-----Original Message----- From: Jed Rothwell > At this point in time, Rossi's statements, efforts or 'clues' can be argued > to be almost immaterial to further progress in the USA, since nothing he says > can be trusted.
JR ... I see no evidence that he cannot be trusted. Frankly, you seem to have it in for Rossi, for some reason. Then you are essentially blind to his past misdeeds, and essentially pandering, as I have said repeatedly. I cannot say it more emphatically, the man has a history as a SCAMMER. Take the collaboration with the university of New Hampshire, where he showed the DoD a fabulous device with 100 watts of TEG power, and got big bucks for further funding. He took the money to Italy and founded a biofuel venture with funds from somewhere, who knows if they were the same funds? Then on delivery in 2002, the devices proved incredibly faulty. 'Pure crap' was one description. Out of 27 devices - just 8 worked at all, and instead of the claimed 800 to 1000 watt they produced about 1 Watt of power. He then had a convenient lab fire to destroy the evidence, and avoided deportation apparently. He could have funded EON with the money which was supposed to go into building good devices. THIS COULD HAPPEN AGAIN Many who followed Rossi's work in thermoelectrics at UNH are amazed to see him back in action at what could be a similar scam. However, I break with them in believing, as I have said repeatedly, the Rossi most likely got incredibly lucky this time, chose the right mentor (Forcardi) and does have something valid. Who knows what it is, however? Curiously - the 2002 demo, like the Bologna demo - was greatly anticipated and supposed to be exactly the same kind of massive breakthrough from prior art. Pure BS, as it turned out. He CANNOT be trusted, but he could be incredibly lucky! Here is a sanitized version of the story cleansed by LTI, but the true grit is worse than this sounds. Bottom of Page 5 is where it gets interesting: http://dodfuelcell.cecer.army.mil/library_items/Thermo%282004%29.pdf There were suspicious fires, and had his criminal background been known at the time, he could and should have been sent back to Italy, but lo and behold, he may turn out to be the luckiest man on earth. LTI is very well-connected, and apparently pulled string with DoD to avoid a 'third strike'. We have to ask, is this new work real, or just an improved version of prior Rossi scams (including Petrodragon)? YOU CANNOT CONTINUE TO IGNORE THIS RECENT HISTORY. IT IS VERY RELEVANT TO THE PRESENT SITUATION. Again, personally - I think Rossi did get very lucky and now has a valid device, but scam has not been ruled out and it is probably far less robust than it appears.
