Rossi on Skepticism

New Energy Times editor, Steven Krivit has reported further on his recent visit to Bologna to see Andrea Rossi and the E-Cat.  Krivit has received quite a bit of attention since he published a video of the E-Cat in operation. There has been a lot of analysis of the amount of steam and water coming out of the E-Cat, with some observers concluding that there is not nearly as much energy being created by the E-Cat as Rossi has claimed.

Rossi himself has responded to Krivit’s reports on numerous occasions, and has been less that flattering in his assessment of Krivit’s analysis.

According to Krivit, a third report will be published soon on New Energy Times which will include interviews with third party scientists who have looked at Krivit’s video. Apparently this new analysis will conclude that Rossi’s technology produces much less excess heat than Rossi claims, and perhaps none at all.

Perhaps with this development in mind, Andrea Rossi recently wrote an unusually long post at his site in response to a comment about skeptics and skepticism of his claims:

I agree with your attitude. By the way: my only real problem is to manufacture plants which satisfy the needs of my Customers. Skepticism is not my business. Nor is my business if a person is convinced or not, so far he is not a Customer.
Your comment is very smart also on another point: I cannot lose my very limited time to answer or to convince the so called “skeptics”, because whatever I answer they will always have new objections: I saw that Skeptics are divided in the following categories:
1- honest skeptics (like you): they do not need to be convinced by chatters, they are like you, they wait for a 1 MW plant in operation, and after that to the thousands of 1 MW plant in operation which will follow up
2- Competitors: they want to know how my toy works: they will never accept an explication unless they are put in condition to copy my tech: with them my time should be totally lost, or negatively (for me) employed;
3- Lobbysts against my tech and “journalists” paid by competitors or lobbysts : whatever I will say, they will shoot. Ignoring them. their shoots will make the effect of tennis balls against a tank
4- Imbeciles: an army of persons that have nothing to do and play the scientists, without even understanding what they are talking about; to talk with them is a pure loss of time
The categories 2 and 3 are the most vociferous in asking new public tests in “indipendent” labs, wherein “indipendent” means a lab in competition with us and in contact with them…one among the most called for is also the one that has organized a campaign against me, to try to discredit my work, buying a “journalist”. Never mind: just other tennis balls against my tank: the 1 MW plant that I will put in operation in October and that will be the first of a long sery. My plants will talk for me: FACTS, AGAINST CHATTERS. Let them chatter, we will see. And I am sure you will be glad to know that from our analysis we understood that in the Skeptics universe most of People thinks like you. The competitors, lobbysts, corrupt journalists, imbeciles battalion is made of a small number of persons that to try to appear more persons than they are invent a lot of fake names. Our informatics have found one imbecile who has coined for himself 11 different names and email addresses…basically, is a small and not significant self- referencing community. If my plants will work well for my Customers, they will be the last of my problems. If my plants will not satisfy my Customers, they will be the last of my problems. Definitely, in any case they will be the last of my problems, so there is no reason for me to lose my time to repeat thousands of time the same things. I am putting my life on this stake, I have bertter to do than to listen these guys.
After this analysis, it is clear why I have chosen to employ my time only to work as hard as possible. While the imbeciles chatter, you have not idea of the difficulties I have to overcome every day.

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Clearly, Rossi has confidence in his products, and does not want to get involved in sparring with those who are skeptical of his invention. His main concern it seems is to make the best use of his time. The last week of October is only twelve weeks away and in his mind it is necessary to work continuously to get ready for the public unveiling of his first invention and then the creation of “thousands” more.