Possible replication of excess-heat production in LENR-system

There has been an e-mail circulating in the blogosphere recent days, that indicates that there has been a successful attempt to replicate an excess heat-production in a LENR system.
It was first posted here , Mon, 30 May 

"From: Brian Ahern, Boxborough MA
Re: Zr-Ni-Cu alloy performance

Ames National Laboratory processed metal alloy foils via arc melting
followed by melt spinning. This is the Yamaura process employed by Arata
and others. The foils were baked in ordinary air at 445C for 28 hours.

The brittle, oxidized foils were placed in a tumble mill for 24 hours.

This resulted in 30 grams of black powder with a median grain size of about
40 microns.Presumably, each grain has about one million nanoscale islands of
NiCu inside.

The 30 grams occupies about 7 ml inside the 50 ml dewar. The system was
vacuum baked at 220C for 24 hours and cooled to room temperature.

H2 gas was added at 200psi. The pressure dropped only to about 185 psi over
twenty minutes. In these replication experiments the exothermic reactions
have had peak temperatures above 220C with substantial loading above 3.0 H/M
ratios. This time the temperature only rose by 2 degrees C.

The system was heated with a band heater to high temperature. There was no
controller. A rheostat was set at an arbitrary position and the system comes
to a an arbitrary temperature.The average power input was 90 watts.

After several hours the hydrated system was evacuated overnight at a
constant high temperature at 530C. The next day H2 gas was again added at
100psi and the temperature rose by 40C to 570C and came back down to 530C
after two hours. At the end of the day the dewar was again evacuated while
still at 530C overnight.

The third day repeated the same procedure. H2 gas was added at 100psi and
the temperature rose by 44C to 574C. However, this time it did not come back
to the initial temperature. It remained at the elevated temperature
overnight.

On the fourth day H2 gas was again added at 100psi and the system rose by
50C to 580C and again stayed at the elevated temperature indefinitely.

A rough calibration suggests that the 30 grams of hydrated nanopowder is
putting out 5 watts of excess power.

Yesterday Peter Gluck suggested that the relationship between loading and
excess power may be a myth. This seemed to be true for electrolysis with Pd
and heavy water where loading levels exceeding 0.9 D/M were a prerequisite
for observing excess power.

My loading level with this nanopowder sample as less than 0.1 H/M.

This 5 watt excess is very much less than Rossi, but it is a real and
repeatable experiment There was no radiation above the background level.

Other alloys from Ames NL are expected within ten days"

The author of the e-mail is Brian Ahern
He has been involved in LENR-experiments with the company Vibronic Energy technologies Corp. 


Andrea Rossi comments the e-mail as follows on his blog

"Andrea Rossi

June 2nd, 2011 at 8:11 AM

Dear Mr Paul Esteban,
I never comment the work of my competitors.
When they will produce kWh?h we will compete on the market. Before or later it will happen.
Warm Regards,
A.R."

NASA’s Bushnell: LENR Most Promising Energy Alternative, and It’s Not Fusion

Source: EV World
EV World Podcast
Broadcast Date:
Interview of: Dennis Bushnell, Chief Scientist of NASA Langley
Host: J. William Moore
Transcribed by: Steven B. Krivit

[Partial Transcript of Podcast, Excerpts on Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions]

[This transcript is Copyleft 2011 New Energy Times. Permission is granted to reproduce this text as long as the text, this notice and the publication information are included in their entirety and no changes are made to this text.]

"J. William Moore: I’d like to [look at] some of the [energy alternatives] that you think look most promising from your perspective.

Dennis Bushnell: The most interesting, and promising, at this point, in the farther term, but maybe not so far, is low-energy nuclear reactions. This has come out of [22] years of people producing energy but not knowing what it is — and we think we have a theory on it. It’s producing beta decay and heat without radiation. The research on this is very promising and it alone, if it comes to pass, would literally solve both [the] climate and energy [problems.]

MOORE: I find it extremely exciting that there might be something here, so what is it that you think is going on at the atomic level here?

