Rossi Sues Industrial Heat announces Third Party Validation of Ecat

Published April 7, 2016 | By jennifer

The relationship between Andrea Rossi’s Leonardo Corporation and Tom Darden’s Industrial Heat LLC has apparently fallen apart. The Leonardo Corporation has filed a federal lawsuit against Industrial Heat for breach of an industrial license and misappropriation of intellectual property on April 5, 2015, a press release states.

Rossi is apparently claiming that Industrial Heat violated the patent and other agreements relating to his ecat low energy nuclear reaction (LENR). Last year, Rossi sold Industrial Heat a license for the rights to the ecat technology.

Miami's Federal Courthouse the future of eCat could be decided here

The suit is apparently holding up the release of the results of the third party validation test of ecat. That test which lasted 352 days is apparently done but Rossi cannot release the results because of the pending lawsuit. The press release seemed to confirm this claim with the flowing statements:

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Rossi Plans Small Reactor

Published March 22, 2016 | By jennifer

Andrea Rossi is apparently planning to unveil a new smaller version of his e-cat low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) device. As usual Rossi s is not revealing much about the device which he called the E-Cat X/QuarkX.

He did make this statement in a March 20 blog post: “The Hot Cat is evolved into the E-Cat QuarkX. So far. F8, F9.” That seems to indicate that the QuarkX is actually simply the latest version of the hot e-cat technology Rossi and his team have been working on for a long time.

Above is concept art of what e-cat might look like created by Daniel Badoul courtesy ecat.com.

One possibility might be that QuarkX is simply the commercial version of the E-Cat X, which is presumably the 10th version of e-cat that Rossi has built. “EcatX is evolved into QuarkX. Is the same thing, evolved.”

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Fleischmann Project Claims to have Achieved LENR

Published February 24, 2016 | By jennifer

Our friends over at the Martin Fleischmann Memorial Project (MFMP) claim to have achieved a Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) or cold fusion effect. To add icing to the cake they have sent out an email containing what appears to be the formula they used.

Our_First_Piantelli_Rossi_Parkhomov_Replication

Here is the claim they made in the email dated February 23, 2016:

“Around the beginning of the month we saw what appeared to be up to a COP (Coefficient of Power) of 1.2, not earth shattering, but sustained and robust and in line with both observations by others and the Lugano report when adjusted for correct emissivity. Over the next weeks we tried various bookend calibrations which supported this finding.”

“We have said that only two paths would satisfy us:”

  1. “Statistically significant Isotopic or elemental shifts from Fuel to Ash.”

Some of the Project's Equipment in action.

 

  1. “Statistically significant emissions commensurate, correlating, or anti correlating to excess heat.”
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Fleischman Project gets More Celani Material

Published February 10, 2016 | By jennifer

The Martin Fleischman Memorial Project (MFMP) has received more of the the wires that are at the heart of Francesco Celani’s low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) devices. The electrically heated and chemically treated wires form the basis of Celani’s cells.

The MFMP is hoping to detect excess heat in them and achieve a low energy nuclear reaction. This can apparently be detected by gamma ray emissions. The project is using an approach it calls live open science in which it shares all the information it has with everybody in order to achieve more wide spread results. The project has had some setbacks lately dealing with choppy and erroneous data that forced its members to rerun some experiments in France.

Hot Fusion Heats Up

The race to develop hot fusion is also heating up. World Nuclear News reported that the German Wendelstein 7-X reactor passed its first test by producing hot plasma for the first time on February 4, Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel started the experiment by pushing a button. This could be first step to making enough plasma for a sustained fusion reaction.

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Energy Prices Collapse, World in Chaos

Published January 25, 2016 | By jennifer

It will be hard for a lot of people to believe but energy prices around the globe are in freefall. Some types of crude oil are now so worthless that producers in the United States are paying to have them hauled away.

