Month-Long Study Suggests Low-Temp Nuclear Reaction Took Place

Researchers from Uppsala University, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) and the University of Bologna have reported that during a 32-day test, an “E-Cat” reactor developed by Andrea Rossi released an abundance of heat that cannot be explained by chemical reactions alone. They further reported that isotope changes in the analyzed fuel (lithium and nickel) indicate that nuclear reactions might have occurred at low temperatures.
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[Previous third-party analysis of the E-Cat device, published in March 2013, was attacked and debunked very rapidly.  The new research paper has been submitted to the Arxiv pre-print server, with the hope of eventually being published in the Journal of Nuclear Physics.]

Subsequent to the 2013 tests, the E-Cat’s technology was transferred to Industrial Heat LLC, United States, where it was replicated and improved.  The E-Cat reactor tested in the most recent study is thus an improved version running at higher temperature than the one used in the March 2013 experiment.

The experiment was set-up and hosted within a laboratory placed at the researchers’ disposal by Officine Ghidoni SA and which was not in any way connected with Andrea Rossi’s businesses or those of his partners.

Magnus Olofsson, the CEO of Elforsk, the Swedish Electrical Utilities’ R & D Company, reacted enthusiastically to the report.  Elforsk has been following the development of LENR – Low Energy Nuclear Reactions... [and] was a co-funder of this latest study on E-Cat as well as the earlier measurements that showed an anomalous excess of energy.

If it is possible to safely operate and control these reactions that are now believed to be nuclear reactions, we may see a fundamental transformation of our energy system.  Electricity and heat could then be produced with relatively simple components, facilitating a decentralization of energy supply that could be both inexpensive and part of a solution for global climate change.  More research is needed to understand and explain.  Let us engage researchers in trying to validate and then [in] explaining how it works.

—Magnus Olofsson

Month-Long Study Finds Heat Released by Rossi E-Cat and Isotope Changes in Fuel Suggest Low-Temp Nuclear Reaction Taking Place