BUSHNELL: Let me back up a little. [Stanley] Pons and [Martin] Fleischmann came out with an experiment that they labeled “cold fusion” about 22 years ago which had replication issues at the time. Also, all of the fusion theorists came out and said absolutely “This is not fusion.” And, of course, they were exactly correct, this is not fusion.

They’ve gone through 20 years of massive experimentation worldwide, in almost every country, where they’ve been able to produce this effect. But all of the energy produced by these “cold fusion” experiments over the last 22 years didn’t produce enough heat to boil water for tea. So people didn’t get too interested in it and nobody knew what it was.

Back in 2005, 2006, [Allen] Widom [and Lewis] Larsen came out with a theory that said, no it’s not “cold fusion,” it’s weak interactions using the Standard Model of quantum mechanics, only the weak interaction part. It says that if you set up one of the cells, and you don’t have to use deuterium, hydrogen works fine, nickel works fine and you don’t need palladium.

If you set this up you produce an electron – proton connection producing ultra-weak neutrons and if you have the right targets out there you produce beta-decay which produces heat.

At that point, in 2006, 2007 we became interested and started setting up a set of experiments that we’re just about ready to start finally, where we’re trying to experimentally validate this Widom-Larsen theory to find out whether or not it explains what’s going on. And in the process, we used quantum theory to optimize the particular surface morphologies to do this.

Then, as you mentioned, in January of this year [Andrea] Rossi, backed by [Sergio] Focardi, who had been working on this for many years, and in fact doing some of the best work worldwide, came out and did a demonstration first in January, they re-did it in February, re-did it in March, where for days they had one of these cells, a small cell, producing in the 10 to 15 kW range which is far more than enough to boil water for tea. And they say this is weak interaction, it’s not fusion.

So I think were almost over the “We don’t understanding it” problem. I think we’re almost over the “This doesn’t produce anything useful” problem. And so I think this will go forward fairly rapidly now. And if it does, this is capable of, by itself, completely changing geo-economics, geopolitics of solving quite a bit of [the] energy [problem.]

MOORE: I think this was either last week or the week before last, I ran a story on this. I went and took a look at it – they were using hydrogen and nickel, I believe, using hydrogen gas and putting that into this device. In looking at the video and photographs, it looks to be about the size of a fist and that thing was running from about 10:45 in the morning till about 4:30 when they finally turned it off — and generating, I forget exactly what it was — but it was a significant amount of energy in the form of steam.

BUSHNELL: It produces heat and did so for days and was in the 12 or 14 kW range and they [will be] producing, with a large number of these devices, a 1 MW power plant.

MOORE: That’s a pretty exciting thing. Do you think that this theory that was developed — are these NASA scientists that were working on that theory?

BUSHNELL: No, the theory was developed by Widom and Larsen. Widom is a faculty member and teacher at Northeastern and Larsen has a company in Chicago.

MOORE: So that looks promising and so you can take and generate steam, and of course, that’s what a nuclear reactor or coal-fired power plant is all about. They’re just there to produce steam and turn a turbine and produce power.

BUSHNELL: Once you’ve got heat, you can do everything. We looked at using LENR to power a space-access rocket and it had better performance conceptually than a conventional nuclear thermal rocket.

MOORE: Wow! Exciting."


The full audio interview can be listened to here

Peter Ekström: "Kall fusion åter i hetluften"

The Swedish Physical Society unites Swedish physicists, physics teachers and other practitioners, supporters and friends of the physical sciences.
In their publication called Fysikaktuellt, there is an article by Peter Ekström about E-Cat. He summarize the tests of the E-Cat, and points out the way Andrea Rossi´s claims conflicts with common nuclear-science. Peter Ekström once again notice similarities with Randell Mills Blacklight Power.
You can read the short article at page 24-25 in this PDF (Swedish only, sorry)

Eso Watch "Focardi-Rossi Energy-Catalyzer"

"Q: Why EsoWatch?

A: The internet has room for many ideas. This is a good thing. But on the other hand, you can find a lot of outright bullshit there. We try to correct this a little."

