What, according to your scam hypotheses, is Rossi's relationship with Defkalion? Who is running the scam and how?
From all I've read of Rossi, he doesn't have the financial resources from his own wealth to operate a scam employing many other people. So unless we start by assuming that everything about Defkalion, Leonardo Corp, Hydrofusion, Ampenergo and so on is internet fakery (with few or no employees or physical locations, etc.) this has grown larger than what Rossi could have managed.
That's why I've been tossing out the mafia in recent suggestions. The idea being that Rossi is cooperating or has been blackmailed into running a scam on someone else's behalf. Someone with substantial resources. But that still doesn't explain the academic side of things, like Dr. George Miley's work here in Illinois or Piantelli and Focardi. If it's a mafia type operation they have an international reach and are able to coerce a number of academics to do their bidding.
The claims for the Ecat are extraordinary, and difficult to sustain based on scientific orthodoxy. But the claims that it is a fraud are also difficult to sustain while incorporating the full range of evidence.
I pinged muawiyah because she is an expert on the mob. Ask her your questions. Not only is she a self proclaimed expert on the mob but is also an E-cat true believer.
Don't forget, I think this is all a scam, every bit of it. It's also possible that a lot of these folks are (unknowingly to them) shills.
Does there have to be one? There is about to be a flux of money (device sales), and they both want a cut. Maybe it's just a shell corporation set up by him to create press. Everybody loves a fight. I don't know. What I do know is that cons are time sensitive, and everyone is rushing to sales right now.
The business relationship with Defkalion never really made an sense to me. Do they have any history before Rossi and the e-cat? Much was noise was made about IP protection back in the Defkalion days, but essentially, the device is a tube full of powder with a few electrodes in it. There's absolutely no way to protect it without a rock solid patent, and Rossi can't even describe in detail how it works. I would think the inventor would want to receive some ownership interest in a company for bringing that kind of technology on board. Instead he basically gave it to a nothing company, it makes no sense.
Look I have no pride invested in proving this is a scam, which I now think more than ever that it is. I have chosen to use time as my main tool of proof, and I have plenty of it. If a scam is revealed, I probably won't bother to say "told you so". If it work, I get practically free heat and energy for the rest of my life. Either way I win. 8]
From all I've read of Rossi, he doesn't have the financial resources from his own wealth to operate a scam employing many other people. So unless we start by assuming that everything about Defkalion, Leonardo Corp, Hydrofusion, Ampenergo and so on is internet fakery (with few or no employees or physical locations, etc.) this has grown larger than what Rossi could have managed.asdf
Here is a summary of what I've dug up regarding Rossi's business arrangements in the United States...
HERE is the website for Rossi's company, Leonardo Corporation. Note the address and phone number.
HERE is the incorporation document for AmpEnergo, the American distributor of Rossi's E-Cat. Note that there is no real information other than an email address. HERE is the business entity document from the state of New Hampshire. Note that they have the same address as Rossi's company. There's no sign of a public phone number for this company.
HERE is the website for the founder of AmpEnergo, Karl Norwood. Notice that it's the same address and the same phone number as Leonardo Corporation. They have shared the same address and phone number for at least a couple of years (based on earlier versions of their web pages saved in the Internet "Way-Back Machine", http://archive.org).
HERE is the Google Maps page for that address. It's a profession office building, with rented offices and basic office services (kitchen area, copy machines, etc.). There are at least 24 other tenants of this complex, and none of them share the same phone number. So, we can rule out the phone number used by Rossi and Norwood as being a common phone number for the complex.
HERE is the brochure for the office complex, which happens to be managed by Karl Norwood. Notice that these are just generic office spaces, generally rented out to insurance agents and other similar businesses.
Rossi claimed to be manufacturing E-Cats in his Florida facilities. HERE is the incorporation document for Leonardo Corporation in Florida. It's a 5th-floor apartment, so it isn't likely that this is the manufacturing facility. Note that Nickel powder (which Rossi claims is the key ingredient in his "catalyst") is poisonous, so hopefully he isn't building them in a residential apartment building.
What conclusions can we draw?
I would love to do this kind of analysis of Defkalion (which was created specifically to sell E-Cats), but I don't read the native languages, and it's impractical to do this kind of research through Google Translate.