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"I watched a video demonstration Rossi's E-cat. The E-cat looked like a amateur high school project. Rossi's dialog was simplistic. The site included a photo of what looked like a miniature, '40's era refrigerator, about the size of a small ice chest. OK, this cute little thing is delivered to your house, does it come with a standard 110/220 cord? Or are you required to completely re adapt the delivery system in your house?"

I take it you've never been inside an engineering research laboratory?? Particularly one that does catalyst research?? Rossi's rigs look just like those. It's an engineering prototype, not a finished commercial product.

And of course Rossi uses rather simplistic language. Some of the people in the audience of his demos are NOT scientists (i.e. journalists), and he knows that the videos are going to be seen by a non-professional audience.

"1. Why has Rossi abandoned the use of "cold fusion" for a description less specific? If his tests fail, has he left himself an out...."Well, it wasn't really cold fusion it was...whatever...""

For the same reason that "Magnetic Resonance Imaging" used the term MRI rather than "Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging"....the term has "negative connotations" with either the public or journalists.

"2. Nickle can be turned into "copper", actually more like copper by-products than good quality copper... It's either for industrial use, or the result of processing nickle. It's not a one-step, two-step process. It does not require cold fusion to accomplish..."Cheap Energy."

And I don't think anybody has ever said any differently. We simply don't know exactly what is happening.

"You didn't create the E-cat. Your reputation is not on the line, and peoples comments are not meant to mock you."

I'm opposed to efforts to censor a topic by "thread-spamming".

"The fun of Free Republic is putting an idea out there, and then taking the bitter with the sweet it the responses.

Sorry, but the level of abuse from the "seagulls" rises far above that.