Andrea Rossi has made a few details about future e-cat production and his deal with an unknown entity in the United States available in posts at his blog. Although he seems to be avoiding the media, Dr. Rossi does seem to answer questions there but he often does it in a vague but very genteel manner. Although he’s accommodating he has not provided much information.
It will take about two years until you see this for sale at your local Wal-Mart
Rossi described what he calls his USA partner as a “team of enlightened people that wants to put this technology at the service of mankind, due to their cultural roots.” The partner will make the technology available in the widest possible way.
This indicates a partner with a lot of resources that has little interest in a profit motive. That could be the US military with which Rossi has worked in the past. He has had US Army contracts for some of his past inventions. Just a thought, it could be anybody because everybody claims to be working for the common good, even evil men like Khadafi.
Rossi is currently exclusively focused on the construction of the 1 megawatt device. This would provide enough power to run a small factory or similar industrial installation such as a cement plant. It could also provide power to office buildings, hospitals, schools, large homes and perhaps small ships.
Rossi Demonstrates e-cat for other scientists in Bologna, Italy.
The 1 megawatt e-cat units should be available for commercial lease in November. They will be unveiled to the public and scientists in October. This would seem to indicate that industrial production of the e-cat has begun or is about to begin.
Rossi and his partners presumably AmpEnergo have organized what he calls a “dense chain of supply.” He said larger units including a 2 megawatt e-cat will be built and made available as demand increases.
An energy catalyzer for household use will not be available for over a year according to Rossi. The doctor did say that he is planning on using the e-cat for household applications but did not say what they were.
Rossi also knocked the idea that the e-cat could be suppressed or kept secret and noted that he has not faced any serious opposition. He doesn’t take the conspiracy theorists seriously and neither do I.
Something to remember here is that the posts at Rossi’s blog are translated from the Italian by Google so there could be mistakes or errors in them. If you do visit Rossi’s Blog the responses are on the bottom. Just go down and pay close attention they can be hard to spot.
Let me note that due to wide spread skepticism, Rossi and others who are working with LENR Ni-H exothermic reactions have operational freedom. On the other hand, once successful commercialization of LENR Ni-H occurs, you can expect to see great resistance, not only from the most powerful, but from the most weak. There are psychological and sociological components that are most dangerous. For instance, how will the market react to a proven method of producing energy that is 1/10th the cost of dirty coal? Or, how will plutocrats react to their holdings suddenly in danger of being obsolete? Or, how will industries react to a shifting paradigm that doesn’t include them? Or, how will vast and powerful organizations devoted to addressing certain issues react when their concerns are mute and they can’t justify their existence anymore? Or how will leaders react when the status quo is threatened, and the bottom drops out of their worldview? Or how will the military react when geopolitical realities and logistics are altered?
These are some of the questions that haven’t even dawned on our leaders yet (and why should they since LENR Ni-H isn’t a “reality” yet?).
Historically leaders and thinkers will simply ignore something like e-cat until it affects them. Then their reaction is like everybody else’s completely irrational. Nicholas Taleb’s book Black Swan has some interesting things to say on that. I think there will be more danger from politicians, intellectuals and activists than plutocrats. Particularly when journalists and professional propagandists realize that the big checks they get from big coal and big oil will no longer be in the mail. As for the military it operates on the assumption that geopolitical realities and logistics are constantly changing which is why the US military at least seems more receptive to e-cat than scientific and media elites are.