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Sergio Focardi Speaks About the Energy Catalyzer

Andrea Rossi’s research partner, Sergio Focardi, Professor Emeritus of the University of Bologna recently conducted an interview with Italian non-profit research organization Energy Lab in which he answered questions about E-Cat technology. An English Google-translation can be found here. Focardi covers a number of topics, many of which have been discussed before, but there are …

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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 […]

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

  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 […]

Professor Y.E.Kim: his theoretical analysis could explain the E-Cat?

Fonte : Professor Y.E.Kim – Purdue University

Generalized Theory of Bose-Einstein Condensation Nuclear Fusion for Hydrogen-Metal System

Yeong E. Kim , Department of Physics, Purdue University

June 18, 2011

ABSTRACT

Generalized theory of Bose-Einstein condensation nuclear fusion (BECNF) is used to carry out theoretical analyses of recent experimental results of Rossi et al. for hydrogen-nickel system. Based on incomplete experimental information currently available, preliminary theoretical explanations of the experimental results are presented in terms of the generalized BECNF theory. Additional accurate experimental data are needed for obtaining more complete theoretical descriptions and predictions, which can be tested by further experiments.