At 05:13 PM 2/3/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote:
{quoting Rossi]3. About your suppositions, I will make no more tests on modulbecause it is clear that people like you will also find something wrong.
It's all Rothwell's fault that Rossi will disappear, no more demonstrations?
Wait until october, you will have surprises. Regards, Andrea Rossi
Personally, I'm happy to wait. You know, if the scientific community had waited, in 1989, until they had better information from Pons and Fleischmann, we'd probably be way ahead today.
What's to be surprised about? Yeah, okay, maybe what Rossi has made look like a fraud turns out to be real. Jed has pointed out that sometimes appearances aren't real. But what do we bet on?
The shame would be if other cold fusion reearch came to a halt while everyone falls over themselves to try to figure out what Rossi has done. Nickel has always been considered an important possible approach. But I'll point out that we don't know what is actually in the Rossi reactor, and "gee, there must be something in there" just doesn't cut it.
Anyone who wants to develop something secretly is welcome to do it, but they shouldn't be suprrised if the world doesn't fall all over itself rushing to support the "secret process that will revolutionize energy production." If there are those funding Rossi, I certainly hope, for their sakes, that they've done due diligence, but that Rossi is complaining about doing this with his own money, and working 20 hours a day, showing signs of instability in what he wrote to Rothwell, well, who is to blame for that?
Rothwell was trying to tell him how to involve investors, so that he'd have the money to hire help, arrange for manufacturing, etc. He wants to do it his way, again, that's his privilege. If he has some real invention here, great, I hope he shares it with someone so that if he keels over from the stress, it won't be lost.
Does he have family?
