Posted on 03/18/2011 6:47:50 AM PDT by Normandy
An article from the Greek website energypress Greek company Defkalion Green Technologies, SA is preparing to install a 1 mW power plant which uses the “energy catalyzer” technology invented by Andrea Rossi and Sergio Focardi.
According to the article, the company has said that this power plant will be used to power a factory in Xanthi, Greece where Defkalion will build up to 300,000 Rossi/Focardi E-cat units per year for the Greek and Balkan markets.
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One milliwatt? What will they run with that?
When I see it, I’ll believe it.
.....anything that you’d usually run with two AA batteries, I guess! ; )
The phone lines maybe.
Has any peer review been done on this? I am not a chemist, but it smells of something the caliber of cold fusion.
That’s a good question. It’s controversial mainly because they are claiming something like cold fusion. There is ongoing testing taking place at the University of Bologna, Italy.
Here’s a report from one academic who has looked at this technology:
Frankly, I did not understand much of what I was reading in that paper. Do you understand the conclusions? If so, can you interpret them for us?
Of course, fusion with elements hevier than Iron (26) does not release energy, but absorbs it. Both nickel and copper are heavier than iron, so the process looks impossible on its face if relying on fusion.
Be careful not to connect the electrical output of this device into its electrical input. It could create enough energy to start a new big bang.
I don’t have the background to understand it all either. Here is a link to an interview with Giuseppe Levi where he discusses the testing. It’s a bit easier to follow.
http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article3108242.ece
I don’t have the background to understand it all either. Here is a link to an interview with Giuseppe Levi where he discusses the testing. It’s a bit easier to follow.
http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article3108242.ece
A key excerpt from Dr. Levi:
Together they ran the unit for 18 hours.
“It was extremely interesting. It is clear that this was an internal test that I needed to understand what parameters must be under control during a longer test, but frankly, I wanted to see the device work for hours,” Levi told Ny Teknik
“It was pretty impressive in some respects. First, the repeatability. This is the third time I’ve seen the device, and again it produces energy.”
“The second thing is that this time we loaded the unit with hydrogen at the beginning, and then the bottle was closed. It then worked for 18 hours with the bottle closed. Quite impressive.”
“I weighed container before and after charging, and including the gas we let out to empty the tube of air, the consumption of hydrogen was 0.4 grams. That’s nothing!”
“Minimum power was 15 kilowatts, and that’s a conservative value. I calculated it several times. At night we did a measurement and the device then worked very stable and produced 20 kilowatts.”
“Now that I have seen the device work for so many hours, in my view all chemical energy sources are excluded,” said Giuseppe Levi.
From that heat is produced. Is this some new process?
Apparently it is — that’s the reason for quite a lot of skepticism and caution about the claims.
Nothing you have posted constitutes peer review.
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