From: Jed Rothwell This leads us back to the Lawsuit. It is incomprehensible that Rossi does not also have some gain – in the range of COP~1.2-1.5. JR: Why do you say that?
It’s pretty obvious. Going back twenty years, Thermacore – a world class company in thermodynamics, saw 280 days of gain at COP of ~1.5 using nickel, hydrogen and potassium catalyst. They patented this work but because of a change in ownership did not pursue it. Chuck Haldeman head of Lincoln Lab at MIT visited Thermacore, copied their technique and found even greater gain. MIT refused permission for him to publish, but this episode is well documented and will come out. Piantelli, Mills, and numerous others have seen the same level of gain but no one has been able to push it to higher COP. Rossi has said that he studied the prior patents and improved on them. It is disingenuous to suggest that Rossi could not duplicate this early work, even if you have doubts that he added anything new. Bob Higgins who debunked the Lugano garbage, still thinks there was gain there. The informed opinion and the debate around Rossi, until recently - has always been the level of claimed gain, and not that there was no gain at all. It should surprise no one that there was thermal gain at least at the level of Thermacore – but that it was less than the contract called for… thus the attempted scam.
