Free energy holds great promise for humankind. The sooner we switch from fossil fuels to free energy, the better life will be on this planet.

Technology isn't my forte, so I could be wrong, but I think it's possible to make free energy devices without the use of nanotechnology.  I certainly hope so, because the safety of using such tiny particles is not yet fully understood.

This article expresses some of these concerns...

http://www.wedincommunications.com/Chemistry%20Nanotech%20Spring06.pdf

"Nanotechnology carries a laundry list of potential risks.  One recent review article in the February 3, 2006, edition of Science cited a dozen potential toxic effects of nanomaterials.  They include the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), protein denaturation, mitochondrial perturbation, and uptake by nerve tissue." 

Whatever that means, it doesn't sound good to me.

Thanks John,

That was the best video I've seen yet about the recent event in Italy.

I do so want to get in on this industry. I hope someone starts selling the e-cat in America soon.

Thanks for posting---  I got stuck following the 1st link you provided.

    I seriously need the eBox to store energy at home, but it's not on the market yet.   Not even manufactured, the inspired British sounding guy is called Justin Hall-Tipping, he's a venture capitalist trying to get funding to develop  these brilliant ideas.  I hope it all comes to fruition soon, we need it.

       The Italian cold fusion work is fantastic, and seems completely genuine.  I've been following that on and off for a while.  The latest test of 1Megawatt reactor only produced half that amount.  which is still loads, of hot water, which then has to be converted to electricity..  It appears to be made in Greece and called Hyperion, by Defkalion. http://www.defkalion-energy.com/products  .  I can find no recent news of its manufacture in the US unfortunately.  Although Rossi (the inventor) has started a company onthe US called Leonardo Corporation.

Here's a cool site that shows you how to make gadgets that utilize a variety of renewable energy sources: 

http://diyenergy.blogspot.com/

Have fun!

Andrea Rossi would like to see how much interest there is in his product. You can be put on the waiting list for a home size unit by signing up here.

http://ecat.com/ecat-questions/where-can-i-get-an-ecat

He is currently in the Boston area, talking with local politicians (Bruce Tarr) and MIT people about bringing a unit to Boston.

Massachusetts Senator Bruce Tarr First Politician to Publicly Propose E-Cat as Energy Solution

I have wondered when the E-Cat would enter into the political arena, and who the first politician would be to come out and endorse E-Cat technology as an energy solution — well now I know, and it’s someone I had never heard of before. Republican Senator Bruce Tarr is the Senate Minority Leader in the Massachusetts legislature and appears interested in promoting the development and commercialization of Andrea Rossi’s invention. As a local politician he is naturally seeking to find ways to bring benefits to his state through this technology.

Senator Tarr writes on his Tarr Talk blog:

“Mr. Rossi’s reactor, if successfully proven and developed, has the potential to change the way the world deals with energy, and I’m pleased that he’s willing to discuss basing its production in Massachusetts. Rossi began his schedule in the state this morning and it will conclude later in the evening.

Rossi’s E-Cat reactor, which has thus far been developed and tested in the Italian city of Bologna, is intended to produce large amounts of energy from a reaction between nickel and hydrogen. The reaction produces heat which then heats water to produce steam, from which electricity can be generated. Importantly, the process creates little to no radiation, a major problem for the nuclear fission process currently used to produce power in reactors around the world.

The enormous potential of this technology demands that it be addressed by the best scientific minds in the world. Since Massachusetts is the home of some of the best colleges and universities in the world, it makes sense for that process to happen here.”

Tarr, like many other people who learn about the E-Cat, seems to be recognizing that E-Cat technology could provide real solutions to energy problems, and is wanting to find ways to help this technology come to light. He doesn’t seem to be concerned about the safety aspects of this nuclear reactor if “little to no” radiation is emitted by this technology.

