Bob Cook <[email protected]> wrote: It would seem the only PHOSITA that was required by the agreement was for > the low temperature E-Cat. Rossi has indicated he taught the IH engineers > what was necessary to operate the E-Cat, probably up to a COP of 6. That > is all the patent identified. >
I did not realize that. However, my point still stands. Assuming the 1 MW gadget works -- If he gets a patent later for it, that will protect him. Neither I.H. nor any other company will be able to "steal" the technology. They will have it for free, but they will not be able to sell it. That is how patents work. If he cannot patent the 1 MW reactor for some reason, he will have no protection at all. Something this important cannot be protected with trade secrets. It will be reverse engineered. However, this is mere fantasy. Or alternative history. In fact, the 1 MW gadget does not work, so there is no intellectual property, and a patent would be meaningless. A patent for an invention that does not work is void. > The Hot Cat is a different invention and its operation was not covered in > the IP transferred by the IP of the agreement IMHO. I think that is what > is grating to IH . . . > No, what is grating to IH is that they paid $11 million for something that does not work. At all. As they said, they could not substantiate it. > The great IH engineering team has not been able to get even the plant they > produced to go above a COP of around 6. > That is incorrect. The plant was made by Rossi. It never went above 1. It is well below 1 in the fluid because of losses from the reactor. I have not heard that the I.H. engineering team ever made a plant. Perhaps they did; I have only a little inside information. However, in their press releases the only thing they discuss is the reactor made by Rossi. All my comments about calorimetry pertain only to Rossi's device. I have no knowledge of any other machine. > It would seem they want to be trained further to improve their PHOSITA. > This has nothing to do with the ability or inability of the I.H. team to replicate. The only issue is that Rossi is unable to make his machine produce excess heat. He was given a year to do it, but he failed. At least, that is what I.H. claims, and what my analysis shows. Rossi, of course, claims that it does work. You will have to see the data before you can take sides. > > I do not blame them for that want, but..... > There is no such want. You misunderstand. What you think happened here *did not* happen. > However, IMHO Rossi does not have any obligation to do that training. > As I said, training is not the issue. I.H. has never mentioned it. Perhaps Rossi did; I don't follow his blog, but I.H. is not contesting this. The issue is, he cannot make his machine produce excess heat. - Jed