Are you intrested in the E-Cat-story, but feel you're getting lost in the jungle of "free-magic-energy-truth-revolution" websites that seems to believe in anything but self-critisicm?
Eso-watch has compiled a good description of the tests done so far. You find it here.

Alan Fletcher: "How to Prove that the Rossi/Focardi eCAT LENR is Real"

As far as I am aware, Alan Fletcher has written the most comprehensive collecton of information regarding the tests of the E-Cat that is to be found on the net. It was updated May 16th.
You can find the quite massive blogpost here

Peter Ekström discuss the fuel analysis after meeting with Sven Kullander

On Swedish E-Cat-discussionforum  Peter Ekström has been one of the most active participants, and he has brought an interesting voice to the discussions with his critical thoughts and deep knowledge.
Today he wrote that he actually had a meeting with professor Sven Kullander the 18th of May, where they discussed the E-Cat.

The focus right now is on the used fuel that prof. Kullander got from Rossi, when they met earlier in Bologna. According to Rossi this fuel has been used in an E-Cat. Ekström writes that Kullander soon will present a detailed report, that describes the analysis and the results in depth.
According to Ekström, the data he was shown correlates with the results described earlier in Ny Teknik.
That means;
Unused fuel: 100% Ni
Used fuel: c:a 11% Fe, 10% Cu, the rest is Ni

Both Ekström and Kullander agrees that Andrea Rossi´s explanation of the process, where Ni is said to absorb protons probably is wrong.
According to Ekström, Uppsala University will not get an E-Cat for validation before the end of June.
The conditions to be met from Rossi is that the Uppsala lab will be free to perform whatever evaluations that they want to in their lab.
Ekström further mentions that Kullander has proposed an alternative explanation of the energyproduction, that not includes Ni. 

Hopefully Kullander soon will present this alternative theory, as Ekström doesn´t want to reveal anything more than the fact that it includes an reaction that could be classified as LENR (Low Energy Nuclear Reaction)

Peter Ekström is still highly critical of Andrea Rossi´s claims, though, and he is convinced that the E-Cat is a fraud.

You can find the post from Ekström here. (Swedish only)

Ny Teknik: E-Cat gets U.S. partner

Ny Teknik reports that Andrea Rossi has reached an agreement with a new company in the United States. The agreement builds on several years of contacts with people linked to the U.S. Department of Energy.

Read article in Ny Teknik here
Pure Energy Systems covers the story here

Kjell Aleklett:"The sun", Rossi’s ”energy catalyzer” and the “neutron barometer”

Kjell Aleklett writes in his blog about coldfusion and the E-Cat:
"My experience above leads me to point out once again that Rossi’s experiment must be reproduced by other independent researchers and that, ultimately, a physical explanation must exist."

Ny Teknik:Patent granted for the E-Cat

Swedish Ny Teknik reports that the E-Cat is now patented in Italy. The examination continues regarding protection in the rest of the world.
Read article in Ny Teknik here.
Read the patent here.

New Energy Times: NASA Working on LENR Replication and Theory Confirmation

Dr Dennis Bushnell, chief scientist at NASA’s Langley research center told New Energy Times today that NASA is attempting a low-energy nuclear reaction replication.
Bushnell wrote that, “we are trying to core down on the theory, as well as utilize it for system optimization. We are not trying to do a net energy demo at all, we are simply trying to make sure there is a valid theoretical understanding . . . We do not have enough details, by far, to even start to think of a replication of Rossi.”

Read blogpost here

Bye bye, for now!

There are now so many blogs and websites dedicated to discuss the E-Cat and Andrea Rossi. While it perhaps made sense to have a blog to collect links during the first weeks after the Bologna-demonstration, there are now others that do the similar thing better.

So I will for now stop putting up links here, and instead just follow the discussions on
http://www.e-catworld.com/

http://peswiki.com/index.php/Main_Page

http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/

http://newenergytimes.com/v2/sr/RossiECat/RossiECatPortal.shtml

http://www.freeenergytimes.com/

http://22passi.blogspot.com/

http://www.nyteknik.se/

Swedish discussion forum

http://www.energikatalysatorn.se/forum/

There will be much speculation going on about the E-Cat and Andrea Rossi, at least until October when the promised power-plant, and Defkalion Green Technologies is to be introduced to the market. Soon we all will see whether this really is a scam or a revolution! 

