News update? eh? This was not a news update. This was more of the same mindless fluff of no substance. NOTHING has been revealed. I'll personally judge Rossi by independent validation - and so far there has been hee haw.
Show me a report from UL or similar that confirms the power output of the eCat and I'll get on board. How long will the "I'm working in secret with the military" line hold up without further scrutiny? What branch of the military? Who specifically? Times, dates, places, evidence etc.
Otherwise, talk is cheap, and if you don't believe me I can sell you a lovely bridge that crosses the Hudson.
warm regards
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Subject: Re: [Vo]:"News update from Andrea Rossi and ECAT.com in May"
From: Eric Walker <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, May 15, 2012 1:38 pm
To: [email protected]
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote:Do not judge Rossi by the standards of academic science. That's the biggest mistake people make. Judge him instead by the standards of software companies in the go-go 1980s, or railroad financing circa 1870 during the Credit Mobilier scandal. Back then those industries were in the Wild West (figuratively and literally) where no rules applied. Vaporware, rumors, sleight-of-hand tricks, indirection, misdirection and corruption were pervasive. It was an anything-goes, law-of-the-jungle atmosphere. I gather the Italian business world is like that now, and always has been. That is where Rossi comes from.Agreed. I wonder whether a lot of the frustration with Rossi is more just a residue of people's initial skepticism towards cold fusion in general. The first reaction is to disbelieve any suggestion of cold fusion out of hand and for that reason to adopt the initial assumption that Rossi is lying. Once the reflexive doubt about cold fusion wears away, some of Rossi's unguarded public statements can be distracting. But when one listens to him speak in an interview, he sounds pretty reasonable. And if his inventions end up doing half of what he's reporting, I think humanity will owe him a huge debt of gratitude. In light of all of this, it seems safest to withhold judgement and see where things go.Eric
