One of the bodies funding the HotCat report – the Swedish Energy Research Organization, Elforsk – has issued a statement on its website, lending their name in a direct way to its credibility.

With a day to consider yesterday’s HotCat report , the following is an update on my thoughts: There are too many unknowns to be answered but the initial positive impression has survived a close reading of the paper.

Dick Smith, the Australian entrepreneur and a doyen of the Aussie Skeptics’ Scociety, recently offered $1m to anyone who could prove they had a LENR device capable of producing an output of 1kW or over.

It is well known within LENR circles that Australian Entrepreneur, Dick Smith, is scathing of Andrea Rossi’s eCat claims.

Defkalion GT has posted a reply to Dick Smith on their forum The gist of it is that they will do nothing until he makes it official.

The following post is Dick Smith’s.

Andrea Rossi’s final shout on Dick Smith and competitors is revealing.

Update at end of post.

As though orchestrated by Rossi himself, the volume of reasonable and unreasonable criticism of his claims has intensified recently.

On one level, the confusion surrounding the University of Bologna’s eCat research is a small detail that no one should sweat over but an eCat in the hands of respected academics would send a strong signal to those outide the circle of priviledge surrounding the inventor.