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Andrea Rossi’s Plan to Commercialize Cold Fusion — Says Initial Cost of Electricity 1 Cent per kWh.
Free Energy Times ^ | March 9, 2011

Posted on 03/09/2011 3:59:22 AM PST by Normandy

If you listen to inventor Andrea Rossi responding to questions about his “energy catalyzer” cold fusion device, he regularly brings up the topic of commercialization of his devices.

Yesterday he responded briefly to inquiries and a request for an interview from Sterling Allen at the PESWiki web site in which he indicated that he was not inclined to talk about his inventions until after October, when the first operating power plant which will be built in Greece is expected to be up and running.

He states, “I am sorry to inform you that I prefer not to make interviews until October, when we will start up our 1 MW plant.

"Therefore I kindly ask you to defer our contact to the end of November. I will only make an interview to an European radio because I already got this engagement a month ago, but that will be my last communication before end October, unless I will have something new to communicate. I prefer to work and not talk, until I start the industrial production and operation of my plants."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: andrearossi; coldfusion; electricity; energy; rossiecat
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More details about this interesting cold fusion story.
1 posted on 03/09/2011 3:59:28 AM PST by Normandy
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To: Normandy

If it really works, they’ll ban it here for some reason.


2 posted on 03/09/2011 4:08:06 AM PST by xmission (www.iwilldefendtheconstitution.com)
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To: Normandy

Well three outcomes of this story....he is a fliflam man and will soon be exposed as a con artist who bilked investors of millions, He will roll out the plant as advertised assuming non inteference from the Greek bureaucracy and enviromentalists, or his inventions are real and therefore a real threat to governments and energy producers alike and he will be “disappeared”(bribed or killed) and his plans suppressed and buried!


3 posted on 03/09/2011 4:13:01 AM PST by mdmathis6 (Applied Christianity;a study in spiritual fiber optics connecting God's love to man!)
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To: mdmathis6

I hope your outcome number 3 does not happen.

As for number 1, he says “for now we prefer not to have investors. We finance ourselves selling our plants” That doesn’t mean he hasn’t had investors, so that’s still a possiblity.

Regarding number 2, we’ll have to wait until October to see what happen. Knowing startups, the rollout date could well change.

Interestingly, a long testing program at the University of Bologna is supposed to be underway.

http://pesn.com/2011/03/07/9501782_Cold_Fusion_Steams_Ahead_at_Worlds_Oldest_University/


4 posted on 03/09/2011 4:25:47 AM PST by Normandy
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To: Normandy

‘1 cent per kwh’... Brother, have I heard that before. Nuclear power advocates said the same thing. Not sayin’ we shouldn’t go that way, just modestly suggesting that ‘there ain’t no such a thing as a free lunch’.


5 posted on 03/09/2011 4:32:10 AM PST by ArtDodger (Reread Animal Farm (with your kids))
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To: mdmathis6
“therefore a real threat to governments and energy producers alike”

Your premise assumes that governments and energy producers would not want access to extremely low cost energy. The advantage such a production method would give to any government that adopted it, both commercially and militarily, would make it suicidal for them to suppress it.

6 posted on 03/09/2011 4:34:52 AM PST by marktwain
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To: Normandy

I am astonished people are still beating the dead horse of ‘Cold Fusion’. It was demonstrated a long time ago to not be true, and yet people won’t let it go. Science relies on the ability to reproduce an experiment to verify it being true. Cold Fusion has repeatedly failed by that standard.


7 posted on 03/09/2011 4:36:52 AM PST by drbuzzard (different league)
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To: Normandy

If his invention is real then a lot of energy suppliers stand to lose a lot of money.
He probably needs some good body guards or he will not be with us in November.


8 posted on 03/09/2011 4:37:35 AM PST by BuffaloJack (Obama did not learn incompetence; he was born to it.)
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To: Normandy

More details??? The only detail in the story is that there will be no details until later. I pity the poor investors.


9 posted on 03/09/2011 4:39:52 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
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To: drbuzzard

In fact not true.

