Someone (Jed or Horace?) wrote:
* If the results indeed were obtained and were positive and useful it is strange that Defkalion did not pay up according to its contract. It would not surprise me that positive results could be exactly *why* they did not pay up ! DGT is facing the prospect of turning over an extremely large sum of money, and there are a number of possibilities that explain why they have decided to change course and avoid that huge payment. or even this intermediate payment which was rumored to be only 15 million. Of course, the best scenario is that they know by now that it is impossible for them to arrange such a large sum by October (reportedly over 100,000,000 Euros). Since Rossi may not have lived up to particular milestones in the agreement (they claim) then they are cutting their loses now, and would be protected if it got to Court by claiming that Rossi is the party in technical default. Of course, it is wise to "keep up appearances" and pretend that there is no big problem. . but the next best fit (to the conflicting details which are in the public record) is that Defkalion has independently come up with good results on their own - through the information in the public record combined with some degree of reverse engineering; and that they are using their semi-independent results as a bargaining chip . to either stretch out the payments (if the E-Cat is superior to the Hyperion) or to actually go into competition with Rossi (if the Hyperion is viable in its own right). I do not find this situation strange at all, given the expatriate Russian connections of DGT, which they have tried to characterize as "expatriate Canadian" . LOL. Being able to come up with an adequate replacement for the E-Cat would have been a foreseeable expectation anyway, or even relatively easy for anyone with a few million Euros (far less than what is needed to go through with the complete contract) - given the twenty year history of Ni-H positive results. This information is in the public record, going back to Mills, Thermacore, Piantelli and Focardi - and many others - so why should we be surprised that any group of dedicated scientists could scale it up? Perhaps all that DGT needed to do, in addition to putting a handful of scientists onto the project (which they have stated they have on the payroll since before the beginning of this year) . is little less ethical. But when you are talking about this kind of money - ethics can take a back seat to capitalism, as we know. Therefore in addition to hiring good scientists, DGT could have employed either industrial espionage . or (easier) payoffs to Rossi insiders, to find other relevant details. I am reminded of the 'cold war story' of Russian "politicians" visiting a Boeing plant, where one of them was wearing especially 'gummy' shoes. They were able to discover a secret alloy by walking over areas where metal shavings were present. That is probably the tip of an iceberg in terms of techniques which can be used. When you think like a spy, Rossi and his secret would likely be an *easy* target. This explains why AR is paranoid. He probably is aware that attempts have been made to steal a device, or to compromise his secrets, but he apparently he is convinced that those efforts have failed. I doubt that they did fail - and DGT's new tactic is proof of that. Or maybe they have failed and DGT is playing the Casino Royale bluff, since they have little other choice (if they have failed to get that much cash together). At any rate, nothing in this picture is the least bit unexpected when you take a close look at the cast of characters. Jones
