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).
Now my being skeptical about Rossi’s claims is a pathology....gotcha.
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.
***Rossi could learn a thing or two from the controlled-hot-fusion frauds if he wanted to be a good con man. He has to operate on a close emergence premise of at most 5 years, while the hot-fusion fraud boys have been operating at a 50 year emergence premise. Now THAT’s how to run a con.