LENR-to-Market Weekly -- July 4, 2013

Highlights this week include: Unconfirmed --First U.S. E-Cat 1-MW plant operational?; E-Cat test critique published on ArXiv; controversy on Celani data; LENR summary for policy-makers; Disconnected DOE; University of Missouri News Anticipates ICCF-18.

By Sterling D. Allan
Pure Energy Systems News

Once again, we bring you a compilation of various news items about the various LENR companies since our June 27 compilation.

There was no mainstream news coverage that I could see this page week.

See also Cold Fusion Times.

• LENR Companies
  • Rossi, Leonardo Corp - E-Cat
    • 1MW E-Cat in US Operational?
      • Unconfirmed — First US E-Cat Plant in Operation - I think this should be put in the rumor category for now, but I received the following comment from ‘Francesco CH’ today — someone who hasn’t commented here in quite a while, but in the past has proved to be quite a reliable source of information regarding the E-Cat (once when I asked Rossi... (E-CatWorld; June 28, 2013)
      • Update On New E-Cat Plant - The first E-Cat plant built for civilian use was shipped from Italy about 2 months ago. It traveled by ship to the U.S., where delivery was accepted. According to Andrea Rossi, the plant is now up and running. (ECatReport; July 3, 2013)
      • E-Cat: third-party testing contested by researchers at the University of Uppsala - Researchers at Uppsala University have challenged the third-party testing on the E-Cat: are unreliable. (GreenStyle.it; July 1, 2013)
    • Hot-Cat 3rd Party Report Critique on ArXiv
      • E-Cat Test Critique Published on Arxiv - Göran Ericsson and Stephan Pomp of the Division of Applied Nuclear Physics at Uppsala University, Sweden have published a critique of the recent E-Cat Test published by Levi et al on Arxiv.org. The authors are not satisfied with the test for a number of reasons. Here are some of their main objections: The testers... (E-CatWorld; June 30, 2013)
      • Criticisms and Rejoinders of the Hot-Cat Report - As noted here previously, it didn’t take long for critics to weigh in on the testing report of Andrea Rossi’s E-Cat HT.  Now some academics from Uppsala University in Sweden have weighed in with a paper published on the same site as the report by Levi et al (arXiv:1306.6364 [physics.gen-ph]).  The paper is a critique of… (LENR-ColdFusion; July 1, 2013)
    • Rossi on E-Cat Electricity Generation - Yesterday I put a question on the Journal of Nuclear Physics to Andrea Rossi regarding the production of electricity from the E-Cat. Rossi has talked a lot about using the hot cat to create steam at temperatures high enough to produce electricity efficiently, but as far as I could gather had not mentioned that... (E-CatWorld; June 27, 2013)
    • Stirling Engines & The E-Cat - Talk on the Journal of Nuclear Physics has now turned to the Stirling engine. While the E-Cat community mourns the loss of Prof. Focardi – co-inventor of the E-Cat, and Andrea Rossi faces threats against his safety if he leaves the United States, he continues to forge ahead with adaptations to his technology. (ECatReport; July 1, 2013)
    • Rossi: Work on the E-Cat ‘Continues 24/7′ - Here’s Andrea Rossi responding to a question on the Journal of Nuclear Physics about when he will start selling E-Cats to public utilities. Our USA Partner and world Licensee for the manufacturing is the sole in charge to determine the sales of energy and/or plants. I have great hopes for the E-Cat and what... (E-CatWorld; July 4, 2013)
    • Andrea Rossi on Leaving the Middle Ages - Here’s another clip that has been forwarded to me by Thomas Florek from his interview with Andrea Rossi earlier this year. Andrea Rossi: The End of the Middle Ages from Thomas Florek on Vimeo. (E-CatWorld; July 1, 2013)
    • E-Cat in the foreground tonight at Smart City - Maurizio Melis, host of Smart City (Radio24) (22Passi; June 28, 2013)
    • Focardi Memorial
      • Focardi, Rubbia and ...who, where, when, why?  (22Passi; June 27, 2013)
      • Hello Margaret, brings our greetings to the stars ... - At a distance of exactly one week after Sergio Focardi , yesterday another great Italian scientist has left us now and smiling at us from up there. (22Passi; June 30, 2013)
  • Fleischmann Memorial Project, QuantumHeat.org
    • The constantan Celani in the self-sustaining? - News from Celani, or rather, news from the United States about the Constantan wire that has developed to get LENR at will: a private researcher would seem - the conditional is a must - be able to send a cell to self-sufficiency in the course of a replica the original experiment developed at the INFN Frascati. We carry the text of the original message Celani and Ed Pell posted to the list of CMNS (Condensed Matter Nuclear Science). (22Passi; July 2, 2013)
    • Problems in the measurement made by Edmund Pell - Regarding the news - released yesterday - a possible positive replica with self-reliance of his experiment with wire Costantata, Francesco Celani sent recently a further note explaining how and why the measurement made can not be considered valid, what to because of a strange damage of the thermocouple inside the reactor, discovered by Prof. tonight Pell. (22Passi; July 3, 2013)

