Is NASA Trying to Capture Some of the Glory?

It seems that NASA is attempting to dodge the public backlash that is going to hit them right after the masses become aware of the Rossi-Focardi Effect.

In other words...
"We could have had this technology 20 years ago!! What the hell have you guys been doing all this time?!? Some little guy in Italy working in his back-room developed it first!!"

NASA has posted this video to the NASA Technology Gateway.

In it, senior scientist, Joseph Zawodny describes the "Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" that may be possible from the Ni and H fusion (LENR) technology.
This is just about ready to spring forth with Rossi announcing the planned sales of his E-Cats.
Initially planning to manufacture and sell over one-million units the first year, at $50 per kW .*
Not to mention his already built and delivered 1 MW plants. 13 at last count.

It may be further evidence that something remarkable is about to happen. And NASA doesn't want to look like they're totally in the dark.

Can you blame them?

One of the greatest governmental agencies, a technological juggernaut, may just have been caught with their pants down with this one. Rossi’s invention may have totally blindsided them. And now, they are trying to do a little "spin recovery" by trying to capture some of the glory of the explosive implications that this technology will bring.

*  Rossi's quote from his JONP site 
"The big science, after trying to ridiculize us, now has understood that the E-Cat works, so now they are trying to copy and make patents to overcome us, discourage us and trying with this sophysticated way to stop us under a disguise of an indirect vindication. Is a smart move, but they are underevaluating us. I will never stop, within one year we will start the delivery of million pieces at 50 $/kW, with a totally new concept, at that point the game will be over. This technology must be popular, must cost a very low price, must be a real revoluton, not a bunch of theoretical (wrong) chatters."

Commentary

So much has been written of the Energy Catalyser of late that it’s becoming harder to discern any real credible and noteworthy news - to separate the wheat from the chaff, so to speak.

I’ve withheld any recent posts to this modest blog as I feel it is somewhat irresponsible to continue to espouse on some E-Cat related news reports that may only be hyperbole.

So instead, I’ve been reading through other’s blogs looking for any items which I may have not been aware of.

One which I’ve just happened to begin reading again was Steven Krivit’s New Energy Times Blog.

The only reason that I happened on it was reading my web logs and noticing considerable traffic being referred from this site.

I noticed that he had a recent post which claims that the multitude of Rossi, E-Cat, LENR pages that recently surfaced is due to a form of “tribalization”.

My blog was listed along with many other blogs supportive to Andrea Rossi and the potential of his invention had been posted under the tagline of “The E-Cat Tribe”.

According to a quotation in his post from Ugo Bardi of the University of Florence, it would appear that if something spurs a flurry of great interest within cyberspace it becomes a “virtual tribe”. Basically, all just repeating the same thing others have recently reported. Funny, I thought thats how the Internet worked and things of interest whether relevant and topical,  or not,  goes “viral”.

I imagine that it annoys the likes of someone so predisposed to a ridged scientific approach to any unfounded claims of a means of revolutionary energy production.

Regardless, I thank Mr. Krivit for his generosity, unintentional as it probably was.

Rossi Expects Certification in 9 Months - No Competion Expected

Andrea Rossi mentions in the Journal of Nuclear Physics that he expects to have compliance certification by next Fall.
Just what government body is going to authorize this "certification" is unknown.
From deducing his comment, it appears that when he says ..."are in course" he is saying that the certification process has started.

Rossi also has indicated that he expects to sell well over one million units, initially. And that he also expects them to be priced so that any competing products from other manufactures would be essentially eliminated.

• Andrea Rossi

  December 27th, 2011 at 3:05 PM

  Dear Pachu:
  I am telling that we are working 16 hours per day to reach the target to make 1 million E-Cats to put the price so down to make it at disposal of everybody and to make useless the reverse engineering. We have to make this, I think we will make this:
  Yes, w E-cat!
  Warm Regards,
  A.R.
• Pachu

  December 27th, 2011 at 11:27 AM

  Mr. Rossi:
  Are you really telling that you can make 1 million e-cats in a year (2740 per day)?
• Andrea Rossi

  December 27th, 2011 at 9:26 AM

  Dear Craig:
  To give the name of a Customer of ours means that within 1 day he will receive hundreds of mails, phone calls, letters, most of them from snakes, creating a lss of time. To avoid all this meaningless noise, we will give the reference only in due time. For now t is premature.
  The sale of our E-Cats will not depend on tis factor, believe me. We will put for sale 1 million E-Cats at price lower than normal heating systems.
  Warm Regards,
  A.R.