Giacomo Guidi originally published an article in Italian, on the 22 Passi blog, depicting speculative renderings of Andrea Rossi’s Energy Catlayzer on May 9, 2011 and later in a revised publication on May 15, 2011. Guidi and Alex Passi have translated the text and his drawings into English. New Energy Times has edited and expanded the new English version.
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Piantelli-Focardi Cell Design (Image: Adriano Bassignana)
Nickel-Hydrogen gas replication experiment performed at the University of Pavia from 2004. As cell goes active, operator reduces power and temperature rises. (Story here.)
Piantelli-Focardi Cell Assembly (Click for Full-Size) (Photo: S. Krivit)
Piantelli-Focardi Cell Coil Windings (Photo: S. Krivit)
Piantelli-Focardi Cell in Front of Gamma Detector (Click for Full-Size) (Photo: S. Krivit)
Piantelli-Focardi NiCr Heater on Left, Ni Rod on Right (Click for Full-Size) (Photo: S. Krivit)
Photo Credit: Mats Lewan
Artist: Giacomo Guidi
Full story at 22 Passi
[March 13, 2016 note: There are serious logic problems with Guidi’s imagined schematic. 1) There is no way to reload the nickel without using a blowtorch to disassemble the device. 2) An electrically powered resistance heater submerged in the flow of water defies common sense. 3) There are no visible lead wires for such an internal heater.]
Photo Credit: Mats Lewan
External View Full-Size Image (Drawing Credit: Giacomo Guidi)
Section View, Speculative Configuration Full-Size Image (Drawing Credit: Giacomo Guidi)
Section View, Speculative Configuration, (Proton Exchange Membrane Version) Full-Size Image (Drawing Credit: Giacomo Guidi)
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Dr Dennis Bushnell, chief scientist at NASA’s Langley research center told New Energy Times today that NASA is attempting a low-energy nuclear reaction replication.
Photo: Aaron M. Cohen
“Our experiments are based upon the earlier Piantelli-Focardi work, which were some of the better bits extant,” Bushnell wrote. “But we are trying to core down on the theory, as well as utilize it for system optimization. We are not trying to do a net energy demo at all, we are simply trying to make sure there is a valid theoretical understanding.”
Bushnell told New Energy Times that their LENR experimental approach is based on the nickel-hydrogen research of Francesco Piantelli, retired from the University of Siena, and Sergio Focardi, retired from the University of Bologna.
The theory NASA is evaluating is the “Ultra-Low-Momentum Neutron Catalyzed Theory of LENRs” developed by Allan Widom and Lewis Larsen. New Energy Times has a dedicated “portal” page for information about this theory.
NASA researcher Joseph. M. Zawodny, along with this writer, have contributed the chapter “Widom-Larsen Theory: Possible Explanation of LENRs in the forthcoming Wiley Nuclear Energy Encyclopedia.
New Energy Times published two articles on the Piantelli work in 2008. The second article has an extensive list of references and downloadable papers.
According to Bushnell, NASA is not working on a replication of Andrea Rossi’s Energy Catalyzer device.
“We do not have enough details, by far, to even start to think of a replication of Rossi,” Bushnell wrote.
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