I really feel that I can´t wait.

On the one hand,  it seems highly unlikely that it is a scam. 
As said before, there are several prominent scientists who seem to trust that the device works and there seems to be no reason for all of them to risk their careers. 
The board registration of Defkalion seems to be real, although I don´t read Greek very well...or not at all, to be honest.

Andrea Rossi himself claims that he will "first deliver and then get paid. The customers are the only judge I need." He pays a his own money for the experiments that the university of Bologna will conduct. 

Before Mats Lewan decided to write about the E-Cat in Swedish Ny Teknik, he contacted the most trustworthy physicists in Sweden that he could think of regarding this issue, Hanno Essén and Sven Kullander.
He was really surprised that their response were curiously positive. After visiting Andrea Rossis lab, Sven Kullander and Hanno Essén remarkably claimed that "It is a nuclear reaction", going on. 
After visiting the Andrea Rossi lab, in purpose to execute more refined testing of the E-Cat, Mats Lewan came to the same conclusion.

Rossi has promised to bring the E-Cat to prominent Swedish universities for further tests. If it all turn out to be a well-conducted scam, he will have a hard time to come back, and it would seem as a highly stupid tactic to attract venture capitalists by using the kind of self-assured statements as he has done. 

I also regard a lot of criticism against his way of acting from the established science community, as a critique from a methodological point of view. But Andrea Rossi is no scientist, he is first and foremost an entrepreneur and a businessman, and acts and thinks as such.
The false claims of Fleischmann and Pons in 1989, also seems to have injected most of the science community with fear rather than curiosity about the possibilities of coldfusion. 

On the other hand, there is the majority of the science community that is dismissing the test results as impossible. And because Science has been my Religion since childhood days, I personally have a hard time to believe that the common Knowledge of nuclear physics-that has evolved during the past 100 years- would be that flawed and incomplete, as would be necessary in order to get the E-Cat sing.  But I also choose to listen to Nobelprize-winner Brian Josephson; "If scientists as a whole denounce an idea, this should not necessarily be taken as proof that the said idea is absurd; rather, one should examine carefully the alleged grounds for such opinions and judge how well these stand up to detailed scrutiny."

I really have a hard time to understand the whole thing. And perhaps that is why I look forward so much to follow the development of Andrea Rossi´s remarkable claims. There is so much I just don´t understand, and for me it is one of the most creative, enjoyable states to be in.

However (no matter how much I doubt this spectacle), until October, I will live in a hope that the dream of an almost infinite energy source finally is about to become true. And if it is, I hope that the inhabitants of Spaceship Earth are wise enough to handle that with care.  

/dl

New tests of the E-Cat performed by Ny Teknik!

Photo: Mats Lewan

Ny Teknik recently participated in two new tests of the Italian ‘energy catalyzer’, providing more accurate measurements to reduce possible error sources. The new tests with the energy catalyzer, which seems to generate heat by an unknown nuclear reaction, took place in Bologna on 19 and 28 April, 2011.
READ ARTICLE HERE

Andrea Rossi Energy Catalyzer The Story So Far Part 2

To report or not report?

The media coverage (outside Italy) of the E-CAT has  been mainly done by the blogosphere, and radio-stations with UFO:s as their logos. A few prominent scientists - Nobel Prize winner and believer in paranormal activities BRIAN JOSEPHSON  is among them - has strongly criticized the mainstream-media as being to narrow in their reporting, but as a whole the established science community has been highly skeptical about writing about new, sensational claims of coldfusion-research since the dubious claims of FLEISCHMANN AND PONS in 1989
One of the exceptions, this far, has been Swedish NY TEKNIK, one of Sweden’s leading news site covering technological development, with the reporter Mats Lewan as a driving force. As a consequence Ny Teknik in general and Mats in particular has been criticized for being to generous with exposure for the E-Cat and Andrea Rossi. 
As Wikipedia articles started to show up, it generated interesting discussions regarding the issue of  "Reporting or Not Reporting"
Brain Josephson is one of the contributors to THIS HIGHLY ENTERTAINING POST.
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Swedish E-Cat discussion-forum started

