The “client” is probably a crony of Rossi, not a customer. As for “unconfirmed reports” that the “customer” was the Navy, the Navy would be demanding lots more than a visual walk through. Rossi sounds like a fraudster and him going to the length of creating his own “journal” because his articles could not pass the peer review process, isn’t helpful. He’s a promoter and I see speculation about his technology, customers, etc on FR most every night. The generating set hooked up to his device and no explanation about why it was hooked up and running for the whole test are fishy.
Most people, including myself, who are keeping track of it, aren’t necessarily convinced about anything about the project. At worst, we’re giving it enough benefit of the doubt to speculate about it, but that’s it.
If Rossi does have something, it’s not going to be a startup that would likely buy into it anyway. It would be the military or GE that would invest in it and they have sufficient expertise to not be fooled by a con man.
It’s the same sort of speculation that people have when they talk about Star Trek: how much of that can really be done, what they agree with or disagree about it, whatever.
It doesn’t mean that those people have taken Star Trek as gospel.
They’re having fun with it, nothing more I think.