eCat September Update: Big News Expected In The Coming Weeks

• Rossi Issues Open Invite To 1MW Plant - Gets Deluged By Thousands Of Requests
• Initial Start-Up Tests Of Fusion Plant Will Be "PUT ONLINE, TO ALLOW EVERYBODY TO SEE IT"
• Production And Distribution Of eCats "Sooner Than Expected" - Rossi 
• Blogger Daniele Passerini has seen photos at a good resolution of the internals of the 1 MW plant
• Next Week For Possible ANNOUNCEMENT

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Defense Intelligence Agency Report Forecasts LENR "Cold Fusion" Acceptance

A 2009 unclassified Defense Analysis Report gives a technology forecast stating: "Worldwide Research on Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions Increasing and Gaining Acceptance."

The report goes on to say:

"DIA asseses with high confidence that if LENR can produce nuclear-origin enery at room temperatures, this disruptive technology could revolutionize energy production and storage.."

Research

"Scientists worldwide have been reporting anomalous heat production, as well as evidence of nuclear particles and transmutation."

Y. Iwamura at Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries first detected transmutation of elements when permeating Deuterium through Palladium metal in 2002.

Researchers led by Y.Arata at Osaka University in Japan and a team led by V. Violante at ENEA in iTALY (the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment - the equivalent to the U.S. Department of Energy) also made transmutation claims.

Additional indications of transmutation have been reported in China, Russia, France, Ukraine and the United States.

Researchers in Japan, Italy, Israel, and the United States have all reported detecting evidence of nuclear particle emissions.

Chinese researchers described LENR experiments in 1991 that generated so much heat that they caused an explosion that was not believed to be chemical in origin.

Under a section called "Outlook and Implications" the report says:

"If nuclear reactions in LENR experiments are real and controllable, DIA assesses that whoever produces the first commercialized LENR power source could revolutionize energy production and storage for the future."

Being a DIA report, it is alarmingly focused on the military application of LENR technology. It goes on to say "Because nuclear fusion releases 10 million times more energy per unit mass than does liquid transportation fuel, the military potential of such high-energy-density power sources is enormous. And since the U.S. military is the largest user of liquid fuel for transportation, LENR power sources could produce the greatest transformation of the battlefield for U.S. forces since the transition from horsepower to gasoline power.

Andrea Rossi's eCat

Andrea Rossi's "eCat" (Energy Catalyzer) technology is one such technology that is getting ready to go into production later this year with the inaugural 1MW plant due to open in the US in late October. The site of this fusion plant is still a closely guarded secret.

Rossi's e-Cat technology uses tiny amounts of powdered treated Nickel pressurized with hydrogen gas. The results so far have been spectacular - the ecat has been measured producing as much as 33 times more output power than input while also being able to self sustain without any input power for long periods of time.

Commercial eCat production is scheduled to begin in November 2011 with ambitious plans to introduce Nickel Hydrogen Fusion as a new primary energy source to challenge traditional fossil fuels. The only real competititor in the form of nuclear power has been shown to be too dangerous after the recent events in Fukoshima with Recent reports confirming that the land around Fukoshima will be rendered uninhabitable for at least the next 20 years.

Media Coverage

Despite the revolutionary nature of Rossi's eCat technology the mainstream media are still maintaining a wall of silence which has been in effect since the first successful ecat demonstration back in January 2011.

Recently however, an obvious and rather predictably one-sided "article" on the eCat emerged in mainstream journal Physorg.  Rather than a serious attempt to get the facts the reporter focussed on the the sole issue of how the New Energy Times viewed the situation.  The article appears manufactured rather than "researched". 

Recently and rather disappointingly the debate on the eCat technology has also been subverted away from the technology and onto the very public difference of opinion between journalist Steven B Krivit and Andrea Rossi.

Read the full DIA report here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2009DIA-08-0911-003.pdf

Video to follow soon.

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When Two Tribes Go To War

In case you didn't know, World War 3 started this year.

Not China and America, but 2 much bigger foes who wouldn't last 2 seconds in a lift together without handbagging each other to death for simply exchanging glances. Yes, we are talking about the "special" relationship between New Energy Times's Steven B Krivit and Italian Cold Fusion supremo, Andrea Rossi.

