist and skeptic, did not check very much, taking anything Rossi said to be true without checking. So how can we know anyone else involved will do a better job of checking?And remember this was just the 50cc version of the E-Cat and Essen was former chairman of the Swedish Skeptics Society.Hanno Essén is an associate professor of theoretical physics and a lecturer at the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology and former chairman of the Swedish Skeptics Society
Their role in the Andrea Rossi affair began when they expressed an interest in the eCat and then attended a Bologna demo. During that demo, the eCat seemed to produce around 5kW of heat from a small sealed vessel (50 ccm) containing Hydrogen and Nickel. They were allowed to check for hidden conduits and examine the instruments and various elements of the system. They were not allowed access to the core but since it was small and the claimed energy large, it was reasonable to treat the device as a black box to determine its utility.
If you can't trust him, just who would you trust?
The nearest we've had to that is Krivit. And look what happened to him...