Andrea Rossi talks about E-cat manufacturing and future electric production.

[TinselKoala]

Isn't it interesting.... in all these videos of Rossi in his "laboratory", with these net-heat-producing devices all around..... he is always wearing a heavy coat !! IT'S COLD IN THERE.

Why in the world doesn't he run the output of the thing through an ordinary steam radiator and at least HEAT UP HIS LABORATORY with all this excess power???

I am laughing in my coffee. Rossi has never shown the output of any ECat doing anything but going down the drain. He can't even heat his own rooms with it.

[tron81]

@TinselKoala nice observation! You're right about that. Why doesn't Rossi use his own device to heat his lab if it really worked? lol

[mattiarizzi]

The 1MW plant that can be seen is NOT an older footage, since you can see it at 0:13

[n3w3mail]

I think that the technological and the engineering part is only the half of the way - the other half is to get all of the required licenses, patents, approvals, etc. and i think the technology is too revolutional to be allowed on the market - he'll be kept on hold by the entire bureaucratic machine.

[LibertyBooksAZ]

The most AMAZING new technology to hit the planet. Anyone new to this, google Sterling Allan's articles about Rossi and the ECat. The unit in this video is the 1 MW size which is already in production. The first unit was so successful that the original purchaser bought 12 more units!! (Rumor says it's the US Navy..) HOME UNITS COMING WITHIN THE YEAR according to Rossi! CONSUMERS MUST STAY ON TOP OF THIS STORY and not let it become suppressed!

[tomabin]

@harf12345 It's pretty clear he's onto something, not sure what though. The reason his claims are irrational to you is because the science is unproven. The reason they are extraordinary is because the reaction is unheard of. If it's a scam, as you say, it's a pointless one. He has nothing to gain from false claims except an empty bank account.

I'm not a total believer but seeing as I can't prove him wrong and he's putting it on the market, why should I doubt him?

[TinselKoala]

@tron81

Right.

The "home" ECats will sell for 50 dollars / kW, or 500 dollars for the 10kW unit... which will be about the size of a portable computer, with a reactor the size of a pack of cigarettes. 10 kiloWatts of heat, coupled to water, from a thing that small.... is implausible no matter where the heat comes from. And the big 1 MW unit is now "only" 1.5 million dollars.

Somebody really needs to do some math here. The big unit is 30 times as expensive per Watt as the small unit.

[TinselKoala]

@tomabin You should doubt him because of his past history, because he hasn't allowed proper measurement and the measurements he has done are incorrect and incorrectly interpreted, because he is making not one but at least three scientifically implausible claims without evidence (excess heat, a cheap way of isotopic separation/purification of nickel, incredible thermodynamic efficiency of his heat exchangers), and because the University of Bologna is still waiting for an ECat to test.

[TinselKoala]

@LibertyBooksAZ The unit in the video has never made anything close to 1MW even by Rossi's own numbers, and it has never been properly tested. There is no "production" of this unit going on. The first unit was rejected by the mystery customer... that's why you see it here. The USNavy is not the customer. You will never see "home units" because Rossi now claims that 511keV gammas are produced. Lead melts at 328 degrees C.... and Rossi claims 450 degree steam. You do the math.

[TinselKoala]

You can look at Rossi's own blog, the bogus "journal of nuclear physics" where in a comment made 21 January (today as I write this) he admits that the 1MW unit in his lab has never been delivered... it has never left his laboratory... and he says that work is being done on control interfaces. No deliveries, no production, just the one unit -- the one in this video -- being modified over the next one or two months. And you can see here how feverishly they are working on it.

[tron81]

@TinselKoala so Rossi lied when he said there was a customer who bought the 1MW plant back in October, or was that another plant?

[TinselKoala]

@tron81 It was the plant you see in this video. I don't know whether a customer "bought" it or not, in the sense of giving Rossi money for it, but I do know that it was never delivered outside Rossi's building, as you can see in this video, and as Rossi himself acknowledges. At present he seems to be claiming that he and National Instruments are working on control and stability issues at the "customer's" insistence... oh... and the "quiescence" problem is being worked on too.

[ifreed0m]

@TinselKoala

Would you plese point to the specific blog entry you are referring to? I have double checked if your accusation is true and was unable to find any such comments. Thanks.

[TinselKoala]

@ifreed0m

Yes.

(A Rossi answer.)

[etbadaboum]

Intriguing. Wait & See.