Mr. Rossi Goes to Market, Dr. Miley and Others Hope to Follow

Source: e-CAT Site
Date: 11/3/2011

Italian inventor Andrea Rossi continues with commercialization of his e-Cat (energy catalyzer).  In addition to the 1MW plant he tested and reportedly sold to an unnamed customer, he also reports already having sold two or more additional units.  He reports that these were to customers in the USA and Europe.  While he states that the new customers are not requesting the same level of secrecy, a certain amount of discretion will still be exercised, adding that eventually the identity of his customers will inevitably become apparent.  Mr. Rossi reports having production facilities in Bedford, NH and Miami, FL, and plans for the next year are to sell from 30 to 100 1MW cold fusion plants, at a cost of 2 million Euros or 2.8 million U.S. Dollars.  This information can be found on Mr. Rossi’s blog, Journal of Nuclear Physics.

While the Associated Press was present at the October 28th test of Mr., Rossi’s 1 MW cold fusion plant, they have yet to run a story covering the event.  Whether they are exercising prudence or something less noble remains to be seen.  AP reporter Peter Svensson, who was present at the test, has tweeted several times on the subject in response to inquiries about the event.  On Monday, October 31, Mr. Svensson tweeted “Sorry, I can’t tell you anything at this point.”  Later that day he tweeted again, stating “Sorry, we don’t comment on coverage plans.”  These rather cryptic tweets were followed yesterday by “All I can say is “stay tuned.”   For whatever reason the AP continues to keep this story under wraps,  in the end it may be inconsequential.  Other news outlets have begun to report on the story, from Fox News, CNN,  Forbes and Discovery News, to popular publications in such places as Sweden, Russia and Italy.  Perhaps the most balanced story I have seen on the subject so far was posted on the site of a U.S. Daily newspaper  Falls Church News Press of Falls Church, Virginia, which is about  10 miles outside of Washington, D.C.  I would strongly urge all readers to take a look at this article.

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Customer of 1 MW E-CAT Cold Fusion Power Plant Accepts Technology After Their Own Independent Testing

October 28, 2011 was an important day in the world of cold fusion (Low Energy Nuclear Reactions) and exotic energy technology.  The currently anonymous customer of Andrea Rossi's 1 MW E-CAT cold fusion power plant sent in their own scientists and engineers to test the device which is comprised of more than 100 E-CAT modules which have been built in to a shipping container.  Journalists were allowed to attend the event, including Peter Svensson, technology writer for the Associated Press.

The following two very timely articles by PESN and NYTeknik go over observations of the 10/28/2011 test and have links to the results and sign-off by the customer's representative giving approval for the functionality of the 1 MW power plant:

1. 1 MW E-Cat Cold Fusion Device Test Successful, Sterling D. Allen, PESN
2. Half a megawatt E-cat in Bologna, Mats Lewan, MYTeknik

I really look forwards to the Associated Press article which should come out shortly in the next few days (pending editor approval) because, although PESN and NYTeknik do some excellent work, the AP has broader readership and the ability to speed up public interest and adoption of cold fusion technology.  With an estimated cost of less than 1 cent per kWh compared to all conventional power sources, energy this clean, cheap and portable has the ability to transform (and/or save) economies and create a great deal of wealth and higher standard of living for all human beings.

Below is a chart taken from PesWiki (Pure Energy Systems Wikipedia) showing the cost per kWh of many common energy sources:

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Traditional Power Generation

