QuoteEven the 1 MW plant makes sense for a deluded inventor who thinks his reactors work "at times" but in an uncontrolled manner. If the COP obtained is 200 once every twenty failed runs, one may think that the one good test is flawed, or one may cherry-pick the good result and attribute the failures to the random nature of the phenomenon. Without a grasp on the phenomenon, and relying on statistics, one may assemble 100 reactors in series and parallel and hope to get an average COP of 10.
Even if you are deluded, you don't refuse improvements suggested by experts including the need to calibrate the measurement systems and to do the same experiment multiple times and have it replicated by others as a black box at no risk to IP. Rossi consistently refused those suggestions and insulted and name called those who made them. Snakes, clowns, and so on. When you consider self delusion vs straightforward fraud, you0 have to consider the back ground which means considering Petroldragon and the Thermoelectric converter nonsense. I let you draw your own concludions. I'm with much of Ascoli says. Also, what Jed Rothwell says now. Obviously, I don't think much of what Jed used to write.
To be as deluded as Rossi would have to be for the above scenario of self delusion to work, he'd have to be a stark raving lunatic and there is no evidence that he is. Apart from his claims for his inventions, he seems quite rational in his every day life.
