Eegore, you want a scientific test of his secret formula and his secret control system, with him not providing anything but the his secret powder mix and any other secret proprietary materials that are needed?
Can you see why that will NEVER happen in this life? The system (whole system acting together) is what makes up Rossi's functional trick. It took mainstream science 20 years to admit they couldn't even follow the detailed instructions to do a simple Pons and Fleischman electrolysis rig up without leaving out key steps because they were all real physicists and "a lot smarter than the chemist inventors"
and of course a real physicist already knew it couldn't work.
Rossi has patents granted, but he understands that total secrecy is the only protection his life's work really has because his patents aren't worth the paper they are written on when the $$$$ amounts on the table are in the trillions of trillions of dollars.
The man told us 3 years ago that Lugano was the last "scientific test" he was ever going to do and that he was going for full commercialization as proof it all works. Rossi actually gave several little reactors
to people he trusted to follow his excitation protocols and they RAN the things at home for a year under non-disclosure terms that they held themselves to completely as per the agreement.
They then cracked the ceramic tubes open and analysed the consumed powder for transformations and found lots of transformed metallic elements in the wiring, transformed ceramic from the tube and used up fuel powder that was melted into a ceramic slag that included all sorts of bits of heavier stuff. They could only say that much because Rossi actually told folks what they had told him about it, and then the Lugano guys chimed in with confirmations at that point. At the time, Rossi was working on E-Cat X, two generations past that Lugano level of LENR and Rossi didn't care if the Lugano folks told what they knew, it wasn't anywhere near to his current systems, current plasma based methods, etc.
You need to look towards Bob Greenier and the basement testbed boys who are selling test rigs and foamed ceramic blocks so you can roll your very own simple COP of 3 LENR reactor.
Rossi is moving right along with commercialization of a system that can output of 50+ kilowatts of heat output per reactor at a COP of well over 50, with Rossi and his distributors agreeing with the Wright Brothers that the only real way to convince most folks that airplanes can fly is to take them to an airport and buckle them into a seat belt and take them up for a spin. You don't waste the time teaching them how to build an varnished canvas airfoil or how to design a wooden propeller that will hold together while spinning fast.