Andrea A. Rossi Cold Fusion Generator (E- Cat) (Redirected from Directory:Andrea A. Rossi Cold Fusion Generator) Andrea Rossi demonstrated the 10 kW heat generating device at an Italian press conference January 14, 2011. Photo by Daniele Passerini, the who reported the day's proceedings in his blog. Shortcut URL: http://RossiColdFusion.comSee alsoNews:Rossi Cold FusionAlso called the Rossi Energy Amplifier or the Rossi Catalyzer. Compiled by Sterling D. Allan, with Hank MillsPure Energy Systems NewsCommenced January 17, 2011 Eng. Andrea A. Rossi and Professor Sergio Focardi of the University of Bologna (one of the oldest universities in the world [1]), have announced to the world that they have a cold fusion device capable of producing more than 10 kilowatts of heat power, while only consuming a fraction of that. On January 14, 2011, they gave the Worlds' first public demonstration of a nickel-hydrogen fusion reactor capable of producing a few kilowatts of thermal energy. At its
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peak, it is capable of generating 15,000 watts with just 400 watts input required. In a
following test the same output was achieved but with only 80 watts of continual input.
They don't always use the term "cold fusion" do describe the process, but often refer to it as
an amplifier or catalyzer process.
Focardi states:
"Experimentally, we obtained copper; and we believe that its appearance is due to the
fusion of atomic nuclei of nickel and hydrogen, the ingredients that feed our reactor.
Since hydrogen and nickel 'weigh' with less, copper must have released a lot of
energy, since 'nothing is created or destroyed.' Indeed, the 'Missing Mass' has been
transformed into energy, which we have measured: it is in the order of a few kilowatts,
two hundred times the energy that was the beginning of the reaction." [2]
They also claim to be going into production, with the first units expected to ship by the
second half of October of this year, with mass production commencing by the end of 2011.The first units will be used to build a one megawatt plant in Greece. This one megawatt plant
will power a factory that will produce 300,000 ten-kilowatt units a year.
This would become the world's first commercially-ready "cold fusion" device. Licensees are
mentioned, with contracts in the USA and in Europe. Mass production should escalate in 2-3
years. Presently, Rossi says they are manufacturing a 1 megawatt plant composed of 125
modules. These modules should begin shipping by the end of October. On January 31st, 2011,
Rossi wrote: "The cost to produce the catalyzer is 1 cent per MWh generated; the life
expectancy is 20 years; the cost impact is between 1 and 1.5 cents per MWh." [3]
In describing the operation of the device, he said: "To start up the reactor you have just to turn
on a switch. The reactor works with enormous margins of safety, so there is no need of a
particular skill. Just follow the instructions. The refueling is every 6 months and will be made
by our dealers."
According to Rossi, the demonstrated device shown on January 14, 2011 is their industrial
product that is claimed to be reliable and safe. In normal operation it would produce 8 units of
output for every unit of input. Higher levels of output are possible, but can be dangerous.
They will soon start serial production of their modules. Combining the modules in series and
parallel arrays it is possible to reach every limit of power. The modules are designed to be
connected in series and parallels.
Rossi also says that they have had one reactor that has run continually for two years,
providing heat for a factory. It reduced the electric bill by 90%. Also, the reactors can self
sustain by turning off the input, but they prefer to have an input. The device will be scheduled
for maintenance every six months. You control it "just as you turn on and off your television
set."
More than two thousand prototypes were built and destroyed in refining the design and
learning how to control and scale up the reaction. [4]
Convinced they have already adequately proven this to the necessary parties, they are not in ahurry to give demonstrations to curious scientists. On January 21, 2011, Rossi wrote: "Yes
Energy Catalyzer: Bologna University Test (with English subtitles) - all three videosin one, with English subtitles (click on link down below video to see subtitles). (posed
Jan. 29, 2011)
Part 1 of 3
• Journal Of Nuclear Physics - Energy Catalyzer first test - Bologna-Italy - Andrea
Rossi and Sergio Focardi - Part 1 of 3 (YouTube; January 14, 2011)
Part 2 of 3
Shows the apparatus running.
