> > A good magic show can fool a few journalists and grad students and yes, > Levi > does not inspire confidence – but take a closer look at the “guests”. >
I also fail to see the point of Rossi's pulling off a successful magic show, unless he's just flying blind and improvising at this point and is hoping to pull off a hail mary. Even if he had wanted to, the E-Cat story is not something he has been able to shield from third-party observation, at least from a distance. If he's hoping to set up a large racket and take in illicit gain, how long does he hope to keep it going? Or is it that he's not thinking that far into the future? Unless he's very shortsighted, I don't see the motive. To my eyes, there are a number of details that make it hard to put much enthusiasm into the magic show explanation. Two alternative explanations I find more promising are: 1. He believes in what he's doing on some level, but he's making it out to be more established than it really is in the hope that he can get over some technological barriers he's running into in the near future. 2. His technology is sound at a basic level, and his personal behavior is serving as a serious distraction.
