Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-25 Thread Alain dit le Cycliste
Rossi's behavior is quite coeherent with a soft-paranoid version. Scam is not defendable. let's imagine the option. MY say, there are no clients, or fake client (actor, friend of scam). if no client, no cash from clients. (as say MV here) where from ? from investors ? no public share sales...

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-25 Thread Rich Murray
Cude's careful examination of the details of the October 28 demo prove that excess heat was specifically not established by the data, according to his obvious, simple analysis of how fast a large increase in reactor core temperature could heat the large thermal mass of the cooling water flow --

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-25 Thread Marcello Vitale
Rich, JC does say a lot of things about Oct. 28, mostly having to climb mirrors because, really, he does not seem to have ever so much as boiled water in a pot, and the data from Oct. 28 are particularly few. Regardless, he has only the secret investors bound to tight secrecy contracts as

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-25 Thread Sean True
I'm not sure anyone has pointed out the IP advantages to Rossi of selling his initial plants to the US military. Unlike the Chinese army or the Iranian republican guard, the US military is not in the business of reverse engineering, or of lowest cost procurement. For mission critical components,

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-25 Thread Charles Hope
That's enough with the personal attacks. So the client is the American military, who has hired Fioravanti to take possession of their goods, and though the branch wants to keep their identity secret, it nevertheless insisted on the publicity of the October 28th test? Am I clear? On Nov

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-25 Thread Aussie Guy E-Cat
Rossi has said the 1st customer does US military research, their 1 MW E-Cat is installed in the US and they have ordered 13 more. Who they are working for is anybodies guess. To me it seems clear they were hired to test the E-Cat at a place away from Rossi (who did the install, is doing the

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
Charles Hope lookslikeiwasri...@gmail.com wrote: So the client is the American military, who has hired Fioravanti to take possession of their goods, and though the branch wants to keep their identity secret, it nevertheless insisted on the publicity of the October 28th test? Where did you

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-25 Thread Mary Yugo
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Charles Hope lookslikeiwasri...@gmail.com wrote: So the client is the American military, who has hired Fioravanti to take possession of their goods, and though the branch wants to keep their identity secret, it

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo maryyu...@gmail.com wrote: As far as I know only Rossi wanted publicity, and not much of that. He did not get much, because he did not reveal much. That does not seem to bother him. I think most of the invitations to the Oct. 28 event were presents to his friends. You mean like

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-25 Thread Mary Yugo
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: On one sense this was an historic event, but from the point of view of an organization like the AP it was not newsworthy. If they had believed this was really a one megawatt nuclear fusion reactor using nickel and

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread Michele Comitini
I wish Peter Hagelstein replied: That's OK, Mr Rossi, fine! No more public test! Let me put it this way: would you let me test before buy as you advertise?!. That would have put AR in the corner, no escape. Is MIT afraid of being fouled ending up paying $2M for a scam? If it works those $2M

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread Aussie Guy E-Cat
As a potential purchaser, I have had no problems with Rossi agreeing for us to test our E-Cat. $2m is pocket change for MIT. I suggest there a lot more that went on than what has been revealed. Many US based LENR firms will be doing everything they can, calling up all their IOUs to slow Rossi

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread Jed Rothwell
Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: It might not be so confusing if one realizes, assuming all is as AR says, he has a very narrow window to make money off his eCat. I get that. I really do. But he was meeting with an elected official from the state of Massachusetts. A couple of miles away

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread Rich Murray
but good way to generate PR that will attract more credulous investors -- strike a bold pose of independence, thumbing nose at the establishment... just helping Mary Yugo... On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: It

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread Daniel Rocha
That is really a stain in his reputation, at least for a few months. I was going to put my name in the 10K e-cat market research... Not anymore. It doesn't matter if he really has something real if he cannot prove that he can provide a reliable, functional and safe product. 2011/11/24 Jed

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread James Bowery
My question: Did Sen. Bruce Tarr ask Rossi any questions to which Rossi provided surprising (to B. Tarr) answers? When an attorney calls a witness, he knows the answers before he asks the questions. The same applies to public hearings where an elected official invests his political capital in