• Journal Of Nuclear Physics - Energy Catalyzer first test - Bologna-Italy - Andrea
Rossi and Sergio Focardi - Part 2 of 3 (YouTube; January 14, 2011)
Transcription from a comment in the Popular Science article:
This test will demonstrate that we were able to heat the water, therefore thermal energy which
can be transformed into electricity with extremely low costs.
[..] You will not find it this on textbooks as many people think it's not even possible.
Interviewer: what happens in here?Physicist: hydrogen atoms are separated from their electrons and protons, but to answer I
should use a simpler language [ed. I call BS at this point] let's say that hydrogen is absorbed
by the nickel and then processed [the video skips] nuclear of the nickel's atom. at this point
there's an atomic transformation with emissions [video transition, 1:09]
[describes the tools]
[2:46]
In the graph, x is time, y is temperature in ºC, red line is room temp, blue line is input water
temp, yellow line is output water temp [...] you can see how it grows until it reaches 100º,
where it evaporates.
[...] we approximately generated 10-12kW/h when using 600-700W
[...] The people who operated the tests are professors of the University of Bologna not
involved in the project.
[...] you may call it a reactor but we like to call it energy catalyzer. Behind this process there
are a few theoretical problems not yet solved. Honestly, we only hypothesized the workings
but there's a lot to study [...] in my opinion we could reach a higher ratio than what we
reached in these tests today as we didn't try its best to be safe. [8:30] We're at the Ford T, we
need to reach the Formula 1.
[video skips]
These are modules, so you can put them in a series or in parallel to increase the temperature or thermal quantity to respectively.
We reached important international agreements [...] people who are working at high level for
mass production of this device. [9:40]
[Scientist X talks] it seems that there's a slight increase (about 50%) of the *instable* gammaradiation, therefore it seems like there's no cheat. Only thing is that you didn't allow me to
measure the spectrum to understand the energy of the emitted gamma because then I would
understand everything. I understand that you're concerned about anyone stealing your idea but
I would have loved to see it.
[Main physicist] You're too prepared, too smart and would understand how it worked.
[...]
[Scientist X talks] I observed a small gamma "flash" when you turned it on and when you
turned it off. It's hard to think that a small electromagnetic disturb would be able to start twoindependent battery-powered tools, this is interesting. What I don't understand is why the
measures given by the "beta plus", the couple +/-, returned values near 0.
[Main physicist] I'm not able to give you an answer, my objective is "energy". The reactor is
extremely complex, don't be fooled by its look, it could also be that the internal geometric
system of the reactor hides the…
[video skips 13:13]
[Scientist Y talks] I don't think that the absence of gamma would be a problem, I'd expect
[Main physicist] Frankly neither do I.
[Scientist Y talks] I would expect, instead, that there shouldn't be any annihilations of
positrons since, as I seem to understand, protons enter the nickel's nuclei and move the
elements rightwards on the table of nuclides through "decays which go to the copper and go
back to the nickel". On the right side of the table, the decays are beta minus, so I don't expect,
if your theoretic interpretation is correct, that there are emissions of positrons.
[Main physicist] What you say is absolutely plausible.
[end]
Part 3 of 3
• Journal Of Nuclear Physics - Energy Catalyzer first test - Bologna-Italy - Andrea
Rossi and Sergio Focardi - Part 3 of 3 (YouTube; January 14, 2011)
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NyTeknik Validates Rossi's Energy Catalyzer - The Swedish website Ny
Teknik has been providing detailed coverage of Andrea Rossi's Energy Catalyzer
technology. Engineer Mats Lewan of Ny Teknik has released positive test results and
video from two additional tests of the E-Cat. The validations keep on coming! ( PESN
BeforeItsNews; May 2, 2011)
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Rossi Cold Fusion Validated by Swedish Skeptic's Society - Yet another
test of Andrea Rossi's Energy Catalyzer (E-Cat) has been performed on a 4.5 kW
version near the University of Bologna. This time a new set of observers were present,
one of which is the chairman of the Swedish Skeptics Society, who confirmed that
Copper is being formed from Hydrogen and Nickel -- cold fusion! ( PESN and
BeforeItsNews; April 7, 2011)
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Rossi's cold fusion reactor achieves 15 kW for 18 hours - Recently a
technical test of Andrea Rossi's Ni-H reactor (energy catalyzer) was conducted inwhich a minimum of 15 kW of heat was produced continuously for 18 hours, observed
by Dr. Joseph Levi and others. Coming soon: reports from upcoming experiments to
be performed in cooperation with the University of Bologna's physics department.
