No one was given access to the "demo," so my going there -- or anyone's going there -- would have been a complete waste of time. All we've seen is a couple of paragraphs by an "Investor" who describes a "demo" that is nothing more than Mills has shown in the past.
We are now two days after the "demo," and there is not a single reliable report of what -- if anything -- was "demonstrated" that hasn't been "demonstrated" before. Just more of the usual "Unless you've read all 1000 pages of Mills [dubious -- and highly plagiarized] tome you'll never be able to understand what he's talking about. Meanwhile, I'm writing him a big fat check."
Soapy Smith used a similar technique.
Oh wait ... there was one significant outburst of heat from Mills' demo: comments on a LENR thread sympathetic to Rossi led Dr. Mills to make this statement [since scrubbed, and then removed]
"To me e-cat is a cult. What can you say to a group that believes in thousands of watts of an unknown nuclear reaction that has no trace of radiation, and believes in a reactor where no one outside knows the identity of what it is and the one who does has been jailed for fraud?'"
That's Mills talking, not me. On the other hand, Rossi has made numerous derogatory remarks about "hydrinos;" correctly pointing out on a few occasions that if they existed the Uncertainty Principle is wrong.
Ouch. That's got to leave a mark. But please don't call me a skeptopath: I agree with both men! Each of them is a huge fraud.
To answer your original question, NOPE. Not the least bit scared of Mills, Rossi, Defkalion, or any of the other hoaxers. All I'm scared of is the prospect that taxpayer money by way of an increasingly listless, deranged DOE or NASA will end up in their pockets.
I’m with you.
When I see a ‘cold fusion’ generate more net energy than was required to smelt, refine, and work the electrode I may raise an eyebrow.
I did want someone to go there because of the very issues in this thread. I mentioned the pathetic test of the magic Rossi tea kettle done during May of 2013 and they come back and say, well, the other test was real. So it would have been nice to have someone there who saw everything and we don't get the ra-ra squad saying we don't understand, the test was fine, the scientists weren't shills, the E-cat wasn't running, they got to inspect the power box etc, etc, etc.
What I didn't expect was a complete failure on Mill's part. I figured put 12000 amps into what is essentially an electrolysis cell even though it supposedly uses solid fuel (based on water, sayeth what?) there should have been some fireworks. Maybe Mills has partnered with Steorn on demos so they all fall as flat as Steorns bs that they actually blamed on global warming in their sealed box.
Nevertheless, I think there is something in this LENR and it's going to take someone to crack it and find out what IT is and whether it's viable or an artifact.
All I’m scared of is the prospect that taxpayer money by way of an increasingly listless, deranged DOE or NASA will end up in their pockets.
***Bullshit. If that was your concern, you’d have been loudly squawking on controlled-hot-fusion threads and decrying the hundreds of $Billions lost to that fraud. The only reason you decry LENR is the asshole*bandwagon index is high for CHF, low for LENR.