On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 6:17 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote:
Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: >> >> However, he sees Rossi as fraud, who is on the verge of being abandoned >> by his backer, Industrial Heat – due to a dishonest report which they >> cannot get behind. >> > That I agree with. I think the March 10 statement by I.H. repudiated > Rossi's report in advance. They did not imply dishonesty, but they did say > they cannot get behind it. "Get behind it" is le mot juste. > I reread the statement, and I see that IH did not say that they cannot get behind one thing or another. However they did say this: Industrial Heat has licensed, acquired or invested in several LENR > technologies from around the world. We have developed a group of LENR > thought leaders, and we have built a world-class engineering team. We are > pleased with the technologies we have assembled and with the group of > scientists and engineers working on them. Presently, the Industrial Heat > team is in the midst of assessing and prioritizing the technologies in our > portfolio. The two LENR investments by IH that I am aware of are Leonardo Corp. and Brillouin. Perhaps they are speaking positively only of Brillouin here. I suspect they're talking about both Brillouin and Leonardo Corp. My reading of IH's statement as a whole is that they're affirming their commitment to rigorous testing and distancing themselves from premature announcements that go back to unrigorous testing, which is something common in the LENR field. The IH statement could be read to be implying that one (or several, perhaps) of the companies that they're investing in is not following a good communications strategy while simultaneously expressing optimism in the engineering. You did not mention Steven Krivit, but I think he's gotten far ahead of IH's statement, showing another indication of a personal animus. I also think Brian Ahern has been premature in his conclusions. This is not to say that either of them are necessarily wrong. Eric
