I am an engineer have 40 years practice in chemical industry and I was professor of Management of Technology for 3 years in a school of Ecomanagement for directors, managers. Therefore I am not ready to believe such an statement - why exactly 2.5 Kw and not 1.8 or 3.2? I am sure Rossi can manufacture even *bonsai kittens* (do you remember the hoax?) but this is not an essential question. I have a vivid empathy for Rossi , he has solved a vital problem at a really high level. He has lots of problems- development, patent with no connection with the prior art, secrecy, the danger of competion, the bad publicity of cold fusion,scale-up, lack of theory, denialism of new energy, the possibility of reverse engineering of his devices and so on.You have shown that his commercial development strategy is perhaps not optimal. I think it is my/our duty to help the technology and to understand the position of the man Rossi. peter On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Peter Gluck <peter.gl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> From practical reasons, Rossi does not manufacture generators smaller than >> 2.5 kW but I don't see any reasons they cannot be much smaller. >> > > I do not see any reason either, but a few days ago he said the minimum size > is 2.5 kW. I do not think he meant it would be impractical; I gather he > meant it is impossible. He probably has a reason for saying that. We will > see whether that reason is valid or invalid. > > Rossi says many things which seem strange or baseless; i.e. without a > reason. Many people have concluded that he does not really mean what he > says; he is playing some sort of mind game; or a deception similar to > what Ching-Wu Chu was accused of doing when he told people his formula had > Yb (ytterbium) instead of Y (yttrium). I recommend you reserve judgement and > not try to read his mind. I do not know why he says these things, and more > to the point, I do not know whether these things are true or false. Nobody > knows. It is likely they are mixture of true and false. > > Rossi has a highly original, bold, and idiosyncratic world view. He also > has idiosyncratic ways of expressing himself. So does Arata. As I said, he > often makes up strange new words to describe concepts that already have > conventional words. Such people often discover new facts about nature that > seem crazy to the rest of us. They also often make gigantic mistakes, that > we would never make because we are too timid, and too conventional. We can > too easily jump to the conclusion that such people are dissembling. It is > better to reserve judgement and reach no conclusions for now. > > - Jed > > -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com