Rossi-Blog Comment Discussion

I'm not saying his patent is valid or not. I really don't care. But I will say that multiple teams have mixed LiAlH4 and Ni and produced what sure does seem like to be some quantity of excess heat. There was a new report published a couple weeks ago. However, the excess heat wasn't huge, but I expect that to be possibly due to a number of factors such as how they didn't purify their LiAlH4, they didn't ball mill it to reduce particle size, they didn't use some quantity of highly pure LiH, they didn't pre-process their nickel, they didn't include various additives, and they didn't provide optimal electromagnetic stimulation to aid in the formation of EVOs.

I suspect Rossi's true know how was best embodied in his provisional yet abandoned patent applications. I'm guessing they may contain information about low work function additives, production of desireable surface features, and confirmation that plasmoids are generated.

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I think that a natural expectation of the Rossi fans is for him to patent the QX technology (just as he has claimed to do with previous inventions). But patenting would have required Mr Rossi to divulge his designs. And that can be a problem if you don't actually have any designs! So I see this claim of the QX being impossible to reverse engineer as a dodge that will allow him to relax and avoid any patent talk.

I think the basic QX design was probably included in his provisional applications that he abandoned. I also expect that they work -- although this will require third party test data and replications. The idea that he doesn't have any designs is implausible in my opinion: he takes his technology seriously. However, maintaining total market share (like Patterson) and not allowing others to have access to the true root of his technology is more important to him than ever commercializing the tech.

To be specific, I think the QX is an evolution of his mirror effect reactor with lithium, hydrogen, and nickel. My hypothesis is that the QX is little more than a highly efficient version of a hot fusion spheromak reactor, crashing spheromaks into each other to induce fusion. The spheromaks will be contained in the center of the reactor (in the capillary tube) by the electrodes that are either rare earth magnets coated in nickel (perhaps with diamond emitters on their surface) or backed by rare earth magnets. The fact that spheromaks colliding together can induce nuclear reactions is totally accepted physics: if you know where to look you can find military documents on the topic and research papers from the civilian sector. Rossi is just making them smaller and more efficiently with the QX, in my opinion.

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If the patent is invalid, he has nothing. Something as important as this can never be protected by trade secrets, or some other alternative to a patent. Assuming the gadget is real: without a patent, once it becomes generally known that the effect is real, every industrial company on earth will work on it, spending hundreds of millions of dollars a week. Collectively they will make more progress every week than Rossi could make in a lifetime. They will not pay him.

If people having ordinary skill in the art (PHOSITA) cannot replicate heat from the patent, then the patent is invalid, and there is nothing Rossi can do to protect his intellectual property. All of his schemes, lies, machinations and secrecy will avail him nothing. If he has a valid patent, then anyone in the world can find every important detail of his invention, so there is no point to secrecy in that case, either.

Real inventors and real corporations make no effort to keep patented technology secret. On the contrary, they brag about it. AT&T famously wrote the book on transistors ("Mother Bell's Cookbook") and trained hundreds of the world's top experts how to manufacture them. They do keep upcoming work secret, until the patent is filed and revealed.

If he had the most rock solid patent it wouldn't mean much at all. This is because he's unwilling to share his complete and total know how and trust a partner to push forward with mass production. The only way for him to obtain even a small share of the market before the copycats emerge and take the technology further is to after all this time have faith in someone else. He's a manipulative character who has burned other people (the entire LENR community with his exaggeration about Johnson Matthey as an example) and knows what it's like to be manipulated. This probably, although I hope I'm wrong, means he isn't going to share his know how with anyone. Or, if he does, the bare minimum. I think he may actually open up a factory, but his ramp up will be far too slow for him to become a serious player in the commercial LENR landscape.

When it comes to the issue of if anyone can replicate Fluid Heater, I'd argue that it seems like they have. There was another report that was released a few weeks ago by a Russian group. But I don't think Rossi has shared the information needed to boost the output to an undeniable degree allowing for self sustain and/or high COP. My guess is that he keeps a load of information to himself. Some additional info could be in his abandoned patent applications we'll never see. Without such information, producing high powered systems with the Ni-LiAlH4 combination is very challenging.

I think the truth is that once you "get" the essence of what he has been doing with his reactors (the whole plasma/diamond/evo nexus), throwing an experienced, professional team into a well equipped lab and figuring out the remainder wouldn't be too insanely challenging. Since I feel that the essence of his technology is now "out there" I don't think it will be long at all until competitors emerge.

Quote from Shane D.

Dewey,

Yes, Rossi is still attacking Piantelli's patent. I agree with you that his doing so is despicable. I just cannot figure out why he (Rossi) is doing it? You and I both agree, know he ripped IH off, and that Doral was a shameless sting operation. The guy has no morals whatsoever, etc.

So why work this patent angle like he is? Not baiting you, as I am truly confused myself. It just does not fit into the picture I have in mind.

I haven't been keeping up with Rossi's patent issues for a while now. The last research I performed was trying to make sense of the titles of his provisional patent applications that he abandoned. My guess is that the mirror effect reactor with lithium, hydrogen, and nickel is an early variation of the Quark.

Rossi shouldn't be bothering with patents; instead, I think he should focus on getting something that works and has value mass produced in the largest way possible, even if it means losing a big portion of his control of the technology. The essence of the effect is out now, and we know it's really not the "Rossi Effect" but should include a long string of names starting with Tesla and Moray and continuing with Rossi near the end. I'm just waiting for other parties to announce their results.

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Director - this is moving into despicable territory. You are aware that the R'ster continues to attack Piantelli's IP in the EP sector aren't you?

That's a stupid thing to do, IMO, because it gains him nothing. He has a short window to get a product into the market, and suing others isn't going to earn him additional marketshare. I don't think he has anything to worry about from Piantelli anyway. Even though Piantelli is a really clever guy and in the past have obtained some very interesting results, he's so super safety conscious that I don't think he'll be coming up with anything close to a practical device in the near future. I just wish Piantelli had a bit of Tesla's courage to push forward.

Here's my opinion. I'm not saying it's gospel truth, but my best guess.

At some point before and during his time at Doral, he came up with the idea for the Quark. Previously, he'd been producing EVOs (please realize that is an imprecise term for a range of different toroidal clusters with different shapes, sizes, levels of stability, and composition) from his plasma and/or from diamond structures he grew on his nickel. The quark was a method of controlling precisely the production of EVOs, sequestering them into a specific area between electrodes, and colliding them to produce nuclear effects. This really isn't anything new because the basic concept has already been tested - albeit with large sized spheromaks - by the military and civilian companies. I think when he saw the Quark working, his only purpose for the reactors in the one megawatt plant was to someone acquire the 89 million dollars. Compared to the controllability of the Quark, the reactors in the one megawatt plant were far less stable, lots of trouble, and downright primitive. In the court documents we can read about rust forming everywhere, electrical issues, reactors failing, and all sorts of issues. So privately he abandoned them while publicly proclaiming his ambitions to commercialize them. I can in a way understand his desire to proceed with the Quark technology. If the QX is verified to perform as he has claimed, then it's truly a huge leap towards an ideal system. But at the same time, his track record makes me believe that there's a chance NOTHING will come from the QX. Not because they don't work, but because even in the BEST CASE scenario (for Rossi) in which he gets some level of funding, he won't trust a partner enough to allow them to participate in the manufacturing. He'll open a small factory producing an output which won't be able to compete with his competitors.