Rossi wrote:
> Again lecturing about tests !!! We receive 5 to 10 proposals per day to > make tests around the world, most of them from competitors, of course. > Please, read carefully: > 1- we made all the tests we had to make > 2- no more public tests will be made, the phase of public tests is over > for us > This is what he has been saying all along. No change in his policy. It is a shame. People such as Mary Yugo see this as proof that he is a scammer. I see this as proof that he is a businessman. A small businessman, with a private corporation, who has no grasp of how to deal with a potentially gigantic worldwide market worth ~$1 trillion a year. As someone here remarked, he is treating this like some guy who has come up with an improved formula for automobile window washing fluid, and he's manufacturing cases of the stuff and stockpiling them in a warehouse, hoping to ratchet up to a few million dollars in sales. The notion that you can succeed with a revolutionary industrial technology using small-town shoe-store business strategies seems ridiculous to me. If Rossi succeeds it will be thanks to the overwhelming benefits of his product, and despite his business strategy. Yugo and others seem to think that Rossi is suspicious because his main goal is making money. This is an ivory tower view. I see nothing wrong with making money. If he becomes the first trillionaire I will say he deserves every dollar. My problem with Rossi's strategy is that I do not think it will work. I fear he will soon be reverse-engineered by various corporations, especially in China where they have little regard for intellectual property, and he will end up with nothing. This is not only my opinion. Every businessman I have discussed this with agrees with me. I will grant that he is in a tough position. I do not think he can get a patent outside of Italy. It is difficult to map out a successful strategy without a patent. I wouldn't know how to do it. But I do not see how his present strategy can help. I advised him to concentrate on getting a patent, rather than building a 1 MW reactor or trying to bootstrap a business. Perhaps he did take steps to file a new patent; I wouldn't know. > 5- all our next work with Universities (Bologna, Uppsala) will not be > public, but restricted and confidential Research and Development activity. > No public university should accept such a contract, in my opinion. It violates academic ethics. It does not violate business ethics. If he wants secret R&D he should go to the private sector. - Jed
