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I have been in contact with Rossi for a year or so, and I read his blog pretty carefully, so I know what he is thinking.
He says that additional demonstrations will not convince mainstream scientists or the journals or mass media, and they will do nothing to enhance his business plans, so they are a waste of time. He says the only thing that will convince people is direct sales. He may be right about that. So far, only NyTeknik and the Washington Times have taken any notice. No other mass media has covered him. Very few mainstream scientists believe the claims. Even when I tell them that he instantly convinced Essen and Kullander. They say he must be a sleight of hand magician who fooled them, or they say Essen and Kullander must be criminals involved with him in a conspiracy to defraud Defkalion. These are same kinds of responses I have been hearing for 20 years about mainstream cold fusion. This is Robert Park's view of cold fusions. Park himself has not a word about Rossi, but he has often written in the Washington Post and elsewhere that cold fusion was never replicated, and researchers who claim they replicated are lunatics or criminal frauds. He does not mince words. This is the mainstream view of cold fusion. Rossi has had no impact on it. Actually, he has made the opposition worse, because his claims are so flamboyant. Some people willing to admit there might be a marginal effect, close to the noise and probably chemical, but they are outraged when I tell them there is a reactor that inputs 80 W and outputs 16 kW for hours or weeks.
(Park has been told about Rossi. I assume he has said nothing because he has lost interest. I doubt he is worried that he might have been wrong. He told me that thought has never crossed his mind. He is calmly and absolutely certain he is right. He also told me that he has never bothered to read a paper on cold fusion, and I am sure that is true, because he knows nothing about the subject.)
Rossi says none of this will change, and no mainstream journals, corporations or universities will allow cold fusion research until he cuts the Gordian knot by selling machines. I can't fault him for thinking that, when I see the rabid attacks against him. On the other hand, Essen and Kullander asked him to send machines the Universities of Uppsala and Stockholm. He says he will after production begins. I wish he would do it sooner!
I wish he would put more emphasis on making small reactors for demonstrations, and prototypes for the Defkalion factory. For some reason, he is spending all of his time on the 1 MW reactor. I suppose he has a contractual agreement to make it. Any contract can be modified. Modifying this would surely benefit both parties. I cannot understand why the 1 MW reactor has such high priority.
I wish the thought of making it had never crossed his mind. I have told him many times that he could convince the whole world and get a billion dollars in investment capital with what he has now, if he would only give a few of these things to universities and corporations under non disclosure agreements (NDA).
He is very cordial and friendly, but he will not take this or any other advice from me. He is determined to make the 1 MW reactor and deliver it on time.
One reason he is concentrating on this is clear. He will not be paid by Defkalion until he delivers the 1 MW reactor, and they test it and confirm it works. Then -- according to Greek press reports -- he will be paid a one-time royalty of 100 million euros. He does not want anything after that; he is giving Defkalion full rights. He has spent all of his personal fortune developing this. Naturally, he wants to be paid soon. However, as I said, I see nothing special about a 1 MW reactor. Why not change the contract to make it 100 kW? Or 10 kW, for that matter? The 1 MW reactor itself has no more business value than a 10 kW reactor would. Defkalion wants the technology; they do not want one particular prototype reactor of a particular size. It is as if the Wright brothers in 1904, just after Kitty Hawk, had refused to demonstrate or sell any airplanes until they could perfect one that flies 6 and a half hours carrying 6 passengers. Igor Sikorsky did that in 1914. See:
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJthewrightb.pdfThat was a worthy goal in 1914. It was ambitious. It would have been an insane goal in 1904.
- Jed