Last week in the third episode of Shock and Awe, Krivit fired his latest salvo of tactical nukes at a defiant Rossi.  With all the anticipation of waiting for Duke Nukem Forever (It'll be ready when it's ready) I waited to see what delights it would contain.

When Krivit's imaginatively titled Report No.3 was released, the laser guided information bomb the size of War and Peace with a total of 37 (yes, thirty-seven) appendices strapped to it (I'm still only on number 8) made it's way to Rossi's Florida home where I'm told a mushroom cloud could still be seen days later.

But in the end, did Krivit deliver an ICBM that Rummy would be proud of, or was it just a damp firework stuck fizzing in the ground at the local park? To be honest, I got bored by page 3 of appendix 1.  Had I not been researching it in order to write about it, I would have maybe printed it off and simply used it to jam under shortest leg of my Chinese made (authentic mahogany) coffee table.

Looking at the report, all the same vaguely scientific arguments are in there from episode 2.  There are also a total of 11 separate reports on "steam analysis" by experts in the field of youtuberoscopy. To top it all off there is another stomach churning regurgitation of Rossi's less than saint like past which (not for the first time) looks like a cheap shot and nothing more. (Need we talk about the Pope's chequered past again?) Ed.

I wondered what the great unwashed had thought of Krivit's blockbuster sized epic, so I took a glance at the comments section underneath hoping to find the answer. It was just as I had feared, a cacophany of sycophantic praise from the Krivit choirboys liberally sprinked with some Rossi bashing and finished off with a caremelised jous of token pro Rossi crapola to make it "fair and balanced".

With all the charm and neocon grace of Bill O'Reilly there seemed to be no end to the Rossi condemnation and "scammer" talk, which in the end prompted me to write my OWN comment and perhaps introduce some other alternative theories that were simply not being discussed (even as a possibility).

Anywho - here's my comment and subsequent response I recieved.

Steven,

I don’t believe the “scam” hypothesis one tiny bit and I’ll explain why.

If he’s out to scam someone, then it’s not clear how this would be played out. You said yourself that no-one has seen “verifiable evidence of this “couple of hundred million Euros of investment?”.

Scammers will let the scenario play out for as long as possible, creaming as much money as they can from gullible people and this does NOT sit comfortably with the fact that Rossi has given HIMSELF a self-imposed deadline of end of October. There are a lot of high profile people who were at the Defkalion presentation and I don’t think they would take kindly to being scammed. And if Rossi is a scammer, then he should be getting an Oscar for his performance, as he has maintained a perfect performance which would be nothing short of miraculous.

Assuming for a minute that it is a “scam” leaves us with further problems where the logic does not fit the hypothesis. Prof Giuseppe Levi would have to be “in on it”, and as a respected phycisist at a very prestigious university with EVERYTHING to lose, it’s highly unlikely.

A scammer would certainly not agree to let ANYONE test ANY aspect of their device, let alone allowing one go to University of Upssala and Bologna and then PAYING THEM 500,000 Euros out of his own pocket for the privilege.

Rossi is not exactly hard-up for cash since he owns a few companies. He’s spent an awful lot of his OWN money, so money as a motivation seems absurd.

I think at worst, the eCat doesn’t produce as much power as is being touted. I think it’s easily possible that the eCat was not operating at “full steam” (if you pardon the pun) when you observed it, or that Rossi misconfigured it on the day, or that he was nervous of showing much for patent reasons, or any number of other technical issues that he’d rather not admit to.

Rossi may not have wanted to portray the eCat as unreliable and so the simple answer may be that he was simply embarrassed. Have you considered those possibilities instead of complex and highly unbelievable conspiracy scenarios?

Craig

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My comment did not make it past the Chinese firewall, but generated this response instead. 

Sent to Craig  via e-mail

July 8, 2011

Hi Craig,
I’m considering publishing your post

I certainly don’t want to perpetuate any myths and I’m sure you don’t either.

Before I publish your post, I want to invite you support the following statements you made with your best factual evidence:

1. One of Rossi’s devices has gone to the University of Uppsala for testing.
2. One of Rossi’s devices has gone to the University of Bologna for testing.
3. Rossi has paid either of those institutions a single Euro.
4. Rossi is not hard-up for cash.

