Rumor Mill: E-cat operating in USA

Published July 7, 2013 | By jennifer

The ever popular online rumor mill is claiming that one of Andrea Rossi’s e-cat low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) devices is up and running somewhere in the USA. Several online sources claim that the plant was shipped to a “civilian” customer somewhere in the US about two months ago and is now in operation. Note: since we don’t know who the customer is how do we know the customer is a civilian one or not?

 

Defkalion's Hyperion LENR device photographed last year in Greece. A more advanced version might now be operating in Vancouver, British Columbia

Earlier reports said that three ecat units were shipped to the USA in April. Even if those reports are true it seems a little too early for the units to be up and running.

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Sergio Focardi Has Died

Published June 23, 2013 | By jennifer

Andrea Rossi relayed some really tragic news via his blog. One of the true pioneers of low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) Sergio Focardi died on June 22 of an undisclosed illness.

Sergio Focardi

A number of LENR devices including those of Andrea Rossi, Defkalion, and Francesco Celani are based on nickel-hydrogen reactor experiments that Focardi, Francesco Piantelli did at the University of Bologna in the early 1990s. For the past seven years Focardi had been working with Andrea Rossi on the ecat.

In another post Rossi revealed that Forcardi’s contribution to the ecat project was great. The inventor stated that Focardi taught him much of the physics he used. That would indicate ecat is based on Focardi’s theories. Rossi also stated that Focardi made thousands of measurements on the ecat between 2007 and 2010. He also stated that Focardi worked heavily on the safety issues.

 

Rossi and Focardi at a 2011 ecat demonstration.

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Customer Sought for First Commercial LENR Heating Plant

Published June 10, 2013 | By jennifer

Swedish/British startup Hydro Fusion and Andrea Rossi’s Leonardo Corporation are looking for a utility to serve as the customer for the first commercial low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) heating plant. A press release on Hydro Fusion’s website states that the two companies want to have the first central-heating plant using Rossi’s ecat LENR technology up and running by this fall.

 

The plant would presumably produce heat to be used in one of the community systems used in Sweden. Many Swedish communities have a central heating plant that produces steam heat for large numbers of building at once.

Hydro Fusion’s press release states that the plan would generate one megawatt of heat and is capable of generating temperatures of up to 120 degrees Celsius. That means it could produce water or low pressure steam for heating purposes but not generate electricity.

Rossi's 1MW ecat heating unit at his facility in Italy

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Ecat Test Generates a lot of Attention

Published May 30, 2013 | By jennifer

Andrea Rossi’s posting of the results from the independent test of his ecat Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) device at a forum for scientific papers has attracted a lot of attention. The attention has ranged from the curious to the favorable to the hostile.

The Botanical Garden at Uppsala University

Over at Forbes.com Mark Gibbs who has been very critical of Rossi in the past did a pretty good job of showing that the authors of the paper are real scientists. He also identified three of the paper authors I hadn’t heard of before they are:

  • Torbjorn Hartman. Hartman is apparently a Senior Research Engineer at the Svedberg Laboratory which is associated with Uppsala University

 

  • Bo Hoistad who is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Uppsala Unniversity. He maybe a professor of Nuclear Physics

 

  • Lars Tegner a Professor Emeritus (retired professor) from the Department of Engineering Sciences at Uppsala University. He is apparently a professor of electrical engineering.
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Global Warming Real and Worse than Ever Need for LENR Research Greater than Ever

Published May 18, 2013 | By jennifer

The need for more investment in real alternative energy technologies such as low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) is greater than ever because of the growing threat of global warming. A recent study confirmed that 97% of the scientific studies verify the fact the fact that human activity is causing global warming.

Scientists position on Global Warming Courtesy Washington Post

We need new energy sources like LENR and small scale hot fusion that do not generate gases like carbon dioxide now because recent testing showed that carbon dioxide levels are approaching a threshold not seen in 3 million years. The dioxide levels were not at 400 parts million as some reports indicated yet they were very close. The actual reading was 399.89 parts per million which is no measure for comfort.

Global warming is real, it’s here and we need to do something about it. Ignoring the problem will not make it go away. Nor will relying on horse and buggy technologies like windmills. We need new technologies capable of generating large amounts of heat without putting greenhouse gases.

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Rossi: Three Ecat Units on the Way to America

Published April 30, 2013 | By jennifer

Andrea Rossi has confirmed that three of his one megawatt ecat low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) units were shipped to the USA in April. In posts on his blog Rossi said that one industrial ecat unit and two experimental ecats were shipped to his unidentified USA partner.

