Nobody saw the contract in details. We have just the announcement in the University web site but rumors tell that there is an expiration date. If not activated before 31-1-2012 the contract gets void.
2011/11/26 Mary Yugo <[email protected]> > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Ahsoka Tano <[email protected]> wrote: > > According to this Italian article, the deed is done. Isn't this proof > that > > there was a buyer of the mega-eCat and that Rossi has the money to sign > the > > contract with UniBol? > > > > The entrepreneur Andrea Rossi, owner of the company through the EFA Ltd., > > Department of Physics and signed the contract > > > > > http://corrieredibologna.corriere.it/bologna/notizie/cronaca/2011/23-novembre-2011/fusione-fredda-svolta-o-bluff-cat-sotto-esame-ateneo-1902274913518.shtml > > > > "Our interest is very strong - declares Capiluppi Paul, director of the > > department - there is much curiosity, but for us it is true only what we > can > > measure. " To activate the contract we want to pay (be paid?) the first > > installment of the contribution, 500 000 euros in two years, that Jones* > has > > committed to provide for all costs. "We should be starting soon, in a few > > weeks - Campari tells Henry, professor of experimental physics and the > > scientific research with Giuseppe Levi - in summer you could have the > first > > scientific report of the results obtained disclose to scientific > journals." > > Terrible translation > > > > *Jones: Not sure how Google Translate caused Rossi to be translated to > > Jones; Smith, Jones, whatever. > > Rossi is a common name in Italian and usually translates to Smith, > sometime to Jones in Google. It makes no sense but it's not unusual. > > NOTHING in this acknowledges by the university that they have been > paid. Even if they had, the payment could be to shut them up under an > NDA while they piddled around with some powders and chemicals doing > basic research. > > Any money they get from Rossi could have come from investor funds and > not from a buyer of a megawatt plant. > > Before you can be sure the E-cat is real, you need to know that the > university has received an entire E-cat device to test. It doesn't > matter what size. But the university also has to state that the > device works as Rossi says when proper calorimetry is performed by one > of their specialists in calorimetry. It has to be someone who won't > be bamboozled by wet steam. And the tests have to be more than one, > long enough to rule out any internal energy storage or generation and > repeatable within reasonable limits. > > Those criteria are exactly as far from being met as they were before > that statement was made. > >
