Rossi Story: Corriere di Bologna Gets it Wrong
On Nov. 23, Marina Amaduzzi of Corriere di Bologna published a story on Andrea Rossi, inventor of the Energy Catalyzer.
According to the news story, the University of Bologna department of physics and Rossi have signed a research contract that aims to replicate Rossi’s experiment.
This is not news and it is misleading. The contract was signed half a year ago. The contract is not active and will not become active until Rossi makes the first payment.
New Energy Times contacted Paolo Capiluppi, the head of University of Bologna physics department, on Nov. 16.
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Nov. 16, 2011
To: Simona Storchi; Paolo Capiluppi
From: Steven Krivit
Subject: Media Inquiry: Rossi
Dear Professor Capiluppi,
Is UNIBO still willing to accept payment from EFA Srl (Andrea Rossi’s Italian company) and activate the contract?
Grazie,
Steven
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Nov. 16, 2011
To: Steven Krivit, Simona Storchi
Subject: Media Inquiry: Rossi
Dear Steven,
UNIBO is still willing to activate the contract, and we are willing to accept payment from EFA.
Regards
Paolo Capiluppi
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New Energy Times is providing a brief timeline and a listing of related events below. We are fully aware of the inconsistencies made by some of the sources.
Timeline and Related Events:
Jan. 11, 2011 – University of Bologna Professor Giuseppe Levi writes and distributes press release for Rossi’s Jan. 14, 2011 press conference and demonstration.
Jan. 14, 2011 – Levi organizes press conference and conducts Rossi Energy Catalyzer demonstration. Levi performs “Test 2” with the involvement of other University of Bologna professors.
Jan. 21, 2011 – University of Bologna professors Levi and Bianchini publish reports on their test of Rossi’s Jan. 14, 2011 demonstration.
Jan. 26, 2011 – University of Bologna professor Mauro Villa publishes report on his test of Rossi’s Jan. 14, 2011 demonstration.
Feb. 10-11, 2011 – Rossi, Levi and Passerini perform sub-boiling test on Ross’s device.
Feb. 23, 2011 – Mats Lewan of Ny Teknik writes: “In the morning of February 10, the inventor and engineer Andrea Rossi initiated a new controlled experiment in Bologna…With him was the physicist and researcher Giuseppe Levi from the University of Bologna, who also supervised the public demonstration in January. Together they ran the unit for 18 hours.”
March 10, 2011 – Lewan writes that Rossi “is now paying 500,000 Euros to the Physics Department of Bologna University, following a new agreement.”
“End of May” – Paolo Capiluppi, the head of University of Bologna Physics Department, signs contract with Rossi’s company. (Source: Capiluppi)
June 14, 2011 – Levi states on Krivit video that he wrote Rossi’s Jan. 11, 2011 press release (Video Part 2, 2:38). Levi also states: “it was revised by our department director because it is a press release of the department of physics…it was released as an official communication of our physics department. Our director, Professor Capiluppi, was always informed of what was going on, and also professor Zoccoli was present and he is actually the director of INFN section of Bologna, National Institute of Nuclear Physics. He was also informed.”
June 14, 2011 – Rossi states on Krivit video: “He is Professor Bianchini of the University of Bologna. He is the specialist, the expert specialized in measuring the radiations. He is the scientist that we have hired as a consultant to measure the radiation out of our reactors.”
June 21, 2011 – Rossi countersigns contract.
June 28, 2011 – New Energy Times publishes “Report #2 – Energy Catalyzer: Scientific Communication and Ethics Issues ”
June 29, 2011 – Capiluppi publishes official notice about the Rossi contract. (Notice is incorrectly backdated as June 19.)
Aug. 2, 2011 – Capiluppi tells New Energy Times that his backdating error was a “stupid mistype.”
Nov. 5, 2011 – University of Bologna issues a press release and denies that any of its faculty were involved with Rossi: “the only reason why the University of Bologna researchers attended as observers to E-Cat experiments.” [Typo is in original text.]
Nov. 11, 2011 – Storchi tells New Energy Times that the Nov. 5, 2011 press release was written by Dario Braga, the vice president for research and Paolo Capiluppi, the head of the physics department.
