In the new experiment, it is by one person, with no peer review on it whatsoever.
That is what I said more clearly than you. You think it, I say it:
Unless the effect is real, it has to be a fraud.
There are only these two possibilities. There can not be a misinterpretation, or some accident.
So either Rossi and Levi are both liers and scammers, or they are for real.
I do not have enough information to say which of the two possibilities is actually the case. I would tend to guess that it is a fraud, but I would not bet my life on it either.
It is a difference between not buying into something and actually accusing someone of fraud. As I only have the choice between buying it, or accusing them of fraud, I am not going to set myself on a verdict yet.
There definitely is no chemical reaction that I can think of, that would do that.
So I want an explanation of all the energy they aren't getting.
IIRC, Rossi claims that they are only actually using up a fraction of the "fuel". The rest is lost due to inefficiencies.
That may explain that. 0.4 grams is a very low amount. I would assume that there are some tolerances involved here as well, if the device works are advertised (e.g. it needs to have a base- load to fill up empty space in it, or something like that).
Again, my problem is that the second test was only done with one guy, Levi present. Levi is also close with Rossi.
I honestly dont know what to make of all that. My instincts cry "fraud and foul play", but then Italy is not China, a former eastern block country and definitely not Nigeria and some of the people involved are at least associtated with a university. All that speaks against a fraud and it is the only reason why I have decided on this being a fraud yet.
Right now, to many things still dont add up for this to be believable. Yet for the fraud theory, a lot of things dont add up 100% either.
I still think it can go both ways, though if I had to make a choice, I would call it a fraud.