On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com>wrote: . > > How much is an unknown amount? >
Please don't play ignorant. Or don't you know the source of this was an Ampenergo executive in an interview with NyTeknik and he said: *"How much do you pay for the agreement?* Cassarino: Unfortunately that’s confidential. *Have you paid anything to Rossi yet?* Cassarino: Yes we have. *How much?* Cassarino: Let’s put it like this, it was an important piece of the equation." http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article3179019.ece<%20%20%20http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article3179019.ece> I've probably posted this five times by now in various places. You never saw it? And now, if I read it right, Defkalion claims they paid Rossi a first installment of $15 million though the translation is far from clear. It's in another string on Vortex. 4. Rossi asked an engineer at NASA on July 22, 2011, for $15 million to >> “test” his device. NASA did not pay Rossi anything. >> > The $15 million was for an escrow subject to final approval by the > customer after testing, so there is no danger Rossi could steal it. > > This is mostly nonsense mixed in with a few facts and Krivit's own > opinions. I will not bother to go over the details. > It's not nonsense. It's that Rossi was offered tests by Quantum and NASA and could not come up with a single working device. > > I do not know much about this stuff, since I have no interest in Rossi's > business. I do not go around asking nosy questions. Frankly, I don't give a > damn if Rossi is a scammer or not. > Evidently. > I doubt he is scamming with a real cold fusion reactor but people do odd > things. You never know. > I doubt it too. If he's scamming it will be with a phony cold fusion reactor and phony measurement methods. It's still "if". We'll probably know more eventually. > As far as I know, his previous criminal career consisted of defrauding the > stockholders in a company in which he himself was the only > stockholder. Apparently that is a crime in Italy. Sort of like the > politically incorrect scene in "Blazing Saddles" in which Bart points a > pistol at his own head and kidnaps himself. > You keep saying that but I never saw any evidence for it. Also, it's not terribly important. Rossi's stark failure to deliver working thermoelectric modules to DOD is even more impressive.