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- The path of the e-cat.
- Cold fusion: a first prototype has already been sold!
- An alchemist dream! Taming nuclear fusion in a simple test tube and at almost
- room temperature. Even if, according to common nuclear knowledge,
- the only condition of such temperature and density that allows it reign in the core of the sun.
- This dream, held for over twenty-five years by advocate of the cold fusion
- theory or LENR (low energy nuclear reaction [in english in the text] ),
- the italian engineer Andrea Rossi pretend to have mutated it into reality
- with the E-Cat, a device powered by a mix (obviously kept secret)
- made of hydrogen, aluminum and lithium, nickel and catalyser, all of it
- being warmed-up with heated coils, themselves exicited with precise electro-magnetic
- pulse.
- According to information communicated by Andrea Rossi, a 1 MegaWatt prototype
- was sold to Industrial Heat who hold e-cat rights for U.S.A. to one of his client.
- It should now be subject of a year of testing before commercialization to larger scale.
- This is not the engineer's first announcement. (S&V #1134, page 132)
- But like we can read it on his website since 2014, this time, he let independant
- scientists from Bologna university in italy and Uppsala in sweden take a look to the
- machine.
- Conclusion of their report: the device is producing "thermal energy consistent
- with nuclear reaction but working a low energy".
- The begining of cold fusion era? Did E-cat succeded where Iter is still struggling?
- Bo Höistad, physicist from Uppsala university, who participated test confirm
- the first conclusions, but remain careful: "LENR will not be confirmed unless
- our test are validated by a second independant team".
- Jean-Paul Biberian, ancien conference master of Aix-Marseille university and
- Fervent advocate of cold fusion don't want to heat-up too quickly: "If significative
- heat, transmutations shown are very interesting, I will not be convince unless
- the experiment is reproduce by other scientist."
- Why all this caution?
- It's about knowing if heat produced by E-Cat really is greater than what it gets
- and if his origin is indeed nuclear.
- Many points to methodological flaws which could have altered data.
- Calorimetric test of the empty reactor and loaded reactor were made at different
- temperature. Also it's Andrea Rossi himself who loaded and unload his device,
- whom design still remain secret.
- Vice director Bernard Saoutic from CEA (french Atomic Energy Commission)
- "To be qualified as independant, this experience should have been conducted
- without any intervention from Andrea Rossi and better yet, the reactor itself
- should have been built by the independant team with published instructions".
- Many controversy
- Excess of skepticism? Trial?
- It's what is at stake that require to lift any doubt:
- to prove an extra-ordinary scientific result --here to question known nuclear physic laws--
- demand extra-ordinary proof has well.
- Since the beginning of the attempts to reproduce historical experience by
- Martin Fleschmann and Stanley Pons turned to horrible failure, work on cold fusion
- created many controversy where were mixed un-replicable results, theorical enignma
- and secret culture.
- In their large majority, physicist stay sceptical on the LENR subject.
- "They would rather tell their discovery to the press than publishing in
- scientific papers, and they give few details about what they do." Says Ignatios Antoniadis
- from CERN, Geneva. Even if Geneva was host to a cold fusion seminar in 2012 inside
- his venerable wall.
- Alain Becoulet, director of magnetic fusion of CEA add "The community of cold fusion
- folded on itself."
- Jean-Paul Biberian, stay confident: "many experimental ways were suggested
- and 'abnormal' heat production was confirmed dozens of times."
- LENR also has admirer among highly-regarded labs.
- Some very serious american agency like NASA or the military keep an eye on
- cold fusion, unofficialy.
- The scientist add: "our publications arent read and we are suffering from
- the nearly absent funding."
- Jacques Foos, ex-director from Laboratoire des sciences nucléaires du Conservatoire national des Arts et Métiers finish: "It's a shame, considering what is at stake.
- a few millions euros would be enough to make progress."
- Andrea Rossi and his E-Cat have ambition to change things.
- The italian picked a date: he has one year to give definitive belivable tests.
- There is no turning back now. Maybe it's the dawn of a revolution in the energy world.
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