This is actually an amazing comment. It
explicitly recognizes LENR as it is: established
experimentally as real, but without any
"universally accepted" theory as to how it operates.
It points out the obvious problems with Rossi,
and Rossi's extreme response to this is typical
for him. Rossi quibbles over what was said about gammas.
The core of the warning from the Italian
Secretary of State remains: there has been no independent verification.
There are no "reliable scientific and technical
findings," and no amount of raving by Rossi can
change that. If he wanted to change it, he easily
could, but instead of remedying the situation, he
just continues to rant and make more and more unsubustantiated claims.
He's playing a very dangerous game. If his E-Cat
is for real, at this point, and if it did
actually threaten major moneyed interests, he and
it could be made to disappear, and it would seem
to be what he's made it appear to be: a huge scam.
The most likely explanation for this, setting
aside pure fraud, is that Rossi is still
struggling to make the effect reliable and stable
and, as well, reliably persistent. No good if the
E-Cat works for a few weeks, then stops. And it's
easy for an inventor to believe that perfection
of the product is "just around the corner," and
to start to fudge results to maintain
plausibility. All for a good cause, of course.
At 04:06 PM 5/13/2012, Alan Fletcher wrote:
http://22passi.blogspot.it/2012/05/risposta-del-sottosegretario-claudio-de.html
Google translate looks fine :
Answer to Question 4 to 14,595 by Zamparutti
Betrandi, Baker, Flour, Coscioni, Mecacci, the
Turkish 23 January 2012 ( here the text of the
question ) . must first be noted that more than
twenty years away from the experiment of
Fleischmann and Pons, research on so-called
"cold fusion" now known as the study of nuclear
reactions at low energy, has made
ââsubstantial progress, on both experimental
and theoretical, providing a field of nuclear
physics of condensed matter. Currently, however,
there is still a theory universally accepted,
such as to explain the phenomenon of low energy
nuclear reactions by making, therefore, many
studies still needed to clarify the theoretical
aspects and ensure standard levels of
reproducibility of experiments and be able to extract usable energy.
In fact, the engineering phase of the process is
far enough in time, since it lacks a
comprehensive definition of the physical
phenomenon that forms the basis of the process
where the reproducibility is essential. At the
present state of research on low energy nuclear
reactions, reproducibility, although improved
over the last years of the last century, is
still unsatisfactory. In addition, research on
the phenomena in question is still limited to
laboratory level since the day the most
successful experiments conducted to date have
detected only developments of heat for power equal to a fraction of a watt.
The study and research so far conducted in this
field in our country from a position of
excellence, is the tool that has allowed the
identification of lines of business that can
produce consistent results and interesting from
a scientific perspective. In fact, industry
studies, both theoretical and experimental
investigations, conducted in the field of
materials science have led to increased control
over the phenomenon in question by creating the
conditions for its full understanding.
These results, together with interest
all'indubbio that research on cold fusion
assumes with respect to potential future energy
applications of the phenomenon - although,
presumably, not on a large scale - suggest to
take every opportunity to ensure the continuity
of the initiatives undertaken in the field.
As for the catalyst of energy called E-Cat -
Italian engineer Andrea Rossi invention that
could revolutionize the global energy system
since it can produce energy at an economic level
and clean compared to other market sources - has
become evident that many doubts arise on the
device due to the fact that the mode of
operation have not been disclosed by the
inventor. In fact, both the substantive aspects
of the fuel composition, the internal structure
of the catalyst are still covered by trade secret.
Currently you do not have any explanation, much
less of experiments and articles on
international journals such as to show how we
obtain the energy detected by the measurement
systems, thus allowing third parties to
replicate the same experiments. Moreover, except
for the patent issued for Italy, not all
appropriate patents have been granted to the
inventor, in particular lack the grant of the
European level. Among other things, it should be
noted in this regard, that because the
description of the invention presented by Ing.
Rossi aims to achieve the aforementioned patents
do not contain the "secret catalyst" that would
allow the device to produce energy, iI is
intrinsically affected by the patent invalid.
Among other things, in fact, although, as
reported by the questioners, the physicist
Francesco Celani during the conference
dell'ISEO-WSEC (UN), held in Geneva during 10-12
January 2012 , has criticized NASA for having
hidden over twenty years the results obtained by
cold fusion experiments conducted by the year
1989, however the same occasion, said that
statements referring to Rossi ' E-cat should be
evaluated with extreme care and caution,
awaiting verification independent, to be carried out as quickly as possible.
For what concerns also the marketing of ' E-cat
, to ascertain whether the device is able to produce less radioactivity.
On this subject, in fact, there are various and
conflicting statements by the inventor.
Occasionally, the Mr. Smith stated that within
his unit "does not produce nuclear reactions",
implicitly excluding, the device can be considered a nuclear reactor.
In others, however, the engineer stated that the
' E-cat produces only the weak gamma rays that
can be easily shielded with a layer of lead.
This will not be enough to make the device easy to marketing a product.
It must be considered to be international with
the national legislation ( Legislative Decree 17
March 1995, n. 230 ) establish very strict rules
regarding the use and possession of devices that
generate high-energy radiation. It follows that
the procedure for obtaining the necessary
approvals for the marketing of a product for
private use should emit gamma rays (albeit
shielded) is complex and lasting, and with
uncertain outcomes (presumably negative).
http://www.normattiva.it/uri-res/N2Ls?urn:nir:stato:decreto.legislativo:1995;230
In light of the foregoing, therefore, it is
believed that only when you can have more
reliable scientific and technical findings, it
will be possible to assess the possible
practical applications of the device in question
and in general a cd. "Cold fusion" on a small scale.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE
(Prof. Claudio De Vincenti)
