What if the patent theory is wrong and Piantelli or W-L is right? Would
he then be left with no protection other than trade secrets?
I do note he is seeking non disclosed uni research help as he tries to
get them to help him understand how his reactor really works. I don't
envy Rossi, knowing he may have no IP protection, not really understand
how the reaction works but wanting to make money from his multi year
efforts. Also the latest, NO MORE TESTS, says bugger off all you who
seek to understand what is going on, you will get NO more information to
help you figure this out.
Rossi is between a rock and a hard place.
AG
On 11/10/2011 9:59 AM, Jeff Sutton wrote:
I don't doubt that Rossi has something new and fantastic, and I don't
doubt that he is eccentric in some way as are most of us and this
explains some of the nonsensical things. I also believe he is quite
intelligent.
But the only way to think that his process makes any "business-first
approach" is that he has still something to hide. It could be he is
missing something to do with control of the reaction, or he has no
new art for his patent; someone else has beaten him to it.
Think if everything was normal. Ross could arrange
an independent demo(s) in front of reputable persons. From that he
could explain what he does in a patent application and it would be
granted. He would win the Nobel price and untold fortune.
His current approach seems silly and I dont think he is a silly man.
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Horace Heffner <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Fraud or self delusion are of course possibilities I
recognize, as do many others, especially given Rossi's
inability numerous times to provide anything other than highly
flawed calorimetry data, or refusal to admit the importance of
such mundane scientific concepts as controls, etc. The lives
of billions of people are affected by Rossi's actions now,
regardless the outcome. Why will he never make the tiny
incremental effort required to properly demonstrate he
produces nuclear heat?
That's a little unfair. Assume for a moment that Rossi really does
have a customer and that Fioravanti is a real HVAC engineer hired
by the customer.
In that case he has done everything right. You cannot ask for
better test than an industrial scale professional boiler test.
I think it comes down to a few simple questions: Is Fioravanti who
he claims to be? Is that sheet of paper he signed what it appears
to be -- a sales contract test acceptance report? If so, then
Rossi has done exactly what he claimed he would to all long. No
one can fault his business-first approach. The fact that he does
not do academic science-style tests with proper controls and so on
is irrelevant. A professional boiler test is _far more convincing_
and more relevant. As I have often pointed out, HVAC engineers
have completely different standards from physicists in academic
laboratories. Engineers do not do blank experiments. They do not
do controls. That is not part of their protocol. Asking them to do
such things is ridiculous.
Do not impose the standards of academic science on industrial
engineering, or vice versa. The two are very different, for good
reasons. What works well in a science lab may not work in a
factory. Rossi is an industrial engineer. He makes large
machines. Fioravanti tests large machines (assuming he is for
real). It makes no sense to demand they use methods appropriate to
the lab bench top.
As I said, I do not fault his business first-approach. I wish he
would pursue business and money more aggressively on a larger scale.
- Jed
