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Andrea Rossi's E-Cat Verified; Free Energy is here
Topic Started: 10 Oct 2014, 03:38 PM (855 Views)
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Cold fusion reactor verified by third-party researchers, seems to have 1 million times the energy density of gasoline

Andrea Rossi’s E-Cat — the device that purports to use cold fusion to generate massive amounts of cheap, green energy – has been verified by third-party researchers, according to a new 54-page report. The researchers observed a small E-Cat over 32 days, where it produced net energy of 1.5 megawatt-hours, or “far more than can be obtained from any known chemical sources in the small reactor volume.” The researchers were also allowed to analyze the fuel before and after the 32-day run, noting that the isotopes in the spent fuel could only have been obtained by “nuclear reactions” — a conclusion that boggles the researchers: “… It is of course very hard to comprehend how these fusion processes can take place in the fuel compound at low energies.”

This new report [PDF] on the E-Cat was carried out by six (reputable) researchers from Italy and Sweden. While the new E-Cat looks very different from previous iterations, the researchers say that it uses the same “hydrogen-loaded nickel” and additives (most notably lithium) as a fuel. The device’s inventor, Andrea Rossi, claims that the E-Cat uses cold fusion — low-energy nuclear reactions, LENR — to fuse nickel and hydrogen atoms into copper, releasing oodles of energy. The researchers, analyzing the fuel before and after the 32-day burn, note that there is an isotope shift from a “natural” mix of Nickel-58/Nickel-60 to almost entirely Nickel-62 — a reaction that, the researchers say, cannot occur without nuclear reactions (i.e. fusion). The researchers say there is just 1 gram of fuel inside the E-Cat. For more info about the science/chemistry behind LENR, read our previous story about Rossi’s E-Cat.

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/191754-cold-fusion-reactor-verified-by-third-party-researchers-seems-to-have-1-million-times-the-energy-density-of-gasoline
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It's startling proof that the average IQ has fallen over the last few hundred years. Back then you could get them on one tulip bubble or one south sea bubble and Joe Public was forever wiser.

But today you can release the same absolute nonsense every few years. :re:
Edited by Count du Monet, 10 Oct 2014, 06:32 PM.
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It would be great if it was true, but it can't be verified, since no one is allowed to know what Andrea Rossi is using as a catalysing agent.

All the scientists did was say, 'it appears to do what is claimed, but we have no idea how it works'. Which isn't verification, it's a magician fooling his audience.
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Low Energy Nuclear Reaction passes big test in Switzerland

Has the impossible now become possible? Many old school physicists do not want to admit that they have been wrong all these years, and are still trying to block what is perhaps the most important scientific discovery of the 21st century. The censorship conducted by our entrenched scientific establishment is much like the repression Galileo faced when he declared that the Earth revolved around the sun, not vice versa.

Twenty-five years of international research after the Fleischmann-Pons experiments of 1989 have shown that the atom is much more malleable than traditional physics taught, especially when atoms are loaded into a metal lattice. Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR, a.k.a. Cold Fusion) is no longer just a laboratory oddity, but closing in on a commercially viable product with the potential to replace the use of all fossil fuels for energy production.

On October 8th, 2014, a test report of Andrea Rossi's designed E-Cat LENR reactor was released by respected scientists from three different universities. The tests were conducted in Switzerland at an independent laboratory to minimize the risk of fraud. The results showed that the E-Cat reactor produces large amounts of excess heat that cannot be explained by any known chemical process. Analysis of the fuel before and after the test showed isotopic changes that can only be explained by some form of nuclear reaction. The fuel is nickel powder and hydrogen, with a compound of lithium hydride, possibly lithium aluminum hydride, used as a catalyst and to supply the needed hydrogen. No radioactive materials were used in the reactor and no radiation was detected from the reactor during operation. Almost everything in the reactor and fuel is recyclable.

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"The reactor operating point was set to about 1260 C in the first half of the run, and at about 1400 C in the second half. The measured energy balance between input and output heat yielded a COP [coefficient of performance] factor of about 3.2 and 3.6 for the 1260 C and 1400 C runs, respectively. The total net energy obtained during the 32 days run was about 1.5 Mwh [=1500 KW-hours]."

"A sample of the fuel was carefully examined with respect to its isotopic composition before the run and after the run, using several standard methods: XPS, EDS, SIMS, ICP-MS and ICP-AES. The isotope composition in Lithium and Nickel was found to agree with the natural composition before the run, while after the run it was found to have changed substantially. Nuclear reactions are therefore indicated to be present in the run process, which however is hard to reconcile with the fact that no radioactivity was detected outside the reactor during the run."

The E-Cat reactor was run in a low efficiency test mode designed for the most accurate energy input and heat output measurements, and thus was not run in the normal commercially useful self-sustain mode which produces much higher energy efficiency. If the reactor had been set up in its normal high efficiency self-sustain mode, it would have likely outputted between 8 and 12 times energy input, a personal estimate I derive from previous test results of earlier generation E-Cats. No official efficiency numbers have yet been claimed for the newest generation of E-Cat, but even the earliest, unrefined versions produced 6 times energy input in self-sustain mode. Testing in self-sustain mode would be more difficult because energy input would be turned on 25% of the time and turned off 75% of the time. The scientists wanted an easy test to prove the basic principle, not determine the highest possible energy efficiency, so they kept the energy input turned on 100% of the time, which lowered the energy output to 3.6 times the energy input.

