BREAKTHROUGH POWER TEST A SUCCESS, BUT A.P. SITS ON IT

The American Reporter ^ | October 30 2011 | Joe Shea

[Kevmo]

BREAKTHROUGH POWER TEST A SUCCESS, BUT A.P. SITS ON IT
by Joe Shea
AR Correspondent
Bradenton, Fla .

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BRADENTON, Fla., Oct. 30, 2011 -- If you went to Google tonight and searched for the terms "E Cat Rossi Associated Press" you'd get 1,430,000 results from blogs, Web sites and magazines like Wired.com (UK edition). That number will grow .

Most are about how an Associated Press reporter attended the demonstration of a device - as the exclusive media person present during the whole test - that proceeded to generate 475,000 watts of power continuously for five hours with no input and just its secret Low Energy Nuclear Reaction device - a cold fusion reactor, in plain terms - providing power for the people who need it most - this world's billions of poor and hungry human beings.. AP Science writer Peter Svensson with Peswiki founder Sterling Allen at the workshops of Italian inventor and electrical engineer Andrea Rossi in Bologna, Italy. They were at Friday's final demonstration of a 1Mw cold fusion reactor that generated 470Kw of energy without any power input. Svensson had exclusive access during the test. The AP is sitting on the story, Joe Shea suspects. Photo: Sterling Allan/Peswiki There is substantial skepticism about Rossi and the reactor, and one critic has noted the inventor has had several brushes with the law over get-rich-quick schemes, the latest in the '90s, but always got short sentences and never went to jail. He would not be the first important inventor with an arrest record .

At the demonstration on this past Friday, Oct. 28, there was a large generator outside his workshop with cables running into the room where the demonstration was conducted. Rossi has explained to Pewwiki founder Sterling Allan that it was "absolutely cold" in the workshop and the generator was needed for heat in the fairly large space (the E Cat produces only steam usable for a turbine). Most of the videos of the demonstration show Rossi in a thin blue dress shirt, and one person present told me tonight it was "quite chilly" at the event. Most people are wearing jackets or sweaters inside, so that seems a plausible explanation. The A.P. has not yet reported anything, so we remain at least partly in the dark. In the video at left, below, sound of the generator is heard throughout, while the E Cat actually operates in complete silence. Touching it, I'm told, once can feel something bubblinside - apparently the water that makes the steam that is measured as output. The Event: Rossi E Cat Demo
Live Demo of 1Mw Cold Fusion Reactor
As for the crimes, I confess that I have been convicted of far worse and have gone to county jail once, at 16. At the same time, I've been on Page 1 in the Reader's Digest (March 1968), was invited to the White House to see the President, took the Brazilian Ambasador to dinner, was on the Hollywood LAPD Community-Police Advisory Board and also won a landmark Supreme Court First Amendment case, Shea v. Reno; I go to church every Sunday and try very hard to be a good person .

Under the circumstances that have prevailed in Rossi's life, I can see how desperation might drive a brilliant man to finagle for wealth in ways the courts always forgave. They forgave me for breaking into a cigarette machine, too, and Gov. Henry Bellmon pardoned me when I was 19. With 30 others, I invented serious journalism on the Internet, which is no small thing, when we began the American Reporter in 1995. This man, identified as Domenico Fioravanti, acted on behalf of the buyer in the transaction that purchased the 1Mw E Cat reactor for an unknown price and trucked it away. An Olympic gold medalist shares the same name. A printed signature on the transaction document was crossed out but still partly visible. It seemed to spell the abbreviation for "Colonel." Photo: Matt Lewans/NyTeknik Perhaps, like me, Rossi is a different man today. His scientific colleagues and supporters are legion, and they seem to think so. There have been no entries for Rossi in the police blotter since 1997, 14 years ago, according to his major critic, who admits he is paid for his work but will not say who pays. No one pays for our work except Google AdSense, the Benson County Farmer's News and the Progressive Populist .

But I suspect the world will wait a long time for the A.P. story. It appears, at least, that we've all been cheated of progress once again. The test was for a customer - his first name was "Colonel" - who immediately hooked up the 20-ft container it was placed in and drove it away. It is the A.P., after all, with its thousands of news outlets around the globe, which can really tell the world what has happened .

Ironically, now just a day later, 1.7 million people are without power in the blizzard hitting the Northeast, the New York Times reports. It has no story on the Rossi device as a home heater because the AP didn't write one yet. After you purchase it, the Rossi device, which is intended for homes and factories, will supply electricity for free forever. The Internet gave the U.S. economy a helluva jolt, but the E Cat would also keep 1.7 million people - an awful lot of broke families and hungry children among them - from shivering through this long cold night .

The technology has been vetted by people as diverse as scientists of U.S. Navy space and warfare division, NASA Chief Scientist Dennis Bushnell, Nobel Laureate Brian Josephson, the chairman of the energy committee of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences - who helps name the Nobel Prize winner in several sciences - and even the head of the Swedish Skeptics Society, there has not been a peep out of the A.P. since .