It should be remembered that Tarr is the Minority Leader of a very small minority in the Massachusetts Senate (only four of 39 senators are Republicans), and so may not carry a huge amount of influence when it comes to setting government policy. It will be interesting to learn how his colleagues in the state government respond to proposals he brings forward regarding this technology — the speed of the proliferation of E-Cat devices could depend in large measure on how it is perceived by elected officials.

http://www.tarrtalk.com/2011/11/cold-fusion-inventor-comes-to-boston.html

A Week of E-Cat News Flurry

It's amazing how much E-Cat cold fusion news is accumulated in just one week, with no less than twelve news sites dedicated to covering it, thus creating these ~37 stories, including news on customers, products, competitor progress, pending scientific validations, and history. Plus compilation showing 1st customer = US Military.

From the new brochure.

Full Disclosure:
PES Network has a business relationship with Andrea Rossi.

By Sterling D. Allan with Hank Mills
Pure Energy Systems News

There has been a lot of miscellaneous news items over the past few days. Rather than build news bullets for any one of them, I have decided to just post them here on one page, to streamline the effort on my end, and to illustrate the dynamics of this very exciting field. This is in addition to what we've posted in our news as archived at News:Rossi_Cold_Fusion.

It reminds me of when I'm making hot cereal in the morning. The water is boiling, and if you add too much cereal at first, it boils over. Even when you drop in a few flakes, the water boils wildly, as the flakes add surface area for the formation of bubbles. That's what the excitement about the E-Cat makes me think of.

So, without further ado, here are some of the recent news items posted from around the web. I might have to make this compilation a weekly practice, to the extent I can.

Following this compilation is a list of hints about who the first customer is.

• Customers
  • New eCat Customer To Be Public - Rossi writes: "Today we sold in the USA a 1 MW plant which will go to a normal Customer. This installation will be visitable by the qualified public. We wait to have completed the contractual procedure through the attorneys, then we will give communication. It will be in the North East of the USA, where I have been in these days." (ECatNews; Nov. 29)
  • Rossi's e-Cat Goes Commercial - Andrea Rossi may have his doubters, detractors and skeptics, but the client for whom he demonstrated his 1MW e-Cat energy system apparently isn't one of them. Not only did the mysterious client take delivery of Rossi's first 1MW heat energy production system, but ordered a dozen more for use in cold, remote locations. (EV World; November 23, 2011)
  • Andrea Rossi E-Cat Marketing Campaign - Last week Andrea Rossi started an online campaign for those interested to buy 10kW E-Cat to sign up in www.ecat.com. The goal was to generate at least 10,000 individuals and entities. The 10kW Andrea Rossi E-Cat is designed for household use. This sig-up campaign is a good tool to gauge the mass’ interest on the device. Andrea Rossi recently posted in his blog saying that the number of people who signed up is getting closer to the target. (AndreaRossiECat; Nov. 28)
  • Collection of Hints that 1st Customer is U.S. Military - see (below)
  • Building E-Cat based thermal electricity plants - Following best practice in the CSP (Concentrating Solar Power) industry, where every watt is important and the heat is lower than what can be generated in a conventional thermal plant's boiler, we will be building a 1 MW E-Cat plant based on this system. We are working with Rossi to make this happen and hope to sign a contract soon. (VortexL forum; Nov. 28)

Most of the graphic on that page comes from here.
- http://www.volker-quaschning.de/articles/fundamentals2/index.php 
- http://www.volker-quaschning.de/articles/fundamentals2/figure3.gif 

