OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson <svj.orionwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I infer from what was conspicuously left out of your response is that > Rossi, in your view, is at present to be placed in the "buyer beware" > category.
As I said in the past, I would not want to buy anything from him. Not even a nail clipper. Not because I think he is a crook. I know him pretty well. I have done business with him, and I know several other people who have. He is very difficult to deal with! He is mercurial, as I say. That's an old fashioned word meaning: Adjective:(of a person) Subject to sudden or unpredictable changes. I would be curious to know what you current take on Rossi is these > days. Care to speculate? > I wouldn't want to speculate about Rossi. He is the most unpredictable person I know. You never know what he will come up with. Or say, or do. He does things that make no sense to me, such as building a 1 MW reactor. That was an astounding accomplishment. Astounding technically, and astounding because it was so utterly pointless. But who knows . . . maybe he actually sold the thing for a barrel of money. I guess that would be the point. > I could be wrong, but at present my own impression of Rossi is that he > is not a scammer. I do not know of any evidence for a scam. No one has suggested a method you could use to fake most of these tests, especially the heat after death one in October. As I have often said, Rossi seems like the world's most inept confidence man. He inspires no confidence in anyone I know. As I said with regard to the NASA visit (described by Krivit) he might have inspired a little less confidence if he had met them at the door naked waving a shotgun. > I suspect he actually does have a valid "eCat" > technology for which he is trying very hard to develop and subsequently > market. It looks valid to me, as does Defkalion's version. I think he is trying very hard to market it, but I think his methods are screwy. It is almost as if he is trying to fail. Like the business plan in "The Producers." > I simply have my doubts (or concerns) as to how > reliable, in commercial terms, Rossi's current technology is. > I would not want to live within 10 kilometers of a working 1 MW reactor. This is a nuclear reaction of unknown etiology, for goodness sake! A plan to sell thousands of these machines without first testing them exhaustively in major laboratories world-wide seems like lunacy to me. I can't imagine any government would allow it. I sure wouldn't, if I were a government official. Especially in the post-Fukushima world. Going around telling people: "this is not a nuclear reaction" -- the way Rossi is doing -- will not actually solve the problem. That does not ensure safety. Saying does not make it so. One serious accident could land Rossi or Defkalion in a world of trouble. It could hold back commercial production for years. There have been several unexplained serious accidents. See: http://lenr-canr.org/wordpress/?page_id=187#PhotosAccidents How on earth can they be sure it cannot happen to them? Do they understand the physics of cold fusion? No one does, as far as I know. I would not risk it if I were them. I would place devices in ten-thousand labs worldwide, and have those labs run up millions of hours of use. I would want to see every major scientist agree on theory, and -- more important -- every engineer agree the thing is safe. Do that before you sell a single reactor. I don't see how else you can do business in the 21st century. The public demands safety. The public *deserves* safety. We spend billions ensuring safety in new products such as the Prius or the Boeing Dreamliner airplane. It is worth every penny. Why should anyone take any risks when a little money up front can eliminate them? The cost per unit will be trivial. - Jed