Andrea Rossi claims to have had a low cost, home heating LENR reactor ready for sale in 2013, which he planned to sell through home improvement stores. Unfortunately, he could not get safety certification because the certifying agency would not allow a nuclear reactor for home use without years of safe industrial operation first. Rossi was at an impasse, so he sold all of his E-Cat secrets and potential patent rights to an environmentally conscious company called Industrial Heat, LLC, which was formed by Cherokee Investment Partners, an adamantly pro-environment investment company. Industrial Heat conducted their own exhaustive tests and determined that the E-Cat worked just as Andrea Rossi had promised.

Industrial Heat, LLC now owns all of Andrea Rossi's E-Cat technology. It was Industrial Heat, not Andrea Rossi, that manufactured the E-Cat reactor tested in Switzerland. It should also be noted that despite many false internet rumors, it was members of the independent testing committee, not Andrea Rossi, that physically inserted and removed the fuel from the test reactor. Rossi had no opportunity at any time to rig the independent third party tests.

Industrial Heat has installed a commercially operating one megawatt E-Cat reactor at a customer's factory and is conducting a year long real-world operational test of the reactor performing useful work, producing heat for an industrial process. At some point in the near future tours of the factory installed E-Cat will be allowed and a statement by the industrial customer will be made.

Cherokee Investment Partners started Industrial Heat for the express purpose of reducing air pollution. Cherokee's CEO, passionate environmentalist Tom Darden, said "Our company is called Industrial Heat. Our job is to make industrial heat and industrial heat is made by coal" We don't think any energy should be made by coal, so that's why I'm doing this. This could be a way to eliminate the use of coal."

There are many companies now racing to bring Low Energy Nuclear Reaction products to the marketplace. One notable company is Solar Hydrogen Trends, which claims to have accidentally discovered a way to use LENR to produce hydrogen gas from water at the energy equivalent of producing pollution free oil for about $5.00 a barrel. Their hydrogen gas producing reactor has been independently tested by two well known companies, AirKinetics, Inc. and TRC Solutions. Both companies found that the reactor works as promised, and the TRC Solutions PDF report is quite shocking. Solar Hydrogen Trends claims that their technology can be scaled down to power automobiles or scaled up to power jet aircraft, ships, and entire cities.

Another company of interest is Defkalion Green Technologies, which has a high efficiency spark activated LENR reactor that is in the process of being certified for safe industrial use. Defkalion has intentionally "gone dark" (secretive) until their reactor design is ready for the marketplace. Companies involved in LENR research are often accused of being too secretive, but one should remember that they often have to face unjustified criticisms, insults, and even potential sabotage from old school scientists and business competitors. Theft of hard earned technical secrets is a big problem because no LENR company has adequate patent protection. The United States Patent Office, in its great wisdom, has put up a bureaucratic blockage of any LENR related patent applications. This could be solved by one phone call from President Obama, but pleas for help have been ignored by the Administration.

What is publicly known about LENR research is just the tip of the iceberg. Many big-name companies are involved, including Toyota, Honda, Mitsubishi, Volvo, and many more, as well as government and military organizations, such as the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). LENR research is not all about one man or one company; It is a global search for scientific truth and a practical way to solve the global energy crisis.

LENR produced energy will be so low in cost that subsidies and mandates for using pollution free LENR products will be totally unnecessary. Finding a low cost, reliable replacement for fossil fuels is the only foreseeable positive economic force that can bring back the American dream. Only nuclear power has the high energy density and 24-7-365 reliability needed to replace fossil fuels. There is just no other choice.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Low-Energy-Nuclear-Reactio-by-Christopher-Calder-Andrea-Rossi_Energy-Policy_Industrial-Heat-Llc_Lenr-141013-530.html



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At least there is some news on the fusion front. I guess that is good news in itself.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/15/lockheed-breakthrough-nuclear-fusion-energy?CMP=soc_567

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/scientists-bash-lockheed-on-nuclear-fusion-2014-10
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17 Oct 2014, 01:51 PM
Rossi is forcing their hand by demonstrating his breakthrough to independent testers.

The big boys don't want this stuff available yet. The Petro dollars, etc.

I think the need for petroleum for energy is going to change very soon despite this.

These disruptive technologies are going to have a huge impact on the whole geo political and economic status quo.

Free energy will mean Australia's population will be able to reach 100 million easily as we green deserts.

Rossi is a brave man and clearly a Genius.

Dickheads on forums can dish him all they want, but he is forcing the establishments hand in any case.
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18 Oct 2014, 02:52 PM
Rossi is forcing their hand by demonstrating his breakthrough to independent testers.

The big boys don't want this stuff available yet. The Petro dollars, etc.

I think the need for petroleum for energy is going to change very soon despite this.

These disruptive technologies are going to have a huge impact on the whole geo political and economic status quo.

Free energy will mean Australia's population will be able to reach 100 million easily as we green deserts.

Rossi is a brave man and clearly a Genius.

Dickheads on forums can dish him all they want, but he is forcing the establishments hand in any case.
Yeah, well I tend to apply the Sagan Law to this: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. This has more than a whiff of Pons/Fleischmann about it. They got their "cold fusion" "verified" as well. But anyhow, science is the world's greatest bullshit detector and the truth will be out before too long.

Whatever fusion power will be, it won't be free. It might be relatively cheap and non-polluting, but it won't be free. The fuel cost is only about 20% of what you are paying your utility for electricity right now.
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