[LINK] Energy Catalyzer (E-Cat)

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

An Italian inventor claims to have developed a machine that can produce 
large amounts of energy from almost nothing.

Dr Rossi, who works for the US based Leonardo Corporation, claims his E-
cat machine can take a small amount of energy and drive a reaction 
between atoms of hydrogen and nickel which can, through an unknown 
process, produce a large amount of energy, far exceeding the initial 
energy input.

"It is far more efficient than coal. It's absolutely clean, no radiation 
and no bad waste," he said.

Cold fusion, or a low-energy nuclear reaction, is the seemingly 
impossible process by which a light element and a heavy element are 
fused, releasing vast amounts of energy at room temperature.

So far, Mr Rossi's invention has been greeted with much cynicism by the 
scientific community.

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/energy-smart/mullumbimby-helping-to-
save-world-20120112-1pxj2.html#ixzz1jGlOduAV

(AND) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Catalyzer

Energy Catalyzer.  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Energy Catalyzer (also called E-Cat) is a purported cold fusion or 
Low-Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) heat source built by inventor Andrea 
Rossi, with support from physicist Sergio Focardi.

An Italian patent, which was approved on April 6, 2011, describes the 
apparatus as a "process and equipment to obtain exothermal reactions, in 
particular from nickel and hydrogen".

Rossi and Focardi say the device works by infusing heated hydrogen into 
nickel, transmuting it into copper and producing heat.

An international patent application has received an unfavorable 
international preliminary report on patentability because it seemed 
to, "offend against the generally accepted laws of physics and 
established theories" and to overcome this problem the application should 
have contained either experimental evidence or a firm theoretical basis 
in current scientific theories.

The device was demonstrated to an invited audience several times, and has 
been commented on by various academics and others, but has not been 
independently tested. 

Evaluation of the deviceRossi and Focardi are reported to have been 
unable to find a peer-reviewed scientific journal that would publish 
their paper describing how they claim the Energy Catalyzer operates.

Their paper appears only in Rossi's self-published blog, Journal of 
Nuclear Physics. <http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=66>

Maybe?
Stephen