[Mr. K]

"But the curious thing, and one explicitly designed to eliminate press coverage, was Rossi's declarations that we would see no more demonstrations. "

Something in common with ALL the previous scam artists pulling this crap in the past

Rossi needs to turn it on, let it run, let it be examined, and sit back and shut up and start counting the money rolling in. NONE of this drama would be necessary if it was real.

[fireman15]

Exactly! The demonstration does not need to have bells and whistles or produce electricity, but it does need to produce heat in the absence of some other type of chemical reaction and it needs to be reproducible by other labs.

[justlurking]

Something in common with ALL the previous scam artists pulling this crap in the past

Agreed. I'd really like this to be true, but I believe that:

An extraordinary claim requires extraordinary proof.

Or if you prefer, you can substitute Carl Sagan's version: "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence".

Or Pierre-Simon Laplace: "The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness".

Or David Hume: ""A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence".

Rossi needs to turn it on, let it run, let it be examined, and sit back and shut up and start counting the money rolling in. NONE of this drama would be necessary if it was real.

Agreed. All of this screwing around just screams: "scam!!". I really hope that it isn't. But, until I see it replicated by an independent evaluator, I'm not holding my breath.

I don't expect him to give up trade secrets. Just hand one of his prototype catalyzers to an independent lab and let them run their own tests to measure the output, free of any "assistance" from Rossi and his cohorts.

[muawiyah]

You were making that same argument 5 years ago ~ so far you haven’t caught anybody doing fraudulent LENR work ~ or you’d be using them as an example.