Here is a much better translation: Cold fusion: turning point or bluff The E-Cat under scrutiny at the University of Bologna The Physics Researchers: impartial analysis, then the verdict
Andrea Rossi and the E-Cat LONDON - It will be the University of Bologna to put the final seal [of approval] on the E-Cat, the machine which is supposed to produce cold fusion. The entrepreneur Andrea Rossi, owner of the apparatus through [ownership] of EFA Ltd., and Department of Physics have signed a research contract with the aim to replicate the experiment, to measure what happens and to publish the results. This should be a scientifically definitive claim on the invention that everybody is talking about, from Sweden to the United States. "Our interest is very strong - declares Capiluppi Paul, director of the department - there is much curiosity, but for us it is true only what we can measure." To activate the contract the first installment of the [financial] contribution needs to be paid, 500 000 euros in two years. Rossi has committed to provide this amount to cover all costs. "We should be starting soon, in a few weeks - Enrico Campari tells. He is a professor of experimental physics and in charge of the scientific research [on the e-cat] together with Giuseppe Levi. By summer we could have the first scientific report of the results obtained and we will disclose them [soon after] to the scientific journals." Is it the invention of the century or a bluff? Is the question surrounding the experiments that Rossi is making, for some time now, on the E-Cat, an energy catalyst that can produce clean energy at low cost zero radio active waste. On the Internet we read all sorts of things about the the tests carried out by Rossi and associates. The last test was performed in a Roveri industrial hangar owned by EFA Ltd., a firm of which Rossi is technical manager since the end of October. The E-Cat is supposed to be already purchased. A model that is 13-fold more powerful than the one demonstrated in Bologna is under construction. All this seems to have attracted even the interest of NATO. How much of this is true, we do not know. And do not concern at all the university researchers who are interested only in obtaining precise measurements and to derive a theory that would explain the results. From the beginning, Rossi has wanted at his side Sergio Focardi, professor emeritus of the Alma Mater and distinguished physicist who in his career has conducted several studies on nuclear fusion. Campari and Levi are not by chance Focardi's students. "The machine works, produces energy - assures the professor - a couple of years ago, Rossi has heated its offices, which were then in Bondeno, for 2-3 months with the E-Cat." At the end of October at the Roveri location, the most important experiment so far, the machine, [ the size of] a sort of mini fridge, produced half megawatts of clean energy. However, as mentioned mentioned before, official measurements are lacking. In the absence of official measurements the scientific community remains skeptical, since the patent on the machine does not reveal how it works. Not to mention that Rossi has a non clear past concerning a plan to transform industrial waste into oil. These are details that do not interest the researchers. "With our equipment we will go in the industrial hangar that Rossi would make available to us to perform the measurements - Campari says - these will be free and independent measurements to verify whether the system produces a large amount of energy." On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Mary Yugo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Alan Fletcher <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Rossi Story: Corriere di Bologna Gets it Wrong >> < >> http://blog.newenergytimes.com/2011/11/26/rossi-story-corriere-di-bologna-gets-it-wrong/ >> > >> >> No they didn't. It says it will start "within weeks" on receipt of the >> first installment. >> > > I'm not sure if the problem is the translation or the original article but > the translated version makes no sense at all. It even suggests that U of > Bologna will pay Rossi to do the test. And anyone who assume from the > article that Rossi is planning to give an E-cat device for U of Bologna to > test may be very disappointed. If Rossi does cough up the $500K required > to initiate the contract, it may turn out he's paying the U to do secret > research for him -- research which does NOT involve making sure the E-cat > is really a cold fusion power source and that it works the way Rossi says > it does. > > Rossi did say in his blog that although the research results will be > secret, the university is free to say whether or not they have received an > E-cat and so far, it is quite clear from their statements that they have > not. > >
