Rossi: Declining Magnitude of Claims

Andrea Rossi, inventor of the Energy Catalyzer, is gradually decreasing the magnitude of excess heat he claims is produced by his low-energy nuclear reaction-based device.

On Feb. 28, 2010, Sergio Focardi, a retired physics professor from the University of Bologna, along with inventor Rossi published “A New Energy Source From Nuclear Fusion” on Rossi’s blog called the “Journal of Nuclear Physics.” In their paper, they claim an energy gain of 213 times heat output compared with the electrical input.

On Jan. 14, 2011, in a press conference and demonstration coordinated by Giuseppe Levi, a physics professor from the University of Bologna, Rossi and Focardi made a claim of an energy gain of 30 times.

Focardi reiterated these claims in an interview with Italian magazine Panorama.

“[The Jan. 14, 2011 demo used a] starting energy of 1 kilowatt and later,” Focardi said. “After a few minutes [input went] down to 400 watts to produce useful energy gain of 14 Kw, 31 times higher than the electricity input.

“[But] 31 is not the maximum factor that we have obtained, in other experiments we have arrived at 200.”

On April 19, 2011, Mats Lewan, a journalist with Ny Teknik went to Bologna to perform his own measurements of the Rossi device.

Soon after, Rossi began to state that his device produced a six-fold energy gain.

On June 15, I interviewed Rossi on video (Video Part 4, 6:53).

“As you have seen yesterday, the E-cats that we produce now have an excess which is six times, an output which is six times the input,” Rossi said.

According to two people who attended a lecture by Sven Kullander on Nov. 23, Rossi is now starting to talk about even smaller energy gains, the same level of energy production scientifically demonstrated and reported by Focardi when he previously worked with biophysicist Francesco Piantelli.

According to Patrik Lind, who attended the Kullander lecture, Kullander said that Rossi told him that his device now “works without a catalyst.”

According to Hampus Ericsson, who also attended the Kullander lecture, Kullander’s message was that “you could get a small effect without any catalyst, just like Focardi did in his 1994 paper.”