A word of caution, thanks to Steve Krivit http://blog.newenergytimes.com/2011/01/15/rossi-discovery-what-to-say/
Since Krivit has come forward with this today, I guess it is OK for others to publish the same information that has been floating around Italy for a couple of days regarding Rossi's two prior criminal fraud convictions. This needs to be addressed by Rossi, even if it is tangential to the claimed work. It actually shows up on the Italian version of Wiki. IOW the two (or more) prior criminal problems, should be completely ignored if they were unrelated to this new work, which they are not, or if the experimental results are absolutely shown to be valid, which is less than certain. Ask yourself this, could the results which have been shown have been faked by a convicted con-man, who BTW - has no record of having gotten a PhD from anywhere in Italy, other than the Mail-order variety, and is in serious difficulty in the USA because of prior allegations for funding received from DARPA, inappropriately, for thermoelectric work which was never completed ? I think the enthusiasm shown today this work so far is fine, and I am still part of the cheering section - but this word of caution should be taken into account, and put forward for answers from Rossi himself. Maybe there is another man with the same name who is responsible. As a community, the honest people in LENR do not want to be seen by skeptics, in a couple of months, as having been completely gullible and taken-in by a convicted con-artist, should he be shown to be faking this. Jones
