Please point out where I have ever pushed hot fusion.
IP from a convict doesn’t excite anyone with reason.
You and WW point out hot fusion’s failures to push cold fusion. Failure in one premise proves nothing, valid or not, about a separate premise.
Rossi's criminal record shows zero about the viability of his various technologies. Some skeptopaths try to sell his "Petroldragon" tech as fraudulent, but when he emigrated to the US, he sold the rights to a US company, and that technology made him rich (according to one figure I've seen, $30MM). Which he spent most of in cold fusion research.
"You and WW point out hot fusion’s failures to push cold fusion."
No, we point out VALIDATED SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTAL DATA to "push cold fusion". But apparently none of you skeptopaths are interested in actually discussing data, or even bothering to look at it.
We discuss hot fusion in the context of the abject technological failure of the same parties who are denigrating cold fusion as fraudulent. The POINT is that those parties are just as fraudulent (actually much more fraudulent given the comparative dollars spent) as Rossi is sold as being.
"Failure in one premise proves nothing, valid or not, about a separate premise."
And I don't recall either of us ever saying that it did. That is your assumption (invalid).
Your concern for fraud is duly noted. At best, the fraud for cold fusion amounts to about $50M, while the fraud for hot fusion amounts to about $500M, 4 orders of magnitude higher. So by expending this much effort to combat fraud, we should be seeing you decrying the competing fraudulent technology with 4 orders of magnitude more effort. That is where you have pushed hot fusion over cold fusion.
IP from a convict doesn’t excite anyone with reason.
***This is where you take leave of your senses. Everyone knows that Rossi has a questionable background. So if he’s demonstrating his technology to you, you would be that much more diligent to detect fraud. The fact his technology has overcome the barrier of character is profound evidence. But at that point, you are not using reason, you’re proceeding from an emotional conclusion. Not rational at all.