Oil prices are collapsing because the only way that countries like Saudi Arabia, Russia, Venezuela and Iran can pay their bills is to sell off oil at whatever price they can get. This has effectively broken the back of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries or OPEC - the cartel of oil-pumping countries that once had a stranglehold on the world’s economy.

One reason why OPEC has lost its power is that countries outside such as Russia and the United States can now export as much or more oil than it can. Even if OPEC raises the price all America or Russia needs to do to pull the rug out from under it is to turn up the pump and flood the market with cheap oil.

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A Couple of Fusion Milestones you probably missed

Published January 11, 2016 | By jennifer

Keeping up on developments in the worlds of hot and cold fusion can be difficult because the mainstream media usually ignores those fields. To makes worse some of the bigger players in the field such as Andrea Rossi like to play things close to the vest.

Artists conception of Tri-Alpha's Fusion reaction.

Two major fusion developments in fusion that you probably missed in 2016 were an important step towards workable hot fusion and a fascinating interview with one of Andrea Rossi’s associates. Strangely enough one of the biggest hot fusion stories was ignored because it involved an obscure company in Southern California.

Tri-Alpha Energy managed to hold a globe of plasma that was superheated to 10 million degrees hot together for five milliseconds in August, The Orange County Register reported. That does not sound like much but it is the first time such a sustained fusion reaction has been held together for so long.

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Rossi: Yes The E-Cat X Produces Electricity Directly

Published December 26, 2015 | By jennifer

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.

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Rossi Addresses Italian Senate

Published December 10, 2015 | By jennifer

Andrea Rossi apparently took his case to the Senate, the upper house of Italy’s parliament on November 24, 2015. The ecat inventor made that revelation in a video interview with Vessela Nikolova that is now available on YouTube.

Rossi made a few important revelations about his low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) technology during the interview which was conducted in Italian. Here are some of them. Don’t worry English subtitles are available unfortunately I do not know how accurate they are. The most interesting revelations include:

  • The test of the one megawatt ecat has been going on for several months and it is ongoing. Rossi has said this would wrap up in February but from what he said on the video he might not be pleased with the results.

 

  • The one megawatt ecat is apparently operating 24 hours a day seven days a week but it requires constant monitoring and adjustment. This sounds as if the ecat might not be a reliable source of heat.
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Is Green Energy Bad for the Environment?

Published November 25, 2015 | By jennifer

Two recent and largely ignored news stores are raising the prospect that so called “green energy” might actually be bad for the environment. To make matters worse policy makers seem to be ignoring the important conclusions these articles point to when they discuss alternatives to windmills and solar such as Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR).

Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System

Both wind mills and some solar energy projects kill large numbers of birds including some endangered species such as eagles, the well-respected American publication High Country News reported. The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System which uses mirrors to heat water to run an electric turbine in California’s Mohave Desert literally burned up hundreds of birds.

The birds seeing reflections from the mirrors at the solar plant flew down to them and got fried by concentrated beams of heat or solar flux generated by the mirrors. The birds were flying down to the mirrors because they mistook the reflections for water.

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Boeing Patents Laser Fusion

Published November 9, 2015 | By jennifer

There are a few important alternative energy stories out there that the media seems to be ignoring or downplaying. Some of the most interesting recent developments include:

Boeing the giant American aerospace company has a received a US patent for a laser fired fusion-fission turbofan engine that Ars Technica writer Sebastian Anthony described as completely crazy and unrealistic. Basically Boeing’s engine would generate large amounts of heat by using lasers to fuse deuterium and tritium which would cause nuclear fission to create heat to run a turbine.

Artist's conception of how Boeing's laser fired fusion-fission engine would work.

That sounds a great deal like some of the Low Energy Nuclear Reaction or LENR effects we’ve been hearing about lately. The process is called inertial confinement fusion which sounds like a euphemism for LENR to me. Boeing is apparently looking into the process as a means of powering aircraft but it could easily be adapted to generate electricity in power plants and ships.

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