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The specifics of Rossi's contraptions may be kept private and shady, but the process involved is not something that only Rossi has been working on.

In sociology, old examples would be James Coleman, Pete Rossi (professors of my wife when she got her Ph.

This does not require any access to internals, and could even be done on the sly without alerting rossi.

And this Rossi guy has been trying to get people to pay attention to him for like the past 10 years.

Andrea Rossi (a convicted fraudster) got VC money for the E-Cat cold fusion scam.

Personally I think if there's a scam it may be that Rossi overstates how stable or viable his technology is.

The book by Peter Rossi et al that is referenced in this post is a good start if you want the Bayesian approach to shrinkage.

Edit: Since it's topical, I enjoy listening to Chuck Rossi in interviews or presentations.

You have to have nickel powder with the right properties- as Rossi has his own, one would have to fumble in darkness so the best approach is to just stick to something proven.

I'm curious about your reasoning why it shouldn't work - I haven't had a deep look into the claims of Rossi but I understand why it's unlikely to be a nuclear reaction.

Even if Rossi did some screwy stuff, it cannot explain the 1.5 MWh gain for more than 32 days - the only thing that could explain this, assuming it indeed is a con, is unreliable heat measurement.

"Even if Rossi did some screwy stuff, it cannot explain the 1.5 MWh gain for more than 32 days" Sure, he could have literally hacked the instruments.

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!!!"

"The total net energy obtained during the 32 days run was about 1.5 MWh" If Rossi has found a way to hide that much energy in his rod and/or materials, then let's just go with that and skip researching all the fusion stuff.

However, the "independent report" mentioned in the article basically tested this thing as a black box for more than a month; Rossi was present at the start and at the end, but not during the test, and all the equipment and so on was not his but procured independently.

This experiment can easily be done even with Rossi's black box setup, and, as a blinded experiment if desired.

Also Rossi's Architecture of the City and Habracken's Structure of the Ordinary are another two of my favorites in somewhat similar [to me] conceptual spaces.

You're probably referring to the Energy Catalyzer, by Andrea Rossi.