An Italian physicist claims he has managed to achieve ‘cold fusion’ – a procedure that could solve the world’s energy crisis by creating huge amounts of safe nuclear energy without dangerous radiation.
Andrea Rossi says his new machine fuses nickel and hydrogen at room temperature creating almost unlimited energy.
But there is one problem – many scientists claim it defies the very laws of physics. Several high-profile demonstrations of ‘cold fusion’ have been proven to be hoaxes in the past – and no one can adequately explain how or why it might work.
The United States Department of Energy the U.S. Patent Office say the process is impossible because physics rules out the possibility of room-temperature nuclear fusion.
But Rossi’s E-Cat machine can allegedly do it, and he says he proved it worked during tests at the University of Bologna last month. via The Daily Mail
November 7, 2011
Interesting. As I said in this recent article (https://www.eejournal.com/archives/articles/20111108-blackheli/ ), every time we have an extravagant engineering claim (cold fusion, in this case), we seem to have an abundance of matching conspiracy theories describing how big corporations will never allow the disruptive technology to see the light of day.
The flimflam man and the conspirator definitely come in matched Yin – Yang sets.