The Swedish magazine NY TEKNIK has been somehow over-flooded with comments on their articles about Andrea Rossi and his E-Cat, and therefore a new Swedish discussion-forum on this issue has started, with a better interface! Peter Ekström is already a member, and soon hopefully many more! Get involved, Swedes! 
You find it HERE

60-Minutes Piece on Cold Fusion

This video is not about Andrea Rossi or the E-Cat technology, but it is from a 60 MINUTES coverage on coldfusion in general. It includes an fascinating interview with ROB DUNCAN, where he seems positive after a visit to an Israeli lab that reported positive results in their coldfusion research. "I found that the work done, was carefully done. And that the excess heat, as I see it now, is quite real!"
It seems though that Duncan is in a similar position as Hanno Essén and Sven Kullander, in that sense that they are all merely observers to an experiment conducted by others, with limited possibility to control the measurement-tools used.

Andrea Rossi: "No E-Cat test at Uppsala and Stockholm, before start-up of power-plant in October"

Last weeks PROMISING MESSAGE, that Rossi would bring the E-Cat technology for further tests to two Swedish universities got a lot attention.Several questions about this issue on his blog has been responded with a bit cloudy answers from Rossi. According to Rossi, it seems that this evaluation will not take place before late October, or November, after the announced start-up of the promised power plant.

Excerpts from JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR SCIENCE:

"Jed Rothwell asked

I have heard that the tests at Uppsala and Stockolm Universities will begin this week. Is that so? That’s great!

Andrea Rossi replied
Dear Jed Rothwell:
Not true, before the start up of my 1 MW plant I will have time for nothing.
Warm Regards,
A.R.


V. Godbole asked
Respected Andrea
What I sugest is that as you produce your basic 10 kW modules you have to test each one of them individually before joining them into the larger 1 MW device. Let open-minded experts (physicists, nuclear and power engineers) in small new groups watch those factory-internal tests and ask questions – often new questions and doubts and also valuable feedbacks turn up. This will help clarify and pacify the situation even before October 2011, which is still very far away.
I know that you must be working very hard – but with some good organizational help it should be efficiently possible.


Andrea Rossi replied
Dear Mr Godbole:
I assure you that we are able to do our work. We do not need “experts” that come to teach us to do our profession. Most likely they would come to make industrial espionage. We have certified experts that make the safety tests and the suggestion to test every module is obvious. Thank you anyway for your attention,
Warm regards,
A.R."


It looks like we’ll all be wondering until October or November.

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A Brief Interview with Andrea Rossi, Inventor of the E-cat Energy Catalyzer

Here is the previously posted interview with Andrea Rossi, now in its full length (although still "brief") on YouTube

Rossi brings E-Cat to Stockholm Royal Institute of Technology

As earlier mentioned, Andrea Rossi has shown little interest to reach validation from the established scientific community, and repeated his mantra "The market is the only judge we need. If the E-Cat works, customers will pay us, if not, they will not pay us".
However; today he explained in his BLOG that he will bring the E-Cat to two prominent Swedish Universities, UPPSALA UNIVERSITY and THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY in Stockholm,  as a result of the EARLIER DEMONSTRATION with participation from SVEN KULLANDER and HANNO ESSÈN


Rossi: "We will give to the University of Uppsala and to the University of Stockholm our devices to allow them to use the same devices 24 hours per day, to get data regarding the energy production. We trust them, and we know they are really neutral, without binds with competitors of any kind. I personally know them and I have in them total trust."
("them" refers to Sven and Hanno.)


My feelings right now could be summarized in a few words; 
"My gosh! This is real!"

