A major development in the story of LENR (low energy nuclear reactions, aka 'cold fusion') broke on Friday afternoon from Raleigh, North Carolina, with start-up Industrial Heat, LLC's announcement via a press release that the company had acquired the rights to Andrea Rossi's E-Cat technology. The E-Cat is an energy production technology that produces industrial levels of heat through a proprietary LENR system using nickel and hydrogen. E-Cat inventor Andrea Rossi has for a long time stated that he had sold the rights to his technology to a US partner, but has never named them due to confidentiality agreements. This is the first public announcement of his partner's identity.
Industrial Heat, LLC is a new company founded by JT Vaughn and Tom Darden (and other unnamed investors), both of private equity firm Cherokee Industrial Partners, also based in Raleigh. For years Cherokee has been in the business of investing in and cleaning up brownfield sites, and has a strong record of commitment to environmentally friendly business practices.
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The press release emphasizes the environmental benefits of E-Cat technology, stating that 'A primary goal of the company is to make the technology widely available, because of its potential impact on air pollution and carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels and biomass.' Industrial Heat spokesman JT Vaughn remarked that 'The world needs a new, clean and efficient energy source. Such a technology would raise the standard of living in developing countries and reduce the environmental impact of producing energy.'
LENR/cold fusion has been a very controversial topic ever since it was first brought to the attention of the world by chemists Pons and Fleischmann in 1989. LENR advocates have always claimed that it is possible to create a system that can produce more energy than is input into it -- but this anomalous heat effect has often been very difficult to achieve, and many people have been skeptical of the reality of the phenomenon. Andrea Rossi's contribution to the field has been to apparently devise a way to amplify and control this effect so that useful levels of excess heat can be produced consistently and in a stable manner.
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One of the most significant aspects of this announcement is the fact that Industrial Heat is fully convinced that Rossi's technology works. The press release mentions their satisfaction with independent E-Cat testing reports, and their own investigation of the technology. I believe this announcement represents a major milestone in the history of energy production, with a serious business organization publicly getting behind a new form of clean and abundant nuclear energy.
Not only does this announcement represent a crucial endorsement of the E-Cat, it also indicates that a major new frontier has been opened up in the field of energy production technology. My expectation is that before long we will see widespread and serious research undertaken around the world in science and industry to more fully understand and harness the mysterious and seemingly very powerful forces that take place in these low energy nuclear reactions. We could now be seeing the emergence of an important and viable alternative to both fossil fuels and nuclear fission.
By. Frank Acland, Publisher, E-Cat World
Comments
This is very positive news and the promise of a clean, safe,inexpensive and abundant energy system seems to be getting closer and closer to commercial reality. All the HUFFING and PUFFING from the Skeptics, skeptics, pseudo skeptics didn't blow the Rossi E-Cat House down!
jdh
Please continue to follow the story. In a few years at most I'm quite confident you'll re-evaluate your views about the 'Skeptics, skeptics, pseudo skeptics'.
After doing some tests, specialists in nuclear physics and quantum mechanics then said that this phenomenon was impossible, with the know and accepted theories. So they decided that this was a hoax and they destroyed the careers of those two scientists.
This is history.
My questions are the following:
1- Why would two very serious scientist lie on something so important?
2- Are there (out there in this very objective world) any interests that had a lot to gain if
their claims where proven to be wrong?
3- Is energy a small or a multi-billon $$$ business?
4- What are the impacts of such a discovery on the "financial establishment"?
5- Who are we to pretend that we know "all" the laws of Nature and who are we to take a
decision on "how" Nature should and should not behave?
Before answering any of my questions did you know that presently there are many experiments that corroborate what Ponds and Fleishman had observed?
At a very serious and renown American school, the MIT, a course is given by two scientists.
Dr. Peter Hagelstein and Dr. Mitchell Swartz have the courage to give lectures on LANR
(Lattice Activated Nuclear Reactions). Nothing official or yet credited by the MIT be reassured... ("establishment" has to be very very careful when such a TABOO subject is openly developed). Take a look for yourself. It is the MIT IAP Course on LANR
Very instructive videos ca be seen at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO5ZcSWVW2I
Why can't we admit that we do not know everything and foresee that a new domain of physics is about to emerge?
Thank you.
I being a layman only care about energy IN and energy OUT ; that the latter exceeds the former by a nice margin....AND better still that its benign.
Solar and Wind are renewable but their down times hurt.....may even be FATAL ??
It's a scam.