Rossi-Blog Comment Discussion

I think Rossi has designed and built many different variations of reactors that worked. The issue is that because he insists on keeping one hundred percent of the marketshare and not sharing his IP with anyone, he will likely - although I hope I'm wrong - be able to mass produce ANY version of his technology. The best way to proceed forward, in my opinion, would be to find a LARGE potential partner and offer EVERY LAST LITTLE BIT of his IP to them in exchange for three things: a modest advance on future sales, royalties from future sales, and a guarantee that they will openly market the technology or they owe him a payment ten times that of the advance.

Rossi may not make BILLIONS of dollars in the above case but he would obtain more money than he could ever hope to spend in his remaining years, celebrity status as being the man who brought cold fusion to the mainstream (not saying this would make him into a hero but at least one aspect of his legacy would be positive), and he would insure that SOMETHING comes of his technology to benefit the world.

On the path Rossi is going, I think there is a 80% chance or higher than NOTHING will ever come of his technology. Several million bucks, fame, and his name in the history books is better than nothing.

I don't think it indicates fraudulent intent. I think that from Rossi's point of view he thinks any large company he makes a deal with would gobble up his technology, take the vast majority of the credit for themselves, and he'd receive a tiny fraction of what he deserves. Rossi doesn't want to get rich. Rossi doesn't want to have some amount of fame. Rossi doesn't even want to be a CEO. My opinion is that Rossi wants to be the Bill Gates of LENR and have his own near monopoly on LENR. Patterson was the exact same way and Jed Rothwell VERIFIED that Patterson's device worked!

Greed is a dangerous thing. It makes people throw all rationality out of the window. Patterson told Jed flat out that if he couldn't have one hundred percent of the marketshare (which would mean trillions of dollars of income) then he didn't want any share at all. I'm convinced Rossi feels the exact same way. In his opinion, he figured out how to take LENR to the next level and only he deserves the fame and riches. When you combine that with paranoia (even if some of it is honestly justified) and fear of being taken advantage of, you end up with inventors syndrome.

I'm NOT saying that Rossi has been consistently honest about every experiment and test he has performed. But I'm convinced that he has had working reactors all along. The problem is that when he comes up with an idea to make an even better system, the previous devices are WORTHLESS to him and he doesn't want to allow anyone to utilize them.

I think the ONLY reason he is finally TRYING to commercialize the QX (even though I don't think it is likely he will succeed) is because it's the most precise, powerful, controllable, and safe form of LENR around. I don't think there is another step forward except for tapping electricity from these same systems instead of allowing it to be thermalized by joule heating.

Shane,

I really don't like the blanket term "a fraud." In my opinion, it's very imprecise and lumps all of his technology in with his lies, manipulations, and business practices. For a FACT we know that he has been "shady" (to put it mildly) when it comes to how he represented what was going on at Doral. Also, we know in other instances he has lied and has been FAR less than honest. But when it comes to his technology I think there's a great deal of evidence (not perhaps absolute proof beyond any doubt whatsoever) that various versions of E-Cats did indeed work. One of the strongest examples in my opinion is the 18 hour test conducted by Dr. Levi and a couple associates in an alley somewhere in Italy. He alleges that the E-Cat operated for 18 hours consuming on average only about 100 watts (what was required to operate the control box) and produced on average 10kW of thermal power and a peak of 130kW. He used water flow calorimetry measuring the temperature of water going in and out. Rossi was NOT present at the test. Interestingly, when the power was peaking up to 130kW he called Rossi to ask what to do. Rossi became fearful of a meltdown and instructed him to vent some of the hydrogen. When he did the output lowered down to around 10kW.

When it comes to the most recent systems, I cannot stress enough that the basic concept of operation is very close to a list of other devices that have been built and tested over the years. The only thing that Rossi seems to be doing differently is utilizing a different fuel mixture. Instead of pure hydrogen or pure noble gas, he is using a mix of hydrogen, lithium, aluminum, probably noble gases, nickel vapor, platinum vapor, etc. I think this helps to maximize the production of altered hydrogen in the plasma (fractional hydrogen) so that nuclear reactions can take place.

I really think that in basic concept the QX is not very different from the Suncell, the Correa device, or Chernetsky device, and a list of others. I don't know if Rossi read about these other devices before he produced the QX, but I think it is likely that he is using these previous technologies to produce pure plasma fusion just like he used Focardi's know how to produce powder based systems.

I am frustrated with Rossi. I am tired of his games.

However, not matter what Rossi has ever done (even if he is secretly a thousand year old vampire that walked alongside Dracula) I fully support the commercialization of the QX if it indeed works as Rossi claims. If he can bring the QX to the market, I'll be cheering the breakthrough. I refuse to let my anger control me to the extent that I'd rather let the whole world suffer.