Posted on 04/07/2011 7:04:17 AM PDT by Liberty1970
In a detailed report, two Swedish physicists exclude chemical reactions as the energy source in the Italian energy catalyzer. The two physicists recently supervised a new test of the device in Bologna, Italy.
Essén and Professor Emeritus at Uppsala University Sven Kullander, also chairman of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Energy Committee, both participated on 29 March as observers at a new trial in Bologna of the so-called energy catalyzer, which could be based on cold fusion, or LENR, Low Energy Nuclear Reaction.
Participants included the inventor of the device, Andrea Rossi, his scientific advisor Professor Sergio Focardi, and physicists Dr. David Bianchini and Dr. Giuseppe Levi from Bologna University who both supervised the first public demonstration of the E-cat on 14 January 2011 in Bologna, Italy.
The new trial was conducted in much the same way as the trial in January, and lasted for nearly six hours. According to observations by Kullander and Essén, a total energy of about 25 kWh was generated.
In a detailed report (download here), they write:
(Excerpt) Read more at nextbigfuture.com ...
But people would pay good money for something that will heat their homes in the winter for negligible fuel costs (replacing a small nickel/hydrogen canister once a year). I don't know about you, but I spend more to heat my home in the winter than I spend on gasoline.
Thanks for the link! I will follow this very closely.
As always, this all presumes that E-cat is not a sophisticated con. If it's for-real, expect the Russians and Saudis to send agents to kill Rossi and destroy all his notes, because the E-cat would kill the economy of any nation that primarily relies on fossil fuel exports.
It would be disruptive indeed.
Not sure what security Rossi has taken, but would think he’s taken precautions to ensure the tech doesn’t die with him.
He has said this a cause that is worth “spending a life for” (don’t know what he meant by that)
BTW here’s a link to his patent application:
Interesting abstract. Doesn’t tell anything about how it works, but the bit that implies that the effect works at a temperature up to five thousand degrees C is quite intriguing in its implications
If you can make steam to heat a house, you are not too far away from making electricity. Small turbines are easy to design and manufacture and not terribly expensive, they are cheap enough to put in a car, every turbocharged engine has one.
The question is whether they can make steam, there have been claims similar to this one since the 90’s. The big difference is that they were heating water in a lab somewhere and nobody else could verify their success.
The real proof will be when these are in independent labs being run or preferably produced and tested by independent entities. I’m still concerned that the tests are being run by the inventor and the independent parties are only watching it.
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