LENR & Cold Fusion News
Cold Fusion Energy & LENR News
Rossi Again Claims E-cat Plants are Under Construction
Andrea Rossi is again claiming that his E-cat low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) devices are under construction. The inventor is also claiming that he will soon start selling energy from the devices.
In a post September 3, conversation on Rossi’s message board, Frank Acland asked: “Have you started building them yet?” That statement was presumably in reference to E-cat reactors.
Rossi replied: “yes.” The only problem with his answer was that when Acland asked: “When do you expect to have them completed?”
Rossi answered: “confidential.”
This conversation makes absolutely no sense because Rossi is apparently planning to sell the reactors or energy from them. One would think he would announce a date so customers would know when to start buying. In other posts, Rossi claims he has “marketing experts” on his payroll but is not ready to announce when he plans to market.
Details of Rossi Industrial Heat Settlement Available
Swedish Journalist Mats Lewan has uncovered some of the details of the settlement Andrea Rossi and Industrial Heat (IH) made to end their lawsuit. Those details are available at Lewin’s Impossible Invention blog.
Lewin also posted a new interview with Rossi who explained some of the details of the suit and the settlement. Rossi told Lewin that the purpose of the settlement was to protect his Intellectual Property (IP) rights.
“To us, the most important thing was to regain complete ownership of the IP and of all the rights that were conceded through the license,” Rossi told Lewan. “At this point, it had become very clear that a continued collaboration had become impossible because of the choices IH made and because of other reasons.”
Important details of the settlement revealed in a document posted online include:
- The lawsuit was dismissed with prejudice. That means neither Rossi nor Industrial Heat owner Tom Darden are denying any of their charges. They are simply dropping the suit.
Electric Cars Coming Faster than we Thought
The age of the electric car is now here thanks to Elon Musk and Tesla. That will mean greater demand for electricity than ever before and more need of new methods of generating power like Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR).
Tesla has installed hundreds of its superchargers; or filling stations for electric cars, throughout the United States and Canada. The chargers are found in almost all the big cities, and some pretty remote locations such as Blanding, Utah, Perry Oklahoma, Sulphur Springs, Texas, Red Deer, Alberta, Sheridan, Wyoming, Ritzville, Washington, and Farmington New Mexico.
The idea behind the chargers is to allow people to drive across the US or Canada in an electric car. Another reason for the chargers is to dispel one of the major objections to electric vehicles; the inability to drive long distances, which is one of the reasons for owning a car in the first place.
Rossi accuses Industrial Heat of Trying to Sell him his Own Ecat License
Andrea Rossi is now accusing Tom Darden’s Industrial Heat of trying to sell his own e-cat low nuclear reaction (LENR) technology back to him.
“As usual, the guys of Industrial Heat (IH) are ready to sell what they do not own; now they are offering us to buy back our license, the license that they do not have anymore,” Rossi wrote at his blog on June 23, 2016, “I wonder if they will try to sell the Coliseum of Rome as well. IH has no more any license related to our IP (intellectual property); and whomever is interested to us in North America, Central America, South America, Russia, China, Saudi Arabia and Emirates must contact exclusively.”
The remains of one of Alexander Parkhomov's reactors.
Rossi’s company; Leonardo Corporation, terminated Industrial Heat’s license to market the ecat technology on June 2, 2016, a press release indicates. Therefore we have to wonder what Industrial Heat is up to.
Rossi and Hydrofusion Make Offer on Swedish Factory
The long-rumored ecat factory could soon become a reality in Sweden. Rossi and his partners at Hydrofusion; the Northern European licensee for his low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) technology, made an offer on a factory in Sweden.
Rossi toured the 10,000 square meter factory and made a $3 million (€2.68 million) to $5 million (€4.47 million) offer to buy it during the week of May 9, 2016, Mats Lewan reported at his An Impossible Invention Blog. The facility will apparently be used to produce Rossi’s Quark X ecat device with robotic technology from the Swiss company ABB Group.
Rossi told Lewan that the factory could produce up to 500,000 items (presumably ecats) a year once it reaches full production. Lewan seems to think that will occur next year.
The Swedish tech journalist also supplied some details about the Quark X ecat including:
- The reactor will be about the size of a pen.
- The standard device will produce 100 watts of energy.
Rossi: Yes The E-Cat X Produces Electricity Directly
The latest version of Andrea Rossi’s e-cat low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) device could produce electricity without mechanical means. The inventor himself made that claim on his blog on December 26, 2015.
“Here is the big news: yes, the E-Cat X produces directly electric power,” Rossi wrote to a correspondent named James Watt. “We are working to harness and make it work.”
What this means is that the E-Cat X works more like a fuel cell than a generator. Most electricity is made by generators where an engine or a turbine turns a generator that makes the electricity. In fuel cells like the ones now available in cars such as the Toyota Mirai, electricity is produced directly by an electrochemical reaction.
This is exciting news because it could greatly reduce the size, cost and complexity of the devices. Instead of having two devices a reactor to make heat and steam and a turbine to make electricity there would be just one device. That would lower production costs and maintenance costs because there would be less that could go wrong.
A few Important Energy Stories that You Need to See
There have been a few important developments in the world of energy that everybody needs to be aware of. The energy industry has become more unstable than ever even without the appearance of disruptive technologies like low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) and it looks like it is about to get worse.
Construction of Elon Musk's Gigafactory is well under way.
The biggest story is that the collapse in oil prices is destabilizing many countries including Russia and Venezuela. News stories indicate that super market shelves in Venezuela are empty because the government cannot pay for food imports and that nation’s president is frantically traveling around the world begging for loans and foreign aid to keep his country’s economy functioning. Venezuela’s economy is totally dependent on oil exports, take away the oil exports and the result is depression.
Some economists are now worried that the fall in oil prices will lead to deflation. Deflation is an economic condition that occurs when prices keep falling and falling. In deflation producers and sellers get less for the products and have less to spend. Deflation can be devastating, it was one of the main causes of the Great Depression.
An Exciting Time for LENR
It is a rather interesting and very exciting time for low energy nuclear reaction (LENR). Perhaps the most exciting developments are the attempts to replicate and perhaps improve upon Andrea Rossi’s Lugarno demonstration of his ecat technology.
Jack Cole who is described as a hobbyist reported that he has succeeded in achieving some sort of reaction with a mixture of nickel, hydrogen and a special lime based ceramic powder, the LENR-Coldfusion.com website reported. Cole reported that his experiment created 10.6 watts of excess heat. Cole was hoping to produce LENR without the use of lithium a volatile and potentially flammable substance.
This is supposed to be a picture of Jack Cole's latest low energy nuclear reaction.
Like Alexander Parkhomov Cole was apparently trying to replicate Rossi’s Lugarno experiment. Unfortunately I don’t know that much more about Cole or his efforts.
The Martin Fleischmann Memorial Project is attempting to do much the same thing with their Project Dog Bone. Updates about that effort are regularly posted on the Project’s Facebook page.
How a Technology Develops
The best way to predict how the commercialization and adoption of low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) could occur is to examine how other technologies were adopted in the past. Then to identify the patterns by which they were adopted it. In other words we need to take a look at history.
Thomas Edison an inventor who changed history.
History does not exactly repeat itself but it often operates in similar patterns. These patterns sometimes produce different results but they are similar. A pattern for technological development, commercialization and adoption based on past technological progress can be discerned. Here are the highlights of such a pattern: