The Cold Fusion Ping List
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/coldfusion/index?tab=articles
-------------------------------------------------------------- http://ecatnews.com/?p=1144
Unfortunately, if Rossi did the following:
1) hired a bunch of actors to pretend to be the customer reps,
2) created an elaborate year-long special-effects-derived series of demos,
3) bribed, hypnotised or otherwise fooled Focardi, Levi, Kullander, Essen, Bianchini, Stremmenos
4) arranged for Piantelli, Miley and a host of others to try to fool the world into thinking that cold fusion was real,
5) got NASA, SPAWAR, The Defense Threat Reduction Agency and The Defense Intelligence Agency to say nice things about the field,
6) got Bushnell to make a fool of himself,
7) and convinced his former partners to set up another company called Ampenergo to pretend that they had a contract for The Americas for a substantial sum ----- or that they just did this with no proof because they have worked with Rossi and trust him because he’s such a fine fellow,
8) sold his profitable company to his ex-partners in order to spend that wealth on a multi-million dollar scam; ----- certain that once he got all the above ducks in a row he would pretend to sell the first device ----- and then reel in the true target of his dastardly plan
9) and convinced a bunch of Greek crooks to set up a dummy company called Defkalion ----- to pretend to fight with him over the non-existent eCat, ----- to perpetuate the illusion and spin it off into a competing mirror-scam
[the second (this time genuine) buyer of a 1MW plant that will net him $2 million dollars ----- until they want their money back or sucker a $100 million dollar deal under the table ----- because he has experience in pulling the wool over all these idiotic eyes ----- and knows that they will just take his word for it ----- and not want to test if his 1MW plant can heat a small village without truckloads of coal or oil or a big fat electric cable coming into the container from beneath the floor (no you can’t lift the carpet!) ]
10) and that, in order to pull this off, Rossi had to risk discovery by interviewing all the people he subsequently fooled so that he could only invite the gullible Professors and not the brilliant anonymous posters on the Internet who surely would have found him out
then, yes, all bets are off and I’m with the guys who think that Rossi is an idiot and they are all geniuses.
One word: Madoff
Another word: P.T. Barnum
Rossi has such a con artist history, and a product whose ability to perform is fitful at best and even scientifically nonintuitive (it’s been averred that hydrogen to nickel fusions ought to be absorbing energy, not releasing it), that it’s surprising anyone cares at this level. I would not want to see any Federal program jump on this unless it takes the process out of Rossi’s control (except maybe for royalties to him if something that really works results in those independent hands).
So call me a seagull. I want some fish.
Rossi can always develop a kit for Lego blocks where with a battery connected by wires to his special elements makes steam come out of Lego built smoke stacks or out of car exhausts.
What is so strange about this is that this machine is so damn simple it can be examined in a day. What are we talking about here? Stop with the patent nonsense.
Either it doesn’t work or it is not performing up to expectations because this would be too easy for an MIT crew to get to the bottom of it. Or send the CIA.
There is too much talking about this and not enough verification. This delay tells me it’s not real. Time is wasting.
Sometimes your Scam Spam contains a bit of wisdom.
It's a scam being hotly promoted on the Internet. Rossi hasn't published a single real scientific paper. The scientific circles aren't even bothering with it.
.....bet Kevmo, just a few threads back you said it was fully patented ..... “perhaps because Rossi has said that his technology is still unpatented.”