• Products
  • Thermoelectric eCat Within A Year - If the e-Cat right now is able to produce steam at 450 Celsius is really a great breakthrough! This means that the current thermoelectric plants could be converted in order to use e-Cat as heat generator with big investment saving. (ECatNews; Nov. 25)
  • Andrea Rossi Working with Domenico Fioravanti on Electrical Power from E-Cat - Andrea Rossi has recently reported making a significant breakthrough in producing electricity from the E-Cat, something that had been a challenge for him for a long time. (E-CatWorld; Nov. 25)
  • 1MW eCat Brochure - Inaccuracy?: "The world's first cold fusion reactor ready for delivery in November 2011" (ECatNews; Nov. 25)
  • Rossi Taking Names of People Interested 10 kW Heat/Hot Water Plants — $5400 per Unit (E-CatWorld; Nov. 22)
  • Energy Catalyzer Device: Potential Competitors and Unlimited Production - HOW MANY PLANTS OF 1 MW CAN WE MANUFACTURE IN 1 YEAR? ANSWER: SO MANY WE WANT, THROUGH A VERY WELL ORGANIZED OUTSOURCHING SYSTEM (ECatFusion; Nov. 22)
  • The E-Cat Grows Bigger – Now A 13 MW Power Plant - But it has been stated by Rossi, who was finally allowed to confirm the military status of the customer, that he ordered 13 more 1 MW plants that will be linked into one 13 MW power plant. (ECatReport; Nov. 21)
• Defkalion
  • Set Hyperion-eCat Battle Alarm for Wednesday November 30th - according to their forum (ECatNews; Nov. 28)
  • Defkalion Nearly Ready, NASA Files Patent, Piantelli Silent - NASA associate has applied for yet another LENR-related patent. The patent date of filing is listed as March 24, 2011 and date published October 20, 2011. (e-CatSite; Nov. 21)
  • Defkalion’s Hyperion vs. Andrea Rossi E-Cat - Once a partner, Defkalion is now poised to compete with the Andrea Rossi E-Cat. Alexandros Xanthoulis, CEO of Defkalion Green Technologies announced through a Greek publication, Tovima, that within 15 days their company will introduce Hyperion. This cold fusion technology is different from that of Andrea Rossi’s. Xanthoulis explicitly said that they will launch the final product and not a laboratory prototype with all components operating within European safety standard; and most importantly, that there will be testing and certification by independent scientists. (AndreaRossiECat; Nov. 22)
  • Defkalion, the Piantelli connection - Maryyugo suggested that Defkalion has a relationship with Piantelli.  The official line from Defkalion is that “we never answer/comment any post that is based on speculations.”  However, a poster named Engineer says, “Indeed the html code for the image reads: /files/1/2011/11/18/Piantelli-engine%5B1%5D.jpg” (NickelPower; Nov. 23)
  • I Fooled Defkalion Says Andrea Rossi - Shark alert: Talking of Defkalion, Andrea Rossi says that he led the company a false trail. They took the bait, thinking that he would be selling small eCats in October. In doing so, it wrong-footed them and upset their plans to present a fake version of the same. (ECatNews; Nov. 24)
  • http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=516&cpage=14#comment-129682 
    Andrea Rossi
    November 24th, 2011 at 9:27 AM

    Dear Hampus:
    Soon, but remember that such R&D will be closed doors made and not public. I repeat: no more public tests will be made. We will make only closed doors R&D and tests for our Customers made along the test protocols agreed upon the purchasing contracts. No more information will be released until proper patent protection will be granted. Too many vultures fly around, ready to steal critic info. Look to what is going on around the Balcans: there are clowns saying they have a technology copied from us, actually they have just a moke up, waiting for the piece of info they need to make a real copy. They believed we would have been selling in October the small E-Cats, so announced they would have made a demo in October ( buying a model, disguising it as a copy made by them). But it was just a trap we made. Conclusion: from now on we will be more sealed than ever, and we will be open exclusively with our Customers.
    To put for sale the small unts we need:
    1- safety certification
    2- granted patents
    We are working on both the issues and I think they will be addressed within 1 to 2 years from now.
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

