Posted on 05/10/2011 6:15:05 PM PDT by Free Vulcan
There is a category of inventions called disruptive technology. Funding streams allotted to this sector award designers who innovate based on radical departures from incremental change. A cursory search of disruptive technology will yield many examples, most of which are IT-oriented, such as breakthroughs in social networking, cloud computing, and cyber security.
You will find little to no mention of the most disruptive technology of all, cold fusion, even as the first commercial device is poised to be installed later this year. Defkalion Green Technologies based in Athens, Greece holds the world rights, excepting the Americas, for Andrea A. Rossi’s Energy Catalyzer, or ECat, a new energy reactor based on cold fusion technology, which Mr. Rossi prefers to be called low-energy nuclear reactions. A factory located in Xanthi, Greece plans to use an array of smaller models of the publicly demonstrated 12 Kw ECat, linked together, to generate 1Mw power for the purpose of manufacturing more ECats.
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Thanks for the post. Haven’t heard too much about it lately. Glad to see more work in this area.
Quick, someone please post that picture of the guy who looks like Desi Arnez with the caption “ Gee, not this *hit Again”. Hurry
They make us look liquid.
Been following the E-CAT with increasing interest. With the Italian patent now granted, this does not appear to be a scam.
We’ll all know soon enough. Less than six months before his 1mw plant is scheduled to go online.
One of the really interesting things about this technology is its ability to take traansmute material.
One reaction I read about created copper. I don’t remember the original metal used. It may have been aluminum, since it site in the same column as copper on the periodic table.
It’s nickel.
Cold fusion is one of the most environmentally friendly sources of energy. Perpetual motion, of course, is THE most environmentally friendly.
All we need is a couple trillion dollars worth of research into this.
I remember it as nickel+hydrogen=Copper
One reaction I read about created copper.
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They start with nickel and an undisclosed catalyst.
Dollars? In a few months, a couple of trillion dollars might buy a loaf of bread. Better hurry up.
That’s what I like about Rossi. He’s using his own money. Having been around the alt. energy business I can tell you that for every good project there are 20 shysters and doe-eyed fools looking for every dime they can get and never produce a product.
Rossi has said the product will speak for itself. He’s made no claims and very few promises. He’s had skeptics and scientists verify his technology. If he fails he fails, but he won’t be taking a ton of people down with him and retire wealthy to some Italian villa in Tuscany.
Given that the Greek government is led by a third generation Socialist incompetent, who is running the country into the ground, that’s not a ringing endorsement.
Where can I go to see video of cold fusion actually producing measurable, verifiable current?
> All we need is a couple trillion dollars worth of research into this.
I’ve read their patent.
You could build one of these reactors and buy the fuel materials all for under $1k. Anyone who understands the process of how margarine is made by hydrogenating vegetable oil would probably be successful, as long as they don’t forget to shield the reactor. This really is new and remarkable.
Sure, once you get your car converted and your home hooked up, you'll be living pretty much for free BUT there'll be nothing for sale, and aggregate unemployment should be lurching toward 50% (and that's on top of the loss of the carbon industry jobs.)
As in “Kalmar Nyckel” ~ or “Nickel Mines Pa” ~ or the world’s deepest manmade hole up there in “Nikel Oblast” ~ then Cadbury Ontario has its own nickel-iron meteor ~ plus it’s just all over the place. Nickel is the world’s 5th most commonly found element.
That is still cool.
If they can do that, it’d be interesting to see if they could create elements not knwon to exist yet.
I hope this is a game changer and the Saudis can get back on their camels.
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