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Italian cold fusion saga continues with new papers released - Research
papers out of the University of Bologna confirm that much more energy is coming out
of the reactor than is required to run the reactor, including a self-running mode; and
that radiation is not escaping from the machine. ( PESN and BeforeItsNews; January
27, 2011)
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Multi-kilowatt Ni-H cold fusion demo under way January 14 in Italy -
Today, Sergio Focardi and Andrea Rossi held a press conference about kilowatt coldfusion reactor using nickel and hydrogen that can produce up to 10 kilowatts: with 100
of such modules being made for a 1 MW plant in construction. A reporter posted live
updates from the scene. ( PESN ; January 14, 2011)
• http://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1150242 - Cambridge University website hosts a video by
Nobel Prize laureate, Brian Josephson, regarding the E-cat. June 28, 2011
Patents
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Patent granted for the energy catalyzer - The Italian energy catalyzer that seems to
be based on an unknown nuclear reaction is now patented in Italy. The examination
continues regarding protection in the rest of the world. The Italian Patent Office
granted a patent for the energy catalyzer on April 6, 2011, valid until April 9, 2028.( Ny Teknik ; May 9, 2011)
Italian Patent 0001387256
• 0001387256
Quoting from Ny Teknik
The Italian Patent Office, Ufficio Italiano Brevetti e Marchi, granted a patent for the energycatalyzer on April 6, 2011, valid until April 9, 2028.
Prof. Alberto Carnera (INFM – University of Padova – Italy)
Prof. Giuseppe Levi (INFN – University of Bologna – Italy)
Prof. Pierluca Rossi (University of Bologna – Italy)
Prof. Luciana Malferrari (University of Bologna – Italy)
Prof. George Kelly (University of New Hampshire – USA)
Prof. Stremmenos Christos (Athen University – Greece)
Company: Ampenergo
Formed in May, 2011 to launch roll-out of the technology in the Americas. [6]
Company: Leonardo Corp. and Defkalion
On February 03, 2011 3:05 PM MST, Andrea Rossi wrote by email:
Leonardo Corporation (http://leonardocorp1996.com) is a company incorporated in new
Hampshire in 1996. We have a unit in NH and one in Fl, while we pay taxes in NH, where we
conserved the main house.
Defkalion, which is going to commercialize our plants, was incorporated in 2011. There is
another Defkalion in Greece, which has nothing to do with us, but also operates in the field of
green energies, so it is easy to get confused. It appears that also Defkalion is a common name,
as Leonardo.
I will start up my 1 MW plant in October, in the factory of a customer, and that unit will work 24 hours per day. You will be invited to visit our 1 MW plant.
Quoting from http://www.defkalion-energy.com/
"Defkalion Green Technologies S.A. is a legal entity operating under Greek Law with
sole purpose to sell, license, and manufacture industrialized commercially applicable
products using the Andrea Rossi Energy Catalyzer with global exclusivity rights;
stocked and ready to be transformed in his production facilities wasn't raw material for
his process but was an illegal and fraudulent attempt to hide and "treat toxic garbage"
for which he had no license.
Rossi was imprisoned on trumped up eco-charges for trying to produce an ecologically
sustainable fuel that did not come from petroleum deposits, and after one of his
companies was forced into bankruptcy, he was again imprisoned for not paying hiscreditors ... great government support for alternative energy technologies, one might
say. That whole sad story is well documented on Rossi's website:
• http://ingandrearossi.com/ - Rossi's website gives his side of the saga of waste-to-
energy problem. The beginning, the media boom around Petroldragon, plans for the
future.
• http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroldragon - Rossi was involved in a waste to energy
project, and ended up serving some jail time in 1995 for conspiracy to engage in tax
fraud for his involvement in a business that was trading precious materials between
Switzerland and Italy. Appeared to be more like suppression than deserved
punishment.
Though he did spend time in jail, Rossi said he was eventually cleared of all charges against
him in this matter.
