1 MW E-Cat Cold Fusion Device Test Successful

1 MW E-Cat Cold Fusion Device Test Successful
On October 28, 2011, Andrea Rossi demonstrated his 1 megawatt E-Cat system to his first customer, who had engineers/scientists on hand to test/validate its performance. Due to a glitch, it provided 470 kW of continuous power for 5.5 hours during the self-sustained mode.
Here I am with Andrea Ross after the test of the 1 MW E-Cat plant in the background.

By Sterling D. Allan (who was present), with Hank Mills
Pure Energy Systems News
Well, the big day has come and gone. Andrea Rossi's one-megawatt-capable E-Cat cold fusion device has been tested in Bologna, Italy; and the unknown customer, who ran the test, is apparently happy.

There were some issues, so it couldn't be run at full power in self-looped mode, but what it did do was plenty impressive.

It ran for 5.5 hours producing 470 kW, while in self-looped mode. That means no substantial external energy was required to make it run, because it kept itself running, even while producing an excess of nearly half a megawatt. Rossi explained the reasons for this in the presentation he gave, which I videotaped and will be posting later.

That's half the rated capacity, but it is still a major accomplishment for the device that was completed earlier this week -- the first of its kind on the planet.

Early in the day with a glitch showing up, Rossi said that they had to make a decision about whether to go for 1 MW output, not in self-sustain mode, or with self-sustain mode at a lower power level. The customer opted to go for the self-sustain mode. Nothing was said about the prospects of a follow-up test, though I would imagine that the customer will be running many tests to understand this gadget they have purchased, and that information will be conveyed to Rossi.

When I asked him during the Q&A session if the customer was satisfied with the test, Rossi responded, "Yes, I think they are satisfied."

Here is a brief video excerpt highlight from Rossi during his 1-hour reading of the public report from the customer, followed by a question and answer session. I recorded the entire presentation, and we'll post that tomorrow, hopefully along with a transcription. Half the time was in Italian, as he would address each item in Italian as well as English.

In this excerpt, Rossi responds to the question, "So, is this a breakthrough?"

Here's a transcription of the excerpt video:
Mister Sonya has asked me if I think that the test of today is a breakthrough. I think yes, because I think today we have seen enough. No more small five or ten kilowatt units, but now we have overcame the [cannot understand].... disconnected. The basic engineering to make something that....

You know, to go in self sustain mode and make 400 [actually 470] kilowatt hours per hour... To understand that this is a breakthrough...

You can also think that hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent to try to have a COP of 1.1 with nuclear fusion. Today we have made a theoretically endless COP making 470 kilowatt hour per hour of completely free energy, free of fuel. Yes, I think this is a breakthrough.

Of course this is the first step, but it is a very important first step....
Early this year Andrea Rossi announced his plans to construct and test the world's first one megawatt cold fusion plant. The plant would utilize his E-Cat (Energy Catalyzer) technology that utilizes tiny quantities of nickel powder and hydrogen gas as fuel, while producing large amounts of energy in the form of heat. Importantly, the energy is produced without emitting any pollution, utilizing any radioactive materials, or producing any nuclear waste. Simply put, the E-Cat offers the world a source of cheap, safe, and clean energy. Although the exact plans for the launch of the technology were adjusted a few times throughout the course of this year, October 28th, 2011 was settled on for the date of the official test of the one megawatt plant by the first customer.

These first plants will cost around $2,000 per kilowatt to build one at a time, but once they are mass produced, Rossi expects the price to drop to around $100 per kilowatt installed.

Attendance at this test was limited for several reasons. First, the customer does not wish to be known at this time, nor to have its test engineers/scientists identified. I did not inadvertently discover the customer's identify, nor did I try to find out. I gave that group their space and did not probe. Second, the device is a nuclear device, and the regulations for a public demonstration are extremely stringent; so by making the event private, and only bringing one or two at a time to see it was a way to get around the safety requirements.

Most of us (around 30 guests total) arrived between 9 and 10 am; and by around 11 am, Rossi began taking people back to see the device while it was in operation, in self-sustained mode. Here's a video I shot, with Rossi's permission, during my 2-3 minute chance to see the unit during operation:

A neighboring facility, coincidentally, is named "Rossi", which is a common name in Italy.

Here I am with Mats Lewan and other Swedish associates.

