The Quark… strange and charming… or another downer? This could be a brilliant tactic on Rossi’s part – if he has anything real to show to the world this time. It is possibly his last chance at redemption, and he surely realizes the position he is in. The legal papers from IH (the answer and possible counter-claims) are due soon, which will provide further embarrassment to AR unless he has a touch of magic with which to neutralize them.
There is little doubt that Industrial Heat will prevail in the ongoing lawsuit … eventually … since the COP necessary to fulfill that contract is high, and the ERV is incompetent. But Rossi can still salvage a decent settlement with IH if he is willing and able to provide less grandiose technology… enough to convince experts that there is an improved thermal anomaly of the type which has been seen by Thermacore, Mills, Piantelli and others. Of course, IH must be able to reproduce it on their own, something that has not happened yet. There is proved thermal gain going back 20 years, which is small and undependable on top of that, to the extent that it never got traction. If the Quark provides enough reliable improvement, it can still change the world of physics … especially with direct conversion capability. The proportionate amount of gain and its reliability - that is the crux of the problem – now as it was 20 years ago. Has the Quark gone over the top, or it the fading breath of one of the World’s greatest con-artists? This is where I differ from Jed’s negative assessment: Rossi appears to me to have achieved modest thermal gain in some of his testing, as have others using basically the same theory of operation. It is at least 50/50 … IMO - that with the Quark, Andrea Rossi has a device which is reliable enough, easier to test, and provides enough gain that he can allow a competent tester, using acceptable standards to do what should have been done at Lugano, but was not. It will not be the extraordinary COP that AR often dreams about, or the contract calls for -- but if he can show reliable COP of 2, that will be sufficient for a settlement. Of course, that level is far below Rossi’s prior bogosity, where he wants the gain to look like COP of 6 and up. But the undeniable fact in all of this is that COP of 2, if it is on-demand and replicated, and proved without AR’s intervention, is still HUGE in terms of the physics involved. From: Daniel Rocha I think Rossi's costumer this time is his company's branch at UK, right?
