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NASA Engineer Explains Why Rossi Demos Failed
New Energy Times Blog ^ | 11/10/2011 | Steven B. Krivit

Posted on 11/10/2011 12:35:57 PM PST by Johnny B.

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NASA's analysis of Rossi's E-Cat device. Their conclusion: Rossi didn't run the demos long enough to prove that they work.
1 posted on 11/10/2011 12:36:04 PM PST by Johnny B.
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To: Johnny B.

If it’s a scam I can’t see how he expects to cash in.


2 posted on 11/10/2011 12:38:25 PM PST by DManA
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To: Johnny B.
He's not allowed to say that.

He's only allowed to fall down on his knees in worship of the black box.

The science is settled. Shut up and hand over your money.

3 posted on 11/10/2011 12:42:09 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The enemy of my enemy is my candidate.<sup>®</sup>)
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To: Johnny B.

But... what is the impact for muslims?

NASA has given up on space, I think it’s time for a new name for them.

NGWMOA? National Global Warming and muslm Outreach Administration?

NOMA? National Outreach to muslims Agency?


4 posted on 11/10/2011 12:42:54 PM PST by brownsfan (Aldous Huxley and Mike Judge were right.)
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To: DManA
If it’s a scam I can’t see how he expects to cash in.

Sure: attract "investors", and fleece, fleece, fleece....

5 posted on 11/10/2011 12:43:04 PM PST by Yossarian ("All the charm of Nixon. All the competency of Carter." - SF Chronicle comment post on Obama)
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To: DManA

Only need one buyer. A big one.


6 posted on 11/10/2011 12:43:51 PM PST by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
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To: Yossarian

There is no evidence he has investors yet. If he can’t prove it works how is he going to get any?


7 posted on 11/10/2011 12:44:29 PM PST by DManA
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To: DManA

>If it’s a scam I can’t see how he expects to cash in.

Well of course of everyone knows it’s a scam he won’t be able to cash in.


8 posted on 11/10/2011 12:44:34 PM PST by bkepley
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So the complaint is that it did not run 8 hrs (it only ran 5 1/2 hrs). So what are we going to be able to tell in the additonal 1 1/2 hrs that we were not able to tell by running it 5 1/2 hrs. I dont understand the logic here. Is 8 hrs some kind of break point that would eliminate a certain technology? If so, what?


9 posted on 11/10/2011 12:44:48 PM PST by taxcontrol
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To: Johnny B.

I’ve always believed Rossi to be a scam, however, it’s also hard to believe anything a NASA scientist claims anymore since James Hansen.


10 posted on 11/10/2011 12:44:57 PM PST by chopperman
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To: DManA

Andrea Rossi has started taking orders for the units
http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=516&cpage=6#comment-107295

He has also said no more public tests.
http://freeenergytruth.blogspot.com/2011/11/rossi-no-more-ecat-public-tests.html


11 posted on 11/10/2011 12:45:46 PM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: ctdonath2

I admit I was nervous when I heard the rumor that the secret buyer was the US government. But if he wanted to rip of the US taxpayer it would have been easier to start a scam solar company.


12 posted on 11/10/2011 12:46:06 PM PST by DManA
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To: DManA

Rule #1 of scamming: never scam a bigger scammer.


13 posted on 11/10/2011 12:47:58 PM PST by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
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To: Yossarian

“If it’s a scam I can’t see how he expects to cash in. “

Easy, get the gullable Obama West Wing Cretin/Felon Clowns to invest in it.

Those loons couldn’t make a bulb light...but they’re all smarter than we are.


14 posted on 11/10/2011 12:49:37 PM PST by Da Coyote (Liberalism - when you absolutely, positively have no ability to produce wealth.)
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To: Johnny B.

Run one for a season at a tractor-pull.


15 posted on 11/10/2011 12:50:53 PM PST by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: Johnny B.

I would also be cautious and skeptical because one of the promoters of the project has already sent a brag letter to Obama and Biden...so that he would likely use this potential development to further his campaign against existing fossil fuels.


16 posted on 11/10/2011 12:54:58 PM PST by Paul Ross (Ronald Reagan-1987:"We are always willing to be trade partners but never trade patsies.")
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To: DManA
If it’s a scam I can’t see how he expects to cash in.
All he has to do is collect deposits from the "five year's worth of customers" that Kevmo claims he has, then skip town.

A more elaborate solution is to collect money from investors and customers, then convince them that the company has failed through no fault of his. Then pocket the money he never actually spent on trying to make them work.

Rossi has created a unique, world-class climate of expectation based on a year-long publicity campaign (all the while he claimed he didn't want publicity). Now, it's time to cash in.

I'm sure at this point, he could collect millions on the promise that he will deliver an E-Cat at some time in the future (even years in the future, since he's so overwhelmed with orders). He's been convicted of fraud several times in the past, and has run a number of very suspicious previous "revolutionary new invention" companies, so he has plenty of experience to draw upon.

17 posted on 11/10/2011 1:01:22 PM PST by Johnny B.
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So the complaint is that it did not run 8 hrs (it only ran 5 1/2 hrs). So what are we going to be able to tell in the additonal 1 1/2 hrs that we were not able to tell by running it 5 1/2 hrs. I dont understand the logic here. Is 8 hrs some kind of break point that would eliminate a certain technology? If so, what?

For the small ecat eight hours is needed to show that it's self sustaining. Three or more days is needed to show that the source isn't a chemical reaction. The eight hour figure probably comes from the three or more hours that the ecat needs to be hooked up to a power source for it to warm up.

18 posted on 11/10/2011 1:04:11 PM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: DManA
There is no evidence he has investors yet. If he can’t prove it works how is he going to get any?

Kevmo and Wonder Warthog seem convinced that it works. That's assuming they aren't shills, too.

19 posted on 11/10/2011 1:06:04 PM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Johnny B.
All he has to do is collect deposits from the "five year's worth of customers" that Kevmo claims he has, then skip town.

"Max Bialystock is launching himself into little old lady land."

20 posted on 11/10/2011 1:06:06 PM PST by dfwgator (I stand with Herman Cain.)
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