At 09:14 PM 7/17/2011, Akira Shirakawa wrote:
So most of the time he now performs stress tests on his modules in self-sustaining mode, apparently. That's an amazing claim! Just demonstrating one of those running for a reasonable amount of time would have rendered pointless most of the discussions and criticisms on steam issues made so far, even Julian Brown's.
Now consider this possibility: Rossi wanted this exact situation, that he'd look like a complete scammer. He need to make the demo for some reason, whether it was personal for Focardi, or whatever, it doesn't matter, but he had a contrary need, to throw others off track, to inhibit attempts to replicate what he's doing. If he looks like a fraud and a scammer, that will seriously impact the ability of others to get funding to try to figure out what he's doing.
It make sense. Besides, he gets to have fun, and he anticipates laughing at all these "clowns" when he demonstrates the Big One. Look at Rossi's history, it doesn't take a genius at psychology to understand this scenario.
Problem is, this doesn't give me any information about the E-Cat itself, because there are other possibilities, such as a true fraud, or, more likely, I don't know what to call it, but others have speculated this and Julian Brown comes up with this possibility: Rossi over-extended himself, and needs to gain time to fix problems that he thought would not be problems. He fully expects to solve them, but ....
Apparently this has happened before with inventors, who then were drawn into fakes. Just until they fix the bugs, of course. It's just temporary, they tell themselves....
I don't find it possible to disentangle this mess. Nothing I've seen proves fakery, and nothing I've seen proves reality.
Time will, however, demonstrate what is real and what is not, that's a practical certainty. Here, I can agree with Rossi, we will (probably) know by October. At lesat we'll know if he met his confidently asserted deadline!
