If you don't think that Rossi's past has any bearing on the E-Cat, or if you think the October 6th test showed conclusive, first-principle, irrefutable proof, you probably can just skip this E-Mail. For the rest:
PETROLDRAGON I really didn't want to get into the Petroldragon stuff, but I can't let the recent posts hang out there unbalanced. Most of the English information on the "Petroldragon affair" was quite literally penned by Rossi. I've reviewed several contemporary Italian articles, and here is an exerpt of a 1994 article that should shed some light: ""Based on laboratory tests, hydrocarbons did not exceed 3 per cent, the rest of the product was formed by water (23%) and three-quarters of a cocktail of industrial solvents, acids much to put in serious danger of the same columns Distillation..."" ""The State Forestry Department had seized a 'tanker, from the filing of Piossasco Petrol Dragon (Turin), which was unloading about 10 tons of sewage in the tanks of Omar. Toxic waste transported without a permit, the rangers discovered, and so contaminated with PCBs (polidiclorodifenile highly toxic) as to be prohibitive for any disposal plant in Lombardy."" ""The reduced 's turnover of Omar and' small quantity 'of "oil" actually distilled, the judge wrote, "indicate unequivocally that the principal activity' was carried out in Lacchiarella the storage of toxic substances harmful." And he added a curious detail: the best customers of the Dragon Petrol included a paper mill in the province of Frosinone, that between January '91 to March' 92 had purchased 600 tons of fuel self-sufficient. Too bad that the factory had stopped production since '90"" The gist of the accusations is that industrial partners were unloading toxic waste (really toxic) for "reclamation". Only a tiny percentage was being processed, and that material that was processed was less than 3 percent hydrocarbons. The customers buying the fuel (the best evidence of efficacy) weren't even operating. The article seems to indicate that Rossi discovered an "easy out" for industry to stockpile waste and circumvent the higher costs of actual disposal. This was the reasoning for the earlier comparison of Petroldragon to the U.S. crematorium that stockpiled bodies instead of using their furnace. http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/1994/marzo/09/petrolio_dai_rifiuti_inservibile_tossico_co_0_94030910061.shtml LTI At UNH, Leonardo Technologies, Inc. demonstrated a Thermo Electric device at 20% efficiency, when the norm was 4%. I am actually curious if this demonstration involved boiling water. (If anyone can find info on the University of New Hampshire testing, this could be incredibly telling). According to the Army pdf below: When it can time to deliver, his facility caught fire. Then he moved production, and the subcontractors failed. Upwards of 75% of his units didn't work at all, and the remaining gave 1 watt instead of 800-1000W. When he was bailed out to the point that true experts were building him new assembly procedures, he finally built working devices that performed right on par with existing technology. http://dodfuelcell.cecer.army.mil/library_items/Thermo(2004).pdf
