Yesterday New Energy Times reported that Andrea Rossi never shipped his one-megawatt “Energy Catalyzer” to his unidentified customer because of a gasket problem.

But today we learned from readers that Rossi had, in fact, told his fans that he had shipped the 1 MW E-Cat. According Rossi, the discrepancy is the result of a “translation error.”

Artist's visualization of 1MW plant on its way to "the customer." Image courtesy JB Salvage.

Readers should not get confused between Rossi’s 1MW E-Cat and his electric generators. Both are constructed within shipping containers, but the 1MW E-Cat comes in a big blue box, the gensets come in big grey boxes.

Rossi vegetable-oil-based EON genset

On Oct. 30, 2011, a commenter using the name “Luke Mortensen,” asked Rossi several key questions.

Mortensen’s questions:
1. Is the 1MW container gone?
2. Have you started building another 1MW in another container?
3. Any improvements you want in version 2?
4. Will the buyer of the next 1MW container be the same customer or a different customer?
5. What city will you be working (hiring) in the US?

Rossi’s answers:
1- yes
2- yes
3- yes. gaskets
4- different
5- Miami (Fl), Boston (Ma), Manchester (N.H.)

A week after Rossi’s video showed that the big blue box was still in the back of the Rossi brother’s tire shop, E-Cat fans were concerned.

Rossi explained that the plant was in the shop for two reasons. One, so they could fix the gasket problems that had been identified two and a half months earlier, (see yesterday’s article,) and two, to make the control systems for the big blue box that contained the 50 smaller boxes that each contained a nuclear reactor.

Rossi explained that a translation problem made him think that the big blue box had already been delivered to the customer.

“A misunderstanding, due to bad translation, has made [me] think the plant was already in the place of the Customer,” Rossi wrote.

The translation of “Is the 1MW container gone?” into Italian is “Il 1MW contenitore è andato?” The translation of “Si” into English is “Yes.”

The Florida-based Leonardo Corporation has purchased the rights to Andrea Rossi’s “Energy Catalyzer” device.

According to Swedish journalist Mats Lewan, Rossi and his wife, Maddalena Pascucci, each own 50 percent of the company.

According to a Jan. 26, 2012, document filed with the European Patent Office, Leonardo Corporation paid €10,000 to Pascucci for the rights.

Excerpt from document filed with European Patent Office

According to the document, Leonardo Corporation’s registered office is 1331 Lincoln Road, Suite 601, Miami Beach Fla., and Pascucci resides at Via Ezio 24, 00192 Rome, Italy.

Leonardo Corp. (Apt. 505) "Current Principal Place of Business" (Photo: Google)

According to real estate records, 1331 Lincoln Road, Suite 601, Miami Beach Fla. is an apartment owned by Pascucci. Corporate registration of the couple’s company shows it located one flight below, in apartment 505.

New Energy Times has been unable to identify in which apartment the couple have their factory with the 300 E-Cat nuclear reactors.

We suggest that readers who are not familiar with the Rossi story look at the following New Energy Times articles for background:

Report #4: Rossi’s NASA Test Fails to Launch
University of Bologna Terminates Relationship With Rossi
The Failure of Rossi’s Energy Catalyzer, Caught on Video
Rossi’s Scientific Failure in Seven Steps (English)
Report #3: New Energy Times #37, July 30, 2011 

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This article is a follow-up to these articles:
Feb. 13: “Rossi’s Australian Investment Opportunity Falls Through”
Feb. 14: “Smith Offers $1 Million Prize for Successful E-Cat Demo”

As we showed in the Feb. 14 article, Rossi responded to Smith’s offer.

“When Our E-CATS will be in the market,” Rossi wrote, “this millionaire will have the chance to buy for few hundred dollars an E-Cat and test it as he wants, so why waste money? I do not need his money.”

Yet two weeks ago, Rossi sent an invoice to hopeful investors in Australia for $131,000 for a “license” to a product that Rossi did not yet have on the market.

It seems that Smith called Rossi’s bluff. According to Rossi’s e-mail yesterday, his E-Cats, assuming they are real, are still not available for delivery. Rossi’s promises have been ongoing for a year.

On Oct. 7, 2011, Ny Teknik quoted Rossi: “Within a few months the product will be on the market, and the best test is done by the customers who will come back with the product if it doesn’t work.”

On Jan. 16, 2011, Rossi wrote on his blog: “We have already passed the phase to convince somebody. We have arrived at a product that is ready for market. Our judge is the market. In this field the phase of the competition in the field of theories, hypotheses, conjectures etc. is over. The competition is in the market. If somebody has a valid technology, he has not to convince people by chattering, he has to make a reactor that works and go and sell it, as we are doing.”

On Jan. 16, 2011, Rossi wrote to New Energy Times: “What I have presented is not a theory or a laboratory prototype waiting for the approval of anybody but the market: we are starting an industrial production of our reactors. If somebody has a technology able to compete, the competition will not be on the blogs, but on the market. In this field the time of mental masturbations is over. Now is time for facts, and facts are operating reactors of satisfied customers.”

Oddly, there is no evidence of the “customer” Rossi sold his device to in October and there is no evidence of any satisfied customer at all. There is only chattering from Rossi on his own blog and rumors and speculations on the various E-Cat blogs.