All beginnings are messy, why should be the LENR era be an exception? I know that the merits belong, first of all to Prof Piantelli. However it had been a very long period when the process had not been reproducible and upscalable- till the critical know how elements have been discovered. It is fine that Steve warns us about Rossi's past, however I think we are more interested in the present and future of the device we have seen yesterday working.
Suppose Rossi is the Al Capone of science and the Ostap Bender of technology, how many non working damned generators will he sell? I think his past, character, are not relevant. Let's be intelligent, the Romanian thinker Mihail Ralea has given a negative definition of intelligence: *"To be intelligent means to NOT mix (confuse) the points of view"* * * And the same thinker has defined seriousity as being focussed on the core of the things, on the essence, not on the halo of the trivia floating around them. On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > A word of caution, thanks to Steve Krivit > > http://blog.newenergytimes.com/2011/01/15/rossi-discovery-what-to-say/ > > Since Krivit has come forward with this today, I guess it is OK for others > to publish the same information that has been floating around Italy for a > couple of days regarding Rossi's two prior criminal fraud convictions. This > needs to be addressed by Rossi, even if it is tangential to the claimed > work. It actually shows up on the Italian version of Wiki. > > IOW the two (or more) prior criminal problems, should be completely ignored > if they were unrelated to this new work, which they are not, or if the > experimental results are absolutely shown to be valid, which is less than > certain. > > Ask yourself this, could the results which have been shown have been faked > by a convicted con-man, who BTW - has no record of having gotten a PhD from > anywhere in Italy, other than the Mail-order variety, and is in serious > difficulty in the USA because of prior allegations for funding received > from > DARPA, inappropriately, for thermoelectric work which was never completed ? > > I think the enthusiasm shown today this work so far is fine, and I am still > part of the cheering section - but this word of caution should be taken > into > account, and put forward for answers from Rossi himself. Maybe there is > another man with the same name who is responsible. As a community, the > honest people in LENR do not want to be seen by skeptics, in a couple of > months, as having been completely gullible and taken-in by a convicted > con-artist, should he be shown to be faking this. > > Jones > > >
