My opinion is that it makes perfect sense for Rossi to be involved at these points. He does still want to protect IH's IP. For him not to be there, he may have had to disclose things to the researchers he would have preferred not to. Additionally, he knows how it all works, and it would be better to have the expert putting in the fuel and getting it all up and running. If Rossi hadn't been there for those parts, and the results were negative, we would have no way of knowing if the researchers didn't know how to operate things correctly, or if it didn't work.
I would suspect there was a prior agreement that any opening of the reactor and starting/stopping the reactor was to be done by him in order to protect the IP. That seems perfectly reasonable to me. The goal of this is not to prove how it works, but that it does. It is not to convince all the scientists and skeptics in the world. That will not happen until there are several operating industrial e-cats out there saving money for the companies that are using them. On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 4:43 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > In reply to Daniel Rocha's message of Sat, 11 Oct 2014 12:17:07 -0300: > Hi, > [snip] > >The guy is open minded. Helps people with alternative ideas. Let's see > what > >he has to say about the new report: > > > > > http://www.science20.com/a_quantum_diaries_survivor/cold_fusion_a_better_study_on_the_infamous_ecat-146700 > > While I agree that Rossi's involvement is regrettable, there is still the > small > matter of where the excess energy came from, and it does appear to be a > relatively good match for a nuclear reaction involving the amount of fuel > that > was present. > IOW while Rossi's involvement is a problem, I still tend to believe the > results. > Regards, > > Robin van Spaandonk > > http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html > >
