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E-Cat Cold fusion device independently validated producing 800% more energy than input
Initially met with skepticism due to claims that it works on cold fusion technology, the energy catalyzer has been validated producing 2.6 kilowatts from an input of 300 watts by Swedish technology magazine NyTeknik (http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/ener…). The technology, which was granted a patent in April, is expected to be on the market this fall. (http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/ener…)
Inventors Andrea Rossi and Sergio Focardi announced the “E-CAT” in January claiming they had created a reactor that produces massive amounts of energy by fusing nickel and hydrogen nuclei at room temperature.
If the invention proves genuine, it would be one of the greatest scientific achievements of all time and would beat out oil for position as king of energy resources (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news…). It could provide nearly limitless cheap energy with no radioactive byproduct or massive carbon emissions. The inventors say, scaled for commercial use, their process could generate eight units of output per unit of input and would cost roughly one penny per kilowatt-hour, drastically cheaper than a coal plant (http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011…).
Skepticism has abounded so far, and expectedly so, since every past claim of cold fusion turned out to be false. Rossi and Focardi’s failure to provide details on how the process works has not helped their case nor has the fact that they cannot account for how the cold fusion is triggered. (http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011…).
But the inventors do have something going for them. They have demonstrated the device publicly numerous times and their claims are looking more credible as more tests validate them. Video and reports of physicists who were present confirmed that electricity was produced.
The latest tests on the energy catalyzer by NyTeknik took place in Bologna on April 19 and 28. The test, as with previous tests, aimed to measure the net energy that the device generates as accurately as possible. The results of the tests from both dates showed a developed net power of between 2.3 and 2.6 kilowatts with and input electric power of 300 watts. (http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/ener…)
To date no one has been able to give a detailed explanation of the measured values that NyTeknik now has been able to confirm. But tests by Professor Sven Kullander and Associate Professor Hanno Essen in March found that the measured values can only be explained by a nuclear reaction.
Yet another endorsement of the device came this week as the inventors signed on with a partner firm, Ampenergo–a company formed in 2009 with connections to the U.S. Department of Energy, to assist in the proliferation of the E-Cat technology. (http://freeenergytruth.blogspot.com/)
Rossi is planning an installation of 300 energy catalyzers at a total of one megawatt for his U.S. customer in Greece in October 2011. The one-megawatt plant will be using the catalyzers for profit and not for demonstration. (http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physi…). On his website, Rossi said that a U.S. plant in October is not impossible. (http://www.e-catworld.com/2011/05/1…)
Rossi’s website also said that the Universities of Uppsala and Bologna will have E-Cats on which they can test “in any way they want.”
11 Comments on "E-Cat Cold fusion device independently validated producing 800% more energy than input"
MrEnergyCzar on Mon, 12th Sep 2011 6:23 pm
Until prove otherwise, the laws of thermodynamics have not changed. These are some of the desperate things we’ll see during the ugly downslope of Peak Oil. Zero energy perpetual magnets as well…
MrEnergyCzar
Dusko on Tue, 13th Sep 2011 3:07 am
Now now MrEnergyCzar, when Mr. Tesla proposed the induction motor his professor said such a device must be a perpetual motion machine. He proved him wrong and the rest is history.
Maybe they have succeeded? If they have then lets see how long they live and/or keep offering their technology on the open market. The energy business will stomp them down like a bug if they are the genuine article.
SilentRunning on Tue, 13th Sep 2011 3:26 am
It seems to me that if the device really does work by fusing nickel and hydrogen to make copper, then the nickel powder should show increasing amounts of copper in its composition.
Also, there is only one isotope of nickel that could produce a stable copper isotope:
Ni62 + H -> Cu63.
Nickel 62 makes up only 3.6% of all knickel. So over time, if the reaction works, Ni62 should be used up in the sample and Cu63 should appear.
A trivial test for a mass spectrometer.
Gvil on Tue, 13th Sep 2011 5:14 am
It’s not perpetual motion device! It’s nuclear reactor.
pike on Tue, 13th Sep 2011 5:46 am
Cold fission is so simple most humans paying the moon for fossil fuels cannot accepts its logic.
BillT on Tue, 13th Sep 2011 5:51 am
Where does the Ni62 come from?
How much energy is expended in mining, transporting and purifying it?
Where does the hydrogen come from?
How much energy is used to make and transport it?
Ni62 costs $2.30 to $5.00 per gram depending on wither it is a 200g or a 50g purchase. It is usually bought in small quantities because it is expensive to make.
Another vaporware idea that does not prove out in any real world situation.
BillT on Tue, 13th Sep 2011 5:57 am
Pike, it sounds like you are another dreamer that some miracle will save the world from it’s folly. Too bad it will never happen.
ALL other energy sources take huge amounts of oil somewhere in their life processes. If an honest life cycle energy cost is performed on all of the alternate and renewable energy sources, they come back to the same result. Nothing can replace oil in our energy world, nothing. Think 1800s mining for a start, before oil. All done by hand labor and a bit of coal for some steam.
Kenjamkov on Tue, 13th Sep 2011 7:35 am
The question is, what if it works?
Too much power is always a bad thing, unlimited power is an unlimited bad thing.
KM on Tue, 13th Sep 2011 11:27 am
I’m highly skeptical of this, but if it doesn’t work it won’t have anything to do with the cost of nickel, which will be about as big a part of the expense of this project as your spark plugs are for the overall cost of running your car. There is so much energy available in nuclear processes that a minute quantity could potentially unleash vast amounts of energy.
If this fails, it will be because it’s a fraud and violates the First Law of Thermodynamics, not because it is uneconomical.
Johny K. on Tue, 13th Sep 2011 5:16 pm
Nickel Hydride is a well known chemical compound. It’s the nearest possible allocation between a nickel nucleus and a hydrogen nucleus.
However, no Nickel Hydride has never ever been observed to start any kind of nuclear reaction.
OBagel on Thu, 15th Sep 2011 1:16 pm
Demolition and salvage companies have been using “Brown’s Gas” since the 1950’s to cut through inch thick steel plates faster than with acetylene – underwater. This mysterious gas is nothing more than hydrogen, which produces a useless blue jet of flame – unless the flame strikes metal. Could it be that heated hydrogen is actually vaporizing the metal through tiny nuclear detonations? Nothing to see here folks, just some retired old geezers running a salvage yard.