I just got soured over Rossi's grandiose promises, that lead to nothing at all. Where is Rossi? What is the status of his megawatt cold-fusion system? Has he finally gotten an independent tester to validate his machine in an outside lab? I've just gotten so damn tired of him and his crap.
Large outfits, with reputations to preserve, tend to at least try to deliver on what they say.
In my experience doing and managing research inside large companies, corporate researchers report considerably less than they have already delivered to their product development colleagues. And they delay their reports to the public significantly -- until their own people have a good head start on commercializing their discoveries.
It's called "competitive advantage" -- and it is the primary raison d'etre for large firms' funding of research in the first place.
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A second strategy is the withholding of research results as "internal trade secrets" -- usually without even divulging the technology via patent disclosures! A significant number of my best discoveries are still being "held as trade secrets" by my former employers.
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And really savvy companies employ a third research strategy: patenting and licensing of "intellectual property". This is especially true for discoveries "outside the core mission" which provide no direct competitive advantage, but for which others are wiling to pay big bucks. For instance, check out the annual report of, say, Texas Instruments: an amazingly large fraction of their revenue is from "royalties". Savvy corporate managers are fond of saying,
"There's nothing quite as nice as 'IP' (intellectual property) revenue: discover something you don't need, license it -- and sit back and enjoy the checks rolling in every month..."
Curiously, there are / were even some (former) Fortune 500 companies who never grasped that third concept / opportunity...
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Independent paranoids like Rossi fear their ideas will be "stolen", and unless they are spectacularly successful early on, neither advance the (published) state of the art nor reap any benefits (except for scammed investments) from their efforts...
Note: You can't patent what you do not understand well enough to explain it in a patent application. (Fundamental research on principles and mechanisms is key to defending application patents...)
Who cares where Rossi is? He’s engaging in engineering, not science. Would you expect TxNMA’s employer to reveal all of his research prior to obtaining a patent? Then why do you require it of Rossi?