• Credibility
  • The eCat Credibility Dance - Sure, mass-media attention could bring a stampede of interest, but there are signs that Rossi’s strategy of enigma-before-certainty may be working. (ECatNews; Nov. 29)
  • Universities
    • Uppsala University Eager To Test Andrea Rossi E-Cat - Recently the Director of Department of Physics at the University of Bologna confirmed that they have been contracted by Andrea Rossi to test his reactor in order to validate his measurements. Professor Levi and a team of physicists will start the Andrea Rossi E-Cat experiment in a few weeks. They estimated that by the summer of 2012 the world can see the publication of the first scientific report about Rossi’s invention. Now, Uppsala University in Sweden expressed eagerness to test the Andrea Rossi E-Cat. (AndreaRossiECat; Nov. 25)
    • Contract Research on Energy Catalyzer Device Signed - Italian inventor Andrea Rossi and the Department of Physics of University of Bologna signed a contract research recently that aims to replicate Energy Catalyzer Device. Then, it would provide official measurements, give scientific explanations and publish the results. (ECatFusion; Nov. 24)
    • Report of Sven Kullander’s Lecture about Nuclear Power/E-Cat at Orebro University, Sweden - Many thanks to Hampus Ericsson for sending this report of Sven Kullander’s lecture, "Tomorrow’s Nuclear Power — Will it be Cold or Hot?" which was given at Orebro University in Sweden on November 23rd. (E-CatWorld; Nov. 24)
    • Andrea Rossi E-Cat Will Soon Have Scientific Framework - But for new discoveries, especially those that apparently defy the laws of physics, thorough investigation and validation is needed. Recently, we received update that the contracted research between Andrea Rossi and the University of Bologna will start in a few weeks. (AndreaRossiECat; Nov. 24)
  • Massachusetts
    • Rossi Plans, Ahern Patent - According to the Boston Globe: "After the meeting, Rossi, who paid his own way to Massachusetts, was enthusiastic about a possible partnership with the state." The Globe also quotes reports Mr. Rossi as stating: "We are all hoping to get something started in a matter of weeks, not months." (e-CatSite; Nov. 28)
    • Hope, skepticism for cold fusion - Robert Tamarin, dean of sciences at UMass Lowell, said the meeting was mostly used to discuss the possibility of setting up manufacturing, rather than the validity of the science. Mass Senate minority leader, Bruce Tarr, said: "My thought process was pretty simple: If it works, I want this technology to be developed and manufactured in Massachusetts." (Boston Globe; November 28, 2011) (Correction Re: "small")
    • Massachusetts Senator Bruce Tarr First Politician to Publicly Propose E-Cat as Energy Solution - Republican Senator Bruce Tarr is the Senate Minority Leader in the Massachusetts legislature and appears interested in promoting the development and commercialization of Andrea Rossi’s invention. As a local politician he is naturally seeking to find ways to bring benefits to his state through this technology. (E-CatWorld; Nov. 24)
    • Andrea Rossi Talks eCat To Mass State House - According to Senator Bruce Tarr, Andrea Rossi has come to the State House for two days "to explore the prospects of developing the device and producing it in Massachusetts.” "The enormous potential of this technology demands that it be addressed by the best scientific minds in the world." (ECatNews; November 22, 2011)
  • UK DECC Awaits Publication And Replication Of Andrea Rossi E-Cat - In response to the inquiry made by the Free Energy Truth to the UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Minister Chris Huhne, regarding Andrea Rossi E-Cat, the UK DECC issued a statement on behalf of David MacKay FRS, DECC Chief Scientific Adviser. The letter said that DECC is monitoring the development of Andrea Rossi E-Cat – an alleged breakthrough technology for energy source. (AndreaRossiECat; Nov. 21)
  • Independent E-Cat Replication Claimed - An independent E-Cat replication  has been claimed on Buildecats.com, a site dedicated to building open source LENR reactors. The claimant, known as Chan, reports on the materials and methods used in his process referred to as the Chan Formula. (E-CatWorld; Nov. 24)
  • Josephson Call for More Tests
