The claims of an Italian inventor that he has developed a power generation system that will cut the cost of a cross-country trip to pennies is starting to creep into the old media.
Andrea Rossi is scheduled to use his E-Cat on Oct. 28 to run a 1 MW plant in Bologna putting to rest all questions about it.
E-Cat stands for “energy catalyzer”. It allegedly uses a secret technique to transform nickle into copper creating beaucoup heat which means usable energy.
Come 10 days, will we soon see the demise of OPEC, wind farms and strip mining, and find ourselves all playing in the sun.
Or we will find that Rossi’s claim of free energy is not much different than the one made by Philadelphian Charles Redheffer whose revolutionary device was found to be powered by an old guy munching on bread while turning a crank?
Expect to see some energy hype among next week’s Halloween stories.
a device “powered by an old guy munching on bread while turning a crank?”
What I’m hoping for is a an 18-year-old Sophia Loren lookalike muching on juicy grapes while riding a stationary bike.
e-cat technology has been around for a while now. The problem with most cold-dusion based technologies is that there is no real body of peer-reviewed research to warrant an serious government or NGO taking the ideas further.