Sergio Focardi - "The father of Ni-H Coldfusion"

Sergio Focardi

""Now, the public’s reaction is not all that positive. That time, many of the public were professors from this Institute [the Faculty of Physical, Mathematical and Natural Sciences of the University of Bologna], and they’re also bit envious. You see, these phenomena don’t exist for official Physics — of which I myself am part of, though I have a different idea, I know these phenomena. But take theoretical physicists, especially: Physics states that these things don’t exist, are not possible, may not be, because they occur inside stars — which is true — and we do not have stellar temperatures. What we do have, however, is experimental data: energy gets produced!"

An english translation of the INTERVIEW with Sergio Focardi that was broadcasted the 5th of April can be found HERE

LLM:"Newest Cold Fusion Machine Does the Impossible ... Or Does it?"

"A new physical effect
-Basically, there's a new physical effect that I think was found in the lab more than 20 years ago by Fleischmann and Pons [University of Utah electrochemists who were later derided for their work on cold fusion], said Peter Hagelstein, an MIT professor of electrical engineering and computer science and one of the most mainstream proponents of cold fusion research. -It was not accepted by the scientific community. It's been laughed at and criticized. However, over the years the effect has continued to be seen. 

-In a nutshell, it seems that [in cold fusion] there's a new kind of process involved in nuclei reactions, Hagelstein told Life's Little Mysteries. "The essential difference is that in conventional nuclear physics, when nuclear energy is released, it comes out as nuclear radiation. In this process, when you make energy you don't get radiation at all, implying there's a new physical mechanism at work."
 "If some arrangement could be made we would love to do a test of the E-Cat at MIT to verify that it works."

CONTINUE TO BLOGPOST AT LLM


Here is Andrea Rossi´s own COMMENTS about the interest to verify the function of E-Cat

"Andrea Rossi

April 15th, 2011 at 9:31 PM

Dear Mr Frank:
I receive every day requests from all the world of Universities, Associations, Laboratories from any Country, of any kind which want to make an “indipendent” test to offer us the only possible real validation of the technology. Should I accept, 24 hours per day, 365days per year would not be enough to be so much validated. I respect all the wannavalidate of the Planet, but I want to remember that:
1- In October we will start deliver to our Customers our plants, so that the validation will be made by the Customers: they will use our plants 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. That is the sole real validation that counts for us, also because if the plants work, Customers will pay us, if not, they will not pay us. The plants have to respect precise guarantees we gave about their efficiency and their safety. We are not searching any validation. We never did. We just wanted to make a good product.We have already made our public presentations, no more of them will be made. With the University of Bologna we will continue the R&D program, but not to “validate”: the validation must arrive from the market. The aim of the R&D program with the University of Bologna, financed by us, and therefore made with our money, is to develope our future, not to “validate”. Not to mention the fact that the real target of the wannabe validators, in 99 cases out of 100, is to get information and make industrial espionage, as already occurred to me with another “validator” with whom we severed any collaboration after getting evidence of the fact that data obtained from us have been utilized for a competition.
2- I thank anyway Prof. Peter Hagelstein for his attention. If the MIT is interested to our product, they can buy a plant, and make all the validations they want, for themselves, and get from it good heating too, during the hard Bostonian winters ( I lived there for some year, mamma mia, che freddo!)
Warm regards,
A.R."

Another Scam? Or another Revolution? Polish Cold Fusion

Andrea Rossi is not the only one that delivers extraordinary claims that conflicts with common knowledge of nuclear physics these days.


PESN:"Ukranian inventor, Professor Bolotov, has developed a cold fusion reactor based on the transmutation of Zirconium to other elements. He claims a system could have an input of 5 kW and an output of 200 kW. This is from a system that only costs 10,000 euro to build. It was demonstrated for academic review on March 25"


It was first mentioned (as far as I am aware of) in November 2010 HERE (polish)
PESN covers the story HERE and New Energy and Fuel HERE

Peter Ekström:"Kall Fusion på italienska"

PETER EKSTRÖM is a senior lecturer in Nuclear Physics at Faculty of Science, Lund University in Sweden.
Today he commented on this weeks discussions about the E-Cat, first and foremost the Essén and Kullander report from the demonstration the 29th of March. Comments are in Swedish only. Scroll down to Appendix where he defines the main nuclear physics problems, related to E-Cat, in English.