5. Rossi spent an awful lot of his OWN money.

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All the Rossi bashing posts and congratulatory back patting on a"job well done" seemed to make their way past the censors with unbridled ease. However, my own post was stopped at the border and asked to explain itself.

Now I don't pretend to know exactly what the heck is going on with this whole eCat thing.  It's a mystery wrapped in an enigma and dropped into a deep well full of confusion, but I DO know that the discussion needs to move beyond the confines of world championship steam debating and the Petroldragon saga.

And since I'm down under, my responses to comments and emails have their own unique form of jet-lag which results from the fact that I'm usually sleeping when the rest of the world is up and about.  Anyone who knows me will tell you that I reply to emails the way a sloth does the 100 metres.  And besides - last night was the third last night of MasterChef; Smoke bellowing down the hallway and the fire alarm shrieking itself to death would not have shifted my arse from the couch.

And what was my pennance for not being glued to the Rossi debate 24/7 ? See below.

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[Brown did not reply.]

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Yes, I would have replied, but was not given much time to do so. Apart from sleeping while most bloggers are active and taking my coffee table back to the shop because one of the authentic mahogany plastic legs fell off,  I have a life outside engaging in late-night discussions about steam. I can think of 437 better things I could be doing.

Now the questions I've been asked are lawyer's questions.  Krivit knows fine well I cannot prove any of these things about Rossi (yet), but to be honest people, it's only a comment on a blog, it's only a comment. No one's life depends on it. Do all comments on blogs now need to have accompanying documentation?

I can't prove that any eCats have been sent to any University yet, but what DOES exist is a written agreement on the University of Bologna's website (so are we to assume that the University of Bologna is in on the conspiracy)?  I think not.

I'm not Rossi's accountant so I couldn't tell you if he's paid the University of Bologna yet, or even if he's paid his subscription to Cold Fusion Weekly, but publicly he has comitted himself to these things - and why would you do that if you really don't need to? 

As for being cashed up, I'm sure the fact that he owns several companies must mean that he's not exactly down the dole office every week with the arse hanging out of his trousers. Do I need proof for that too?

And a blind, deaf and dumb dung beetle can see that Rossi has spent an incredible amount of his own time and money over the years on getting this to a commercial stage - this is supported by countless others testimony and documentation. 

But what really takes the biscuit is that my comment has to jump through more hoops than a nervous springel spaniel at Crufts while the the Krivit choirboys can make speculative and wild accusations WITHOUT backing up THEIR own comments.

 

The people shouting "scam" seem to have forgotten that Rossi did not instigate the public demonstration and attention.  That particular request came from Prof Sergio Focardi who urged Rossi to do so. If Rossi wanted to pull a scam and disappear with money, then it seems a crazy thing to start attracting attention to himself when he was ALREADY in talks with Ampenergo and Defkalion.

 

When people accuse Rossi of scam they don't realise that to do so also implicates Prof Giuseppe Levi, Prof Sergio Focardi, and Prof Christos Stremmenos and involves the duping of NASA, the Greek Deputy Minister for Industry & Energy, Defkalion, Ampenergo and the fooling of 2 world-class scientists, one of which decides Nobel Physics prizes. Not to mention another dozen or so dignitaries who attended the Defkalion announcement. I simply don't believe that this is a logical hypothesis and that not one, but THREE well respected scientists are part of a conspiracy to scam.

 

I'd sooner believe my Chinese slave goods table was made of mahogany.

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Rossi: 1MW Plant Will Mostly Self Sustain

In a seemingly insignificant question and answer session on his website Andrea Rossi has said that the 1MW Defkalion plant being built in Xanthi, Greece, will "will work mostly without energy input".

Dear Andrea Rossi,

please have a look to the picture at the following link: http://www.evworld.com/article.cfm?storyid=2004

It is you, Stemmenos and Focardi conducing tests on the e-cat. The set-up looks quite different from what we have seen on previous tests pictures, i’m refering specifically to those 4 red devices on the left.

