Charles Hope <lookslikeiwasri...@gmail.com> wrote: Jed, in your opinion, why does Rossi bother with these demoes, if they don't > impress fence sitters, and he doesn't need new investors? >
It seems to clear to me why he did these demos. Different reasons: Oct. 6 was a demonstration. It proved beyond any question the device is real. Anyone who doubts that is a scientific illiterate, in my opinion. The proof is in the physical shape, configuration and the temperatures you can feel even without instruments. People who do not understand basic physics, and who look only at instrument readings instead of the experiment itself may convince themselves it proved nothing. That is because Rossi is sloppy with instruments. If he had included another K-type thermocouple and an SD card, he would have convinced most of these people as well. Oct. 28 was a customer acceptance trial. It sure looked like that to me. An engineer came and measured everything, and then noted it was fine except there are some leaking gaskets. Rossi allowed some of his friends to attend. He wined them and dined them, just for the fun of it. He said beforehand that the test would be "closed" and he meant it. By the way, he blamed *me*for that. Me personally, in a e-mail. That was after I told him he is sloppy and rude to his audience. He took offence and said 'just for that I will make the Oct. 28 test closed. No more demonstrations!' (Something like that.) I think he was looking around for an excuse to close the test, and he decided to blame me. I copied my message to him here, and it is pretty much what I wrote here: http://www.nyteknik.se/incoming/article3295498.ece/BINARY/Conclusion+Ecat+Oct+6+by+Jed+Rothwell+%28pdf%29 What it boils down to is that Rossi hates to reveal information. He likes to micromanage things. He wants you look over his shoulder at a computer and trust whatever he says. He really, really hates it when people criticize him. He pretends to be oh-so-tough I don't care what anyone thinks, but in fact he is a thin-skinned as a teenage kid. Also he is sloppy and he does not understand how to do a proper, convincing demonstration. Those attitudes are not productive for a scientist or engineer. We all have our limitations. What he is trying to do now is to make money selling individual reactors, and getting a contract with what I suspect is a mid-level, go-go Italian company, Manutencoop. That is actually a pretty good choice. But he could do a lot better. Some people I know have offered him huge sums of money. He ignores them or blows them away because they insist that he must allow real testing, he must hand over all of his secrets, and he must let them make the business decisions. Rossi resembles Patterson and many others in that he would take this technology to the grave with him, so that no one gets it, rather than lose control or do what other people want him to do. Regarding Manutencoop, someone should check the earlier spreadsheets to see where they came from. I don't think I have that software on this computer. - Jed
