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Noble Aspirations Are Not Enough
As I predicted on Thursday night, promoter Andrea Rossi’s final demonstration of a series of boxes of pipes and wires did not light any bulb or turn any motor. Again, he failed at science, and he failed to deliver a … Continue reading →
Energy Catalzyer: Extraordinary Scams Require Extraordinary Claims
In a few hours, promoter Andrea Rossi will, for the 12th time, demonstrate how he is able to make boxes of pipes and wires heat water and, possibly, bring it to a boil. What makes Rossi’s device different from an … Continue reading →
E-Day Thread: Rossi’s 1 MW E-Cat Plant Tested By First Customer (PESWiki: “Customer Satisfied, Sale Made”)
It’s October 28th in Italy and today’s the day when Andrea Rossi’s 1 MW Plant is going to be tested at his Bologna factory by consultants from an unnamed American Customer. Rossi has said that the contractual terms are that the purcha…
New Video From Ecat.com Features Sergio Focardi
The mysterious website ecat.com has released another video, this time an interview with Sergio Focardi, emeritus professor of Physics at the University of Bologna, and collaborator with Andrea Rossi. In this video, which was shot at the October 6th E-C…
Past and Future
We like to see ourselves as marching off into the future, heroic in our stance, “going were no one has gone before.” But the fact is that we go into the future backwards, with at best a dirty, cracked hand mirror to guide us. We do not directly look into the future, we can only look […]
Rossi: Preliminary Testing of E-Cat Plant Underway, “Working Well So Far”
Just a quick post to report that Andrea Rossi posted today that preliminary testing of the 1 MW E-Cat Plant is underway, and that so far he seems happy with progress. This morning Rossi wrote: “Good Sunday also to you, while I write this comment …
Rossi’s E-Cat Commercialization Plans Becoming Clearer
Andrea Rossi seems to have his sights set beyond the October 28th Test, and over the last few days has been making some comments about his plans to commercialize his E-Cat. He has always said that commercialization would begin in November, and we are g…
Oil Age lasted a century; Era of Cold Fusion to fuel millenia.
Tom Murphy has a great website called Do The Math where he uses “physics and estimation to assess energy, growth, options”. A recent article called The Energy Trap had a graphic depicting the Oil Age over geological time, a tall skinny blip, with the energy of muscle and firewood of the previous millenia not even […]
Announcing the E-Cat World Forum
We’ve just added a forum to this site which is designed to be a place for people to engage in free-ranging discussions on topics related to the E-Cat. Once you are a registered user you can post comments and engage in dialogue with other users. T…
The Wandering URL: Now www.e-cat.com Points to Google
Someone must be playing games here. We’ve had the URL www.e-cat.com point to Exxon Mobil and Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers in the past few months, and now today we find it pointing to Google Green, Google’s web site dealing with enviro…
Christos Stremmenos on the E-Cat (Video)
Another video has been released by the mysterious www.ecat.com web site. I say mysterious, because the site has no indication of who owns it, but it must be someone close to Rossi since the filmmakers were at the October 6th demo, and have access to so…
The E-Cat as Currency: An Economist’s View
E-Cat World invites readers to submit articles for consideration for publication. This is a response by Paul Bennett, PhD Candidate at George Mason University, to Raymond Aitken’s recent article, “Energy=Money? A Proposal for a New Currency…
Some Media Outlets Begin to Pay Attention to the E-Cat
Many E-Cat follower have noticed how ever since the January news conference when Rossi and Focardi introduced the energy catalyzer to the world the topic has been virtually ignored by media organizations around the world. The Swedish magazine NyTeknik …
Rossi: Customer Will Determine Rules of October 28th 1MW E-Cat Test
Anticipation is growing and expectations are high for the announced test of Andrea Rossi’s 1 MW E-Cat plant in Bologna on October 28th — except it seems that the plant is not Andrea Rossi’s. Rossi has said that the plant belongs to th…