In an interview with Ny Teknik, Alexandros Xanthoulis, representing the owners of Defkalion, stated that:
Defkalion started to think of developing its own technology in July 2011
12 Hyperion prototypes are now running.
The factory of 11,000 square meters in Xanthia will be ready in four months.
The Defkalion lab will be transferred to a 2,500 square meter lab at the Xanthia location in a few weeks.
19 license agreements have been made.
No money has yet been transfered. Interested companies will pay 500,000 Euros in an escrow account before testing a final product. Half of the license fee of 40.5 million Euros should be be paid at delivery of know-how, and the remaining part after ten days of operation of a factory producing Hyperion products.
27 scientists work in-house at Defkalion
A total of 40 people are employed at Defkalion.
Xanthoulis gave no further information on verification of the core technology, except that it will be made by third parties later this year.
Focus and NY Teknik Magazines Will Cover The Events
Few hundreds Euros Will Power 1 MW Plant For 6 months
Not many people know it, but tomorrow is a very big day for the world. If you are only finding out about this now, it is because your media have failed you. Since January the controlled mainstream press have ignored the single biggest science story in decades despite many attempts to get them to sit up and take notice.
Despite the mainstream media willfully ignoring the story, a few blogs and websites have been keeping the world informed of the almost daily developments in the ecat story. See video below.
In Bologna Italy, a small group of international scientists will gather to conduct the most comprehensive tests yet on Andrea Rossi's revolutionary clean energy technology - the eCat (Energy Catalyzer). Present to record and document the proceedings will be Focus Magazine (Italy) and Swedish Tech Magazine NY Teknik.
What's an eCat?
Newcomers to the story will be surprised to learn that the eCat is a potentially revolutionary new clean energy source which produces vast amounts of energy from cheap powdered nickel and miniscule quantities of pressurized hydrogen. For a quick introduction to why the eCat is so revolutionary, we would recommend you view the following video.
eCat - FAST FACTS
So What Do We Know?
Unlike previous tests, this particular test will last much longer than any previous and this time, will NOT measure steam. In previous tests there has been much controversy over the measurements of the "dryness" of the steam and the flow rate of the water, therefore questions remained over the true amount of excess power produced.
So instead, tomorrow's tests will use a heat exchanger in a closed-loop test which should eliminate the controversy over steam. This should help settle some of the debate for genuine sceptics, but there will always be a hard-core of pseudosceptics who (in the face of conclusive proof) will still deny the truth to the end.
The test is due to start at 12:00 midday and will be conducted in Bologna, Italy.
Who's Attending?
The probable guest list for tomorrow's tests will look something like this.
Hanno Essen And Sven Kullander From The University Of Upsalla, Sweden
Representative of The EPO European Patent Office - (Invited, but not confirmed)
Focus Magazine is a worldwide science and technology publication owned by the BBC. Journalists from the Italian Focus Magazine will be covering the developments with photos, videos and in-depth reports. A recent translated article from their website said:
"Thursday, October 6 at Bologna began testing a new E-Cat: Focus.it will be present to document the event with photos, videos and interviews. The test will be conducted by Rossi on one of the local EFA (the family business) in the presence of “nuclear physics” – according to Rossi’s own statements.
Wanting to go into the field of hypotheses we can say that will probably present Mauro Villa, University of Bologna (but the test is not attributable to the university) and in all probability there will be no physical Brian Josephson, whose presence seemed to some a few days ago. The test will begin t midday, and the program should continue until late at night.
According to Rossi said, will be very similar to the last test performed with the Swedish NyTeknik except for the fact that the thermal measurements will be taken on a secondary circuit where the water will not be vaporized, to allow you to “read” better efficiency of the system. In addition to Focus.it will be present to document the event for Matts Lewan NyTeknik and Daniel Passerini . Send questions to ask the same day, during interviews with Rossi and the present, you can use the forum for test of October 6 or e-mail focusfusione@gmail.com."
Last week we contacted the separate UK Based Focus Magazine through their Facebook page. We asked them "When do you anticipate that Focus Magazine will cover the Andrea Rossi Energy Catalyzer Story that's been going on since January this year? They responded with "Sounds interesting. We'll take a look." Since their Italian counterparts WILL be there to cover the story, it will be interesting to see whether the English language editions will also follow up on this with their OWN articles.
eCat Impact
The impact of this technology could be unfathomable. For example, recently Rossi answered a question from a reader relating to the cost of operating the ecat for 6 months. The reader's guess was "More or less than 250,000.00 USD?” Back came the surprising answer from Rossi - “Few hundreds of euros activate for 6 months the 1 MW plant.” This figure presumably relates mainly to the replacement cost of the specially treated Nickel powder on which each eCat reactor runs.
In a further confirmation of how revolutionary the ecat could be Rossi gave more encouraging news - “I can guarantee you that the E-Cats will have a price that will allow to everybody to pay them. I am working for this, and this is what will give a sense to my work.”
Studying steam engines fit for the E-Cats: (not an easy task)
Question - "What will be the maximum presure and temperature of the output steam?"
Rossi - "550 °C, 50 bars".
Question - "Does the reaction stop if temperature rises to Ni melting temp? This is rather important safety point, ie. is china syndrome possible?"
Rossi - "If Ni melts the E-Cat stops. It works only with powders. This makes it intrinsecally (sic) safe. And do not forget that we do not leave radioactive material, we do not use radioactive material ."
Natural News are now also covering the Rossi story - read their article here.
Andrea Rossi's Cold Fusion Technology the Energy Calalyzer or "E-Cat" has been successfully validated by Swedish Technology Magazine NYTeknik - Seaparate Test will be on Italian TV News Thursday May 5th
Rossi and associate at the April 28th tests
The new tests were conducted in Bologna on 19 and 28 April, 2011. "The objective was to measure the net energy that the device generates as accurately as possible." "The results of the two tests showed a developed net power of between 2.3 and 2.6 kilowatts – of the order of a large stove plate. Input electric power was in the order of 300 watts." Using a smaller e-cat (e-kitten) than normal the team calculated the output power from the amount of water boiled into steam.
(ESSENTIAL VIEWING: Video embedded in NYTeknik article is in English and shows technical explanation of various parts and also the E-Cat in Operation)
This news now provides FURTHER INDEPENDENT validation of Rossi's cold fusion technology after Swedish scientists Hullander and Essen also validated the power output just recently.
E-Cat Test To Be Shown On Italian Television
In the first test on April 19, the national Italian television channel RAI was present and its report will be broadcast on the channel RAI News (live streaming here) Thursday, May 5th at 20:35. In the second test on April 28 only Ny Teknik, the inventor Andrea Rossi, and a colleague of his were present.
We've been tracking the major developments in the story since January and have produced the following 2 videos for people who want a quick summary of the important events.
The Story Of The Andrea Rossi Energy Catalyzer - Part 1
The Story Of The Andrea Rossi Energy Catalyzer - Part2
