The very large scope of cold fusion reactions that have so far been discovered lead me to conclude that there are many separate and distinct mechanisms involved in the Cold Fusion phenomena; any of these mechanisms taken on their own may result in only a very small and barely detectable production of energy.
For example, cavitation of salts of transition metals has resulted in the production of neutrons. The Cold Fusion mechanisms at work in this case are different than those involved in the transmutation of elements by living systems. I would guess that there are about a dozen Cold fusion causations at play throughout the entire range of the Cold Fusion field. In my opinion, what Rossi has done is put a large number of these disparate mechanisms together to produce an exponentially reinforcing set of causations which produce in their totality useful levels of energy. When these separate cogs of this clockwork composed of many cogs are examined separately, no one cog will be found to impress. But when properly assembled, the Cold fusion clockwork will form an impressive energy production machine. Rossi is confident that the workings of his clockwork are too complex for the world to discover in its entirety. Even Rossi himself does not know how the whole thing fits together. He, like most people, will concentrate on only one or at most a few of these cogs and not see the whole picture of this conundrum, this Gordian knot of multiple causations that is the Cat-e. Explicitly stated, Mills has found some of these cogs, Jones Beene together with his many associates explain others, Roarty, Dr Kim and Piantelli, found still more. All these workers are right to some extent; but their conjectures when incorporated into associated systems will produce only limited energy. None of these workers are totally right; so far only Rossi is totally right. He put his clockwork together over a very long time, through blind luck, shrewd trial and error observation, and dogged determination. The intellectual property rights that underlie the Cat-e will be impossible to untangle. No doubt, Rossi will spend the remainder of his life in court. He needs to be very careful to get something for his efforts before the big boys step in to wet their beaks in the carnage to come.