Lowest price listed first

Method	Cents/kW-h	Limitations and Externalities
Gas Currently supplies around 15% of the global electricity demand.	3.9 - 4.4 Cents/kW-h	Gas-fired plants and generally quicker and less expensive to build than coal or nuclear, but a relatively high percentage of the cost/KWh is derived from the cost of the fuel. Due to the current (and projected future) upwards trend in gas prices, there is uncertainty around the cost / KWh over the lifetime of plants. Gas burns more cleanly than coal, but the gas itself (largely methane) is a potent greenhouse gas. Some energy conversions to calculate your cost of natural gas per kwh. 100 cubic feet (CCF)~ 1 Therm = 100,000 btu ~ 29.3 kwh.
Coal Currently supplies around 38% of the global electricity demand.	4.8 - 5.5 Cents/kW-h	Increasingly difficult to build new coal plants in the developed world, due to environmental requirements governing the plants. Growing concern about coal fired plants in the developing world (China, for instance, imposes less environmental overhead, and has large supplies of high sulphur content coal). The supply of coal is plentiful, but the coal generation method is perceived to make a larger contribution to air pollution than the rest of the methods combined.
Nuclear Currently supplies around 24% of the global electricity demand.	11.1 - 14.5 Cents/kW-h	Political difficulties in using nuclear in some nations. Risk of widespread (and potentially lethal) contamination upon containment failure. Fuel is plentiful, but problematic. Waste disposal remains a significant problem, and de-commissioning is costly (averaging approximately US $320MM per plant in the US).

Conventional, Renewable Power Generation

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Method	Cents/kW-h	Limitations and Externalities
Wind Currently supplies approximately 1.4% of the global electricity demand. Wind is considered to be about 30% reliable.	4.0 - 6.0 Cents/kW-h	Wind is currently the only cost-effective alternative energy method, but has a number of problems. Wind farms are highly subject to lightning strikes, have high mechanical fatigue failure, are limited in size by hub stress, do not function well, if at all, under conditions of heavy rain, icing conditions or very cold climates, and are noisy and cannot be insulated for sound reduction due to their size and subsequent loss of wind velocity and power.
Geothermal Currently supplies approximately 0.23% of the global electricity demand. Geothermal is considered 90-95% reliable.	4.5 - 30 Cents/kW-h	New low temperature conversion of heat to electricity is likely to make geothermal substantially more plausible (more shallow drilling possible) and less expensive. Generally, the bigger the plant, the less the cost and cost also depends upon the depth to be drilled and the temperature at the depth. The higher the temperature, the lower the cost per kwh. Cost may also be affect by where the drilling is to take place as concerns distance from the grid and another factor may be the permeability of the rock.
Hydro Currently supplies around 19.9% of the global electricity demand. Hydro is considered to be 60% reliable.	5.1 - 11.3 Cents/kW-h	Hydro is currently the only source of renewable energy making substantive contributions to global energy demand. Hydro plants, however, can (obviously) only be built in a limited number of places, and can significantly damage aquatic ecosystems.
Solar Currently supplies approximately 0.8% of the global electricity demand.	15 - 30 Cents/kW-h	Solar power has been expensive, but soon is expected to drop to as low as 3.5 cents/kW-h. Once the silicon shortage is remedied through alternative materials, a solar energy revolution is expected.

Non-Conventional, Available, Renewable Power Generation Technologies

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Method	Cents/kW-h	Limitations and Externalities
Tide	2 - 5 Cents/kW-h	Blue Energy's tidal fence, engineered and ready for implementation, would provide a land bridge (road) while also generating electricity. Environmental impact is low. Tides are highly predictable.

Non-Conventional, Emerging, Renewable Power Generation Technologies

Lowest price listed first

Method	Cents/kW-h	Limitations and Externalities
Atmospheric Cold Megawatts	.03 - 1.0 Cents/kW-h	Typical installation requires 1 - 2 pipelines approximately 300km in length. Endpoints are placed to maximize historical atmospheric pressure differentials. After construction is complete, however, maintenance is minimal, no raw materials are required, and no environmental externalities are produced.
Thermal Electric	3 - 15 Cents/kW-h	ENECO Chip is a "solid state energy conversion/generation chip" that will convert heat directly into electricity. Is more efficient than solar and substantially cheaper. Can be applied to waste heat as well.
OTEC (Ocean Energy Thermal Conversion)	6 - 25 Cents/kW-h	Presently not functioning but two plants are to be built. One (agout 1.3 megawatts) is to be started in Kona next year and the other much larger one (about 13 megawatts) is also to be built somewhere in the state later on for the military. I believe that the military spending guide lines state that there must be a reduction in expenditures for electricity over the next few years. A Breakdown of the technology by OCEES Internation, INC.

