"Today, Wired.co.uk is running a story, ‘Cold fusion rears its head as "E-Cat" research promises to change the world.’ It gives an overview of the technology that claims to fuse hydrogen and nickel into copper, with no radioactive by-products, to produce copious amounts of heat, inexpensively, with a 1 megawatt plant scheduled to come on line later this month. Apparently, Wired was not aware that today is a big test in Italy by scientists from around the world, who will be observing the technology in operation, including self-looped mode. A real-time update page has been set up at PESWiki, which has been a primary news provider of this technology since it was announced last January."
Wired’s article is remarkably optimistic. I’d love for this to be true, but many decades of scientific-looking free-energy machine scams make it hard to be other than cynical; the claim of a secret catalyst which "can be produced at low cost," controlled-access for outside observers, the lack of published science to explain the claimed effect, and skepticism even from the free-energy world — along with a raft of pro–E-Cat websites registered anonymously earlier this year — all make it sound like this follows the marketing style of previous "over unity" / perpetual motion machines. I invite Andrea Rossi to take part in a Slashdot interview, if he’s willing to answer readers’ questions about his claims.
GJCN Editor’s Note:
While thinking about this, I personally have no clue if this is real or not. It seems to have some attention and I believe it’s possible. Some at Nasa, DoJ, etc are looking at this as it could be real. What caught my eye more than anything else is this is coming out of Italy, you know that little country where Rome is.
The implications a device like this could have are mind boggling. For one, this would be a thing of Europe, a power grab perhaps? The USA is still very much involved with Natural gas and Oil production and use. Something like this E-Cat could change all that. Personally I could see the falling America handing back the super power keys to the United States of Europe. Perhaps it takes a device like this to do such a thing.
