According to a slide presentation given by NASA engineer Michael A. Nelson, which New Energy Times obtained under a FOIA request, “Energy Catalyzer” inventor Andrea Rossi failed to conclusively show that his device produced excess heat from a nuclear energy source.

According to Nelson, a NASA engineer who investigates low-energy nuclear reactions and space applications, Rossi did not run his demonstration long enough to prove his extraordinary claim.

At the Sept. 22, 2011 LENR Workshop at NASA Glenn Research Center, Nelson explained that Rossi “would need to run [his experiment] for eight hours or more with a small E-Cat and much longer for an Ottoman [Fat-Cat] to rule out a chemical reaction.”

According to Nelson, it would take “three or more days for a small E-Cat, two or more weeks for an Ottoman [Fat-Cat] E-Cat and several months for a 1 MW plant.”

Brian Ahern, a researcher with expertise in LENR, wrote to New Energy Times with a concise summary of the recent Oct. 28 Rossi demo:

“Rossi has been clever enough to change the trick on each successive demo. Using a secret customer is a great way to allow him to fulfill his promise to demo the 1 MW unit in October.  He  then evaded conducting the demo transparently by saying that the customer demanded the demo conditions. The “customer’ signed off when Rossi gave him the wink and he shut things down without any measurements by anyone except the shill.

“Occam’s Razor, on the other hand, says that 12 inconclusive demos in succession are not random. It is well planned and orchestrated. He has used the journalists like a team of puppets.”

“All this was inspired by the principle–which is quite true in itself–that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying. These people know only too well how to use falsehood for the basest purposes.”

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On Nov. 2, John Brandon published a story on Andrea Rossi and his claim of an “energy catalyzer” on Fox News.

I will address a few issues and obvious factual errors.

Rossi is not a physicist. He earned a bachelor’s degree in 1973 in the philosophy of science and engineering from the University of Milan’s School of Philosophy.

In 1979, Rossi obtained a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Kensington, in California. That university was determined to be a diploma mill and was shut down by officials in California and Hawaii, according to CBS News.

Rossi did not demonstrate his device at the University of Bologna. All of his demonstrations have taken place at an empty industrial suite behind a tire repair shop in Bologna.

Brandon obtained a lot of his information from Sterling Allan. Brandon writes that Allan is the CEO of an “alternative energy news agency.” Allan is the “CEO” of a free energy Web site. Allan, a self-proclaimed “Ambassador of Jesus Christ: First and Second comings,” also believed a prophecy in the Bible Code that he should run for president of the United States.

Brandon quoted Allan’s claim that Rossi claimed he generated a 470 kilowatt energy output. But Brandon neglected to mention the 400 kilowatt generator outside the building connected to and used to “pre-heat” Rossi’s device.

Brandon used a two-year old quote from Pamela Mosier-Boss, a researcher at the U.S. Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center San Diego, from an entirely different experiment that gives the appearance she is supporting Rossi’s claim.

Brandon wrote that Rossi told him that researcher Paul Swanson with SPAWAR San Diego could vouch for Rossi’s demonstration. Brandon spoke with Swanson. He couldn’t.

Brandon speculated, based on what he read on Allan’s blog, that SPAWAR San Diego was Rossi’s mysterious customer and that they measured and verified Rossi’s test.

I asked James Fallin, the director of public affairs at SPAWAR San Diego, “is there any truth to the suggestion published on Fox News that SPAWAR is, or is considering purchasing any device from Andrea Rossi?”

“No truth at all,” Fallin wrote.