In 1996 he emigrated to the United States, and a year later founded Leonardo Technologies
Incorporated in Bedford, New Hampshire. He continued working on various energy related
projects and eventually recieved a multi-million dollar grant to research and develop high
efficiency thermoelectric converters.
He is now developing the Cold Fusion based Energy Catalyzer (E-Cat) technology and
manufacturing 10KW modules for the first one megawatt plant (to be opened in Greece this
October) in Leonardo Technologies Miami factory. A series of successful demonstrations of
the E-Cat at the University of Bologna has impressed scientists and led to a one year research
program to further understand and test this game-changing technology.
Pioneer: Sergio Focardi
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Sergio Focardi, the father of “Ni-H Cold-Fusion" - A radio interview with Sergio
Focardi, who had been doing pioneering work with nickle-hydrogen fusion, and was
later joined by Andrea Rossi, who brought new and key ideas to the table. Forcardi
plays the comedian here, so it's not easy to tell if/when he's talking straight. "He
looked around and he saw a hole in the ceiling: it had flown upstairs." (22Passi; April
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Cold Fusion - For Real? - Last night on Coast to Coast AM , Linda Moulton Howe
gave an excellent overview of cold fusion, interviewing MIT's Peter Hagelstein, who
said regarding the energy crisis: "I think this cold fusion area could produce exactly
the viable alternative that would make the biggest difference." The interview ended
with a review of Rossi's E-Cat now emerging commercially. ( EarthFiles; June 30,
2011)
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Interviews with Rossi and Xanthoulis - The interview with Alexandros Xanthoulis
revealed some new information. Among the highlights: The 5 to 30 kW modules are
all the same size, the only difference being the pressure, so they will cost the same.
The 1 MW reactor is now being tested, and DGT is working on producing a 3 MW
reactor. … (Cold Fusion Now; June 29, 2011)
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Bologna professors discuss E-cat on Italian radio - Professors Giuseppe Levi and
Loris Ferrari of the University of Bologna were recently interviewed on their research
contract with Andrea Rossi. The contract is for €500,000 …, and Rossi will be
providing the equipment necessary to run the experiments. The scope of the study that
will last for at least a year will be to measure the energy efficiency and any emissions
of radiation from the device Rossi provides. (Cold Fusion Now; June 29, 2011)
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Defkalion Press Conference Reveals E-Cat Rollout Plans - In their June 23
press conference, Defkalion Green Technologies Inc. disclosed their plans for Andrea
Rossi's Cold Fusion E-Cat (Energy Catalyzer) technology. A white paper is available
on their new website. Despite Defkalion's willingness to reveal their intentions for thisgame changing technology, the mainstream media refused to budge, and remains
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A Nobel Laureate speaks out on the Energy Catalyzer - Cold Fusion Now
reports that Dr. Brian Josephson, winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics for his
work on superconductivity, has recently released a YouTube video of an interview of
himself conducted by Judith Driscoll, Professor of Materials Science at Cambridge
University. ( PESN and BeforeItsNews; June 23, 2011) (Cambridge)
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Rossi Explains E-Cat Setup in New Video - Andrea Rossi has graciously
allowed a video to be made of him explaining an E-Cat test setup in Italy. The video
provides a clear and detailed explanation of the setup, a clear look at multiple E-Catunits, and the super hot, dry steam that is produced. ( PESN and BeforeItsNews; June
21, 2011)
MORE... Continued
Historic Documents
• Focardi and Rossi paper - DOD report in Google Cache. (Vortex-1; March 12, 2010)
• Summary of the 2010 Colloquium on Lattice-Assisted Nuclear Reactions at MIT (pdf)
- Dr. Brian Ahern presented the tenth talk, “Inverse Capillary Discharge for
Amplifying LANR.” Ahern has been very intrigued by the recent work by Rossi and
Focardi (http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/FocardiSanewenergy.pdf ) involving Ni and
normal hydrogen. He pointed out that they have used two important innovative steps:
1) The use of a composite material involving nanometer scale Ni and a ceramic; 2)
The use of gas-loading to significantly raise the levels of excess heat that are observed
in Ni-H systems. As in his first talk, Ahern emphasized the idea that energy
localization, resulting from non-linear effects, might potentially play a key role in