On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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. > > The only problem with this theory is that it doesn't explain his boast about running the ecat without input, or for that matter, getting 120 kW in the 18-hour test.