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread Terry Blanton
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: If Rossi does not want MIT to test his reactors, he should never have met with state officials. It was an embarrassing waste of everyone's time. I dunno. Assuming they paid for the ticket, it was a cheap way for him to

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread Marcello Vitale
Jed said .But he was meeting with an elected official from the state of Massachusetts. A couple of miles away from the most prestigious university of technology in the world, run by the state. Uh, Jed, MIT is private. Or maybe you meant UMass? On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Jed

RE: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
Jed sez: If Rossi does not want MIT to test his reactors, he should never have met with state officials. It was an embarrassing waste of everyone's time. I suspect Rossi would beg to differ. Seems to me that Rossi has always been operating on Rossi time. From Terry, I dunno.

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread Marcello Vitale
Happy T-day to the US folk. Don't overdo it :-))) On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 5:54 PM, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson orionwo...@charter.net wrote: Jed sez: If Rossi does not want MIT to test his reactors, he should never have met with state officials. It was an embarrassing waste

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread Aussie Guy E-Cat
Jed we don't know what happened at those meetings. All you have revealed it what one person said. There is a LOT more going on here that has been revealed. Rossi is old school Southern European and keeps his cards VERY close to his chest. Yanks blast everything all over the web. Very different

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread Mary Yugo
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Aussie Guy E-Cat aussieguy.e...@gmail.comwrote: BTW Rossi has no problems with me doing Black Box testing of a E-Cat and he knows I'm on Vortex. It's real, so you doubters get over it. You are wrong. We doubters will only be wrong if you actually get an

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread Aussie Guy E-Cat
You are way beyond being an open minded doubter. AG On 11/25/2011 7:40 AM, Mary Yugo wrote: On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Aussie Guy E-Cat aussieguy.e...@gmail.com mailto:aussieguy.e...@gmail.com wrote: BTW Rossi has no problems with me doing Black Box testing of a E-Cat and

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread Mary Yugo
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Aussie Guy E-Cat aussieguy.e...@gmail.comwrote: You are way beyond being an open minded doubter. Why? You have never seen an actual E-cat in person have you? You have never touched one much less tested one? What makes you so sure you will ever get one to

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread Jed Rothwell
A friend wrote to me: Only Andrea could meet with a senator to ask for financial incentives to build a factory and refuse to allow them to test, huh? - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread Aussie Guy E-Cat
I have read almost all the papers, looked very carefully at all the videos and photographs, observed how the mains power was applied and saw the Blue Box and E-Cat sat on tables that would eliminate any hidden external power source. There was a single mains connection to the Blue Box and the

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread Alan Fletcher
Heh! When I was a Technical Manager at ITT our lab reported directly to Park Ave headquarters. Our new (we had 5 in as many years) technical director went to a critical meeting in Brussels, and came back gloating about how he had thrashed them. A week later we were reporting to Brussels.

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread Jed Rothwell
Marcello Vitale mvit...@ucsbalum.net wrote: Uh, Jed, MIT is private. Or maybe you meant UMass? You are right. It is a 19th century land grant college, like Cornell. Technically private but a lot of it is tied in with the state. (Cornell has schools entirely funded by New York, and annual

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread Aussie Guy E-Cat
We don't know that was what went down. AG On 11/25/2011 8:03 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: A friend wrote to me: Only Andrea could meet with a senator to ask for financial incentives to build a factory and refuse to allow them to test, huh? - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread Charles Hope
So far, nobody seems to be able to predict Rossi's actions as well as Mary can. The rest of us are stumped, but her hypothesis explains the behavior. On Nov 24, 2011, at 17:07, Aussie Guy E-Cat aussieguy.e...@gmail.com wrote: We don't know that was what went down. AG On 11/25/2011

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread Mary Yugo
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Craig Brown cr...@overunity.co wrote: Rossi's behaviour with regards to blocking independent testing is explained by the fact that he's sitting on potentially the world's most valuable IP and doesn't have a US or European patent yet. There is no need for the

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread Alain dit le Cycliste
some peopl here imagin that rossi can be a scammer... It does not seems credible, according tou his strange behavior itself. if you try to profile him from his behavior, you find more a weak-paranoid style persister in process com. He does not behave like the usual weak-sociopath style promoter

