Axil Axil <janap...@gmail.com> wrote: > And yet Brillouin Energy‘s President and Chief Technical Officer Robert E. > Godes has selflessly posted critical help on Rossi's web site that has > enabled Rossi to develop his latest reaction approach; and Rossi was > grateful for it. The same is true for the advice he got from NI and his > first government based customer. > Yup. He is sincere about expressing thanks and giving credit to others. Effusive, even. Also, unlike many self-made inventors, he is open to ideas and suggestions from other people. He does not suffer from the "not invented here" syndrome. One person who knows him better than I do said he reads everything and he will ask for help from anyone, if he thinks that will contribute to reaching his goals. I have heard he learned a great deal from NI and there might still be a fruitful relationship between them. I would not mind being a vendor to Rossi such as NI. That could be a very fruitful relationship. I would not want to be a business partner or investor.
As far as I know he has been quite open and fair with people such as Levi, Essen and Kulander. They are not business partners. They have not complained about him, and they have nothing to complain about. He never followed through on his proposed research contract with U. Bologna, but that is his prerogative. A businessman can decide that a contract is not in his best interests and cancel before the final commitment deadline. That's a normal and legit thing to do. He is an impressive businessman and a brilliant engineer and inventor. Unfortunately, he has serious faults, such as being sloppy with equipment, and thin-skinned. As I said, he could not bring himself to admit that the people from NASA were right and he was wrong, and the test failed. That was pure egomania. It was an idiotic, self-destructive fit of pique. He should have apologized, fixed the problem, and called them back in. They offered to come. This was the test described by Krivit, in a report that is correct as far as I know. Krivit often gets things right, and I am always willing to give him credit. I cited him in my recent paper. He has the same problem Rossi has: he often gets it right, but sometimes his ego causes him to make drastic mistakes, and you never tell whether you are dealing with Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde. Since you know him so well, please explain this dichotomy in rossi's > relationships with people; what makes a person a snake and a clown and what > makes a person a valuable friend. > In my personal experience it varies from day to day, or from hour to hour, like the weather in Pennsylvania. * I personally have been in his favor in the morning, on the outs by afternoon, and back in his good graces the next day. It depends on his mood. If he reads this message I am sure to be in the doghouse tomorrow. He has difficulty knowing friends from enemies. In my opinion he has difficulty judging other people's intentions and capabilities. This is unimportant example, but he rejected a visit by me because I insisted on bringing my own instruments, and he welcomed a visit by Krivit who set no such conditions. Some people who knew this was happening at the time warned him that Krivit sometimes makes trouble. I think I would have done a better job. I might have found the same result that Krivit did: no evidence of heat. But at least I would have measured this objectively with outside instruments leaving no doubt in anyone's mind about the result. That is better than trying to prove the issue by guess and by golly and by making fun of Rossi's ability to speak English as a second language. Rossi does not want anyone to use outside instruments to establish a clear claim one way or the other. As he says, "no tests!" That is what he told me, which is why I did not go. Most people assume that he says this because he is a fraud and he is hiding the truth. That assumption is entirely reasonable. If I knew nothing about him, and I had not seen data from his long suffering supporters, I would assume this. I think the situation is more complicated. I agree with Mike McKubre who says Rossi wants most people to think he has nothing, because he does not want serious competition. Ed Storms says that if he were Rossi, with the technology in hand, he would say nothing to anyone except investors under NDAs. He would keep it strictly confidential. That would be a legitimate business strategy. What Rossi is doing is kind of like that, with the added strategy of spreading confusion and rumors that the machines do not work. That is * not* a legitimate business strategy. It is borderline unethical. While it is okay to say nothing, it is not okay to circulate misleading information. Granted, this kind of deception is quite common, and has been used by mainstream organizations such as IBM since forever. If you are going to engage is such practices, you cannot complain when people say you are untrustworthy or you appear to be con-man. Rossi has no right to be upset with people who accuse him of being a con-man, since he refuses to allow a proper independent test. The tests he did last year were convincing to me, because the heat was so high and because I know and trust some of the observers. But these tests were all deeply flawed. They were deliberately bad, in ways that could have been fixed easily in 30 minutes with a few hundred dollars in equipment. Or in one case, for the cost of an SD card. They resembled the tests performed by the late James Patterson. Patterson deliberately used half-assed, kitchen-grade equipment such as dime-store thermometers and Radio Shack power supplies. He did this so that most people would find his tests unconvincing. That is what he and Reding told me. He wanted to convince Motorola only, leaving the rest of the world in the dark. He ended up convincing no one -- which is what I told him would happen, at the time. Patterson was a professional chemist and he knew damn well how to do a proper engineering test. He chose not to, because he wanted "a 100% market share" as he said to me. He got 100% of the market for his device -- 100% of zero, that is -- and he took that share to the grave with him. Rossi may well do the same thing, for similar reasons. - Jed * Or, as Japanese men say 女心と秋の空 (a woman's heart and the autumn sky). Women say the same thing about men.
