Crap like this is so obscene that it seems like the concoction of its enemies or of some continuation of what many hypothesize is Rossi's perverse strategy of surrounding the E-Cat with repellent so he has time to work out his own problems before serious players stomp on him.
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 2:20 PM, H Veeder <hveeder...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> H Veeder <hveeder...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>> He claimed that DGT learned Rossi's trade secret. He did not say DGT >>> "stole" it. He stated this publicly because he wanted to persuade people >>> that DGT could build a working reactor without Rossi's help. >>> >> >> He said they examined the powder with a mass spec in violation of >> agreements with Rossi, and without Rossi's knowledge. That is theft of >> trade secrets. Some of the people negotiating with him were appalled, as >> was I. Maybe you do not think this is theft, and maybe Xanthoulis does not >> think it is, but by the standards of U.S. business ethics, it is theft and >> will surely mean Defkalion is not free to sell the product and they will be >> tied up in civil suits for years if they try to sell it. >> >> I am pretty sure there will be no civil suit for trade secret theft, >> because as far as I know they do not have a working product. Maybe they >> tried to steal the secret, but they failed. >> >> > This was the press release from Rossi when he severed ties with DGT: > > > http://www.nyteknik.se/incoming/article3228357.ece/BINARY/Defkalion+EFA+breach+press+release+(pdf) > > If Rossi was right then DGT has never known the secret. Rossi said > elsewhere that DGT was just peddling a mock-up which they were going to > later fill with one of his e-cat units when they became available on the > market. > > Harry > > > > >> The people at Defkalion Europe (DE) declared themselves out of business >> as soon they discovered the claims were false and the machine does not >> produce excess heat. I and others have praised them for doing this. In >> point of fact, they had to do that. Any other course of action would be >> criminal fraud. Once you know your product does not work, you have stop >> selling it. They deserve praise for doing this quickly and decisively, and >> for warning their customers. They deserve praise for telling Defkalion, and >> for publishing the report. >> >> Defkalion has known their claims are wrong at least since the day after >> ICCF18, and probably much longer. Yet they are still in business, and they >> still claim it works. If it was was not fraud up until ICCF18, it surely is >> now. >> >> (It might have been an idiotic mistake up until ICCF18, but I think that >> is very unlikely, given all the times I and others warned them to do >> reality check tests.) >> >> - Jed >> >> >
