On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Robert Lynn <robert.gulliver.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > The problem is that it is easy to come up with fraudulent methods > that could have delivered the observed demo results.
This is true and that's one of the points. > Add to which Rossi has had no end of opportunities to remove all > doubt, at no extra cost in effort or materials, and without danger > of loss of IP, but has chosen not to for reasons that I (and others) > are unable to guess. I disagree. Designing and setting up an iron-clad demonstration for public consumption is a major task, and is never good enough if there is disinformation by the mainstream media. Getting the product to the market is the best demonstration one can do. So we can assume that he just opted for the latter at the expense of the former. > 1/ It's real, but Rossi is not able to see how bad the decisions he is > making are, and is incapable of taking sensible advice. Rossi is Rossi, not god. If his decisions were that bad, we wouldn't be having this discussion in the first place. > 2/ It's a very elaborate scam. That option seems less and less likely. > Rossi's failure in commercialisation of the biggest thing since the > transistor is not totally unprecedented - the Wright brothers were almost as > bad. I have checked the media coverage of the Wright brothers flights the other day. The silence was astounding. > But the fact that he is selling his house to finance a white elephant > 1MW demo, when he would have had investors (with the expert help he so > obviously needs) beating a path to his door to make him a billionaire if he > simply did one good multi-day 10kW scale demo (with proper setup, record > keeping and inspection), just leaves me amazed. It is so bad that at this > point I am actually starting to feel he doesn't deserve success, I am glad > that other groups seem to be closing in on similar results. The problem is not with Rossi. The problem is with the human race. We are a bunch of fuck-ups too stupid to get rid of our own human parasites and invest in useful technology and adopt them before we poison what little drinkable water is left by fracking or nuclear disasters. Maybe we deserve to die. -- Berke Durak