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Obviously if companies can get energy that is at least 4-5 times cheaper than conventional sources (as can be garnered from the above chart compared to < $.01 khW) this would allow them to produce cheaper goods and services as well as increase their bottom line.  Also, the E-CAT cold fusion reactor is highly portable and does not require the capital expenditure necessary to build, for example, a large coal or nuclear power plant.  With the ability for each home or automobile to have its own cold fusion reactor powering it, a decentralized power grid is possible.  Utility costs would get very cheap and individuals could even sell back the excess power generated by their cold fusion reactors at home to the big utility companies to generate a revenue stream for themselves.  The possibilities are endless but new technologies such as this take time to adopt (years) and mature.  For example, the 1MW power plant tested on October 28th only produces heat/steam, not electricity.  Ironing out the details such as converting steam in to electricity, creating steam powered automobile engines or even tweaking the cold fusion reaction to produce electricity directly are some examples of the engineering tasks that can take years to fully develop.

Editor's Note:
My hope is that at least the word can be spread fast about this technology so that it creates public interest and demand.  Once CEO's realize they can cut costs with really clean, cheap energy they will definitely want to adopt cold fusion to reduce their overhead.  For technology companies such as Google or Amazon, server farms require a lot of electricity to keep running.  Factories or office buildings can be heated and powered more efficiently with cold fusion heaters or generators as well.  Car companies will want to develop new product lines based on cold fusion powered engines, which consumers would eagerly welcome due to cheaper operating costs and not needing to refuel for 6 months.  SpaceX and Virgin Galactic will want to adopt the cold fusion technology as a power source for their rockets or space planes.  Individuals will want to install reactors inside their homes to reduce utility costs and sell back electricity to power companies at a premium, etc.

Here's Rossi's 1 megawatt [cold fusion] plant

Source: NYTeknik (Swedish science publication)
by: Mats Lewan
Here it is: the plant that according to inventor Andrea Rossi will produce one megawatt of thermal energy via an unknown reaction in his ‘energy catalyzer’. The plant is now being shipped to the United States. 
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Nobel Physicist Invited to Test 1MW Plant

Source: Independent E-Cat News
Date: 7/30/2011

Brian Josephson, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, asked a question on Andrea Rossi’s blog about the quality of the 1MW demonstration in October. He has been a defender of true research in the LENR field, frequently challenging debunkers to back up their objections with logic instead of repeating the same one-sided attacks so often a signature of pseudosceptics. In answer, Rossi invited him to the test. I am assuming that the question did come from Josephson but there is no doubt that the invite is real:

Brian Josephson
July 30th, 2011 at 4:17 AM

October demo
Andrea,

You’ve said the 1MW E-cat due in October will be the real test, but in what way will it be more convincing than the ones done so far? Will it be done in such a way that people are sure about the amount of water/steam coming out of the reactor, and how dry the steam is (which affects the heat content)?

Andrea Rossi
July 30th, 2011 at 6:11 AM

Dear Prof. Brian Josephson (Nobel Prize),
First of all, thank you for your very important attention.
Please read very carefully what I am writing to you:
1-The 1 MW plant that we will start up in October will be tested, on behalf of our Customer, by very, very high level world class scientists. You are in the list, so please, if you want and you can, take free the last week of October.
2- The test will be witnessed by several very, very high level world class scientific journalists
3- The E-Cats we are working with now in our factories, which will be the modules of the 1 MW plant, are producing perfectly dry steam, mostly without energy input, as you will see yourself if you will honour us with your presence.
Very Warm Regards,
Andrea Rossi

Done properly (and it will have to be), this public launch should provide enough proof for potential customers. At that point, and not before (no matter who calls for it) we will have some certainty about what happens next. If the launch is also attended by senior science correspondents, this is also the time we should see the story break – one way or another, depending on results. As so many people have said before, proving such a beast will not be hard and the time for preparation should help arm those like Brian Josephson (assuming he accepts) to be ready to give us a definitive ‘yes’ or ‘no’.

Rossi's Self Sustaining One Megawatt Reactor

Source: Pure Energy Systems
Date: July 21, 2011
by: Hank Mills

This photo was taken during the stress test of a series of E-Cats recently. They are some of the E-Cats that will comprise the 1 MW plant.  Greek scientist, Christos Stremmenos, is in the center.  Prof. Sergio Focardi is shown on the left; and Andrea Rossi is on the right.

