On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote:
> Perhaps your hypothesis is that he was unable to make heat in subsequent > tests, so he decided to make fake demonstrations instead. This is ruled out. > He has done several demonstrations which failed to produce any heat at all. > If he had some method of producing fake heat, he would have resorted to it > instead of making people wait around for days while his machines did > nothing. > > Your hypothesis makes no sense to me. Some other people have proposed that > Rossi might have real heat in some cases and fake heat and others. I cannot > imagine why he would go to the trouble to do that, or what purpose it would > serve. My hypothesis is that Rossi plans his demo with a particular deceptive scheme in mind ahead of time. In cases where he is confronted by people who are hard nosed, not overly polite, not concerned to be reinvited, and very capable, he simply folds his hand (to use a poker analogy) and conveniently, the machine doesn't work that day. The Quantum and NASA demos are examples of that. Why would the device fail for the most important clients? Maybe because they would have been impossible to deceive and Rossi could sense it. Why was Rossi so lacking in candor about the megawatt plant demo? Probably because it was entirely deceptive and there was too much to hide to let people roam around. The "safety" excuse was laughable. The spectators were sequestered at such a short distance and with so little shielding that they would have been almost as vulnerable to a serious explosion where they were as they would have been standing next to the machine.
