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1MW eCat to Self Sustain?

In a bit of a bombshell moment, an apparent casual answer to a question about a photo on evworld, we learn from Andrea Rossi that advances in safety and control may lead to the 1MW plant being run in self-sustain mode. While any such advance would be an exciting development, it does not speak to […]

Defkalion Green Technologies Interview

XanthiPress (a newspaper local to the region in Greece where Defkalion Green Technologies will run their first three factories) interviewed the President of the company, Alekos Xanthoulis The reporter said that it was initially difficult to get Defkalion to talk but that since the company themselves gave an impressive view of how important the technology […]

Rossi eCat Accused

A commenter, Julian Brown, posted the following curious message in an eCatNews discussion thread: Julian Brown July 17, 2011 – 12:41 pm | Permalink edit Rossi gave me a personal demonstration of a group of 4 e-cats working at his premises outside Bologna on Friday 8th. I saw essentially the same set up reported by […]

Rossi eCat Accused

A commenter, Julian Brown, posted the following curious message in an eCatNews discussion thread: Julian Brown July 17, 2011 – 12:41 pm | Permalink edit Rossi gave me a personal demonstration of a group of 4 e-cats working at his premises outside Bologna on Friday 8th. I saw essentially the same set up reported by […]

A Cold Fusion World

Most of us following Andrea Rossi’s progress do so in hope. We wish him well even if we reserve judgement until he delivers as promised. Like many, I ask myself… What if? This is the first in a series of articles following that line. I claim no expertise and advise no-one to invest on my […]

Defkalion Fraud Attack?

Cold Fusion Now reports that Defkalion has posted the following advisory on their site. I cannot find it but the subject is too important to ignore. (ETA Thanks to mcap for pointing out that the advisory is in the form of a pop-up. Using a smartphone, the message did not appear.) Anyway: It has come […]

Prof Focardi Talks eCat

An interview with Professor Sergio Focardi is posted on the Italian blog, 22passi. The translation is well worth reading as there are a few technical details that are always good to hear again. The most interesting of those was in respect to the catalyst. Various people have guessed that it might split molecular Hydrogen into […]

A UK First

It may be small but little acorns and all that. As far as I can tell, this is the first UK newspaper to publish the story. Not sure if it is just the online version or if it made it to print.
http://www.thesussexnewspaper.com/columnists/3061-cold-fusio…

Rossi Flirts With NASA

Answering a question on his blog about the meeting at NASA we learn that Andrea Rossi was in attendance and that the organisation was forearmed with ‘thorough information’. It is easy to let the imagination run away with such scant detail. It may or may not be significant but it does leave a warm and […]

The Great eCat Media Conspiracy

A common refrain surrounding Andrea Rossi’s eCat is confusion about the absence of mainstream media. Some posit a cabal of oil barons pillow-talking their press friends to bury the subject where the sun don’t fuse. Others paint them as blind and stupid while certain pseudosceptics conclude that this is yet more proof that we are […]

Andrea Rossi a Lone Fraudster?

http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=338&cpage=4#comment-47093 Francesco Cavaliere June 19th, 2011 at 3:42 AM Dear Mr. Rossi, Personally I think we are in front of a major breakthrough in energy production and most likely a Nobel price too. I work for an important semiconductor company and it would be a great pleasure for us to initiate a co-operation with your […]

Another Andrea Rossi Interview

EV World, the journal behind NASA’s Dennis Bushnell interview has followed up with a 30 minute talk with Andrea Rossi. These near-hand accounts are great, making the man behind the hype flesh and putting flesh on our understanding of the eCat and AR’s claims.

Some takeaways are as follows:

  • Andrea Rossi was one of many who tried and failed to replicate the Pons & Fleischmann result in 1989
  • Although unsuccessful, it sowed a seed in his mind
  • He is happy with the term LENR
  • Until 2007, he experimented around the subject as he ran other businesses
  • Reaching a critical point, he needed to decide if it was worth the risk of concentrating full time – 16 hours a day
  • He asked Prof Focardi to look at his ideas and tell him why it would not work
  • Prof Focardi could not do so
  • At this point (July 2007) he decided to try make a useful product
  • Knowing that if it worked there would be radiation, he hired Prof Focardi as a safety measure
  • Focardi did this and also helped him understand how to thermalize the operational radiation
  • He built a 20KW device and installed it in his factory, heating it for around a year ( 5 months are cold and winter is v cold)
  • The factory is now sold along with everything else to fund the energy catalyser project
  • After recharging, ‘spent’ Ni is sold to dealers for normal use
  • If all world’s energy was made with eCat, it would only consume some percentage point of current annual Ni production
  • No foreseeable showstoppers
  • Hopes for exponential development, liking that to the growth of the computer industry from a business tool in 1995 to the proliferation throughout the world where households began to buy them
  • The cost of $1,000 to $2,000 per KW facility and $0.01 per KWH should help make this the game-changer Dennis Bushnell talked of

The mp3 file is here and the EV World article here.

Andrea Rossi Interview 2

The second part of ecatreport’s interview is posted and once more we get some interesting highlights:   The Hyperion can have up to 5 eCats in it (4-5KW each) giving a conservative product range of about 4-20KW The bulk of applications have not been developed yet 1MW plant (in 20′ container) weighs 5 tonnes Looking […]

Andrea Rossi Interview

  Andrea Rossi has given an interview to ecatreport.com during his visit to Sweden. Great job, producing new details on the energy catalyzer process and flesh on the story behind the man. Some of the takeaways include: AR first looked at the subject in the 90s In 2007 he revisited Ni-H with great success Worried […]