Italian physicist Francesco Celani stated that he has created low energy nuclear reactions similar to those achieved in Andrea Rossi’s fusor. Celani told participants at the Coherence 2011 Cold Fusion Conference in Rome on December 14 that he had conducted cold fusion experiments using nickel and hydrogen. The Ecatfusion.com blog stated that Celani said he was able to create a “cold fusion cell” that yielded 200% excess thermal energy.
Francesco Celani courtesy 22 Passi
There is no collaboration for these claims available at ecatfusion.com claims it got them from the 22Passi blog. Unfortunately that blog is in Italian a language I do not read. All that is available is a very bad and completely confusing Google translation.
Celani is a leading Italian physicist who works at his country’s National Institute of Nuclear Physics (Italy’s equivalent of Los Alamos). He is also vice president of the International Society for Condensed Matter Nuclear Sciences.
This could be Francesco Celani notice Guiseppe Levi in the background Courtesy 22 Passi
Celani’s interest in cold fusion is well known, he is a member of Cold Fusion Energy Inc, a consortium of physicists working to research and commercialize cold fusion. He has also worked as with Japanese researcher Yoshiaki Arata another member of the consortium who has been doing similar research in Japan.
Andrea Rossi has described Celani as a competitor and turned down his request for scientific examination of the e-cat. In a radio interview in April Celani said he thinks e-cat is for real but also believes that Rossi’s research could be flawed.
The e-cat motor blog is also reporting that it was revealed that Rossi has been working for the US Department of Defense since 2008 which is when the e-cat research began. No confirmation for this claim was given either. The same claim made at the Coherence Conference also stated Rossi was working with a US Air Force scientist named Brian Ahern.
There have been earlier reports that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA the Pentagon’s science agency was the mysterious customer that bough the first 1 MW e-cat unit from Rossi. Rossi’s Leonardo Corp has had US military contracts in the past.
When was this aerticle posted here? When did he make the claim? Pleaseremember the f ws of good journalism!
This is a great story if a replication has actually been achieved.
Read the blog post again. I stated the source. Unfortunately there appears to be no English language source available. Part of the problem reporting on this is that reporting in the English language media on this subject is extremely limited at this time. Therefore we often have to report questionable claims. This blog is simply a report on info out there not necessarily a journalistic record. Perhaps you as a reporter should check it out yourself.
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Thank You KIndly for Your Sacrifice to Science
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Thanks what links or other evidence could you have to show us that MIT is really offering Cold Fusion 101 if it’s true that’s exciting.
What possible motivation other than career suicide would Celani have to announce a sustained LENR device at 3X energy output? And it looks like he may be close to selling this one. This is very, very positive. Being an academic, he might even tell us how it works.
Good point Roger. It’s interesting to note how many scientists are coming out of the closet and admitting they have achieved LENR results. Of course the skeptics won’t be satisfied until they see it for sell at Sears.
Good eye for the significant. I’m featuring your post at the pending report at http://pesn.com/2011/12/22/9601988_E-Cat_Weekly_December22/
I’ve decided to give all you e-cat lovers a big X-mas gift, I am the buyer of the first 1MW plant and I love it. Its great, it makes steam for my sauna, my home heating system, heck were even rigging it up so it can heat my neighbors swimming pool, In Winter!!!!. It works just like Rossi promised, really the only hitch in the installation was I had to enlarge my electrical service a bit 480V/3 Phase/60Hz 1400Amp. Well gotta go I’m late for my steam bath. Merry New Years.
Hey. Wait a hosing minute my man.. You ain’t paid for my service for lines. You claimed you did that just thwart off town inspector. I careless. You’ve got to pay me whether you use it or not. I don’t take returns. Else I’ll take you to court with legal fees and all…
New calculation:
On the Nickel surface, the H2 molekule is separated in H+ and H- (this is validated, called Hydrid).
Now, all is going on with H-.
Compare with a Bohr:
Z=28, mH+/me = 1836
you get a Bohr/(28*1836)=1*10^-15m
That should be small enough
for any fusion,
greetings Dietmar
PS: When you know the spectrum from H-,
it can be easy identified, that this is the real cause for any Cold Fusion, Transmutation of elements.
“The ecatfusion.com blog stated that Celani said he was able to create a “cold fusion cell” that yielded 200% excess thermal energy.”
Big deal.
“In the old experiments of Siena, as Focardi tells me, the energy gain achieved was very modest. “We had some small results, but sure: doubling othe energy. That is, we started with a certain power, the system worked well for months and doubled the energy output, which was in the form of heat. This result did not help, in the sense that it had no a possible commercial application, because if one took this termal energy and coverted it into electricity, he went back to the starting point, even if there was a loeast a factor of 2 of gain from the electrici input to the thermal output.”" –”Secrets of E-Cat,” by Mario Menichella, page 71.
The whole point of Rossi’s “Italian Sauce” is that it is getting a COP in excess of 2, and therefore is the first example of a viable commercial application. Get back to me when when Celani gets a commercially viable COP.
I will too. If Celani had a device he’d be making the rounds of investment bankers right now.