There have been speculations on the internet that those devices may be e-cats in production form but i think they are just peristaltic pumps, am i right?

Can i ask you what kind of test where you performing when the picture was taken?
Thanks you in advance for you patience.

Warm Regards,
AC

Andrea Rossi
July 19th, 2011 at 7:57 AM
Dear Alessandro Casali:

This photo has been taken during the stress test of a sery of E-Cats a couple of weeks ago, together with the Greek Scientist Christos Stremmenos. They are some of the E-Cats that will compound the 1 MW plant. In that phase the E-Cats were working making steam WITHOUT energy input. 

This is why you see us so focused (me and Stremmenos). The 1 MW plant, probably will work mostly without energy input, I suppose, because we are resolving the safety issues connected.

The 4 red spots are pumps, the E-Cat clusters are hidden. The three characters in the photo are Prof. Sergio Focardi , Prof. Christos Stremmenos and me.
Warm Regards,
A.R.

This is a remarkable statement and one that (if realised) will change the way we view energy forever.

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This Is HUGE News: Defkalion Press Conference

• Greek Deputy Development Minister Socrates Xynidis Attends
• Agreement With 3 Multinational Companies 
• 17 Countries Have Expressed Interest
• Establishment Of Research New Centre
• 3 New Plants Making e-cats in Xanthi
  
•  Investment Totals 200 Million Euros
• Co-operation With University of Xanthi

Also in attendance:

• President of the Association of Exporters of Northern Greece
• President of "Larco" which will supply nickel  
• General Secretariat for Research of China
• Chairman of the Technical Chamber of Greece  
• Representative of German Green Party 

Press Conference just finished (around 16.30 Athens time) In Palaio Faliro Municipality Congress Center, around 150 people attended.

Press coverage: 7 cameras from Greek mainstream stations, RAI, news paper journalists from major Greek newspapers, Italian, Assosiated Press, and others.

On the stage: Prof Stremenos, A. Xanthoulis from Defkalion GT and Andrea Rossi.

A press release and a press kit in DVD was distributed to the media. A special company announcement on the event will follow on Friday 24th with details, full list of participants, photos etc.

The event was filmed and it will be uploaded next week, with English subtitles, on YouTube after technical preparation.

The following report is from Greek News site Xanthi Press

The report has been translated using Google Translate, so there are some transcription issues going from Greek to English.

 

The first official presentation of the investment-mammoth company Defkalion Green Technologies in Xanthi, to produce energy from fusion of hydrogen-nickel (the invention of Foccardi-Rossi), was held Thursday afternoon in the auditorium of Town Hall Palaio Faliro.

To XanthiPress.gr covered the event and presents interesting material on investing and the importance ascribed by the scientific and business community. The presentation was made by the company president Alekos Xanthoulis, accompanied by the inventor - Professor, University of Bologna Andrea Rossi and former Ambassador, also professor at Bologna, Chris Stremmeno while the event was attended by Deputy Development Minister Socrates Xynidis.

A. Xanthoulis: "We can say that we start"  President Alekos Xanthoulis company initially said that "For 1.5 years we have started this effort in time to present. Indeed the first time I saw this device that produces energy from "nothing" totally believed Professor Rossi. He was questioned and many audits by international organizations, but no longer as an industry standard and we can say that we start, "he said. In parallel, inter alia, noted that the effort has a national character by referring to "a light will come and we want to be ours and not the IMF.

According to President of Defkalion, industrial production starts from Xanthi to the first factory to the Fall, where katakefazetai core-reactor device (the "secret").  A new plant will operate within the next year again in Xanthi, where devices are manufactured complete e-cat, while the third plant unit will be operational in 2013 and again in Xanthi and will deal with the production of industrial units.  The total investment cost estimated at over 200 million euros.

On the question of XanthiPress.gr reason for the choice of Xanthi as installation space industry, said three reasons:

 

First, note that in 3-4 visits to the region found a very high level of technical people in the region as well as kindness and warm hospitality of the people.  Secondly, said the geo-strategic position Xanthie 2 ports, 2 airports near and immediate access to all trans-European road networks are very important and, thirdly, he noted that the overall reception has been very positive, noting " We want the development to cease to be vertical and not move up from Lamia and Schimatari.  My hometown is Volos not welcomed me as I expected, unlike the blonde who greeted us as they should, "he said with meaning.

