From: alain.coetmeur@gmail * saying it is a fraud seems not fair for me. Lugano report is visibly insufficient, unlike anything manufactured to look good...
Alain - I should have been more specific. It is beyond reasonable doubt that Rossi “salted” the reactor with enriched isotope and did not tell anyone. At the same time, even with sloppy measurements, there was probably excess heat, but not as much as claimed. Bob Higgins says that salting the reactor is not necessarily “deception” because Rossi had no obligation to tell anyone, and he has the right to protect his trade secrets. After all, this is part of a commercial venture with millions of dollars at stake. I can see Bob’s point, to an extent. This kind of cheating (don’t ask, don’t tell) makes the Lugano isotope salting look sleazy and unscientific, but possibly not fraudulent, in a criminal sense. However, if Rossi then used a dishonest report as a submission to USPTO in order to obtain a patent, or if he used the report as a milestone for continued funding from IH, or to obtain funding from any other licensee - then the dishonesty is elevated to fraud.
