I propose making the moderator's job easier by moving this discussion to Open Topic Discussion, because clearly it is not about energy tech, and keeping it focused on energy tech is a lost cause. No one here, not even Rune, is talking about actual energy technology. This quote sums it up:
Rune wrote:Those 50 people here at PO.com including you and me can thoroughly believe that the Rossi E-Cat and the Defkalion Hyperion are both outrageous alternative energy scams and the LENR would STILL be fascinating to follow!
But it wouldn't - not unless we find pop culture subjects fascinating. And certainly not from the perspective of energy technology, which is what we're here for. If it's a scam, then discussion of it has no place in the Energy Technology forum or in any loosely 'peak oil' related forums. The fact that it keeps coming up in the Energy Technology forum means that the initiator of these posts (Rune) thinks it's energy tech. However, the fact that he hardly ever talks about actual scientific breakthroughs gives us a big clue that this is a pop culture story, not an energy story.
If it's merely a scam (and all the evidence points that way), then it belongs in Open Topics Discussion. Discussion here at Energy Tech should be limited to ACTUAL progress made, in the form of clear benchmarks being set and met, objectives being reached and scientific breakthroughs being made. So far, this discussion has amounted to little more than Rune saying that it's an ongoing story because lots of people are interested in it, and Rune's opponents telling him it's a scam. It may indeed be an ongoing story, but it's not an energy technology story until some actual advances in energy technology are made. Until then, this topic belongs in the same sub-forum in which people discuss the Kardashians.
I suggest that the Energy Technology forum is no more a place for this kind of discussion of the ECAT than it is for discussion of Uri Geller's spoon-bending shenanigans or the Amazing Kreskin. It is merely a pseudo-science version of articles about Game of Thrones, Brangelina or Naked and Afraid.