[Kevmo]

Don't forget that his customers have to be real stupid not to check behind the curtain.

Some interesting remarks on Vortex.

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat / philosophical remarks
Jed Rothwell
Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:55:18 -0800
Horace Heffner wrote:


> The question though should be which premise is more consistent with
> Rossi's behavior, he believes his own claims, or not?"
>

The premise that best fits his behavior is the same one that fits Harrison,
Patterson, William Shockley, and many other people with a personality
similar to Rossi's. They are intensely possessive. They want to micromanage
every aspect of the technology. They consider it their baby, and they
cannot bring themselves to allow others to develop it. they think they know
best and they refuse to listen to anyone else's ideas or advice.

This kind of behavior is widespread. You can find countless examples in
biographies or the history of technology, or science, or for that matter
commerce or war. This is how generals lose campaigns even when they have a
large advantage going in. I have seen many programmers like this as well.
Most of them work for corporations and they are not allowed to act on their
desires.

If Shockley had had his way, the transistor might never have emerged from
the laboratory. He failed at every subsequent venture because he thought he
knew best and he insisted on micromanaging. See:

http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJtransistor.pdf

Rossi also wants to micromanage people, including me.

- Jed



Re: [Vo]:E-Cat / philosophical remarks
Jed Rothwell Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:10:38 -0800
Horace Heffner wrote:


> Rossi's behavior is absurd, unless he doesn't believe in the technology
> himself. Then it makes complete sense.
>

His behavior is irrational and absurd. However, such behavior is common
among inventors and discoverers, and it has been throughout history. There
are many famous examples such as John Harrison. There are many in the
present day and among cold fusion researchers, such as Patterson.

I do not think it makes "complete sense" that Rossi does not believe in the
technology himself. If he did not believe in it, he would gleefully promote
it and he would put on more impressive demonstrations. Fake but impressive.
He would gladly accept money from investors since the only point of doing
this would be to fleece people. That is not what he is doing. He is, in
fact, beating off investors with a stick. He is turning down money. I know
several people who offered him large sums. He refused them all. He did not
even answer some of them. This is not characteristic of a fraud who does
not believe in his own work. It is characteristic of a lone inventor who
does not want to give up control. Patterson was the same way. I know people
who offered him funding, which he turned down. As I said, he was determined
to have 100% market share.



> If Rossi actually has something useful, and it is not patentable, then he
> could still make a fortune producing energy and selling it directly to a
> grid. He could relocate to Mexico and sell power to the west coast of the
> USA through the existing grid. He could make billions.
>

I do not think the power companies would allow this. Also, by the time he
set up and was able to do this, the secret of this technology would be out
and he would be reverse engineered by every major industrial manufacturing
company on earth.

- Jed

[Johnny B.]

Don't forget that his customers have to be real stupid not to check behind the curtain.

You mean stupid companies like Blockbuster? Like Intel?

HERE is a guy who got several million dollars from those companies for what he claimed was a "revolutionary new technology" to transmit high-quality video over ordinary telephone modems.

It turned out to be a box containing a VCR, a video cable hidden in a power strip and a half-mile of coax cable running under a river.

Sometimes even smart companies fall for scams, and when they do, they often just forget about it rather than admitting their stupidity to the public.