During the past year these two competitors have emerged, my hunch is they are each licensees of NASA LENR technology.

Planetary Resources – The Asteroid Mining Company
http://www.planetaryresources.com/

Planetary Resources is establishing a new paradigm for resource discovery and utilization that will bring the solar system into humanity’s sphere of influence.

Deep Space Industries Inc.
http://deepspaceindustries.com/mission/

Mission: It is time to begin the harvest of space.
The Earth is but a tiny and precious world floating in a sea of natural resources. The riches of the solar system offer humanity both unprecedented prosperity and an improved environment. The resource potential of space outstrips that of any previous frontier – without the environmental impacts.
Asteroids are plentiful throughout the solar system. Many orbit close to the Earth and many of these carry vast deposits of resources ranging from water to metals such as iron, gold and platinum – everything we need to expand our civilization into space, to provide for our needs here at home and to increase the wealth of our planetary economy.

I, for one, would be happy to run my house on an LENR heater. I’d be happy to sign a release document if I could get my hands on one.

“The greatest challenge to finding a cure for cancer right now may be what he describes as “the inherently conservative nature of today’s cancer research establishments. And unless this changes, “curing cancer will always be 10 or 20 years away.” – James Watson, co-discover of the double-helix structure of DNA.

When a science-bending technology pops up, the question of whether the x-ray foreshadows a similar “unknown” just ends up being asked.

We use a lot of things more dangerous, especially if used with stupidity. During the recent fuel crisis in the UK, a woman was taken to hospital with severe burns after transferring petrol from one can to another in her kitchen next to a lit stove. She should get the Darwin award, but it was a near-miss instead. My chainsaws have UL certificates as well as TüV ones, and they are really pretty scary if misused – fire hazard, maiming hazard and if you use the wrong fuel could explode. Plus a tree might drop on you….

Overall, either Rossi’s or Defkalion’s heaters should be safer than the alternatives – no chance of CO poisoning, for a start. Bring it on!

A hint for monkeys – to get the cookie don’t use the whole hand to grab, but a couple of fingers to tweeze it out. I’m not sure if that applies to Rossi, though.

Knowing something is possible (whether justified knowledge or not) leads to directed research to make it work better. Probably why Rossi has done as much as possible to appear to not have anything at all – it makes competition less likely. So what I think Defkalion got was “this sometimes works” and they have put a lot of work into trying to get to “this always works”. I think they’ve succeeded.

At the time they reportedly got that data, they were very much linked in to Rossi and were AFAIK going to be backing him to get it developed. Details of this are not clear and are most likely contested, but that’s what I gather. As such they had a right to that information, as part of due diligence in setting up a business deal. Again that could be and probably is contested, but if they had continued to work together that knowledge would have benefited them all (and us). Once you know something, though, you can’t un-know it if the business deals fall through.

We could argue a while on believability and end up nowhere. Hopefully one of them will get a product to UL or equivalent and my bet at the moment is that Defkalion have a better chance of doing that first.