I wrote:
> As soon as the test was reported, Crude . . . > Cude. Sorry about that. A spell check error? Freudian slip? Wasn't voice input -- I can't blame that. On the last page he writes: "Would you like to approach Rossi about getting one of his proprietary reactors to me for testing? I have a hunch he's not prepared to supply one." Does Cude work at Los Alamos? Is he willing to sign a non-disclosure agreement? I doubt that Rossi would supply one to a random person with no known qualifications. However, if things go according to plan, in a few years he will be able to buy one in Greece, and maybe in the U.S. (Rossi announced that another deal is underway in the U.S.) I don't see how anyone can complain about Rossi's plans. A test at a major university. More tests this year in cooperation with CERN. Commercial sales starting this year or next. The skeptics should be running out of things to complain about. What more they want? Okay, I admit that I have groused about the plan. I would prefer to see Rossi deliver 3 or 4 units to National Labs for testing under non-disclosure agreements. I told Rossi that. He politely said he doesn't want to do that. Well, it is his prerogative. I can't complain about that so much as whine quietly off in the corner. If he engaged in the kind of disappearing act that Patterson did after the death of Reding, or the kind of hide-and-seek operation that many over-unity inventors engage in, then I would have grounds to complain. But Rossi has paid a million euros to have a top-notch university and national lab test his machine and subject the catalyst to mass spectroscopy! People have lined up 200 million euros in capital to manufacture the thing soon. Compared to most other cold fusion researchers and all other over-unity inventors, this is wonderfully open, and cooperative, and business-like. It is by far the best news in the history of cold fusion. Probably it is, unless it turns out the machines are harder to reproduce than they thought, and the venture goes bust. That wouldn't be their fault. You can't blame people who spend 200 million euros trying to accomplish something like this. They are serious. The goal is realistic. The secrecy is necessary because of the intransigence of the Patent Office. It isn't his fault the Patent Office refuses to grant patents for cold fusion, although he should have submitted a better application. He now has a good patent attorney working on that. Really, there isn't much more we can ask for. - Jed
