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.

On Nov. 23, professor Sven Kullander of Uppsala University gave a public lecture at Orebro University, primarily on the energy claims of Andrea Rossi.

Rossi has claimed that Kullander has confirmed Rossi’s energy claim. This is an inconsistency, as is apparent from Kullander’s lecture. There is a subtle but crucial distinction: Kullander has not independently tested Rossi’s device, but Kullander however, thus far, accepts Rossi’s claim.

Here is a link to Kullander’s public announcement. Here is a link to the audio recording of Kullander’s talk. (There is a long period of silence in the beginning.)  John Olov Hampus Ersa Ericsson, a sociology student at Umeå University, attended the lecture and kindly provided New Energy Times with his personal report of the lecture.

By John Olov Hampus Ersa Ericsson

On Nov. 23 I attended a lecture by Sven Kullander at Orebro University. This is only a partial report because my schedule did not permit me to attend the entire lecture.

About 100 people attended. Most of them were men, age 50 or older. Nearly half had never heard of Rossi before. They thought the lecture was going to be primarily about nuclear power, but the main topic was really about Rossi and his E-Cat.

Kullander’s presented a good lecture. He started by reviewing existing types of nuclear power. He then spoke about thermonuclear fusion and speculated when that research might eventually be practical.

Then the good part came, he talked about all the different tests that have been made of Rossi’s E-Cat. Basically, Kullander read from the Ny Teknik reports.

Then he talked about the test he personally observed in Bologna. He said that it proved that heat was made but he couldn’t say by what mechanism. He believes that the phenomenon can be explained by today’s science. He is also open to the possibility that he may have been fooled in some way but he does not feel so at this time. Kullander and Essen looked for any kind of hidden system that could explain the extra heat but they could not find one.

Kullander also said that Rossi is definitely not a fraud and that his friend Sergio Focardi, a retired professor of physics from the University of Bologna, and Giuseppe Levi, a current professor of physics with the University, are absolutely not frauds. They are his friends and he trusts them. Rossi, on the other hand, Kullander said was a “black box.”

Kullander said during the lecture that he was contacted by NASA personnel who asked him for information. Then Kullander said that NASA was Rossi’s first potential customer. Kullander said that NASA told him that they wanted to know exactly how the E-Cat worked. However, Rossi and NASA were unable to come to an agreement because Rossi was not willing to provide that information. [New Energy Times note: Kullander’s statement about NASA is incomplete and may not be correct. New Energy Times will provide more details on the Rossi-NASA relationship in the near future.] The current mystery costumer is not known by Kullander at this time.

Kullander also said that Rossi can be a little bit angry at people who don’t trust him. That’s why Kullander has remained on Rossi’s good side and why Kullander never expressed any skepticism to Rossi.

Kullander said that he has asked Rossi if Uppsala University can independently test the device, with the requirement that all information will be publicly revealed. If Rossi declines Kullander’s request, Uppsala will not test the Rossi device.

One of the most interesting things was that Kullander sad that Focardi and Levi are both excellent professors and that he believes in them 100 percent. Rossi, on the other hand, Kullander said, is a little bit of a black box. He said that there are two black boxes in this history, Rossi and his E-Cat. Kullander says that Rossi usually refers to his invention as “me and my cats.”

Kullander also said that his colleague Roland Pettersson is very enthusiastic about the E-Cat.

Kullander also showed the analytical test of the nickel fuel and the copper and nickel that remained after one of the previous (exact date unknown) Rossi experiments. Kullander says he will publish a full article on the nickel ash and the waste ash when all the testing is done. But the preliminary testing has shown copper in the waste ash.

In summary, Kullander said that the E-Cat produced excess heat that can’t be explained with a chemical process because the reactor chamber is so small.

Kullander stressed, just like Mats Lewan, how important it is to independently test the E-Cat and that Uppsala University is glad to do it. Kullander said that a real test of the E-Cat would help both the world and Rossi. A successful confirmation would bring more customers to Rossi and the world would finally know the truth.

[New Energy Times: As of today, Rossi has declined offers for independent confirmations from NASA, Francesco Celani, Brian Josephson and Peter Hagelstein.]

[Corrections Nov. 26: This article has been modified to reflect corrections. The author attends Umeå University, not Uppsala University. The lecture took place at Orebro, not Uppsala University.]

[Thanks to KHM and PT for translation improvement]

Source: Radio Sweden

Ny Teknik alone against the world

The idea that we will one day be able to provide us with cheap, simple and green energy is an eternal dream. Now two Italians say that they have found a solution, they have developed the ultimate perpetual motion machine. It’s just that no one is allowed to look into it. And no outsider may test if it really works. Science Journalists are skeptical and many warning bells are ringing. For example, the main character has a fake degree from Kensington University, and the findings have not been published in a scientific journal but only on Rossi’s own page. Almost all media have for this reason chosen not to pay this alleged invention any more attention. But there is one exception. Ny Teknik (New Technology) in Sweden has in the past year written over 20 articles on Andrea Rossi’s stunning gizmo – and now the newspaper is accused of advertising a scam.

Tanken att vi en dag ska kunna försörja oss med billig, enkel och grön energi är en evig dröm. Nu påstår två italienare att dom har hittat en lösning, dom har utvecklat den ultimata evighetsmaskinen. Det är bara det att ingen får titta i den. Och ingen utifrån får testa om den verkligen fungerar. Vetenskapsjournalisterna är skeptiska och egentligen ringer många varningsklockor. T ex att huvudpersonen har en bluffexamen från Kensington University, och att fynden inte har publicerats i någon vetenskaplig tidskrift utan bara på Rossis egen sida. Nästan alla medier har av den anledningen valt att inte ägna den här påstådda uppfinningen någon större uppmärksamhet. Men det finns ett undantag. Ny Teknik i Sverige har det senaste året skrivit över 20 artiklar om Andrea Rossis makalösa manick – och nu anklagas tidningen för att marknadsföra en bluff.