CERN comes out of the closet now .....
http://www.e-catworld.com/2015/09/03/cern-to-host-seminar-on-the-anomalous-he...I think China honors what China wants to honor, and if Industrial Heat has good relations with the Chinese government and IH only lets them hold the least of the applications (to see what they actually do with it) then
getting your first consumer stuff mass produced as cheaply and as quickly as possible means a lot to an exploding technology like this.
First to Market means brand name recognition, perceived leadership, greater patent enforce-ability, etc. etc. etc.
For example, an inexpensive home room heater would be a wonderful introduction to Industrial Heat's LENR technology that could move quickly into adoption around the world. Let it go into production in China and be sold in China to the Chinese first, then let the US UL drag its feet as it is going to do anyway.
Individual Americans and the rest of the world will order through the internet direct from China, as they do now with electronics.
And this stuff is really popping now, we have 3 new players just today. And 2 new methods to throw into the pot.
Since the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has said "no radiation, not our bailiwick" then UL is the only needed certification. America's UL recognizes China's UL equivalent and will honor an equivalent industrial safety certification from another country as well.
Nobody else has applied for certification nor have begun their certification runs, so Rossi is a solid six months to a year ahead of everybody else.
And yes, China or India or Indochina could expedite this entire certification mess if they wanted to.
But I think they would be wise to wait until the current hot cat cores have been run through their entire life cycle to see if
at the very end, when power starts to go down that is when the most complex, heaviest element reactions are going on -- they need to verify that no radiation is produced during those end of life reactor death cycles. That the actual production hot cat cores really do "end of life" safely.
This may take a while, since no core has been run to end of life yet (they last too long).
Indeed, they have been superseded by a better hot cat technology generation twice now before they could even be run to end of life.
("overcome by events" for like two generations worth of E-Cats at this point ......)
So, whatever the Chinese might rip off now would likely be over the dam technologically within a year or so anyway.
Is the risk worth getting to the market first and establishing yourself as the market leader? Perhaps ......
Rossi has alluded in the past to getting there first in a big way, generating great LARGE economies of scale and by doing so and by selling it cheap to actively discourage the "copycats".
This would work as folks like Brillouin who say they need $20,000,000 to do a pilot plant would simply get cut off at the knees.
Folks whose stuff has most of a year left in development and a year in certification testing would be left at the gate by this strategy.Chinese government scientists already HAVE patents granted to them by the Chinese system, but they can't show a working product at this stage of things.