Jed, I respect your unwavering support for Rossi but I totally disagree that using a NI control system lends any great credibilty to him. NI will sell system hardware and software to anyone that will pay, you can order online. I worked many years installing large industrial control systems for a company 30 times larger than NI and we had many customers that we just delivered harware and software to and they configured and programmed their own systems. If Rossi's system actually works it is good press for NI. if it doesn't I don't think anyone will blame Ni since they are a respectable company with thousands of satisfied customers.. I programmed many control systems where the customer retained the "deep knowledge" of what was going on inside their reactor vessels and we just programmed & tuned the pressure, temperature and flow control loops and interlocks, etc. Each e-cat only has 3 or 4 control loops that i see which is a simple system. You are making a big deal about nothing.
Rossi has obviously spent alot of time and somebody's money building that 1MW e-cat. As far as i can tell he has been working on that one unit since at least last september so at this rate he is going to fall way behind his production targets... On Thursday, January 19, 2012, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Chemical Engineer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> As long as Rossi pays for NI's hardware and software they are probably satisfied and don't mind the free advertising. > > This would be the worst advertising imaginable!!! What corporation wants to be associated with Rossi? Do a Google search and you find hundreds of attacks against him. Check his background and you find it is dripping in scandal. > This is NOT good PR for NI. Not, not, not. > If I were them, I would not respond to Forbes, or I would say "we can't comment on whether we are in a relationship with this company." > >> >> They do not require a "deep knowledge" of what he is doing or even if his reactor works or not. > > If they do not have deep knowledge they are crazy to let themselves be associated it. > > John Milstone <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Maybe they just got tired of the hundreds, if not thousands of annoying emails and phone calls from Rossi's fans, demanding a detailed accounting of just how great Rossi's invention really is? > > In that case, all they have to do is issue a statement saying "no comment." Or, as I said, "we never talk about customer relationships of this nature." A company that is annoyed will deny everything and make no more comments. > The lady in charge of PR at the company issued a statement about Rossi. So did a VP of development. Believe me, NI is aware of this at highest levels. As Mary Yugo pointed out, they have millions of customers. The VP does not know them all by name, and will not make statements about 999,900 of these customers. > >> It isn't at all unusual for a company to release a statement on an issue that is generating more than typical interest. > > It is unusual for any company anywhere to make any statement pertaining to cold fusion. Extremely unusual! > >> >> NI made the most insignificant acknowledgement possible . . . > > Nonsense. I can think up any number of less significant acknowledgement, starting with "no comment." > - Jed >