Declared open to cooperation with scientists and the University of Xanthi and said an agreement with three major multinational companies and the planned establishment of a Research Centre in the region.

 

The device will be presented in a formal test before the Greek authorities in the first 10 days of July, with several institutes around the world have tried the device. Moreover, 17 countries have expressed interest and demand is very high every day. We are very proud of that time. «

Greek diaspora investment fund

 

9 Greek diaspora-that compose Defcalion Global-fund investment outside of A. Xanthoulis. There is no debt or other financing and stated clearly that there is no request for a grant and the investment is only covered by equity. "We inform the state for this operation and the presence of Mr Xynidi indicates the support provided to us," said President of the company.

Alongside Professor Rossi revealed that interest was the discovery of various countries, but considered it more sincere effort identified by the Greek company Defkalion market the patent, adding that it is Greece of a large and highly appreciates the achievements of the country over the past 25 centuries. "There are entrepreneurs with patriotic feeling at this time we will not see what you get from the investment, but what will give the country" said Professor H. Stremmenos, pointing out the cultural dimension to the cooperation.

Technical details of the device 

According to President of the Company "is a box-reactor that uses nickel and hydrogen, which gives us heat. They had been many attempts in the past for cold fusion, but we managed to get to this form of energy production while Greece has 83% of the amount of nickel in the EU.

It can produce up to 30 kilowatts / hour of thermal energy.  We proceed experimentally and we present the toimoi Anna October 1 megawatt device and November 12 megawatts of energy. "The box can be used for domestic or industrial use of energy while producing heat can be produced and electricity the country needs."  The cost is estimated at 4-5000 euro and the depreciation is estimated to not exceed a period of one year.  "We'll cover the world and is a great project because, especially abroad, this technology has become too big noise, and although Greece is exclusively non-US country has shown interest.  There were parliamentary questions to Obama and Berslouskoni for this reason that Greece got this patent. We now hope to have an interest in Greece. "Said Alexis Xanthoulis.

"From Greek goodwill of a product will reduce the cost of heating and hot water at 10%.  Anyone who wants can add whatever a mechanism to convert thermal energy into electricity and return the surplus to PPC.  He noted, however that did not produce any harmful effects.  The cost is less than 1 minute per kilovatora, unlike the 12 that currently pays the Greek and the importance for industry, rural economy, and the power of the islands are large enough.  Use for example using a michanmimatos to house 200 square, where a device is provided free throughout the thermal energy required in the home while it collects 2,500 euros from the sale of electricity by electricity.

High attendance at the event 

The event was attended, apart from company executives, several representatives of the scientific community and representatives of foreign states and organizations show the importance given to the success of the invention.  Among them, the representative of the local government of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany controlled by the Green party, the President of the Hellenic-American Chamber, representing the General Secretariat for Research of China, Chairman of the Technical Chamber of Greece The President of the Association of Exporters of Northern Greece as well as the President of "Larco" which will supply nickel as raw material Defkalion.  Furthermore, there was quite a large interest from the municipalities of Athens interested in installing systems in municipal buildings.

 

Apart from the journalists of Greek and international media, questions submitted and scientists and business people, pairontas by Andrea Rossi answers only on the outside and not in the inner core of the device, which is a closely-guarded secret.

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Hyperion To Be E-Cat Product Name - 5 to 30KW Units Available

Defkalion Green Technologies Have Announced A Product Line In Rossi Energy Catalyzers Called "HYPERION". Catalyzer Modules Will Be Available From 5 - 30Kw Power Output.

"DGT introduces a new technology into the world energy markets with products generating heat. DGT shall introduce its technology with socio-economic prudence following the global energy trends in a responsible manner."

Defkalion have just launched a new website where more information can be found.  They have a user forum where you can ask questions about these amazing new products.

From the website:

Description

The line of products to be produced by Defkalion Green Techologies S.A. will carry the name Hyperion. Individual units producing heat ranging from 5 up to 30KWh/h will have the following dimensions: L55xW48xH35cm. Larger units producing 1MW heat will be sized to fit inside a container sized 20 and 40 feet. All products are plug-and-pay.

