Subject: Re: Need info please – Please just one more question.
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:05:42 -0600
From: Julia Betts
To: [Mystery Author]
Per our previous statement from November, we were only in discussions with the Leonardo Corporation regarding the use of National Instruments engineering tools. Currently Leonardo Corporation/Andrea Rossi is not a customer of National Instruments.
NI platforms can be used for Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) applications, particularly the National Instruments Reconfigurable I/O (RIO) platform that is based on FPGA (field programmable gate array) technology for the control and monitoring needs. The FPGAs are programmable integrated circuits that offer true parallelism, high-speed analysis of data and a high level of reliability needed for control and monitoring applications.
We do think the field of LENR is a very intriguing research area that has potential to impact the energy crisis that is facing the world. NI believes in providing the right tools and platforms to enable engineers and scientists to focus on innovation and solving the grand engineering challenges such as energy from fusion, cancer therapy in the field of medicine and smart grids for better urban infrastructure, to name a few. We are working with Universities and Research Centers around the world to empower researchers and scientists who are working on magnetic confined fusion, inertial confined fusion and Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (some times called “cold fusion”)
Hope this clarifies.
Julia Betts – Corporate Communications and Investor Relations Manager – National Instruments – 512-659-9643 (mobile)
Meanwhile, the NI rep says "we were only in discussions with Rossi" and that Rossi is "currently not a customer". There is some room for interpretation there, but I suspect if Rossi ever had been a customer, she would have mentioned it. I suspect her use of the word "currently" is there because she wouldn't rule out future dealings, not that he once was a customer.
I strongly suspect that if Rossi lied about NI's involvement while he was selling "franchises", that that would be enough all by itself to put him in prison. I've read numerous statements from Rossi supporters that the association with National Instruments was the primary reason they believed that it wasn't a scam.