[Kevmo]

The Cold Fusion Ping List

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/coldfusion/index?tab=articles

http://ecatnews.com/?p=1144

[desertfreedom765]

One of 3 things going on here.

1. Fraud.
2. He’s Delusional.
3. It’s real.

The Fraud seems the least likely to me. Spending over a year trying to perpetuate a world wide scam? For what? It would all be taken away anyway and he would end up in jail.

So it comes down really to 2 or 3. I hope to God its 3, but its more likely #2. Time will tell.

[RetiredTexasVet]

I’m skeptical. Why don’t they hire an independent testing lab to operate and evaluate the thing. I assume they have a users manual or set of operating instructions that a lab could use.

[Liberty1970]

That last paragraph is a keeper. ;-)

[fishtank]

Could you remove me from the cold fusion ping list?

Thank you.

[Jack of all Trades]

..Unfortunately, if Rossi hired a bunch of actors to pretend to be the customer reps, created an elaborate year-long special-effects-derived series of demos, bribed, hypnotised or otherwise fooled Focardi, Levi, Kullander, Essen, Bianchini, Stremmenos 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 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, arranged for Piantelli, Miley and a host of others to try to fool the world into thinking that cold fusion was real, got NASA, SPAWAR, The Defense Threat Reduction Agency and The Defense Intelligence Agency to say nice things about the field, got Bushnell to make a fool of himself, 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 – 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!) 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 all bets are off and I’m with the guys who think that Rossi is an idiot and they are all geniuses ...

Sounds like the cold light of reality is finally dawning 8]

[freedomlover]

I am a patent attorney, practicing for 27 years.
If I had a dime for every guy that said he had a perpetual motion device, I would have, well, several dollars.

I will give you one thing, though, some of them REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY believe they have done it.

I mean REALLY.

FWIW
FL