“A healthy skepticism is warranted,” says Steven B. Krivit, author of a recent book on cold fusion. “However, the facts show that cold fusion experiments have been demonstrated, reproduced, replicated and published in peer-review journals.”

Experimental evidence consistently demonstrates that nuclear-scale energy, in the form of heat, is being generated without harmful radiation, greenhouse gasses or nuclear waste.

From “Cold Fusion goes back to school at MIT”

http://pesn.com/2005/04/20/6900085_Cold_Fusion_MIT/


10 posted on 03/09/2011 4:52:34 AM PST by djf (Dems and liberals: Let's redefine "marriage". We already redefined "natural born citizen".)
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To: djf

I’ll wait and see. If true, then awesome and the guy will become the richest man who ever lived, deseveredly so, the stock market will go to 30,000 in a year, and gold will drop to 32 dollars per ounce. If not true, then the cold fusion story will just continue on in a new vien as it has for so many years.


11 posted on 03/09/2011 5:01:44 AM PST by BRK
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To: BRK

Agreed. At least he’s putting the metal to the pedal, as it were...


12 posted on 03/09/2011 5:08:35 AM PST by StAnDeliver ("Are you better off than you were four years ago?")
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To: BRK

I also am skeptical, by that I mean I will wait for more evidence/theoretical explanations.

But just as an off-hand assessment, I’m inclined to think there is some anomalous results going on. Some of the people designing and performing these experiments are the top chemists/physicists in the world. I hope that more than a few of them know how to measure thermodynamics.

What DOESN’T help the situation is every few months some yodel coming out with a new “box” that you can hook up to your home and get off the grid. Especially when the new boxes all require power to run.

Or claims of a 250 mpg carb.

Interestingly, a few years back here in the Seattle area, there was some guy who claimed he had done mods to the carb on like an 89 Buick LeSabre.

They went out and rode with him and verified he was getting well over 100 mpg.

Never heard how the story played out... he’s probably in the Bahamas now with four wives...
or he’s fertilizer...


13 posted on 03/09/2011 5:13:32 AM PST by djf (Dems and liberals: Let's redefine "marriage". We already redefined "natural born citizen".)
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To: mdmathis6
Well three outcomes of this story....he is a fliflam man and will soon be exposed as a con artist who bilked investors of millions,

All three outcomes are:

  1. he is a fliflam man ,
  2. he is a fliflam man and
  3. he is a fliflam man
Not encouraging investors simply means he already has his pigeons plucked.
14 posted on 03/09/2011 5:17:55 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
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To: drbuzzard

I am astonished people are still beating the dead horse of ‘Global Warming’. It was demonstrated a long time ago to not be true, and yet people won’t let it go. Science relies on the ability to reproduce an experiment to verify it being true. Global Warming has repeatedly failed by that standard...................


15 posted on 03/09/2011 5:28:23 AM PST by Red Badger (How can anyone look at the situation in Libya and be for gun control is beyond stupid. It's suicide.)
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To: Normandy

16 posted on 03/09/2011 5:29:51 AM PST by Red Badger (How can anyone look at the situation in Libya and be for gun control is beyond stupid. It's suicide.)
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To: djf
They went out and rode with him and verified he was getting well over 100 mpg.

Probably did this the same way the old fill your gas tank with water and drop in this special pill scam worked. Secret gas tank hidden someplace in the car

17 posted on 03/09/2011 5:34:17 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
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To: BuffaloJack
If his invention is real then a lot of energy suppliers stand to lose a lot of money.

The big losers would be wind turbine and solar panel makers. And I wouldn't trust them.

18 posted on 03/09/2011 5:34:45 AM PST by Oztrich Boy (I disagree with what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it -Voltaire)
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To: Normandy

sfl


19 posted on 03/09/2011 5:36:01 AM PST by phockthis
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To: Red Badger

I certainly hope you are not implying that I believe in the Global Warming hoax.


20 posted on 03/09/2011 5:38:55 AM PST by drbuzzard (different league)
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