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Originally posted by Navieko
reply to post by spoor
Wouldn't the experts that were present there during the test call them out on it and announce any suspicion of fraud to the press afterwards? Are you claiming everyone there was apart of it... or that they were too stupid to see what was going on... while you figured it out by watching a small video clip?
Might be hard to believe that the thing really worked as they said, but your theory is equally hard to believe.
Originally posted by cupocoffee
Originally posted by ignorant_ape
please supply the names of these attending experts
Has it not occurred to you that things like the identity of the customer, the location of the plant and the identities of the engineering team are being kept secret for a good reason?
The bad guys watch sites like this one and PESN too, you know.
Publicly name the customer and the engineers, and you might as well put a giant bullseye over them and a huge sign saying "assassinate us now!!"
Publicly state the location of the power plant, and you might as well put a giant bullseye over it and a sign saying "sabotage this now!!"
Don't you guys ever look at things from the security perspective?
These people are taking sensible security precautions. Disclosing too much information too soon would put them and the power plant at risk unnecessarily.
Originally posted by OccamsRazor04
What experts? Who exactly were these experts and what did they have access to? The answer is they had extremely limited access and the "buyer" is unknown. Tell me how it is far fetched to say they are in on the fraud.
Originally posted by Areyoupeopleinsane
Lets look at the two choices he has:
-----Peer review, scientific test route-----
Rossi lets his units be independently tested poked and prodded (and dont forget the obvious potential the surreptitious dissemination of his trade secrets by intent or mistake).
The units pass after how many months or years.
What does Rossi get?
1) A piece of paper and published articles indicating that it works.
-------The commercial customer route-------------
Rossi, demonstrates the unit to a potential client, and if it works, the client buys the unit.
What does Rossi get?
1) Money
2) Penetration into the marketplace and an immediate history of use is begun.
3) Proof comes automatically with the existing units working in a commercial location.
If you had two inventors with the same invention, one has a paper from a third party saying it works and a prototype, and the other inventor has no paper, buy has a unit already purchased by a customer and working at a that customers location.
Rossi knows it works, and he doesn't need to prove it to any of you....just the customer...which he did and they bought it.
(National Instruments bought it)
Oops... did I let that slip.
Originally posted by yampa
www.wired.co.uk...
Good follow up article from Wired on the 6th November.
Following his first sale, Rossi now says he has orders for thirteen more megawatt-class E-Cat power plants. He's offering them to anyone at $2,000 (£1,250) a kilowatt, which works out at $2 million (£1.25 million) per unit, and says he has customers in the US and Europe. Rossi says a domestic version rated at a few kilowatts is at least a year away. He is also working on adapting the E-Cat so its heat output can converted to electricity, but this will require higher working temperatures and will take two years or more.
This is not quite what you'd expect from a fraudster.
Firstly, the demonstration should have been much more convincing. The shipping container housing the E-Cat setup should have been hoisted from a crane and visibly disconnected from any external power supply.
As with all conjuring tricks, the audience should have been allowed to inspect the apparatus. And why only claim 470 kilowatts when you're supposed to be producing twice that amount?
If the whole thing was set-up, and the mystery customer a fake, it was not well calculated to convince anyone else. Secondly, this is normally the point at which a con artist starts issuing shares, asking for capital, or taking "deposits" from gullible consumers. Anything to grab some cash from those willing to offer it.
Instead, Rossi is apparently only taking orders from large customers who will be checking the devices work before they take delivery. These are people with good lawyers to write contracts and deal with any complications. They are not easy targets. Whatever he's doing, he's going for the longer game.
Originally posted by ctdannyd
Although this will be great if true, the only real way it will be sucessful is if the owners release the info into the pubic domain NOW.
As was noted in other areas of this thread, governments, big oil and the like will NEVER let this happen.
Make truely free energy, TRUELY free...
Originally posted by OccamsRazor04
NI did not buy anything they are not his customer, in fact Rossi is THEIR customer, he is buying from them.
Oops... did I let that slip.
Originally posted by cyber
So people I think technology is here...... Simple, to shame billions of dollars spend on “scrap”
Projects of leading nuclear physicists, to shame all PHD’s which said: cold fusion is not possible”
Originally posted by RING0
Another "Official" web site; ECAT.com, "In Association with Andrea Rossi", has popped up, looks like it has been fully approved and sanctioned by Mr. Rossi.
Originally posted by Angelic Resurrection
Originally posted by RING0
Another "Official" web site; ECAT.com, "In Association with Andrea Rossi", has popped up, looks like it has been fully approved and sanctioned by Mr. Rossi.
The site in question makes no mention of the Oct 28th 1 MW demo.
It also says that Rossi has a Phd from Milan uni.
A flashy site nonetheless. I wish them luck though.
Originally posted by yampa
"We are building a 130 MW thermal plant, made of 13 plant such as the one you saw on October 28th: but it's a military research and I can't reveal any further detail, not the name, nor the place, nor the nationality of the customer"
Originally posted by yampa
reply to post by Angelic Resurrection
Symbolic?