[DanBC]

> Many skeptics were left unconvinced. But the customer that the E-Cat was being tested for—which Wired UK says was rumored to be the US military's DARPA—was satisfied, and purchased the unit.

This doesn't mean that DARPA is not a sceptic. It means the unit has passed the simplest test of "not a cardboard box covered in tin foil with a guy going 'Beep Boop' next to it". Now DARPA can buy a single unit and tear it apart to see if there's anything interesting there.

A £1m gamble on interesting is not much for military budgets. I don't think I'd have spent the money - it feels like a scam or a sad delusion - but maybe there's some interesting chemistry even if cold fusion isn't there.

[crusso]

If I were a military organization, I'd pay for the device in an escrow account with funds to be released upon validation that the device worked properly.

[mbq]

Even if DARPA knows that E-cat is bullshit, an act of buying an unit is an easy deception possibly diluting nuclear research resources of certain countries.