For those who may be new to the E-cat story, it might be interesting to review Andrea Rossi's pre-IH involvement in LENR and funding sources. Here is a link http://newenergytimes.com/v2/s…ECat/RossisPartners.shtml (presumably before the failed Steve Krivit demo) which indicates that he sold one of his companies (Eon, SRL which develops and sells biofueled powered diesel generators) for one million euros in 2008 in order to fund his research. I remember reading about this at the time. Here is another link http://pesn.com/2011/05/17/950…rgy_Catalyzer_in_America/ which indicates that earlier he sold his stake in another company (Leonardo Technologies Inc, or LTI) in 2001 and used the proceeds to work on LENR.
I note that if true, this information suggests that Rossi is less of a "scam-artist" and more likely a (perhaps deluded) "true-believer" in his technology, since he invested a significant amount of his own money for many years in this endeavour.
On the other hand, as Abd and Jed has suggested, perhaps he is merely "insane"?
In any case, it would be interesting to obtain more information and/or confirmation of the two claims above.