Re:The cold fusion race just heated up
by thegeek112 on Friday January 30, 2015 @01:39PM
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Everybody says it's a fraud. But you have to admit it's a very long fraud (5 years?) and nobody complained about loses yet. It's not a fullfilled fraud therefore it's not a fraud yet. To me Rossi looks more like a good entertainer performing a magic routine: he pretends to pull energy out of nowhere, the energy seems to appear, nobody loses money and nobody can use that energy (at least not yet) and the enthusiastic public screams "it's a fraud !!!"
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Three words "Moeller Air Car"
The point being that longevity of a fraud doesn't make it less likely to be a fraud. Rossi as been pushing this thing for a long time but his inability to actually use it to make excess energy he could use to sell to the grid is a huge red flag for anyone who has looked at it.
Heh, is there some internet rule about the mention of that car in any discussion?
Re:The cold fusion race just heated up
by simondelacourt on Friday January 30, 2015 @02:12PM
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Well, the attention it generates and the amount of people fooled make it something that shouldn't be there. When people who do not know the e-cat is a fraud read this and get interested they could have spent their energy on something more useful.
Plus, nobody might have complained, but damage can be done without complaining.