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread Aussie Guy E-Cat
I have not found any strange behavior in my commercial dealings with Rossi. I totally understand and accept what he asks of his customers and he accepts my requirements on him. I know he works 16 hours a day as I do (if needed) as there are about 8 hours a day when there is no almost immediate

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread Jouni Valkonen
2011/11/25 Craig Brown cr...@overunity.co: Rossi's behaviour with regards to blocking independent testing is explained by the fact that he's sitting on potentially the world's most valuable IP and doesn't have a US or European patent yet. This is unfortunate but true point. The economical

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo maryyu...@gmail.com wrote: Complete nonsense. That issue is easily solved by black box testing using a reliable and trusted friend of cold fusion or a university laboratory with secret clearance. You misunderstand. The technical issues would be resolved, but this would probably not

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread Jed Rothwell
Aussie Guy E-Cat aussieguy.e...@gmail.com wrote: We don't know that was what went down. Nothing much went down. I would have heard from Hagelstein and others if anything interesting had happened. I do not think there are any secret arrangements underway. Elected officials do not make secret

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread Mary Yugo
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Mary Yugo maryyu...@gmail.com wrote: Complete nonsense. That issue is easily solved by black box testing using a reliable and trusted friend of cold fusion or a university laboratory with secret clearance. You

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread Aussie Guy E-Cat
We are working with Rossi to put together a diathermic oil E-Cat system, feeding a heat engine system that will deliver Ac kWs from the heated diathermic oil. We will then feed enough of the generated Ac kWs back into the E-Cat to maintain it in power mode while using the excess Ac kWs

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread Mary Yugo
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Aussie Guy E-Cat aussieguy.e...@gmail.comwrote: We are working with Rossi to put together a diathermic oil E-Cat system, feeding a heat engine system that will deliver Ac kWs from the heated diathermic oil. We will then feed enough of the generated Ac kWs back

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo maryyu...@gmail.com wrote: I'm curious. How do you think Rossi protects his IP when he sells 100 of the E-cats in a batch to an unnamed client. I answered that question already. Please reread my message. There is no smoking gun for fraud. But Rossi behaves exactly and

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread Alan Fletcher
You mean he's changed his mind on selling you a 100KW? Instead, he'll work with and sell you a custom version of a multi-cat? (Alternative universe : you hinted that you have a yacht, so he knows you're an easy mark) - Original Message - We are working with Rossi to put together a

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread Harry Veeder
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: I understand why Rossi does not want tests. He is trying to keep his results ambiguous. However, until he decides to allow tests, he should not visit elected officials and waste their time. He should not waste

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread Aussie Guy E-Cat
There is no way our proposed closed loop test can be fraud. AG On 11/25/2011 11:21 AM, Alan Fletcher wrote: You mean he's changed his mind on selling you a 100KW? Instead, he'll work with and sell you a custom version of a multi-cat? (Alternative universe : you hinted that you have a

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread Mary Yugo
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Aussie Guy E-Cat aussieguy.e...@gmail.comwrote: There is no way our proposed closed loop test can be fraud. OK, I'll bite. Why not? And again, when is this test expected to take place?

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread Aussie Guy E-Cat
What we need is for the entire system (E-Cat and Heat Engine) to fit into a single container. When we agree on the design, we propose to ship our container (with the diathermic oil friendly heat engine installed) to the E-Cat factory and have the E-Cat half of the container populated. Then we

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread Aussie Guy E-Cat
WTF? I take it you did not read what our setup is to be and that you do not understand what closed loop means? AG On 11/25/2011 11:46 AM, Mary Yugo wrote: On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Aussie Guy E-Cat aussieguy.e...@gmail.com mailto:aussieguy.e...@gmail.com wrote: There is no

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread Aussie Guy E-Cat
Rossi has offered to install 1 MW of E-Cats into one half of our supplier 40 ft container, which will have the heat to Ac kW conversion system in the other half. Delivery of the 1 MW diathermic oil E-Cat system is 3 months as per his usual quote. We are now searching for suitable diathermic

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread Charles Hope
On Nov 24, 2011, at 19:49, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Mary Yugo maryyu...@gmail.com wrote: I'm curious. How do you think Rossi protects his IP when he sells 100 of the E-cats in a batch to an unnamed client. I answered that question already. Please reread my message.