Science

The science behind the E-Cat increases the probability of particles overcoming the electrostatic potential Coulomb barriers in order to penetrate the nucleus by the quantum mechanical tunneling effect, yielding in an exothermic reaction between Hydrogen and Nickel. By decreasing the surface upon which a given amount of pressure is exerted, the odds for the tunneling effect to occur are increased, allowing for higher penetrability of the Coulomb barrier.

Philosophy

For non-standardized applications, DGT through its proprietary Research & Development is dedicated to assist in the implementation of its new technology accordingly. DGT's R&D furthers the designs of its products aiming at potential, additional, and relevant processes of industrialization.

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Defkalion Press Conference Today June 23rd 14:30

Defkalion Green Technologies (Energy Catalyzer Licencees) will hold a press conference today in Athens, Greece. Defkalion have the exclusive rights to sell, license and distribute the Energy Catalyzer technology for Europe. Ampenergo have the rights for the Americas.

From Defkalion own press invitation:

"The press conference will comprise of undisclosed up-to-date information related to the technology's commercial and industrial applications, the company's strategic placements, as well as commercial issues that are of interest not only to Defkalion's future customers, but also to the political society of our country. It goes without saying that such an important development also possesses a strong international dimension in many aspects."

It is anticipated that the company may among other things announce a particular product range / model of e-cat boiler/s to provide home and commercial heating.  There are a wide range of particular applications to which this technology is suited and Defkalion may provide more information on what their target market is.

There are no indications at this point that ANY significant mainstream media reporting will be present which is in line with the current, seemingly coordinated policy of denial, now in it's FIFTH month.

"GREECE'S ANSWER TO THE INTERNATIONAL CRISIS EXOTHERMIC REACTION NICKEL HYDROGEN & CHEAP, CLEAN & GREEN ENERGY"

Greece is currently imposing austerity measures aimed at recovering it's economic status.  Could the energy catalyzer be a catalyst in it's own right and help to restart the faltering Greek economy?

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NASA Chief Scientist: Rossi eCatalyzer: "Could Change Geo-Politics / Geo-Economics"

 "I think this will go forward fairly rapidly now."

"This is capable of, by itself, completely changing geo-economics, geopolitics of solving quite a bit of [the] energy [problem.]  - Dennis Bushnell, Chief Scientist of NASA Langley.

Source: EV World
EV World Podcast
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.

Thanks to Steven B. Krivit of New Energy Times for the transcription of this interview.

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Germany Dumps Nuclear Power: eCatalyzer Is Ideal Alternative

Germany will shut down ALL of it's nuclear power plants by 2022. 

The ruling party in Germany had set up a committee to look at the viability of nuclear power following the Fukoshima disaster in Japan.  After recent mass demonstrations the German government had come under sustained public pressure to end nuclear power. Meanwhile, Switzerland and Italy have shelved their plans for new reactors.

Merkel said that with its "fundamental" rethink of energy policy, Germany could set an example for other countries. "We believe we as a country can be a trailblazer for a new age of renewable energy sources," the German chancellor was quoted as saying by AFP news agency. This has deservedly been the lead story on the BBC for the last 2 days.

By ending it's reliance on nuclear power generation there will be a gap of 22% of Germany's energy needs that will need to be filled by another cheaper and hopefully (non-polluting) means of energy generation.

I took this opportunity to pose the question to Andrea Rossi, inventor of the ONLY current technology platform capable of achieving this desired outcome - the Energy Catalyzer.

"Dr Rossi, as you may have heard today the big news is that the German government have now announced an end to nuclear power generation by 2022 in the wake of the Fukoshima Nuclear Disaster.  There is no mention of how they will replace 22% of their energy needs in the next 11 years.  Other countries look sure to follow down this path, so they too will need vast amounts of energy to be replaced by other means. Perhaps your e-catalyzer can assist them?"

"Have you had any inquiries to date from foreign governments regarding the use of your new technology for power generation and can you comment on this announcement by the German government.  Is a nuclear free world possible?"