Rossi stated that the units are going by ship and that it will take about 20 days for the units to reach the United States. Rossi gave no indications to the identity of the partner and he declined to say whether it was a company listed on the stock exchange. Rossi also promised that photos of the units will be published at some point.

In another post Rossi stated that the Units to be delivered will include: one low temperature industrial plant capable of generating one megawatt (1MW) of heat. His Leonardo Corporation will also ship one gas fired one megawatt ecat and one hot ecat plant capable of producing temperatures of around 800 degrees Celsius. Those units will be studied for industrialization.

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Rossi wants Public Demonstration eCat Plant in Sweden

Published April 20, 2013 | By jennifer

Andrea Rossi wants to build a plant to publicly demonstrate his e-cat low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) in technology this year. In posts on his blog Rossi indicated that his Northern European licensee HydroFusion wants to build a demonstration plant using the ecat technology somewhere near the Swedish capitol of Stockholm.

Stockholm could be home to an Ecat Demonstration Plant

Rossi also stated that the purpose of this plant would be to generate steam for heating purposes. Many communities in Sweden have public heating systems where a central plant generates heat for an entire neighborhood or town. I imagine Rossi wants to test his technology for such a purpose.

Rossi didn’t state if the plant would be built or tested in conjunction with the Swedish military. The Swedish military has shown some interest in LENR and ecat technology in the past. One possible test for ecat would be to heat a Swedish military base.

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Defkalion plans to Unveil LENR device in August

Published April 6, 2013 | By jennifer

Defkalion Green Technologies is planning to unveil an improved version of its low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) technology at the National Instruments NI Week corporate conference in August. The company’s CEO Alex Xanthoulis made that revelation to Pure Energy Systems’ Sterling D. Allan in an interview last week.

Defklaion seems to have made a lot of progress with its Hyperion LENR technology if claims made to Allan by Xanthoulis and his colleague Symeon Tsalikoglou can be believed. The Greek company which has relocated to Vancouver, British Columbia, has also gone much farther in commercializing LENR than any other organization if these assertions are correct.

Xanthoulis said that Defkalion has been approached by 450 different companies interested in licensing its technology. Unfortunately, neither he nor Tsalikoglou named any of these companies. They also claimed that they are working out license agreements with 20 companies but didn’t name any of those organizations either. They did claim that one of these companies is one of the largest auto manufacturers in Europe. That might be FIAT which is based in Italy where Defkalion has a research facility. FIAT currently owns Chrysler one of the Big Three American automakers.

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New Obama Energy Policy and Energy Secretary no help for Cold Fusion

Published March 21, 2013 | By jennifer

There seems to be little or no help for low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) or cold fusion research in President Obama’s new energy policy proposal. This is surprising in light of all the recent progress in the field. Some of which has even come from a US government agency NASA.

Obama will ask Congress to set aside $2 billion Uncle Sam receives from offshore oil revenues for energy research. On paper this sounds like a good idea but the problem is that the money would be spent on so-called green technology rather than promising fields like LENR or small scale hot fusion. The equivalent of this in 1903 would have been turning Henry Ford down for a loan to use the money to develop an improved horse and buggy.

Another problem and opportunity is that Obama doesn’t have the power to appropriate a cent. Only Congress can do that and there’s no guarantee that Congress will go along. The truth is Congress probably won’t approve the Obama plan because Obama’s fund would be outside of Congressional control. Hopefully Congress will divert some of the money away from the green technology boondoggle and to real research.

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Swedish Government Reveals Cold Fusion Research

Published March 9, 2013 | By jennifer

A government agency connected with the Swedish military has revealed that it is conducting low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) or cold fusion experiments. The experiments reportedly involve nickel and hydrogen reactions similar to those in Andrea Rossi’s ecat device.

 

Swedish infantry demonstrate the Carl Gustav Rocket launcher

The research is being conducted by the Defense Material Agency or FMW, Sweden’s equivalent to the America DARPA (Defense Advanced Projects Agency). Internet rumors indicate that DARPA is interested in LENR and might be the mysterious purchaser of Rossi’s ecat. Rossi has admitted that the first customer for his device is a military but he hasn’t said which military.

The FMW revelations revealed at the LENR News blog raise some intriguing possibilities. The FMW and not DARPA might be Rossi’s customer. Rossi has some connections to Sweden, the Northern European licensee for ecat Hydro Fusion is based in that country. Rossi has been given favorable coverage in the Swedish media and two prominent Swedish scientists have examined ecat and vouched for it.

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