Almost everyone in the alternative energy community is aware of Andrea Rossi's cold fusion based E-Cat (Energy Catalyzer) technology. It is a game changer that allows vast amounts of energy to be produced by inducing a nuclear fusion process between small quantities of nickel powder and hydrogen gas. Instead of the reaction taking place in a gigantic multi-billion dollar experimental reactor, it takes place in a device that can fit on a table top. This technology seems to be everything to be hoped for in a revolutionary new source of energy to replace fossil fuels -- safe, cheap, environmentally friendly, and inexhaustible.

In recent days, even more news has emerged about this technology. It seems that as the launch of the technology approaches, the flow of information is accelerating. The information is coming from Defkalion Green Technologies Incorporated, Andrea Rossi himself, and from other sources. The following is a review of some of the breaking news.
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Cold Fusion for You and Me, Kumbayah

The Good
1. The Italians are spearheading the advance in cold fusion. Scientists Andrea Rossi and Sergio Focardi have apparently demonstrated a working cold fusion reactor for the public on January 14, 2011 which is available on YouTube.  A press conference was held a day later.  I have embedded the demonstration video I located on YouTube which has English subtitles:

Hint: Click the CC button for the English subtitles.
2. The inventors claim that a working cold fusion reactor has been running for two years continuously, supplying most of the power for a factory, saving the energy expense there by 90%.
3. There is a power plant being constructed by Greek company Defkalion Green Technologies, which will generate 1MW of electricity. The plant is created by combining 125 smaller cold fusion cells and is due for completion in a few months. Click here for the Greek television broadcast and transcript summary. Once there is an operational facility up and running, this should put cold fusion deniers to rest.
4. The technology is apparently cheaper than all other conventional power sources based on the estimated cost of less than 1 cent per kWh. The demonstrated reactor produces 31 times as much energy out as is put in. The inputs are hydrogen gas and nickel along with other unknown catalysts (Rossi and Focardi are keeping this part a secret) and you get copper and a lot of heat out. According to the cold fusion scientists, elemental transformation of this sort is a good indication a fusion reaction has occurred.
5. The amount of reactants consumed (less than 1 g of hydrogen gas) is far less than a combustion reaction, yet a large amount of energy is output, indicating what is going on inside the reactor is not a conventional chemical reaction.
6. The reactor is shielded by lead, but no harmful radiation leaks out and when shut off there is no residual radiation left behind. No pollution or radioactive nuclear waste is produced whatsoever.
7. Embedded below is a radio interview with Gerald Celente of the Trends Research Institute who seems to think the development is legit:


The Bad
1. Mainstream science publications have maintained a high level of skepticism and a negative bent so far concerning the promising work the Italians are pushing forwards.
2. The specific theoretical understanding of the apparently working cold fusion reactor still needs to be nailed down. The inventors have had their paper rejected by peer reviewed journals and instead have self-published on their own site. However, the cold fusion scientists do seem to have the support of scientists at the University of Bologna in Italy assisting him in this respect, and tests such as measuring radiation will be performed on the reactor. In this case they have the egg but need to produce the chicken that laid it.
3. A patent application has been partially rejected. In order to gain certain types of patents it is not adequate to merely have a working device. The theory behind why your device works must be specified so that you can claim the intellectual property rights on your invention.

The Ugly
The original cold fusion claimants Stanley Pons and Martin Fleishman have had their careers destroyed by the mainline scientific establishment. A lack of open-mindedness and established interests/mindset (such as of the much more cost intensive hot fusion research interests) has probably set back the field of cold fusion more than a decade.


History/Background of Cold Fusion (courtesy of AlienScientist)

Click here for source article and text transcript.
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Sources and Further Reading:
Directory:Andrea A. Rossi Cold Fusion Generator This Wiki is really comprehensive and updates itself
defkalion green tecnologies confirmed! Greek NET television broadcast is embedded in this guy's blog
Cold Fusion -- The answer to all our energy problems The AlienScientist video and transcript
Focusing on Gerald Celente 2011 Trend #6: Alternative Energy Links are included to Gerald Celente's 10 trends for 2011