Rossi comments were out of character.  He said " I prefer not to talk about these issues before the 1 MW operational start up." 

Sure, he could just be unwilling to speculate, but normally Rossi reserves his "no comment" responses for matters relating to technical details that address the patent or questions that get too close to describing the internal workings of his reactor. I had thought it to be quite a neutral issue that he would not have had an issue with answering, given that he has no visible, identifiable connections to foreign governments and certainly no approaches by "agencies unknown" have been made public.

So has Rossi been approached already? If the people who are supposedly "in the know" are as informed as they are supposed to be and as we are led to believe, then they will have known about the promise of Rossi's technology long before WE started discussing it in a public forum.  Defkalion's 200 million Euro investment, along with the DoE connections to Ampenergo, not to mention plans to build 2 1Mw Plants should have sent ripples through the underground pond a long time ago. I find it inconceivable and absurd that this is potentially NEWS to "them".

It is more likely that Rossi's technology was identified as an oil / nuclear replacement a long time ago, many months before ANY public announcement was ever made and possibly as far back as late 2009. A technology with the potential to wipe out an energy asset base in the hundreds of TRILLIONS of dollars does not move silently and unnoticed.

Nuclear phase-out can make Germany trailblazer - Merkel 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13597627

Germany: Nuclear power plants to close by 2022 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13592208

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Sergio Focardi Interview In Mainstream Italian Magazine "Oggi"

We have (at this stage) an unconfirmed report that the Italian weekly news magazine "Oggi" (which translated means "today") will feature an interview with energy catalyzer co-inventor Prof Sergio Focardi in the next issue due out early next week.

It's not clear yet if the interview will be featured in the print, online edition or both.

UPDATE 
The article has in fact already been written and is available in the print edition only.  The blog "http://22passi.blogspot.com" is talking about this (in Italian of course). They are discussing whether to scan in the article and post it on the blog.

It's also worthwhile pointing out here that the magazine "Oggi" in question is quite popular and mainstream. So this does appear to be the first mainstream (and non-science related) publication to feature the energy catalyzer story.


Will this spread to the rest of the mainstream news?  Don't hold your breath.


"@ Jack
They told me that the latest issue of Today (!) There is a long interview with Focardi accompanied by ...rendering 3D!!! from your 3D rendering!  Tomorrow I buy it. They asked permission to you?
If it turns out that did not ask permission either to me or to you and do not have quoted the source ... quiet, tomorrow I take the vision thing and then we confront what to do. I almost hope that they patch, so expect an article on my blog for compensation! :))) :)))"

The Google Translation of the page with comments:
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=it&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2F22passi.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F05%2Fipotesi-e-cat-versione-20.html%3FshowComment%3D1306352711844%23c7757344073211961904

Thanks to Painlord2k for the information. 

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E-Catalyzer News: Latest Information Part 3

Andrea Rossi's e-catalyzer technology will change the world as we know it.  The e-catalyzer or (e-cat) is the world's first commercial cold fusion technology in production right now with a 1MW facility due to open in the United States and Greece. 

With a massive 33:1 power output ratio, it is safe, reliable and a fraction of the cost of conventional energy sources such as oil, gas, coal and many pseudo green technologies. With further refinement and power optimizations in progress, this is the technology certain to transform our society and lift the world economy into a new energy revolution and a period of very rapid change.

We have been reporting this story since January when the first demonstration took place.  Since then, there have been multiple validations, and thanks to an ongoing dialogue with the inventor Andrea Rossi we have been able to produce regular ecat news updates.  Additionally we are tracking new developments via quick informational videos - the latest of which is posted below.

Andrea Rossi Energy Catalyzer News Part 3

 

Mainstream television, radio and news websites are still ignoring or refusing to cover the story, despite the obvious magnitude of this development and it's implications for the world. 

Did You Miss Our Previous Videos?  

Andrea Rossi Energy Catalyzer News Part 1
http://youtu.be/nURJGTEyNAg?hd=1

Andrea Rossi Energy Catalyzer News Part 2

http://youtu.be/XxejzUCeSYo?hd=1

E-Catalyzer Fast Facts
http://youtu.be/0cwSFu1Pz0g?hd=1

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