Here I am with Peter Svensson from the AP

Professor Levi, who was Rossi's right-hand man today, will be heading the Bologna research on the E-Cat. Power for start-up (resistive coils that provided heat to the reaction chambers) was provided by the large and loud genset (was making all the noise) you see that is nearly as large as the small shipping container in which the 1 MW E-Cat plant was arranged. Once the reaction chambers got up to temperature, they were maintained by the heat produced by the reaction. I'm not sure why they kept the generator running after that, but I would guess it was for back-up or safety. I'm sure the engineers testing the system made sure what the power levels were at all times.

There were 100 E-Cat modules, each with 3 reaction chambers in them, for a total of 300 reaction chambers. An additional 20 or so units had been installed on the top of the shipping container, compared to the earlier photos and videos we had seen. Steam was produced by the units and exited through the back in the bottom of the two pipes. The steam was not put to use to run a load but the heat was dumped via two radiators, distilled, and circulated back into the system. When looking inside the plant, I noticed that one of the E-Cat units had a little steam escaping from the front of it.

The top pipe in the back, which was closed, was for emergency cool-down, if needed.

Each unit was run independently through a computerized control. The input and output temperature readings were recorded by computer, and the data will be provided to us probably later this evening or tomorrow morning. When I went by there, I think the input was measuring 19 C, and the output was 109 C.

Radiation measurements were taken by Dr. Bianchini David, from the University of Bologna. He said no extraneous radiation was detected at any time emanating from the reaction chambers, or from the piping, or from the water tanks, or in the vicinity of the apparatus. Apparently, gamma radiation is produced during the reaction, which is shielded by water, iron, lead, and a final coating on the apparatus. David said that he has not measured gamma radiation from the device, because he has not had access to the reaction chamber while it has been unshielded.

None of the units were taken apart following this test, as was the one back on the October 6 test. I asked Rossi whether any radio frequencies were used in the test, and he said "no".

I would estimate that there were about 12 people assisting with the test arrangement, including: 3-4 security guards, 1 caterer, 2 receptionists who checked to make sure everyone was invited and wore the required badges, 3-4 engineers helping take measurements, Foccardi was helping take guests 1-2 at a time back to see the unit.

I especially enjoyed mingling with the other guests, including: Mats Lewan from NyTeknik; Irene Zreick from Focus.it; Peter Svensson, Technology Writer for the Associated Press, NY, who told me that the reason the mainstream press hasn't been covering this is because Rossi has been very picky about who he lets in; Enrico Billi, a nuclear physicist and friend of Rossi's, who is presently living in China and helping to open doors there for this technology; Professor Christos Stremmenos, from the University of Bologna, who told me all about his theory of how the technology works; Pierre Clauzon, nuclear engineering professor from France, who told me about several theoretical physicists trying to understand cold fusion in general and the E-Cat in particular; Uzikova Irina, a nuclear plant designer from Russia; Stefan Heglesson, representing a Swedish interest in the technology; Loris Ferrari, Associate Professor of Condensed Matter Physics from the University of Bologna, who will be one of the five professors to do the two year test of the E-Cat, which hopefully will be funded as a result of today's test. They will study both the "how" and the "why" of the technology.

Mats and I agreed to post our stories at the same time. Peter was going to go first, having been given an exclusive by Rossi, but it's going to be a few days before he gets the necessary info and editorial approvals before he's able to run a story in the Associated Press.

Probably the biggest opening for skeptics will be the continually running genset that is probably rated for 500 kW (my guess), and appears to have been connected by cables to the E-Cat. "Where's the mystery?" So knock yourselves out, skeptics. It's the customer who has to be happy, and apparently this one was satisfied that those cables were not contributing to the 470 kW output during self-sustaining mode.

Here's a video where Rossi talks to us briefly following the test, saying that a report will come shortly; and giving us the reason for why we couldn't go back during the test except 1-2 at a time.

And here's a video of a couple of 1 MW generators that were in the room where we were hanging out, which were from an earlier project Rossi was involved with, running on biofuel.

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Links
News:October 28, 2011 Test of the One Megawatt E-Cat (Our index page at PESWiki)
http://db.tt/wu4OLbgk - a link to download a file which contains the report about the test
http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article3303682.ece - Mat Lewans' story

You’re either on Rossi’s payroll, or lack essential critical thinking skills.
***Let’s take a look at the critical thinking skills exhibited in this sentence, shall we? It exhibits a classic fallacy known as the False Dilemma. Now, how is it that someone criticising the critical thinking skills of another FReeper exhibits a classical logical fallacy which betrays a lack of the very critical thinking skills he is criticising? Irony, thy name is dinodino.

