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According to PhysOrg.com, two Italian scientists from the University of Bologna have taken on one of physics' historically most discredited concepts, cold fusion, and have actually succeeded in creating a sustainable reaction. Aside from the major implications of the energy market should this be validated and recreated (an issue that buried the original Cold Fusion discovery by Stanley Pons and Martin Fleishmann), one of the more economically important side effects of this purported rediscovery is that one of the byproducts of the reaction is none other than recently uber-bubbleicious copper.

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...

While there are no fully functioning power plants running on Andrea Rossi’s E-Cat technology to provide conclusive proof of the veracity of Mr. Rossi’s claims, I believe that he has put enough evidence now in the public domain to conclude that we may well have been presented with a new source of power that is more efficient, cheaper and cleaner than any energy source currently in existence.

A recent article by Anne Landman providing a thorough description and analysis of Andrea Rossi’s E-Cat has an interesting conclusion. “Most of the news about the E-Cat has been reported in blogs operated by people and organizations interested in energy issues, and in the general press and media in Italy, Sweden, Greece and throughout Europe. By contrast, the Energy Catalyzer has received virtually no coverage in the U.S. mainstream media...

Few people in the world have about Andrea Rossi’s “energy catalyzer” (E-cat) technology which, if validated, would provide useful power in a much cheaper way than in currently possible. The main reason for this is that there has been precious little coverage of this story in the mainstream media. The media outlet that has provided most information about the Rossi device is the Swedish NyTeknik site. They have held live Q&A’s with Rossi and recently interviewed two respected Swedish physics professors who visited Rossi in Italy and observed testing of the E-cat. There is however a growing amount of interest...

In a detailed report, two Swedish physicists exclude chemical reactions as the energy source in the Italian ‘energy catalyzer’. The two physicists recently supervised a new test of the device in Bologna, Italy. (Swedish version here, Italian translation here). “In some way a new kind of physics is taking place. It’s enigmatic, but probably no new laws of nature are involved. We believe it is possible to explain the process with known laws of nature,” said Hanno Essén, associate professor of theoretical physics and a lecturer at the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology and chairman of the Swedish Skeptics Society.

Andrea Rossi was a guest on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory on March 23. He appeared alongside guest Sterling Allan and anwered questions about his energy catalyzer (e-cat technology)...

Just as Japan’s earthquake raises fears of catastrophe from a nuclear meltdown and Mideast turmoil jeopardizes the world’s supply of conventional energy, along comes word of a possible scientific breakthrough that holds out the hope of cheap, abundant power. Cold fusion - discredited and vilified in the past - is back in the news. The potential benefits are great enough that, despite past failures, the technology deserves a fair hearing from the scientific community this time.

An article from the Greek website energypress Greek company Defkalion Green Technologies, SA is preparing to install a 1 mW power plant which uses the “energy catalyzer” technology invented by Andrea Rossi and Sergio Focardi. According to the article, the company has said that this power plant will be used to power a factory in Xanthi, Greece where Defkalion will build up to 300,000 Rossi/Focardi E-cat units per year for the Greek and Balkan markets.

Questions poured in when the Italian engineer, Andrea Rossi, the inventor of the so-called 'energy catalyzer' which may be based on cold fusion, met with Ny Teknik's readers in a live chat. Read all questions and answers here. Rossi's 'energy catalyzer' was shown to an invited audience in Bologna in January 2011 and produces heat by an unknown reaction. The reactor of the device is loaded with nickel powder in the presence of secret catalysts, and pressurized with hydrogen. Question: Dear mr Rossi! When can I buy a small energy-catalyst machine at about 7-15 kW to temperate my house? What...

If you listen to inventor Andrea Rossi responding to questions about his “energy catalyzer” cold fusion device, he regularly brings up the topic of commercialization of his devices. Yesterday he responded briefly to inquiries and a request for an interview from Sterling Allen at the PESWiki web site in which he indicated that he was not inclined to talk about his inventions until after October, when the first operating power plant which will be built in Greece is expected to be up and running. He states, “I am sorry to inform you that I prefer not to make interviews until...

The website Cold Fusion Now is reporting about a recent interview conducted by James Martinez with physicist and researcher, Dr. Edmund Storms, formerly of the Los Alamos National Laboratory who is commenting on Andrea Rossi’s cold fusion technology. He has recently returned from the ICCF-16 conference in India where researchers in the field of low energy nuclear reaction discuss the latest research in the field. Storms makes some interesting statements on the importance of Rossi’s technology, and is of the belief that it is a significant breakthrough which can have far reaching effects in the world of energy production. Here...