This is the first time that I am posting an article here in the first person. I have been getting some great feedback on the article I posted over the weekend 'Andrea Rossi : Sinner or Saint?'. However, some people have been a little bit confused about where the 'author' of the article (i.e. me) was coming from.
So, I want to take a brief moment to clarify my personal position in the hopes of clearing up any confusion on the matter. I also found a thread of discussion online where some people were taking offense that I had the audacity to compare Andrea Rossi to Nikola Tesla.
Before I start, let me state one thing up front. I am not accusing Andrea Rossi of fraud. I simply do not know one way or the other. Time will tell and we will see in the end.
I would like to begin by clarifying a couple of points. I tried to keep my article objective; I do not think that it is a pro-Rossi article, nor do I feel that it is an anti-Rossi article. Instead the article is about exploring the question of what if Rossi is telling the truth versus, what if Rossi is committing fraud?
Quite frankly, personally, I find Rossi to be a giant flake and I believe his past adventures in energy companies is almost proof that he is up to no good now. I think his song and dance around his supposed '1mw reactor' is extremely suspicious, if not just a pack of outright lies. The fact that he won't allow for any independent testing of his device smacks of fraud. I think it is most likely that Rossi is, in fact, a fraud and is probably running some kind of scam but, at this time, I have no way of knowing for sure.
However, if Andrea Rossi is conducting a fraud, I just can't figure out 'the angle'. If he's running a scam, how does he expect to come out ahead? Personally, I see no future for him other than sitting in jail in the end.
Regarding the comment about Tesla in the previous article, let me clarify what I meant.
I used Tesla as an example because Tesla introduced AC power which didn't just transform the energy infrastructure of the planet, it created it!
So, if Rossi's device is real, and he sells millions and millions of them, then I believe that development would indeed be on par with the impact of AC power on the world.
Moreover, Rossi is an entrepreneur, a flake, a character, an inventor, and a very strange bird.
For those of you who don't know, no matter how brilliant Tesla was, he too was an entrepreneur who engaged in some pretty wild 'free energy' projects (see WardenclyfeTower). He was a very, very, very, strange man who suffered from some forms of mental illness and was an extreme eccentric. He was also an inventor; he didn't just sit around and think up ideas, he built stuff.
It is for this range of parallels that I used the analogy.
All that said, honestly, I think most likely Rossi is a scam artist, I just can't figure out his angle yet and I have no way to prove it. And, that said, I sure hope that I'm wrong.
The thrust of the first article was to explore my realization that if, by some incredible chance, Rossi actually does what he claims he is going to do (sell millions of low cost LENR reactors), then my argument is that there could be no better way possible to (A) 'prove' it to the world and (B) keep the technology from being suppressed, shut-down, or locked up by powerful industries that would find this kind of disruptive technology a threat to their interests.
Another Tesla comparison is how the powers the be, at the time, made Tesla's life a living hell.
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