From http://ecatnews.com/ re the Defkalion forum:
When live, the forum was a key source of (what should have been) quality information. From it, we were told that Defkalion has tested the eCat many times, always achieving a gain of 19 or more. As we can see below, either they were lying or the press release on AR's blog is giving incorrect information. Either way, this looks bad [....]
It's not necessarily true that Defkalion was lying or that Rossi's information was incorrect. Rossi was stating what he believed, we may initially assume. He believed that they were not testing, since he hadn't provided them with E-cats.
Ecatnews.com notes that this is all disturbing. It sure is. Rossi used and allowed the Defkalion situation as a proof that what he was doing was legitimate. If it's true that he provided no E-cats, then he would think one of two things: they were lying, or they had developed something new, which they don't call an E-cat, they call it Hyperion.
Either way, Rossi used the impressions created by Defkalion to amplify his own credibility. Just yesterday, there was a comment here that Rossi must have disclosed the catalyst to Defkalion because otherwise they would not have invested hundreds of millions of "dollars," I think was written.
Rossi, from his announcement, never trusted them with the catalyst. Therefore, if they did discover the catalyst, they did not obtain it from disclosure, and he's going to have a devil of a time trying to prove that they stole the process. Unless he could prove industrial espionage, and his own comment denies that the secret isn't safe.
Rossi's bluster and his habits of rejecting good advice from people who not only believed him but who knew what they were talking about seem to have resulted in his falling into a huge trap, of his own making.
If Defkalion's statements are true, it's over for Rossi, he massively blew it. He might recover, but it's far from likely.
This was not only a possibility from the beginning, it was actually likely. Rossi was in over his head, playing a game in a field with vast fortunes at stake. And effectively playing it alone. Predictable outcome.
Rossi was tempted into fraud, into exaggeration of his results and into manipulating them in various ways, to make the devices seem more productive and more reliable. If Defkalion has actually done what is reported above, they are way ahead of him.
As would be expected if someone with huge resources set to work on the problem. Rossi took many years to test his claimed thousand tries. They might have done that in a month! You just throw money and people at it! Once you believe that something might be there, and if you have the resources, it would practically be foolish not to look.
And that is without industrial espionage. With it .... just absolutely not surprising.
Expect from Defkalion: a patent, disclosing the catalyst. Very soon, delay could be quite harmful to their interests.
