Good point. The Navy has been open with its rail gun tests. Why would it be so secretive about a space heater?
ok- assume for a second that this device is real. (wow, that is hard.)
If so, then this is like the Wright brother’s airplane. After a few years of really understanding it - it could really be a toaster sized fusion-o-matic.
So, since it is has potentially game changing ramifications, the DoD would want to rightly keep it under wraps.
Ok - now back to reality. Rossi is not trustworthy, the device has not been the subject of scientific investigation. - so until it is replicated by an independent lab, the smart money says its not a scientific breakthrough.
I don’t put much faith in there actually being any true arms-length transaction with payment for rights/possession of an Ecat.