    • E-Cat and cold fusion: Andrea Rossi replies to Nobel prize winner Brian Josephson - Brian Josephson joins Francesco Celani's call for further scientific tests of Andrea Rossi's E-Cat, but Rossi has different plans, saying 1) he is focusing on delivering product to customers; 2) Celani is a competitor; 3) Univ. of Bologna will be undertaking scientific analysis. (Focus.it; November 23, 2011)
    • Andrea Rossi Replies to Brian Josephson - Andrea Rossi has replied to Nobel Prize winning Cambridge Physicist Brian Josephson’s demands for a scientific test of the e-cat cold fusion device. Josephson made an appeal to Rossi to have his device formally evaluated by scientists through the Italian publication Focus.It. Josephson was repeating an appeal made by prominent Italian physicist Francesco Celani and reports that the British Department of Energy and Climate Change had its science advisor review e-cat. Rossi made a very intelligent reply and noted that a complete scientific examination of his device will be carried out by his alma matter prestigious University of Bologna. He also noted that he is willing to work with the DECC or any other government agency interested in E-cat. (ColdFusion3; Nov. 26)
• Ramifications
  • Alternative Media fails 'free energy' promotion when it should take an activist, leadership role - Given the potential of 'free energy' to: 1) provide affordable back-up power in the case of a short- or long-term grid failure, 2) provide clean, cheap, distributed energy, 3) create zillions of jobs to reinvigorate the world's economy, 4) instill hope in depressed times; the alternative media should be playing more of an instigating, leadership roll; not ignoring the topic. (PESN and BeforeItsNews; November 25, 2011)
  • The E-Cat and the Economy - If there is any way to solve the huge economic problems the world is facing today, breakthroughs in energy technology could play a major role, and at the moment E-Cat technology seems to offer the most promise. (E-CatWorld; Nov. 27)
• E-Cat History
  • Mike McKubre: Cold Fusion From Pons & Fleischmann To Rossi’s eCat - Mike McKubre recently gave a brilliant talk overviewing a good chunk of the cold fusion/LENR situation. Part 6/8 is E-Cat. (Cold Fusion Now; Nov. 21; and e-CatSite; Nov. 25; and ECatNews; Nov. 25)
  • Rossi Appoints eCat.com As Official eCat Site - Hydro Fusion is truly honored by Andrea Rossi’s request to appoint its domain ECAT.com as the Official ECAT Website of Andrea Rossi, Leonardo Corporation and the future home for all official ECAT-related matters. (ECatNews; Nov. 25)
  • Tom and Doug interview Andrea Rossi on E-Cat’s Future - by the Tom and Doug show, who have built a page devoted to the E-Cat. they are the ones who came up with the song: "I Believe in the E-Cat". Their hour-long interview (mp3) with Rossi is enjoyable to listen to, as it contains both new info about the E-Cat [recorded 11/11] as well as some fun music. (ColdFusionNow; Nov. 23)
  • Would like to discuss Andrea Rossi and his E-cat, page 1 - a brief overview of the history of the E-Cat. "Rossi developed generators that ran off of biofuel. There were no reported problems with these and he subsequently sold this company for a profit. He used that money to finance his energy catalyzer." (AboveTopSecret; Nov. 28)
  • Proliferation of "E-Cat" websites Confusing for Public (RossiFocardiFusion; Nov. 22)
  • Quick Poll of E-Cat World Readers - As of Nov. 27, 8:45 pm, the poll results at E-CatWorld begun on Nov. 19 are as follows: 
    What is your Opinion of Andrea Rossi's E-Cat Technology?
    - Rossi has discovered a new way to make useful energy (55%, 825 Votes)
    - Don't Know (21%, 319 Votes)
    - Rossi has nothing and is perpetrating a hoax/scam (13%, 191 Votes)
    - Rossi honestly thinks he has achieved cold fusion but is mistaken (8%, 123 Votes)
    - Rossi has discovered a form of energy but it is insignificantly small (3%, 32 Votes)

Hi Jon,

I'm surprised, the form worked fine for me, perhaps you just need to give it another try?

Here's the e-mail address:

[email protected]

He would like to get 10,000 signitures - I hope everyone signs up. It's non-binding, you're just basically saying that you're interested.

Wendy

Sorry, this is such a hit piece. How can they be questioning whether it works or not when someone has just paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for the 1 Megawatt device and has ordered 12 more?

http://bostonglobe.com/business/2011/11/28/hope-skepticism-for-cold-fusion/w7FgGyI9Zx432chxuD5BEL/story.html

The opposition has been saying cold fusion doesn't work since it was first invented years ago. 

Don't let 'em rain on your parade!