Companies do incredibly foolish things with their money all the time. In fact, I work for a company that’s in chapter 11 for the second time in a year because of foolish purchases that swamped their core business. Waving that 11 million dollar flag does not impress me.
Of course it doesn’t impress you. You won’t be impressed until a LENR space shuttle crashlands on your lawn, and then you’ll just sue NASA because you never liked LENR in the first place.
If you’re honest, you’ll address this question: Does the fact that Rossi has some funding from verifiable, credible and ordinarily rational source mean that this forwards his claim?