Rossi wrote:
> 3 - big problem: the patent I have not been recognized outside Italy and > the theory would reveal much. > This confirms what I have suspected for a long time. Rossi's biggest problem is that he does not have viable intellectual property protection. He is floundering around trying to find a way to sell his product, while protecting it with trade secrets rather than a patent. I sympathize with him, but I do not think that strategy can succeed with a product that every corporation will frantically try to reverse engineer. I do not think Rossi wants large numbers of people to believe his machine is real. He wants a few customers to believe it so they will pay him money, but he would prefer the rest of the world to ignore him or consider him a fraud. This is in his best interest, from a business point of view. That is why he is dead set against having a properly done engineering test of his machine. He says it would be "completely useless." I think the real reason he opposes it is because it would engender worldwide interest in his machine and many people would soon reverse engineer him. That is the last thing he wants. He does not want research because he cannot file a strong patent. I suppose he has no comprehensive idea how the thing works. As Ed Storms says, he is in the position of someone who knows how to make an incandescent light with a carbon filament only. As soon as someone comes up with a tungsten filament, he will have nothing. I am not suggesting that Rossi is engaged in complex reverse psychology. It is simple. He wants only a small number people to believe him because that serves his business interests. Many other cold fusion researchers have said they prefer not to be believed. Patterson is a prime example. He wanted a 100% market share. He and Reding told me they were glad that other people doubted them. They deliberately put on a demonstration that was even sloppier than Rossi's, so that they would not convince more than a handful of people and not engender competition. That was their strategy. They told me. They bragged about it! I told Patterson is is better to have 1% of something rather than 100% of nothing. He did not appreciate my sentiments. In 1989, Fleischmann wanted to keep this research secret for another five years so that he could work on it in peace. That is what he told me. I told him I was glad the cat got out of the bank, even though I recognized it caused him enormous personal problems. He did not appreciate my sentiments. I seem to rub these people the wrong way. Speaking of upsetting people, Steven wrote: "Rossi currently hates Jed's guts after Jed told Rossi that his contraption appeared to be so badly designed that there was a clear likelihood that it could explode and kill innocent bystanders." Actually, he laughed that off. He was upset with me because I told him he does sloppy demonstrations which insult his audience. He invites distinguished scientists and then he doesn't even bother to plug in a damn SD card. That's disgraceful! I think he has forgiven me. I still fear he may blow someone up, or irradiate someone. Celani's particle detector results still worry me. No one else seem to take them seriously, least of all Rossi. - Jed
