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.
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?Not at all. There are several researchers working with Ni-H reactions, and NASA submitted their patent long before they had anything to do with Rossi, and long before Rossi started his dog & phony shows.
If Rossi was trying to pull a con, using Cold Fusion as the basis, he would have had two "reasonable" choices: Palladium/Deuterium or Nickel/Hydrogen. Palladium is expensive, so Nickel is the obvious choice. (He could have made up something that wasn't already in the research literature, but then he would have had a much more difficult time convincing anyone that he "legit".)
One of the common fallacies I've seen with "True Believers" (I don't know if you fall into that category or not), is that if there is any legitimacy to LENR at all, then Rossi must be legitimate. That simply isn't true. LENR is a wonderful field for con men. Everyone has heard of it, but nobody (including the "experts") understand it. Given the history of Blacklight Power, it seems likely that Rossi isn't even the first scam artist to work in this field.