hello guys, --first post here-- after watching the scene for a couple of months now -with increasing intensity- I would dare to say that Rossi is a tragic figure. His personal idiosyncrasies just don't match the size of the problem. Just three examples: a) Spending 500k€ for an evaluation at U Bologna. A black box-test would cost less than a 10th. b) having an unreasonable cost/timescale: 1mio units this year in a fully automated factory. ( Compare this eg to Nanosolar. They had hundreds of million $ and missed their time-target >3years up to now.
This is a sort of lie: --time-cost-performance- which presumably keeps Rossi alive. He needs it. Newton or Galileo –ahem- did not have such pressure. Time was flowing slower then. Now we are in a time of instant gratification.) c) seemingly constantly changing his design. See his recent cost-estimates for 10kW units. Ridiculous. Improvements should be split into product-generations. Messing these up with small resources-he definitely has-, is a recipe for disaster. Look at the tables for his setups. The cheapest of the cheap.Not that is decisive, but simultaneously telling something about fully automated factories this year, generates cognitive dissonance. This probably can be explained by intense financial pressure. This can bring down even a strong man, and make him do/say strange things, especially if his central resource is creativity-intuition-rationality under time-constraint. Add to this commercial success. A nearly impossible task. So Rossi is most probably a tragic figure like Pons/Fleischmann at their time. They definitely had it better. I do not consider Rossi a fraud. He is tragic. In some aspects Rossi is presumably a genius with a superb intuition, which has been operationalized by Defkalion, as it seems. So the hope for an imminent (2012) breakthrough definitely shifted to Defkalion. My contributions here will be mainly focused on the global/societal consequences, if one takes e-cats as a given within a couple of years. As Jed already started with his book. Best regards. Guenter
