[Johnny B.]

Detailed story of Rossi's dealings with NASA last year.

[Johnny B.]

LENR/Cold Fusion ping. Stephen Krivit has posted a detailed report on Rossi’s dealings with NASA. Enjoy.

[cripplecreek]

I read today that Rossi has a history.

In the 1990s, he served prison time after claiming that a company he started, called PetrolDragon, could convert toxic waste to oil, but instead the 70,000 tons of waste accumulated by the company was left to rot on-site. Ten years later, Rossi was acquitted by the Italian government. And he's back to making miracles.

E-Cat 'Cold Fusion' Machine: Claims of Fraud Heating Up

[Psycho_Bunny]

Someday “blarney” and “rossi” will be synonyms.

[Johnny B.]

Interesting section about the small quantity of steam:

Rossi said he was feeding in water and producing only steam. Only there wasn't much steam. So where did the water go? The obvious explanation was right in front of us the whole time: feed water into the copper chamber, run it through the black hose, down the table and into a hole in the wall.

Once the water enters the copper chamber, nobody sees it again; it disappears down the hole. If someone asks to see what's coming out of the hose, Rossi first dumps the water out of the last few feet, then pulls the hose out of the wall for a few seconds, then rushes to put it back in. Alternatively, Rossi provides a plastic blue bucket to catch the "steam."

The hard part for most people was to believe that anyone would be so audacious or so foolhardy as to attempt to pull off a stunt like this. But anybody who knows Rossi's history with his other two energy "innovations" knows that this behavior is entirely in his character.

July 30 represented a turning point. Many people concluded that Rossi was either a fraud or incompetent, or both. Other people continued to have confidence in Rossi, his device and his claim.

[desertfreedom765]

Its not real until it is....

Were still at the first part of that sentence.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Hey! Rossi! ShIt, or get off the pot!

[BufordP]

Courtesy ping.

Rossi Says E-Cat is Absolutely Safe — “There Will Never Be” Gamma Rays Emitted

[babygene]

Don’t you find it a little bit odd that a NASA employee at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. just filed a patent application regarding LENR and specifically H2 - Ni reactions? Although Rossi’s process wasn’t specifically mentioned in the patent application, a general description of what Rossi has calmed was.

Kind of makes you want to say Hmmmm... The assignee on this patent app. is of course the U.S. government.

http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=\%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220110255645%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/2\0110255645&RS=DN/20110255645

[exDemMom]

Thank you for the ping!

It looks like the carefully constructed house of cards is beginning to wobble on its unstable foundation. It’ll be fun to see how it crumbles!

[CodeToad]

Even though the article explains that Rossi FAILED to provide any level of proof to NASA, the likes of Kevmo will continue to claim NASA is interested in Rossi and that gives Rossi credibility somehow.

[exDemMom]

I just finished reading the whole article, and it was fascinating. I had wondered how a man who is unemployed and apparently without any source of income could both finance the R&D necessary to produce a working system (accepting his device as genuine, for sake of my argument), and afford to travel extensively. But this little passage answered a lot:

After three more weeks, on July 6, Rossi offered to sell international licenses for rights to manufacture "products based on Andrea Rossi’s E-Cat invention" for € 40.5 million ($53 million) per factory, through his affiliate, Defkalion.

All Rossi needs is one gullible investor who desparately wants to believe him, and Rossi is set. He can afford all the shipping containers and plumbing hardware he wants for his "demonstrations."

Looking at the picture of the "eCat" (posted in the section "Synopsis of Report #4), I am stricken by one thing: the "eCat" consists of brand-new pieces of plumbing attached to corroded old pipes. Why is that?

Anyway, once again, thanks for the ping.

[CodeToad]

Rossi's nuclear manufacturing business address (hehe):

The old scam artist is using a 5th floor Miami Beach address to run this scam. What a JOKE!