Poor Journalism by Wired U.K. on Rossi Story

On Nov. 6, David Hambling and Nate Lanxon of Wired.co.uk published a story on Andrea Rossi and his claim of an “energy catalyzer.”

They wrote that Rossi made his first sale of his device as a result of his Oct. 28 demonstration.

I posted the following comment to the article:

Rossi’s first customer was Ampenergo. See Lewan article May 16. Ampenergo did not take the opportunity to lock in the North American rights to Rossi’s technology. According to Ampenergo, they couldn’t find enough money.

Rossi’s second potential customer was Defkalion. They too, despite their overflowing enthusiasm, failed to make their first scheduled payment to Rossi on Aug. 1.

Rossi’s third potential customer was John Preston of Quantum Energy Technologies. After his team went to Bologna and attempted to perform due diligence on Sept. 5 and 6, they walked away. A month later, Rossi said that he cancelled the deal because he didn’t like the terms of their contract, despite the fact that Rossi had established the contract with Quantum before letting them walk in the door.

Rossi met with a fourth potential customer on Sept. 8. The engineer for this fourth potential customer contacted the engineers who worked with the third potential customer to exchange notes. They, in turn, contacted me and requested anonymity because they had signed an NDA with Rossi.

And finally, on Oct. 28, according to Rossi, he finally performed sufficient due diligence to convince his “first” customer to pay him for his device. Only there is nothing but Rossi’s word that such a transaction occurred or that there is even a customer.

But according to Wired, which based its story on Fox News, which based its story on Sterling Allan, which based his story on Rossi’s statement, the customer is real and is the US Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR).

All because one scientist from the Navy SPAWAR laboratory went to see for himself if there was any merit to Rossi’s claims and that Rossi says the customer’s name begins with an “N.” Wow.

And what does the SPAWAR scientist have to say? Nothing.

And what does Peter Svensson, the AP reporter who went to check out Rossi’s claims for himself say? Nothing.

And remember what NASA spokesmen had to say about its relationship with Rossi on Sept. 29 and Oct. 4. Nothing.

Obviously NASA, the Navy and AP are conspiring to suppress the reality of Rossi’s extraordinary device.

Steven B. Krivit
Editor, New Energy Times
Editor in Chief, Wiley Nuclear Energy Encyclopedia

[Postscript Nov. 9: Hambling writes: “This is normally the point at which a con artist starts issuing shares, asking for capital, or taking ‘deposits’ from gullible consumers. Anything to grab some cash from those willing to offer it. Instead, Rossi is apparently only taking orders from large customers who will be checking the devices work before they take delivery. These are people with good lawyers to write contracts and deal with any complications. ”

According to Hambling, Rossi is not a con artist because Rossi is asking large customers rather than small customers for money. Note that on March 16, 2011, Defkalion was “investing €200 million” in Rossi’s “technology.” And on July 6, 2011, Defkalion offered Rossi’s “technology” for sale at a price of 40.5 million Euro per factory.

Defkalion failed to make its first payment on Aug. 1, 2011. Rossi terminated his relationship with Defkalion on Aug. 7, 2011.]