• General Cold Fusion
  • Cold Fusion Lights up the Washington Post - Neil Irwin of the WonkBlog at the Washington Post announces that cold fusion/LENR was the big winner of the recent Crowdsourced Wonkblog contest where readers voted for the most promising new energy technology in terms of economic and environmental benefits. Irwin quotes two comments from CF proponents (Peter Roe or ‘fortyniner’ is one of... (E-CatWorld; June 28, 2013)
  • Washington Post blog cites Cold Fusion Now in LENR win - Weeks ago, the Washington Post asked readers What energy sources offer the most promise for the U.S.? LENR won. Today the journal noted that win, with author Neil Irwin citing the strong community […] (ColdFusionNow; June 27, 2013)
  • Overviews
    • Roanoke Times Column on LENR - The Roanoke Times, a newspaper published in Roanoke, Virginia, has published an interesting opinion piece written by Charles Stewart, Jr. titled “Explore an explosive new energy source” Here’s the introduction: Negative words comprise a large percentage of the adjectives used in The Roanoke Times articles re: energy: expensive, depleting, exhausting, polluting, filthy, radioactive, etc.... (E-CatWorld; July 2, 2013)
  • Stanley Pons’ Preface from J.P. Biberian’s La Fusion dans Tous ses États translated - Stanley Pons, co-discoverer of cold fusion, left the United States in 1991 amidst an unprecedented assault. Physicists wedded to the 100-year-old standard model of nuclear theory, and whose funding would […] (ColdFusionNow; July 1, 2013)
  • Your Dictionary: Cold Fusion LENR Energy - We depend on dictionaries to provide meaning in our lives. What does your dictionary have to say about cold fusion/LENR energy research and engineering? Let’s take a look and see what […] (ColdFusionNow; July 2, 2013)
  • Politics
    • LENR, summary for policymakers - (LENRNews.eu; June 28, 2013)
    • Disconnected DOE - For some time now, since www.science.gov and www.scienceaccelerator.gov first appeared, both of which are sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) and Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), there […] (ColdFusionNow; July 3, 2013)
    • Caveman Science Committee Concludes Fire Does Not Exist - Original article on Build the Enterprise here. In helping to think about Cold Fusion … let’s go back in time to when claims of fire-starting were first heard about. Recall how the […] (ColdFusionNow; June 30, 2013)
    • Life at the Center of the Energy Crisis: A Technologist’s Search for a Black Swan by George H. Miley - Published by World Scientific, Life at the Center of the Energy Crisis: A Technologist’s Search for a Black Swan by Dr. George H. Miley describes “the story of the author’s work […] (ColdFusionNow; June 28, 2013)
    • Asleep at the Foot of the Bristlecone Pine - Respectfully Once in Awhile We Should Pause and Listen
      Learn About LENR Energy – Popular Cold Fusion Listen to the Bistlecone Pine. As the SAGA of Cold Fusion Energy Unfolds The Bristlecone Pine Bears Witness As Do We At […] (ColdFusionNow; June 28, 2013)
• Events
  • University of Missouri News Anticipates ICCF-18 - The Mizzou News, the news department at the University of Missouri, has written an article by Nancy Moen title “Tabletop Nuclear Fusion” which features LENR/cold fusion as the University looks forward to hosting the 18th International Conference on Cold Fusion (ICCF-18) at the end of July. In explaining the phenomenon of LENR, Moen writes:... (E-CatWorld; July 3, 2013)