I will blame her if she also got drunk and placed herself into a situation where she could not defend herself. Of course, I would still lock up the creep, but that does not help her. Going into danger without a really good reason is stupid, and so is denying there is danger when that is clearly not the case.

I second that. Stupidity does have a cost and trying to remove that costs is just promoting stupidity and will fail anyways. That is not "victim blaming", that is reality, and reality is merciless.

Well, this is a decidedly non-normal set-up, as it is done by a known fraudster. With that filter, provided by the observers, _not_ the experimenter, a normal power-meter will work of course. I was also not saying you need a DSP, I was saying you need to "do DSP". That is a bit different.

Still, I agree that correct, reliable power-measurement is easy pretty to do. As this is against a known trickster, the oscilloscope is still a good idea, just to be sure.

... and think that generating all these factors will give them a more long-term marriage. People routinely do not understand the difference between correlation and causation, and, more importantly, that causation has a _direction_ that is all-important.

Basically, all the study says is that the more serious you take marriage, the longer it is likely to last. It does not say anything about happiness or achievement of personal goals (unless the number of years is a goal for you).

Indeed, he has. My guess is that fraud is the only marketable skill he has, so he continues to use that. And, as not only quite a few contributions in this thread show, there is an abundance of "marks" out there that fall for the most outrageous fraud as long as it has some pseudo-scientific camouflage.

Indeed. The other one is that the reaction does not seem to be controlled. In anything actually producing the amount of energy claimed, this results in thermal runaway (vulgo: "boom"). No, you cannot control an exothermic reaction by controlling the amount of heat you put into it from the outside. That does not work as control-theory 101 and physics 101 show. Obviously they do not need reaction control, because there is no reaction at all, and all energy is supplied from the outside.

Yeah, the ones Rossi handled himself. Obviously, slight-of-hand still manages to fool people. Really, how stupid can you be?

Actually, it is completely relevant, as nothing on the side of Rossi has changed.

Maybe some concrete criticism? Oh, right, You have nothing.

Fascinating what some people want to believe despite hard evidence to the contrary.

I did before posting, and, what is more, I am qualified to judge it. It is good. Of course it does not say what gullible morons like you want to hear.

No, if fraud is a real possibility, you need a large bandwidth digital storage oscilloscope. Of course two channels, differential probes and some DSP for teh results to get the actual power being transferred. The problem with the power-meter is that they usually have bandwidth restrictions, often pretty severe, like 50-450Hz only. Sometimes they cannot even deal with shifted phases. Same applies to the current transformer and the step-down transformer. Do short pulses, HF or LF for the power-transfer and your set-up is just a failure. And then you need to go for additional things. For example, the experimental set-up shows a metal frame around the thing. It would be easy to hide a pair of coils in there and and transfer energy by alternating B-field.

Really, people that think like you are those that get defrauded by set-ups that are still not so clever.

Indeed. If it looks to good to be true, it usually is and exceptional proof has to be provided for its validity. Rossi fails to even provide standard quality-level proof.

Actually, I do not fail and I do not get defrauded either. What I have is not only a scientific understanding of matters, but also an understanding of how fraud works. And there is just an incredible lot of bogus claims out there these days, because the idiots (like you) now have Internet access, and defrauding them in a personal, hands-on matter is not required anymore.

The demonstration I was referring to is not the current one. I was referring to one several years ago. But yes, they could have brought in additional power in several ways. Also, measuring AC+DC is tricky with anything except an Oscilloscope. The bogus measurement set-ups are a constant theme with Rossi.