Posted on 05/06/2011 4:54:48 AM PDT by Normandy
It didn’t take long for someone to translate the May 3 RAI television feature on Andrea Rossi and his E-Cat invention from the original Italian into English. The program shows a demonstration of the device and and also includes interviews with Rossi and some of his colleagues, including Sergio Focardi, Sven Kullander and Hanno Essen who discuss the E-Cat and how it has been developed.
A portion of the video discusses Rossi’s history with a company he started called called Petroldragon. He made a failed attempt to create a process that would turn industrial waste into oil, and which ended up polluting land in Italy for which Rossi was prosecuted and convicted.
The program also introduces officers from Defkalion Green Technologies, the Greek company who will be manufacturing E-Cats for public sale and at whose factory the first E-Cat power plant will be installed.
I’m in “finger-crossing” mode on this. I still have some skepticism, but man do we need this now. It sounds like a 1 MW version of this could easily fit on a truck or bus and a 100KW could be squeezed into a normal-sized car.
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My hypotheses regarding this being a fraud (or other than it seems) are getting less tenable. The number of people involved and the scope of it are becoming an issue, for example. A scammer has only a limited opportunity to make money, and the fewer the associates to divvy up the $$ the better, so as more working associates (with legitimate backgrounds) turn up as part of this, the potential for it being a scam diminishes.
Not to mention the report showing observers being able to pick up and inspect the E-cat, check for electromagnetic radiation, etc., that I posted yesterday.
If it's a fraud, no one has been able to explain how they are doing it, nor has there been any discovery of such over four months of demonstrations. There are a number of parties involved, and Rossi is not asking for money (or giving 'opportunities' for licensing, etc.) and appears to be content to let the large-scale demonstration convince people.
I'm left with a secondary/circumstantial points (the 'natural' copper isotope ratio in the reaction product sample, the Petroldragon and gold importation past, and a lot of you-should-have-done-it-this-way carping by skeptics about technical points of the past demos).
As Sherlock Holmes would say, once all other options are ruled out, the truth remains. My assessment of the E-cat is starting to raise above the 50% likelihood mark... the world's going to change if so.
I’m not seeing the scam, or any measurement error. I think you are simply not going to see people like Drs. Focardi, Kullander, and Essen go public in the way they have unless they are convinced that Rossi is being straight with them and that they are seeing something very unusual and interesting.
The comments Rossi has made about the number of prototypes built and refined during development, compared to the kind of money they have invested, also points to these being fairly simple and cheap to manufacture. Both are good signs so far as mass-production and commercial application in the real world are concerned.
Let's put it this way: there's no sense on me wasting money with a regular vehicle purchase at this point. My next car/truck will be powered by an E-cat. (As a quality engineering in the automotive sector who is currently drowning in tsunami-related shortages and design changes, I do NOT relish the thought of the entire industry rushing to switch over to this technology. But that's what's going to happen.)
Rossi has said he thinks it will be a long time before this tech can be used in a car. Maybe the fastest way for it to affect transportation would be to provide cheap electricity for EVs.
Pay no attention to the parts of the device wrapped in tin foil—or the man behind the curtain.
Rossi can say what he wants; if it can produce heat it can produce electricity. If it can produce electricity it can power a car. (Or just skip the electricity and build a steam-powered car.) Market forces will push this along very, very hard in an era of costly oil.
You have a good point. Certainly the best engineering brains on the planet will be trying to figure out how to incorporate this technology into all kinds of applications. Things could accelerate very quickly — beyond Rossi’s expectations.
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