> > Many companies do have factories, so this claim is not extravagant. It is > quite the normal thing for an industrial company to have a factory. >
Yes it is but most factories have addresses you can check and visit. And very few, last I looked, make NUCLEAR FUSION REACTORS. And even fewer of those do it for retail sales, LOL. > You say it is not your job to prove or disprove their claims. If you > are going to publish accusations that Rossi is committing fraud or that > Defkalion does not have a factory > Ah. You must not have been reading what I wrote carefully. I never said Rossi is committing fraud. I said that I think he *may be* committing fraud. Some places I said "most likely" and "may very well" be committing fraud. That isn't libel -- not in the US anyhow. Personal opinion is protected by freedom of speech as long as it's so stated. I have given what I see as evidence for the possibility of fraud many times and I have also provided some very easy methods by which Rossi can rule out fraud -- methods, I might add, he never seems to choose to perform. I have also said it may not be fraud and I hope it's not and I wish Rossi would hurry up and stop acting just like the prototypic fraud which Steorn (and Mylow, Tilley, Dennis Lee and others). > I think Bill Beaty should ask you to stop. > If he did, I would -- but only because this real estate is his property. I hope he won't. I think the debate is reasonable and fairly polite all around. Although some enjoy my sarcastic humor, I have stopped doing it after the complaints. If you insist on saying these things, even though you do not have a shred > of evidence, I suggest you include a disclaimer: "this is only my gut > feeling, and I have no actual information but . . ." That will put things > in perspective. > It's really more than a gut feeling and I have explained many times why I think it. And I do have actual information. For example a mystery client and a highly deficient and meaningless Great Reveal on October 28 -- unnecessarily so I might add. Rossi could have allowed reliable people to verify input and output power measurements during his silly brief test without risking any break of confidentiality. Instead he chose one HVAC engineer who is apparently not responsible to anyone and who's employer and reliability are entirely unknown. That this is how a scammer would do things isn't just a gut feeling. It's a solid fact. Could someone telling the truth do it to? Sure but why? > OK-- you deserve this: prove I don't have a pink invisible flying >> unicorn in my garage and that it keeps my house warm with moving its wings >> all winter. >> > > It is not likely anyone has a unicorn, whereas having a factory is normal. > At this point of time, having a factory that makes a NUCLEAR FUSION REACTOR in quantities for retail sales is almost if not just as unlikely as a unicorn farm. > More to the point, having a unicorn would not be criminal > It would if I had persuaded investors by telling them that my unicorn farm could heat a factory and had done so for two winters! Of course, my PIFU's can. I should sell stock. > , whereas if Defkalion is lying about the factory that is a serious > misrepresentation of their business prospects. In the U.S. that would be a > serious violation of SEC regulations. Talking about unicorns is > light-hearted banter. What you are doing is libelous. > Once again, I simply stated my opinion that Defkalion has made lots of extravagant claims which are compatible with a hoax or a fraud. I asked them to show a list of things. They did a bad job of showing one item of unknown type and function as you have also pointed out. They may be real and they may be a scam. I strongly suspect they are scamming. That's my opinion and I have the right to it. It is not libel to so state in the US. I actually checked with an internet specialist lawyer about a similar statement in the past about psychic powers. I was explained that opinions are protected by the first amendment. If I were to outright call someone a scammer, indeed I would need proof. I don't mind calling Steorn scammers because I know they would have no defense in a court room. That would be because they would be proved in any preliminary hearing to be rank liars about virtually every promise, claim, and statements purporting to be fact about their products they have ever made. They'd never even appear and if they did, they'd be thrown out of a US court probably within an hour. It's the same with calling psychics fakes and frauds by the way. In some US jurisdictions they can not advertise without the written qualification that their services are "entertainment only". > That is a *serious matter*, especially in a field such as cold fusion, > where vicious, false accusations of fraud have ruined the lives of > researchers, and held back progress for 22 years. You need to stop the damn > nonsense. > Sorry. It's ROSSI who needs to stop the damn nonsense. He's infuriating. I suspect that he's eventually going to break the hearts of his believers. As for cold fusion, it's my *lay* opinion on this matter that it's not skeptics who have held it back. It's over enthusiastic claims and very little in the way of solid, obvious, tangible and sufficiently impressive results. If those were present, everyone would accept it and funding would not have become an issue. As to Rossi, it's my *expert* opinion that he has never performed the sort of calorimetry that would be convincing even though it's very very easy to do correctly and definitively. I say again, I am *very* familiar with several types of calorimetry, have helped design a specific type of calorimeter and thoroughly understand and have performed many times the methods and procedures involved in the sort of calorimetry Rossi claims he did --and I've gotten paid for it.
