Too Good to be True - E-Cat
311th Entry · October 30, 2011
The "Energy Catalyser" or E-Cat is poised to change the world,
The E-Cat is deceptively simple: hydrogen is passed over a special catalyst based on nickel in a container about a litre in size, and enough heat is produced to boil water. A demonstration in January appeared to show a several kilowatts of output from a four hundred watt input. The catalyst is secret, but Rossi says it can be produced at low cost. The two questions that matter: does it really work? And what are the implications if it does?
Yesterday the E-Cat (several of them) produced an average of half a megawatt over five and a half hours (2,635 kWh),
According to the customer’s controller, Domenico Fioravanti, the plant released 2,635 kWh during five and a half hours of self sustained mode, which is equivalent to an average power of 479 kilowatts – just under half the promised power of one megawatt.
Which, if true, means geo-politics, the world-economy, the global climate and lots of other things are about to change (or not change in the case of global climate). But the if is still mighty big. Nobody can explain the physics, the inventor (Andrea Rossi) won't allow independent verification and the whole thing reeks of being a scam.