His conclusions are that the E-Cat is resembling recent examples of hoaxes, such as the case with the BLACK LIGHT POWER, which has for nearly 20 years financed itself with the help from credulous investors, that believed in Randell Mills "new physics", that completely overthrow traditional quantum mechanics. 

He mentions further that Rossis E-Cat in many ways conflicts with common knowledge of nuclear physics that has evolved during the past 100 years - since Rutherfords discoveries - and that the whole story seems to be a typical example of psuedo-science. He is convinced that the whole story is a scam, that will be revealed within one year.
CONTINUE READING HERE

Kjell Aleklett:"Rossi energy catalyst – a big hoax or new physics?"

Here is the same blogpost from KJELL ALEKLETT, that was linked to yesterday.
(Now translated to English.)
He is (still) a Professor of Physics at Uppsala University, Sweden, and leader of Global Energy Systems research and the Uppsala Hydrocarbon Depletion Study Group. He explains his critical interest of Andrea Rossi´s remarkable claims. 
"What shall we do as scientists? Shall we say "madness" as many do today, or should we try to understand what is happening? I myself have nothing against to reveal a scam, or join in and verify something that no one could imagine. Both extremes belong to that which makes life as a researcher incredibly interesting."
CONTINUE TO BLOGPOST

Free Energy Times: "Rossi’s E-Cat Strategy: Fast Adoption Through Incorporation into Existing Power Stations"

Andrea Rossi reveals that he is first and foremost an inventor and a businessman, rather than a traditional scientist. If his technology works, he has a strategic and pragmatic business-model, with focus to incorporate of the E-Cat into the existing energy infrastructure.
 
"...it could mean that a revolution in energy production is on the horizon. Rossi has said that he will be charging 1 cent per kWh initially for the electricity he produces. That is approximately one tenth of the average cost of electricity in the US. If people learn that there is a cleaner and much cheaper way to produce power it will likely lead to a huge amount of pressure on utilities and governments to adopt this technology as quickly as possible."
CONTINUE TO BLOGPOST ON FREE ENERGY TIMES

Andrea Rossi signs "contracts of tremendous importance" in USA

Several blogs report about Andrea Rossis COMMENTS about the commercial process of the E-Cat.
Free Energy Truth:
"The commercial process of rolling out this revolutionary technology "The Energy Catalyzer", or "E-Cat" seems to be moving full steam ahead (pun intended). In a question and answer session on Rossi's online journal yesterday Rossi admitted that a an "important contract" had been signed in the United States. Additionally, Rossi re-confirmed that October is the scheduled date for the 1MW plant to open."

CONTINUE TO FREE ENERGY TRUTH
Similar story on FREE ENERGY TIMES

Kjell Aleklett: "Rossis energikatalysator – en stor bluff eller helt ny fysik?"

Informative and interesting blogpost by KJELL ALEKLETT. He is a Professor of Physics at Uppsala University, Sweden, and leader of Global Energy Systems research and the Uppsala Hydrocarbon Depletion Study Group. He explains his critical interest of Andrea Rossi´s remarkable claims.
"Som forskare vill man ha en förklaring på det som händer och just nu ser vi inte någon förklaring med de kunskaper som vi idag har om kemi och fysik. Det kan vara helt ny fysik som måste förklaras eller en bluff som måste avslöjas."

It also includes comments by SVEN KULLANDER
"Det torde inte dröja länge innan vi får svar om fenomenet är verkligt. Rossis företag i USA bygger en anläggning på 1 MW för Atén som skall vara klar till hösten!. Vi har anledning följa utvecklingen oavsett var vi kommer att hamna i slutändan."
CONTINUE TO BLOGPOST (SWEDISH ONLY)

Interview with Sergio Focardi (Italian)

Interview in Italian with Sergio Focardi.
For translated version, use the "CC" button in the menu, and choose "Translate captions", then choose preferred language.

