I am grateful to Mats Lewan for making available to me this pdf of the patent filed by Andrea Rossi in 1978 for a waste-to-fuel process that we mentioned here yesterday. The title of the patent (translated from Italian by Google) is “Procedure for the recovery of industrial and urban waste. Apparatus and relative productivity obtained”. Rossi has claimed that the process being used in the Waste-to-Biofuels and Chemicals Facility in Edmonton, Canada — built and operated by Enerkem Alberta Biofuels — is based on his work.
I don’t know of any way to verify how closely the Enerkem plant resembles the process described in this patent — the overall concept is of course similar, but I am sure that there have been technological and engineering developments over the years that will have resulted in changes taking place.
This doesn’t have much relevance to the E-Cat, but this is an interesting item in connection with Andrea Rossi who has had a lifetime of involvement in various energy production inventions.
The patent is all in Italian — if any Italian speakers read it and would care to comment, I know it would be appreciated!
Thanks to Mats for telling us about a new claim of a successful replication of Alexander Parkhomov’s E-Cat replica.
“Well, that “excess” heat. Within about 40 minutes. gave extra power reactor, about .. (700-380) / 3 = 100W. And, little by little increased temperature (at a rate 1g / min – setting PID controller), and the power first increases, and then began to fall! On the chart you can see everything”
On LENR-Forum there’s a thread where the author of the report has agreed to provide answers to questions.
The Ecat.com website has been updated to reflect its relationship with Hydro Fusion, on of Leonardo Corporation’s Licensees.
“Hydro Fusion Ltd was founded in 2011 and is a UK-based company specializing in a number of areas related to energy production. We operate from our headquarter in London and from our office branch in Stockholm, see the Contact Page for further information
Hydro Fusion Ltd operates ECAT.com as the Official ECAT website of Leonardo Corporation and the future home for all official ECAT-related information.
Being Leonardo Corporation’s Northern European Licensee Group since 2011, we play an important role in the commercialization of all ECAT Products.
Hydro Fusion’s ECAT license area cover more than 10% of the World’s GDP and Energy Consumption. Hydro Fusion is the exclusive ECAT licensee for a large number of countries – including UK and Sweden.”
The content of the website is more extensive with a cleaner look and faster response time. The website seems like its being updated with some cut-out illustrations not seen before like this one: http://hydrofusion5.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/Modules-872×752.jpg
The Hydrofusion.com and Ecat.com seem to be mostly the same. It would seem as is the E-cat website may to give way eventually to the Hydro Fusion site, such a move would make sense as the E-cat moniker is used to describe the product. Like Ford calling its website the Model-T. I’d expect sometime in the future that the Leonardo Corporation will have a separate corporate website if its not absorbed by some other entity.