That gave him a few months to convert it to his e-cat modules (or just charge it up and add some water tubes and a couple of e-cats for display).
The court is not out on this guy ~ but he has some pretty highly placed relationships ~ and then there's his landlord. That could be a private issue or maybe Norwood has lots of bucks.
A worst case on the Norwood deal may be that Rossi burned down the building Norwood owned but he didn't have any insurance. It wasn't arson, just an accident with an early prototype e-cat that overheated (not all that hard ~ things run 1200 degrees). So he has to "stay in touch" with Norwood until he can figure out how to pay for losing his building.
Clearly I am an idiot for even going here but from Rossi's own mouth he talked about the operating temps for his E-scam and it was 1/2 and less of what you posted. If it had those kind of temps, it could power a steam turbine.
Do not bring up Gaea, the Apollo program or Wheaties or their relationship with the mob. Do try to keep on the subject.
worst case on the Norwood deal may be that Rossi burned down the building Norwood owned but he didn't have any insurance. It wasn't arson, just an accident with an early prototype e-cat that overheated (not all that hard ~ things run 1200 degrees). So he has to "stay in touch" with Norwood until he can figure out how to pay for losing his building.What a creative idea! Except that there is no indication that Rossi had even dreamed up this scheme way back then.
A much more likely theory is that Rossi had embezzled the money from the Army, and torched the factory to cover the fact that he didn't actually have any of the hardware he had supposedly bought. Also, that would destroy the prototype so it could never examined to see how Rossi faked the early demo.
There's an old joke about that: Two "legitimate" businessmen pass on the street. One says to the other, "I heard that your factory burned down! What a shame!" The other says, "Not so loud! That's next Tuesday!"