University of Bologna Denies Faculty Involvement with Rossi
[Background Information and Link to Rossi – E-Cat Timeline Page]
New Energy Times reader Alain De Carolis brought the following Nov. 5 announcement from the University of Bologna to my attention today:
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E-cat: l’Università di Bologna non è coinvolta
5 novembre 2011
La precisazione dell’Ateneo in merito agli esperimenti condotti dalla società Leonardo Corp.
L’Università di Bologna -in riferimento al servizio pubblicato su FoxNews.com e a diversi articoli usciti nelle ultime settimane – precisa di non essere coinvolta negli esperimenti sull’E-Cat condotti dalla società Leonardo Corp. di proprietà di Andrea Rossi.
L’Ateneo precisa inoltre che:
1) nessun esperimento relativo all’E-Cat si è svolto presso l’Università di Bologna né il 28 ottobre 2011, né in date precedenti, né è stato condotto da ricercatori dell’Università;
2) l’Università di Bologna (Dipartimento di Fisica) è pronta a svolgere esperimenti sull’apparato E-Cat non appena il contratto siglato con la EFA SrL (la società italiana di Andrea Rossi) sarà reso attivo: a questo scopo erano presenti agli esperimenti, in qualità di osservatori, i ricercatori dell’Università di Bologna.
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De Carolis provided me with a translation, but his translation included the statement “no E-Cat experiments (not on October 28th nor in any previous occasion) have ever been performed inside any of the University of Bologna facilities nor by any of the University of Bologna researchers.”
I knew that none of the experiments had ever been conducted at the University. But I thought the University’s denial that its professors were involved was De Carolis’ translation error.
I telephoned Simona Storchi, the public relations officer for the University. She told me that she had an English version of the press release available.
This is what she sent to me:
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Data: 05 novembre 2011 10.01.45 GMT+01.00
A: Ufficio Stampa Alma Mater <ufficiostampa@unibo.it<mailto:ufficiostampa@unibo.it>>
Oggetto: PRESS RELEASE – E-CAT: UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA IS NOT INVOLVED
E-CAT: UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA IS NOT INVOLVED
The clarification about the experiments conducted by Leonardo Corp.
Bologna, 5th November 2011 – The University of Bologna called upon by FoxNews.com<http://FoxNews.com> (http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/02/andrea-rossi-italian-cold-fusion-plant/?test=faces) and by many other news published during the past few week – states that is not involved on E-Cat experiments conducted by Leonardo Corp., the company owned by Andrea Rossi.
The University of Bologna stresses also that: 1) none of the experiments made with E-Cat (including that of 28th October 2011) has been carried out at the University of Bologna or by any of its scientists; 2) the University of Bologna (Department of Physics) is ready to carry out direct experiments on the E-Cat as soon as the contract signed with EFA Srl (Andrea Rossi’s Italian company) will be put in effect: this is the only reason why the University of Bologna researchers attended as observers to E-Cat experiments. The University of Bologna is carefully following the situation development.
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According to what Storchi told me on the phone, the statement was written by Dario Braga, the vice president for research and Paolo Capiluppi, the head of the physics department.
As the abundance of technical reports, news stories, photographs and videos show, University of Bologna professors Giuseppe Levi, David Bianchini and Mauro Villa have been intimately involved in the promotion and testing of Andrea Rossi’s E-Cat experiments.
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