This reporter, in fact, was warned by someone named Jerome on its national desk in the early hours of Saturday morning not to be too quick to believe an A.P. Reporter was there - although his name, Peter Svensson, and picture with other journalists appears on some of those sites tonight - and I was criticized for "driving A.P. coverage" of the event .

Since the E Cat is just as important as the invention of the radio, the Internet, the light bulb and the atom bomb, and since - as DOE spokesman Sean Murphy told reporters in 2009 about the device's fundamental element, hydrogen - so it can completely replace oil by 2050, this reporter thought he was doing the A.P. a favor when he called up their national desk and told them about it just 30 hours or so before the test .

Even the fact that the test was performed for an unidentified customer whose representative, a man named Domenico Fioravanti, after the demonstration immediately bought and paid for it (for an undisclosed sum), has not persuaded the A.P. to risk shame, scorn and the rage of oil companies to do its job and report on what it sent its science writer to see. The mysterious Colonel is not the guy who will do that .

Associated Press Science Editor Kit Frieden (kfrieden@ap.org) didn't answer her phone when we called, but I'll will bet you dollars to donuts 1,500 calls from A.P. members would not get her to budge .

"There are no conspiracies," an A.P. editor in London told me. We sure wonder. The reporter himself has blamed the lack of press on the scientist, Rossi, who is apparently a difficult guy to get along with. Remember this, inventors: cultivate a winning personality before you save the world with your invention, or it will die on the vine for lack of attention .

Murphy was not talking about cold fusion, then, just about hydrogen and how it will erode the trillions of dollars earned and billions in profits on which they pay they pay little or no tax .

The device that can do that, scientists and science writers and many more believe, is the cold fusion marvel Italian electrical engineer Andrea Rossi demonstrated all day long on Friday, before about 30 of them. When he immediately sold it, the University of Bologna in Italy, one of the oldest universities in the world, became the site of one of the greatest inventions in world history .

Even though it was my 3 a.m. call that got the A.P. writer sent to the demonstration, I had no stake other than deep interest in any part of it. My stake is humanity's stake: freedom from oil and all the loss, the wars and the terror it creates .

Please do your part to make certain the world finds out.

[dinodino]

Yes, must be a conspiracy. Couldn’t possibly be that Rossi looks like a scam artist, could it?

Have you read the Kensington University C&D letters yet? Still standing behind your fake diploma-flaunting man Rossi?

[PapaBear3625]

First off, there is no such thing as the “U.S. Navy space and warfare division”.

Additionally, on the au.af.mil (Air Force University) site, there is a page discussing NAVAL SPACE COMMAND (page dated 1995):

Naval Space Command also serves as the naval service component of the United States Space Command (USSPACECOM), established in 1985. Component responsibilities include operating assigned space systems to provide surveillance and warning, as well as providing spacecraft telemetry and on-orbit engineering support.

Something that could provide high levels of energy for long periods of time without the risks involved in lofting radioactive materials has obvious military space applications.

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

(the E Cat produces only steam usable for a turbine)

What is that supposed to mean? Steam is water above 212 degrees Fahrenheit at sea level. If I read the post correctly there was a "large generator" there to provide heat to the lab building. What became of the "475,000 watts of power continuously generated for five hours". That should have been enough to have the spectators in the lab running around in their skivvies.

"Only steam usable for a turbine" is techno-babble. Steam is steam. If you can't heat the room with it, it won't drive a turbine either.

Regards,
GtG

[Kevmo]

I am eager to see more through testing done on this system, especially the data on the quality of steam produced.
***The demo was for his own customer. The customer was satisfied and took possession of the device. That is, unless the customer was part of a dog & pony show as the seagulls proclaim (without evidence).

[count-your-change]

And even the tiny bit of steam produced was useless for a turbine since what they called “steam” was just water vapor, steam is invisible and must be under pressure for a turbine.
What they have is a water heater, a tea kettle.

[kingu]

The demo was for his own customer. The customer was satisfied and took possession of the device. That is, unless the customer was part of a dog & pony show as the seagulls proclaim (without evidence).

Okie, well, that certainly addressed calculations of subtracting W(e) from W(t) and wondering if we'd ever see some data about the quality of steam produced. Glad that's all cleared up. Thanks for the seagull reply.

[Kevmo]

Yes, must be a conspiracy. Couldn’t possibly be that Rossi looks like a scam artist, could it?
***Your position requires that it be a conspiracy.

To quote a recent article...

A genuine company, having taken delivery of such a thing, now belongs to the rare club that knows for a fact if this is real or not. If it is real then that knowledge on its own is extraordinarily valuable – either as a means to invest in the tech while confusion confounds potential competitors or as intelligence to inform playing the markets (assuming it is not a Government body or NGO). Shorting (for instance) a sector dominated by high-risk energy projects like the Canadian Tar Sands (or any other project where the value depends on high oil prices well into the future) would not be considered insider trading because all of this information is out there on the Net and because that information is about potentially competing technology and not the target companies themselves.

