To prove the concept I think you do not have to give money you can > privately show interest in giving money to support Rossi's endeavors. >
I think it would be difficult -- Rossi will be suspicious if he doesn't know you or has not heard of you. Jed noted that several scheduled demos including the one to NASA (sept 5 and 6 maybe?) failed -- the device would not work, once for two days in a row! My suspicion is that Rossi was concerned that the people scheduled for these sessions knew how to test properly and how to ask the hard questions. If that was true, he was better off having the device fail than having it work. My guess is that *if* Rossi is a scammer, he got money early on and *if* he is continuing to take money, he's very careful from whom and under what terms. Bernie Madoff did not take everyone's money in his infamous gigantic multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme. In fact, you could not invest with this company directly -- you had to go through selected brokers. He wanted fewer but fatter marks. And he got them. > Interest in buying products is different, you cannot prove scam until > you prove it does not what it is advertised on the box and when asked > full refund you don't get it. > Right but this isn't like selling can openers through an informercial on television. If cold fusion is ever marketed to any know customers, it will probably work. You can scam investors but as many have pointed out (and I agree) you can't scam an actual customer very long. That's why I keep insisting that it's disturbing that Rossi's client is anonymous. That and the fact that the large, leaky machine Rossi showed October 28 probably doesn't have much practical use in its present form.
