From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Rossi_(entrepreneur)"A. Total scam, not too surprising given his background. or"
Important details plox
So he screwed up on that one, but since he's been acquitted it's hard to say how much was his fault. -Otherwise he's got a pretty clean record.In 1978, he wrote The Incineration of Waste and River Purification, published in Milan by Tecniche Nuove. He then founded Petroldragon, a company for developing oil from waste, which collapsed in the 1990s amidst allegations of dumping toxic waste.
News of the Rossi procedure, patented in Italy, was reported by major newspapers. Jimmy Carter showed his interest in the technology, and offered Rossi a permanent entry visa to the United States. After ten months’ work and a financial investment of half a billion Lire, Petroldragon had a facility that produced twenty tons of fuel oil a day, transforming one hundred tons of organic waste.
In the early 1990s the company was disbanded following accusations of dumping environmental toxins, as well as tax fraud. Its assets were seized, together with Rossi's personal assets, and Andrea Rossi was arrested and imprisoned. Subsequently released, Rossi emigrated to the United States, and went on to found Leonardo Technology Incorporated. More than 10 years after his imprisonment, Rossi was acquitted. The government of the Lombardia region spent over forty million euros to dispose of the 70,000 tonnes of toxic waste that Petrol Dragon was storing on site.
GTFO!...I am trying to remain neutral on the topic so I dont sound like some crazy fanboy (lukep).
GTFO!
You are officially banned from reading my thread, smartass! :321:
Seriously, I've been a pretty fair reporter here, haven't I? Always allowing for the fact that this could all be a hoax at the very least...
Another Update:
Rossi is saying he's in talks with Home Depot for Home-unit distribution in AUGUST OF THIS YEAR for ~$1,500 US. They will also be produced in the USA totally, "Creating many jobs here."
Podcast interview with Rossi himself saying so:
http://www.coldfusionnow.org/audio/2011-12-29-Andrea-Rossi.mp3
Summary article breaking this news:
Home Depot eCat $1.5K? |
One thing I didn't enjoy hearing in that podcast is how Rossi sounds waaaaay to naive about how the power companies will respond. The interviewer told him point blank that he's going to cost the power companies "lots of revenue" and asked how he will respond... Rossi sounded a little surprised and said 'I don't think we will cost them much, our power and theirs will work in concert...'
I understand that he doesn't want to talk about any negative ramifications of his product during early launch stages and all, but that sounds so naive I really do have to worry for the man's sanity.
So again, it's either:
A. Total scam, not too surprising given his background. or
B. The second coming of Tesla.
If Rossi is Tesla reincarnate, this time they won't take it so easy on him...
That's where my mind was back at the beginning of all this, but it's really hard to see how that could be the case when the Chief Scientist for NASA Langley says that 'it's real & it works.'...either tesla is the real shit or hes trolling with a massive bait and switch scam secretly powering his generators using the mains and pretending that it's unplugged
That's where my mind was back at the beginning of all this, but it's really hard to see how that could be the case when the Chief Scientist for NASA Langley says that 'it's real & it works.'
You can't just get the Chief Scientist @ Langley to say this kind of thing for you... Not even with a bribe. How big of a bribe is worth losing that entire career?
No, there is clearly some kind of LENR reaction that isn't chemical, so in my mind the whole issue now is one of production value, not merely "if" it's a scam.
Sadly, Rossi seems unaware of how corporations do big business on this planet so we also have to consider that a smear job of some kind might happen to it to.
Here's a podcast with him (Dennis Bushnell) from evworld:Where did the 'Chief Scientist @ Langley' say this, and who is he? Is there a video, or atleast a government website with the document?
Do you guys think this podcast is a fake? If not, then there is definitely something real about LENR. (Not cold fusion. Listen to podcast to learn the difference.)
True enough.Basically it comes down to "extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof" and I have neither seen or heard of any such proof.
Your assertion that either the podcast is fake, or LENR is real is a false dichotomy (though either of those assertions is possible), there are plenty of other explanations.
• Test/ determine the performance of the Rossi and
Piantelli devices
• Experimentally validate the weak interaction theories
• Utilize theory to design/ create and experimentally
optimize performance, including surface morphology
considerations/ opportunities and bootstrapping
• Summarize/ rackup the myriad approaches throughout
the entire system/ sequence that appear to work [ e.g.
the 5 or so methods of adding energy].
MOAR UPDATE:
http://newenergytimes.com/v2/government/NASA/20110922NASA-Bushnell-GRC-LENR-Workshop.pdf
It was recently obtained thru the Freedom of Information Act by the New Energy Times site (they are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit since 2000, and cover way more than just LENR) and all throughout it you can tell that Bushnell feels that he's struck gold. He says specifically what he did to test, spends many pages on what he feels LENR can power (including military usage!) and even says what's coming up for his team next:
Al Gore is going to be soooo pissed.• The 2 decades of experiments and the weak
interaction theories have removed the existential risk,
what is remaining is to ENGINEER for improved
performance. Also obviously all the safety issues, labs
have blown up studying this arena
• SO ‐
Invent/ create optimized/ improved LENR
is merely a small first step,
“Devices”, testing “Rossi”
do the systems and propulsive/other application R&D
• BTW –LENR [ also] solves Global Climate and
Energy…..
Keep posting these updates lukep, they are on the interesting side of the force. I WANT THIS SHIT TO BE REAL.