...and, for the fourteenth time, Freeper Kevmo gaily ignores the fact that the “scientist” for whom he shills proudly claims a degree from a diploma mill.

Read more carefully - I didn't make a 'claim' - what I posted was a plausible interpretation of a how Rossi could be working that part of his scam.

IAC, any non imaginary customer would expect to have at least some relevant information revealed to him about what he was purchasing. You virtually admitted Rossi is a charlatan.

Rossi got his ‘degree’ from a diploma mill that was shut down for giving out fake diplomas ....

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/10/eveningnews/main616664.shtml

At the same time you woudn't ordinarily find "nuclear effects", that is evidence of the "Strong Nuclear Force" at work in a device making use of the "ElectroWeak Force".

Which seems to be a problem for some.

“HEY KEVMO, IS THE DEGREE FAKE OR NOT? Idiot.”

I would like to interject that MOST degrees are phoney today... They mean VERY little. The person I know with the most patents worked for a fortune 500 all his life and has over 100. Of course they own them... No degree, just a HS diploma.

I would also say that most HS diplomas are phoney today also. Half the kids with them can’t read.

Forbes has been telling me to vote for Romney.

Now, tell me seriously, why would I bother reading their stuff anymore. Yecccchhhhhh!!!!!!!!!

Note the article's date ~ 2007. Still, the fake degrees and related lies continue to proliferate ~ particularly in government agencies that don't check.

USPS is such anagency. In my four decades there they were never known to check anyone's claims regarding degrees ~ what you needed was the imprimatur of the Senior Democrat on the House Post Office and Operations committee, or the Chairman with the Democrats were in charge.

Most government agencies aren't as good as that ~ they don't even put you through the mill of finding your way to a top Democrat.

It's a crime.

what's your take on the Korean atom bomb? Is it real, is it fake, and how is it they do those big explosions just short of what we can do?

Real, because that's what intelligence agencies and conventional media report. I don't know what their yields are estimated to be, but I know how they're doing it: explosively creating a supercritical mass of fissile plutonium or uranium. You know, how everyone does it.

Your interjection of your editorial opinion of higher learning doesn’t change my question, nor does it change the fact that Rossi purchased a scam diploma from a diploma mill and claims it as his educational credentials.

These are the actions of a con artist.

No, I don't know that. The problem with the Korean nukes is they are not working out well, yet they do produce more of a blast than an equal weight of chemicals could produce.

Something's going on but it ain't quite what you'd expect from the Strong Nuclear Force.

>> “I’ll take your nonsensical reply as an admission by you that you know Rossi’s degree is fake, but you really don’t care.” <<

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You know that you’ve got them running when they resort to adhominem attack.

Rossi’s ‘degree’ is irrelevent. No degree ever produced anything. Degrees are for seeking employment or advancement. Rossi says that he has a process; why would you care whether he does or not? If his degree was from Stanford, would that make his process better?

Are you deeply concerned for the financial well being of his investor?

Tell us what your personal angle is.

If Rossi’s degree was from Stanford, we would expect him to have a certain level of scientific knowledge, as well as experience in a laboratory environment.

You act as though not pursuing a degree and purchasing a degree from a diploma mill are the same, and they are very different. In the former, the subject has decided he does not want or need a diploma. In the latter case, the subject has decided that he needs a university diploma, but does not wish to earn it, so he buys it from a diploma mill with the specific aim of deceiving casual observers into believing that he has earned a degree. The latter subject is a liar and a fraud.

You keep missing the whole point.

Either the man has a functional process, or he does not.

In either case, it matters not at all how much sheep he has on the wall; what matters is whether the process is valid, and that was supposed to be what this thread was about, but a bunch of screaming fools are here to deflect from that question.

Why?

“If Rossi’s degree was from Stanford, we would expect him to have a certain level of scientific knowledge, as well as experience in a laboratory environment.”

I wouldn’t. At HP I worked with hundreds of them and to use a very technical term if I’m permitted on this forum; most of them sucked...

The problem with people from universities like Stanford is that they are mostly unable or unwilling to think out side the box...

How can we tell if Rossi has a valid process or not? He performs closed tests with shady protocols, speaks of mysterious buyers, and refuses to answer questions or subject his method to peer review. Since we can’t make a determination from scientific inquiry, what we CAN do is look at Rossi’s record. He has a sordid history, criminal convictions, and his engineering degree is from a diploma mill—all of which lead to one likely conclusion: SCAM.

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