Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: The 1 MW plant is on the market. If you want data, you need money. >
You need $1.5 million. That is an absurd sum of money, and the 1 MW reactor is an absurd machine. A single unit from it would suffice. If I had $1.5 million I could probably try to replicate Rossi from scratch, the way Defkalion now claims they did. I might not get the same high performance Rossi has, but it would probably be high enough to attract enough real money to finish the job. Several groups are trying to do that, with mixed results. Whatever it costs to replicate independently, it would be better than trying to deal with Rossi directly. He is a great inventor in many ways, but as a businessman he is impossible to deal with. He is a control freak. The way he treated the people from NASA was outrageous. It was unspeakable! They talked about it at W&M. Rossi might have gotten millions of dollars in funding practically overnight. Instead, he threw them out and he thew away the opportunity in a momentary fit of pique. Just because he could not bring himself to admit the outlet pipe was plugged up with crud. This is idiotic, self-defeating egomania. It is very sad. Heck, the way he treated *me* was outrageous. He and Krivit deserve one another, like two scorpions in a bottle. Rossi is personally nice. He is a lot more honest and forthright than you might think based on his blog postings. He blabs and blusters a lot, but his core claims are all correct as far as I know. Most have been been independently verified by his collaborators, who are a long-suffering group of stalwart people. They have done much for him and in return he has often given them a sharp kick in the . . . genitals. (I want to maintain the proper academic decorum.) Rossi deserves a huge amount of credit for pushing this field along, using techniques pioneered by himself, Arata and Piantelli. He deserves billions of dollars -- if that's what he wants. But his temper and periodic fits of pique make him impossible to do business with. (A "fit of pique" is an old expression meaning "acting badly because your pride is hurt.") Rossi is his own worst enemy. He suffers from the "inventor's disease" that has defeated so many others in cold fusion and in other fields throughout history. People try to help him but he blows them away, and mistrusts them, because he has had so many bad experiences in the post. Most of his bad experiences in the last few years have been entirely his own fault. - Jed
