Those are good points but the most important thing of all is being left unsaid:
NO TIN CUP 100% of all the inventors in the past - who have tried to pull of scams have been seeking immediate funding. That is not the case with Rossi. He has funds in hand to build a MW unit, he says that this plan is underway, and essentially is telling skeptics: stuff it. Even bona fide investors have had a hard time making preliminary contact. I like that attitude. It says to me he is willing to sink or swim based on a demo this year. After which there will be an IPO - and all the normal channels of taking an invention to market will have been bypassed, including the VCs who want 85% of the game. It will be the largest IPO in the history of commerce. Damn the skeptics, damn the VCs, damn the torpedoes - full speed ahead. The people who are complaining the loudest are those who would like - not simply to replicate, but to go beyond. They recognize that the patent is weak (useless, really) and think they can do better. They probably can do better, and Rossi probably realizes that the one thing he has not disclosed is all he has. And it would be easy to lose that. The plan is brilliant - but only if he can deliver. Otherwise, he will look like a fool . but he is going for the gold and doing it his way - and personally I hope he pulls it off. Jones From: Jed Rothwell Joshua Cude <[email protected]> wrote: And a good way to measure car speed is with a speedometer. But if someone claims have driven 250 mph in a chevy Volt, I'm gonna suspect the honesty first, and the speedometer second. If you suspect that Levi and the others at U. Bologna are not honest, then nothing they say or do will convince you. You will conclude that they are conspiring to fool the world temporarily and destroy their own reputations, for some inexplicable reason. However, if you assume they are ordinary, sane professors who act like any other ex-President of the Chemical Society would act, then you will assume they are capable of measuring a flow rate with a graduated cylinder and stopwatch, or by watching the weight change on a digital weight scale. These tasks are easy. Any grade-school child could handle them. There is no chance that a group of professional scientists working for 6 weeks would continually make mistakes doing them. - Jed
