Rossi’s Mystery Customer Performs Disappearing Act, Twice

On Nov. 2, John Brandon published a story on Andrea Rossi and his claim of an “energy catalyzer” on Fox News.

Brandon speculated, based on what he read on Sterling Allan’s free energy blog, that U.S. Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center San Diego was Rossi’s mysterious customer and that they measured and verified Rossi’s test.

On Nov. 9, I asked James Fallin, the director of public affairs at SPAWAR San Diego, “is there any truth to the suggestion published on Fox News that SPAWAR is, or is considering purchasing any device from Andrea Rossi?”

“No truth at all,” Fallin wrote.

On Nov. 11, Mark Gibbs, writing for Forbes.com, wrote that Craig Brown, who operates the Free Energy Truth Web site, claimed that Rossi’s “first” customer was Austin, Texas, based National Instruments Corp.

Gibbs checked with National Instruments. According to John Pasquarette, Vice President of Corporate Marketing and eBusiness, National Instruments did not purchase a 1 MW cold fusion plant from Rossi.

Sander Olson, a writer for Next Big Future, contacted me yesterday about the SPAWAR rumor.

“After having read your articles on E-CAT and receiving independent confirmation from SPAWAR that they are not taking possession of any device from Rossi,” Olson wrote, “I have decided that he is almost certainly a fraud and [I] will not pursue an interview. I always suspected that he was a fraud and I now find the evidence overwhelming. Thank you for providing assistance in this matter.”

Nevertheless, Brian Wang, the owner of the Next Big Future Web site, published a story today promoting Rossi’s alleged technology.

“Leonardo Corporation is offering one megawatt E-Cat plants for sale, that are capable of producing hot water, or low temperature steam,” Wang wrote.

[Added: 17:04h. Source: Next Big Future. Author: Brian Wang. “I will continue to report on this even if it is a fraud, because it is still news that there is large scale technical fraud. So if it is true it is news and if it is fake it is news. You are free to ignore the posts. I agree that there is plenty of weird things going on with Rossi. I find the other [people] who are working in the field to be far more credible, but Rossi is out front and has the biggest news making activity. It is a circus high wire act without a net. It is news when they are on the high wire and it will be news when or if they fall off.”]