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A good example: You spent most of last year saying that Rossi couldn't be a con man, because a con man would not let his gadget be independently tested by a University.

This is exactly what Randal Mills is doing with his hydrinos and Rowan university and they are still working with him. This brings up a question, is the university blinded by Mill's cash that they would turn a blind eye towards Mill's hydrino theory or do they think something is there?

Mills has great credentials like:
Dr. Mills was awarded a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Chemistry, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Franklin & Marshall College in 1982, and a Doctor of Medicine Degree from Harvard Medical School in 1986. Following a year of graduate work in electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. Mills began his research in the field of energy technology.

Those aren't exactly the credentials of an underachiever although I wonder why he didn't go into medicine.

What about Mill's software that models the atom based on his TOE (theory of everything)? I haven't downloaded his latest version but I did over a year ago and it's a full blown software package. So, someone has to understand Mill's TOE and was able to put it in a software package. Unless Mills writes software as well.

Mill's BLP is well funded and has an excellent building and location with a full lab. I forgot who had the building last but I read that Mills got it for a song and it already had an enormous vacuum chamber.

Are Mills and all his associates so blinded by confirmation blindness that they ignore reality? Last time I took a good look at BLP, their process was being scaled up but now it seems that it works for 24 hours or so and then stabilizes down to under unity performance.

It's easy to see the scam behind people like Joseph Newman and Tilley, but what is BLP's scam and how did he get so many people to fall for it?

I haven't researched Blacklight beyond a quick look at Wikipedia, so I can't speculate on the details of that company, but it is informative to compare and contrast Blacklight to Rossi.

This is exactly what Randal Mills is doing with his hydrinos and Rowan university and they are still working with him.

This is in contrast to Rossi, who put a great deal of effort into trying to claim ties to the University of Bologna that never existed. He did get some of their professors to attend his dog & pony shows, but they were apparently freelancing (and shame on them for allowing Rossi to "borrow" the credibility of their employer when there was no such relationship).

Dr. Mills was awarded a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Chemistry, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Franklin & Marshall College in 1982, and a Doctor of Medicine Degree from Harvard Medical School in 1986. Following a year of graduate work in electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. Mills began his research in the field of energy technology.

Hmm... no signs of criminal convictions for fraud. That's one big difference. Rossi has been convicted numerous times for fraud, racketeering and money laundering, and spent considerable time in jail throughout the 1990s and 2000s. His fans try to claim that it was all just a big misunderstanding, but according to a decades' worth of newspaper articles I reviewed, Rossi was clearly guilty of several independent criminal operations over a period of a decade or more (unsure since the Internet archives I reviewed only went back to 1990).

Mill's BLP is well funded and has an excellent building and location with a full lab.

Rossi has a rented office, which he shares with the company (AmpEnergo) that "purchased" the American distribution rights to the E-Cat. No signs of any manufacturing facility (although he claims to be selling E-Cats today).

I also note that Blacklight has actually named companies that have purchased licenses from them, and the one customer I checked had a press release confirming the licenses. No signs of anything actually coming of it (and it could have been a license for "one dollar and other considerations" solely for the purpose of publicity.

Rossi, on the other hand, claims to have customers, but refuses to name any of them.

I looked into BLP long ago, but not recently. He seems to be putting out a lot of data, including peer-reviewed papers, but they seem to be being ignored. Any competent chemist should be able to tell the reality or not of his theory by some simple spectroscopic tests on his "hydrino" compounds. But I have seen no evidence that such tests have been done by independent parties (they may well have been done in the several years since my last look. As you indicate, the people he has backing him are not the sorts to provide such backing without some pretty hard evidence.