New Energy Times has learned that Andrea Rossi’s one-megawatt “Energy Catalyzer” never shipped to his unidentified customer. The reason: leaky gaskets.

A Jan. 12, 2012, promotional video on Rossi’s Web site, Ecat.com, shows the same 1MW E-Cat sitting in the same place where it was “tested” by “the customer” three and half months ago.

Screenshot from Jan. 12, 2012 Rossi E-Cat Promotional Video

The dramatic image above is from a second camera team which is filming the first camera team which is interviewing Rossi. The 1MW plant appears to be idle while two E-Cats in the foreground are producing a gentle flow of steam.

According to comments Rossi made on his blog on June 18, 2011, he had 300 working reactors in his Miami factory. He did not report any gasket problem at the time.

“We have 300 reactors in operation now in our factory,” Rossi wrote, “and we are making exponential progress day by day.

“My 300 reactors actually under stress tests are making steam without water, I mean perfectly dry steam, and they will go in operation not in my factory, but in the factory of our Customer.”

For readers who missed our “Report 3” seven months ago, perfectly dry steam is invisible.

Journalist Mats Lewan reported on Oct. 29, 2011 about the much-anticipated Oct. 28, 2011 test.

“According to the report,” Lewan wrote, “the test was approved and the plant would now be transported to the customer.”

However, the report does not say it would be transported anywhere, and it wasn’t.

“The results of the test are satisfactory to accept the delivery,” the report states.

Below the conclusion, there is a handwritten note by the person Rossi identified as the customer’s representative, Domenico Fioravanti.

“To be upgraded the system of gaskets some leaks have been noticed,” Fioravanti wrote.

Most of the report was drafted and typed in advance of the test — including the conclusion.

Conclusion of Oct. 28, 2011 1MW inauguration and test by Rossi customer

The poorly redacted lines for the affiliations were decoded by clever readers months ago.

In the place where Rossi’s company is named, it says “For Leonardo Corporation.”

In the place where the customer is named, it says, “For the Customer.”

Yesterday, New Energy Times obtained and published an invoice for $130,00 from Andrea Rossi, inventor of the “Energy Catalyzer” issued to an Australian man named Solihin Millin. This is a follow-up to that article, “Rossi: No Need for $1 Million, Just Send $131,000.”

Rossi is an Italian man who was apparently granted a permanent U.S. visa. He lives in Florida with his wife Maddalena Pascucci. Until we obtained this invoice yesterday, we had no evidence that Rossi was conducting this business, which some people think is fraudulent, in the United States.

Today, Rossi posted a message on his blog and stated that the invoice is “unvalid.” He therefore removed any doubts about the authenticity of the invoice.

He also announced some exciting news for E-Cat fans.

“Practically all the world’s territories have been already licensed,” Rossi wrote. “Soon we will organize a convention of all our licensees.”

Dick Smith, the Australian businessman who offered Rossi a million dollars for a successful E-Cat test, sent New Energy Times a copy of the cancellation of the invoice today that he received from Millin.

New Energy Times received an e-mail from Dick Smith, an Australian businessman. He has offered to pay Andrea Rossi $1 million for a successful test of his device. We don’t wish to comment about Smith’s offer, however, we are providing the full text of his letter in the pdf link below. Readers may form their own opinions about this matter.

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

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 

Link to PDF Copy of Offer:

USD1,000,000 for Successful Repeat of E-CAT Demonstration

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Rossi Responds:
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“Andrea Rossi
February 14th, 2012 at 6:23 PM
Dear Archibald Fields:
This is a Clownerie. If this guy wants to test a 1 MW plant and has 1 million to spend he can buy a 1 MW plant, with a regular contract, that gives him all the necessary guarantees and to us the logic financial guarantees. Our plants Are tested by Our Customers and the Consultants they choose. I have not time at all for this clownery. Besides: when Our E-CATS will be in the market, 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.
Warm Regards,
A.R.”
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