Free Energy Times: Andrea Rossi says he will “Unleash Commercial Attack”

"The majority of people in the world have heard nothing about Andrea Rossi’s Energy Catalyzer technology. The main reason for this is that there has been precious little coverage of this technological story in the mainstream media.
There is however a growing amount of interest in the story from people following it through various Internet outlets, and Andrea Rossi himself is interacting with the public through his own website, The Journal of Nuclear Physics. It is always interesting to look at what he is saying in response to questions, and his latest comment is quite interesting."

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Hank Mills: "Rossi Cold Fusion Validated by Swedish Skeptic's Society"

Hank Mills comments on the 3rd of April demonstration of the E-Cat where Sven Kullander and Hanno Essén were present. He also describes the weak media coverage as "more proof that the mainstream media is dead, totally owned and controlled by the corrupt powers that be."
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Please note that the headline is not really correct...Although Hanno Essén is a chairman-member of the board (chairman until April 2) of the Swedish Skeptics Society, the SSS were not involved in any validation of the demonstration.

Scott Adams: "It´s Free Energy"

Alan Fletcher: "How to Prove that the Rossi/Focardi eCAT LENR is Real"

Alan Fletcher has updated his quite massive blogpost about the E-Cat
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Free Energy Times: "The Silent Energy Revolution"

"But it's probably decades away from being marketed I hear you say. Nope. Rossi's company in the United States (Leonardo Corporation) is at this very moment gearing up for shipping reactors to customers by late October and mass production to follow on from that."
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Ny Teknik: Swedish physicists on the E-cat: “It’s a nuclear reaction”

Andrea Rossi, Sven Kullander,
Hanno Essén

"In a detailed report, two Swedish physicists exclude chemical reactions as the energy source in the Italian ‘energy catalyzer’. The two physicists recently supervised a new test of the device in Bologna, Italy."

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(SWEDISH VERSION HERE)

(ITALIAN TRANSLATION HERE)

FREE ENERGY TIMES: Andrea Rossi Explains Key to Safety of the Energy Catalyzer

"The nuclear accident at Fukushima has brought to light the many safety issues surrounding nuclear fission technology. There is now a redoubling of the scrutiny that the nuclear power industry is receiving in terms of its safety. Andrea Rossi has said he has mastered the safety problems his energy catalyzer technology"

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Prof. Giuliano Bettini: "How can 30% of nickel in Rossi’s reactor be transmuted into copper?"

"In the present article I would like to answer a question posed by L. Kowalsky in a recent paper: how can 30% of nickel in Rossi’s reactor be transmuted into copper? “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler”, says a guy. I apologizes if I am too simplistic here."
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Cold Fusion Now: "No fear of radiation from cold fusion."

"Today’s nuclear fission reactors are more than a poor choice for a primary energy source because of the growing risk of contamination by radioactive materials. Humans are not ready to take the responsibility for disaster that could last for geological time.... Why go down this path when there exists an alternative ultra-clean nuclear power? Low-energy nuclear reactions LENR..."
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Andrea Rossi will present a new theory

Andrea Rossi continues to answer questions from interested readers at his web site

"Q: Do you have a new theory about how your process works?
Andrea Rossi: Yes, after the intense work of these months also to manufacture the 1 MW plant we will start in Greece in October I have developed through a Galilean methodology (think, test, think, test and learn from experience, then theorize) what I think will be the definite structure of the theory which explains what happens inside the energy catalyzers. I will publish it at the presentation of the 1 MW plant.
Warm Regards,
A.R."
The thread where Rossi is engaging with the public is HERE

Brian Josephson in Physics Forum discussion

Physics Forum has a DISCUSSION THREAD about the E-Cat.
It includes comments and thoughts by Nobelprize-winner BRIAN JOSEPHSON

Facebookgroup Cold Fusion "Andrea Rossi" Method

Happy to see that the Facebook-group Cold Fusion "Andrea Rossi" Method has reached more than 500 members. Check out their Wallposts, some might be of interest!
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