Unfortunately, if Rossi hired a bunch of actors to pretend to be the customer reps, created an elaborate year-long special-effects-derived series of demos, bribed, hypnotised or otherwise fooled Focardi, Levi, Kullander, Essen, Bianchini, Stremmenos and convinced a bunch of Greek crooks to set up a dummy company called Defkalion to pretend to fight with him over the non-existent eCat, to perpetuate the illusion and spin it off into a competing mirror-scam and convinced his former partners to set up another company called Ampenergo to pretend that they had a contract for The Americas for a substantial sum or that they just did this with no proof because they have worked with Rossi and trust him because he’s such a fine fellow, arranged for Piantelli, Miley and a host of others to try to fool the world into thinking that cold fusion was real, got NASA, SPAWAR, The Defense Threat Reduction Agency and The Defense Intelligence Agency to say nice things about the field, got Bushnell to make a fool of himself, sold his profitable company to his ex-partners in order to spend that wealth on a multi-million dollar scam; certain that once he got all the above ducks in a row he would pretend to sell the first device and then reel in the true target of his dastardly plan – the second (this time genuine) buyer of a 1MW plant that will net him $2 million dollars until they want their money back or sucker a $100 million dollar deal under the table because he has experience in pulling the wool over all these idiotic eyes and knows that they will just take his word for it and not want to test if his 1MW plant can heat a small village without truckloads of coal or oil or a big fat electric cable coming into the container from beneath the floor (no you can’t lift the carpet!) and that, in order to pull this off, Rossi had to risk discovery by interviewing all the people he subsequently fooled so that he could only invite the gullible Professors and not the brilliant anonymous posters on the Internet who surely would have found him out – then all bets are off and I’m with the guys who think that Rossi is an idiot and they are all geniuses.

[American in Israel]

So he runs a large generator in the back to "heat the room" and his Nuclear Reactor creates 475 thousand watts of power that goes... where?

Why not go to a room heater? Other than the fact it would make a small building burn down from the heat. A half a megawatt of power is a Whole lot of heat. Now you can't just generate a half a megawatt and ignore it, you HAVE to use it or you can't measure it. Normally you would just place a resistive load on it to dispel it as... heat. Yet the room is still cold!

[Kevmo]

I think that was a brainfart sentence written in the article by a nontechnical author. Those who are current on the technology know that Rossi’s device was not suitable for steam to turn a turbine efficiently. It was basically suitable for producing heat. To get to the point where you can efficiently run a turbine the steam needs to get to the 400 degrees C range. That will be the next step for Rossi.

[aimhigh]

Here’s another story that didn’t go far: Gunnerman’s “A-21” fuel

[Kevmo]

It was a demo device for Rossi’s customer. The customer seems to have signed off on this demo and taken possession of the device. Apparently it generated enough heat for the customer to buy it.

[Kevmo]

Thanks for the seagull reply.
***Well, that’s a first.

[American in Israel]

Now if you wanted to cheat, you start the system with the lower unit full of air, and back drain water from the over head tank into it so that you “boil off” a few hundred pounds of water and call that heat generated.

This way you can generate massive ammounts of heat, without anything actually getting very warm.

Way too much scam like stuff going on. Without weighing the “reactor” before and after and checking for a drain tube to a floor drain somewhere this is all right up there with PT Barnham “science”. Way way too easy to set this up.

[Kevmo]

I can think of a dozen publications that would print this story.

***Well, then, post the list and let’s get in touch with them.

[jaydee770]

>>...First off, there is no such thing as the “U.S. Navy space and warfare division”. lol!...<<

It’s real enough for me. I’ve done contract work there:
(www.spawar.navy.mil)

[Kevmo]

Without weighing the “reactor” before and after
***That sort of thing has been done several times in Rossi’s prior demos and if the customer who paid for it did not weigh it this time around then he’s simply a fool. Worse than that, because there are plenty of us who are less qualified to verify this thing who would think to weigh it. If Rossi is that much of a genius at finding idiotic customers then he is a master scam artist, and at least that part of it will make a good story.

[dinodino]

Complete gibberish from Kevmo, as usual.

Oh, by the way, what was your explanation for Rossi’s fraudulent university diploma again? I forgot.

[Kevmo]

You must be part of the conspiracy, then. /s

[Kevmo]

Oh, by the way, what was your explanation for Rossi’s fraudulent university diploma again?
***I posted it. Oh, gee, how could that have happened, that you did not read it? You mean, there is stuff about LENR that you have not read but want to seagull all over it anyways?

Here’s a question you will not answer: How many times has the Pons-Fleischmann effect been replicated? Oh, I know, I know, if you bother to answer it there will be a ton of couched terms, backtracking, gibberish, non-sequiturs and bowl sheet, but no real answer to such a simple question.