MSNBC
Italian
physicist and inventor Andrea Rossi has conducted a public
demonstration of his "cold fusion" machine, the E-Cat, at the University
of Bologna, showing that a small amount of input energy drives an
unexplained reaction between atoms of hydrogen and nickel that leads to a
large outpouring of energy, more than 10 times what was put in.
The first seemingly successful cold fusion experiment was reported two
decades ago. Two types of atoms, typically a light element and a heavier
metal, seem to fuse together, releasing pure heat that can be converted
into electricity. The process is an attractive energy solution for two
reasons: Unlike in nuclear fission, the reaction doesn't give off
dangerous radiation. Unlike the fusion processes that take place in the
sun, cold fusion doesn't require extremely high temperatures. In April
... Rossi and fellow physicist Sergio Focardi successfully demonstrated
the device for a group of Swedish physicists. At the demo in October,
after an initial energy input of 400 watts into each module, each one
then produced a sustained, continuous output of 10 kilowatts (470 kW
altogether) for three to four hours. Peter Hagelstein, an MIT professor
of electrical engineering and computer science and one of the most
mainstream proponents of cold fusion research, thinks the process may
involve vibrational energy in the metal's lattice driving nuclear
transitions that lead to fusion.
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