Rossi-quoting wouldn't be complete without this rant which has a distinctly
paranoid flavor:
"Andrea Rossi
1.
January 4th, 2012 at 9:52
AM<http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=563&cpage=10#comment-163127>
Dear Jonatan:
First of all, congratulations: to be an engineer at 21 years of age is a
great achievement. I am sure you have in front of you a great future.
About the battles: my rule is to fight with all my strength in the
specific point of the battle with all the force I have, without being
de-focused from secondary issues. For example, in our field (Low Energy
Nuclear Reactions) there are billions of chatters: had the chatters be able
to be turned into energy, all the high speed trains of Europe, Japan and
the USA could be powered with the energy from chatters. Never mind the
chatters around you when you fight, just focus on the real enemy, which is
the uncapability to reach your technological target. For example, presently
I am sorrounded from a meaningless noise made by wannabe validators (
substantially, spies and competitors) who try to make me lose time to
satisfy their need of stolen information, wannabe competitors, real
competitors who pay pseudo skeptiks to try to destroy our image, etc, etc…I
am invited every other day to participate to pseudo scientific conferences,
whose sole goal is steal information, not to talk of attempt of character
assassination as happened in my past…well, here is my suggestion: just
ignore all this, if it happens to you, and work, do your job as well as you
can; if you reach your target, you lived for something, and the meaningless
noise of the above mentioned imbeciles will just fade, while, should you
not reach your target, the chattering of the same imbeciles will be worth
zero in front of the problems you will have to face. Conclusion: all that
counts is your work and the real results you will be able to produce.
Example: we are making 1 million E-Cats: this makes ridiculous the
meaningless chattering of my enemies, and makes terribly useful for Mankind
our work.
You are 21 years old and already an Engineer, this means you are very
good: you will be successful, whatever you will do, only if you will focus
all your force in the due place at the due time. Leave to Hell all the
snakes you will meet : if you will do something really good, you will have
to handle unavoidably some snake: the contrary- not to meet snakes- could
be a not good sign; how to fight them? Just ignoring them.
Good Luck, with all my heart,
Andrea Rossi "
Rossi views the mention of Petroldragon, a stupendously expensive and
environmentally disastrous failure, and the DOD thermal to electrical
conversion failure, as character assassination. But while I suppose
Petroldragon's cause, if not it's horrible results, can be argued, there is
no argument about the TE devices. Rossi claimed he had a highly efficient
one and then was NEVER able to produce it and as far as I know nobody has
ever seen it work. That parallels the E-cat pretty well. If Rossi really
had made even ONE highly efficient TE converter, why could he never do it
again? Why could he not provide the original for an independent test? Is
it character assassination to mention this obvious elephant in the room?
Independent tests always somehow seem to be a big problem for Rossi and the
E-cat is no exception.
Rossi also refers to multiple invitations he's had to speak at conferences,
presumably including the upcoming ICCF-17, as "pseudo scientific". What
does he mean? It seems from the above as if Rossi will wiggle and squirm
in any way he can to avoid properly demonstrating his device or responding
to reasonable questions in a setting not controlled by him. He will use
any nonsense excuse and accusation as a reason to avoid even one
independent test. That's hardly encouraging. A million E-cats from Home
Depot at the end of the year? Don't bet on it.