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread Jed Rothwell
Charles Hope lookslikeiwasri...@gmail.com wrote: He claims to have a self-destruct mechanism built in. Well, perhaps he does, but as I said, dealing a large, highly reputable institution is a better guarantee. As far as I know, it is impossible in the U.S. But Rossi says it's not cold

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread Mary Yugo
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Charles Hope lookslikeiwasri...@gmail.comwrote: On Nov 24, 2011, at 19:49, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: He claims to have a self-destruct mechanism built in. OK. So you hire some munitions experts who defuse such things for a living. If you

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread Mary Yugo
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Aussie Guy E-Cat aussieguy.e...@gmail.comwrote: WTF? I take it you did not read what our setup is to be and that you do not understand what closed loop means? No, I do. And I read what you wrote. And yes, a test of the E-cat in which it ran without outside

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread Marcello Vitale
MY says there is no client. Let me explore the logical consequences of this revelation. Because it's a fact. MY said it, and it fits Occam's razor, which says (I am sure I don't need to remind you) that whatever MY points to as the simplest theory, is indeed true. Therefore, October 28 was all a

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-23 Thread Jed Rothwell
I do not know if the UL certifies industrial boilers, but I am sure someone does. It seems they do small scale generators, maybe not the biggies: http://www.ul.com/global/eng/pages/offerings/industries/energy/power/microturbines/tests/ I am sure that Rossi reactors scaled for home use will

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-23 Thread Akira Shirakawa
On 2011-11-23 22:31, Jed Rothwell wrote: Someone from Boston just called me to say that Rossi met with Peter Hagelstein at the state capital, and Rossi said exactly what he's been saying all along: I actually had some hope for this meeting. It looks like I'll have to lower my expectations

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-23 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Jed: ... Why did Rossi even go? What was he thinking? He does at least make it clear that he cannot reveal anything about this because he has no patent. He does not actually say I do not want widespread publicity because I have no patent -- I want to cash in while I can but I am pretty

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-23 Thread Jed Rothwell
OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson svj.orionwo...@gmail.com wrote: I'm puzzled. Maybe I missed something crucial about the itinerary. I thought one of the reasons Rossi went was to see if he could to drum up some corporate interest in his technology for the state of Massachusetts. I do not know

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-23 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Jed ... Maybe there is more to it. I just heard this in a 5-minute phone call. Summary: He said the same stuff he has been saying all along in his blog and in the magazines. Well, at least he is consistent. IMHO, (and granted it might be an incorrect opinion) I can't help but speculate

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-23 Thread Jouni Valkonen
2011/11/23 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com: Someone from Boston just called me to say that Rossi met with Peter Hagelstein at the state capital, and Rossi said exactly what he's been saying all along: No more tests. Let the customers decide. Etc. Peter offered to do a pure black box tests

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-23 Thread Terry Blanton
It might not be so confusing if one realizes, assuming all is as AR says, he has a very narrow window to make money off his eCat. Rossi realizes it and is pumping (intended) out as many as he can hoping to make his nest egg. If all is real, Rossi will not get a patent here, but he could likely

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-23 Thread Mary Yugo
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: I cannot understand why he does these things! I can. Well, at least he is consistent. About that he is. On other things he's consistently inconsistent. I am sure that Rossi reactors scaled for home use will require

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-23 Thread Marcello Vitale
I agree with Terry on this. I see no other way for Rossi to make money than to try to sell as many big items as he can before somebody much better than him at manufacturing comes into the game. Anything else is a distraction. I'll add that corporations go to statehouses to ask for tax breaks

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-23 Thread Mary Yugo
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:36 PM, Marcello Vitale mvit...@ucsbalum.net wrote: I agree with Terry on this. I see no other way for Rossi to make money than to try to sell as many big items as he can before somebody much better than him at manufacturing comes into the game. Anything else is a