Andrea Rossi (entrepreneur)

Andrea Rossi
Born (1950-06-03) June 3, 1950 (age 74)
Milan, Italy
Alma materUniversity of Milan (1973)
Known forPetroldragon, energy catalyzer

Andrea Rossi (born 3 June 1950) is an Italian entrepreneur who claimed to have invented a cold fusion device.[1][2][3]

In the 1970s, Rossi claimed to have invented a process to convert organic waste into petroleum, and in 1978 he founded a company named Petroldragon to implement waste processing technology. In the 1989 the company was shut down by the Italian government amid allegations of fraud, and Rossi was arrested.[4] In 1996 Rossi moved to the United States and from 2001 to 2003 he worked under a U.S. Army contract to make a thermoelectric device that, while promising to be superior to other devices, produced only around 1/1000 of the claimed performance.[5][6]

In 2008 Rossi attempted to patent a device called an Energy Catalyzer (or E-Cat), which was a purported cold fusion or Low-Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) thermal power source.[7][8] Rossi claimed that the device produces massive amounts of excess heat that could be used to produce electricity, but independent attempts to reproduce the effect failed.

  1. ^ Mark Gibbs (17 October 2011). "Hello Cheap Energy, Hello Brave New World". Forbes. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
  2. ^ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/22/e_cat_test_claims_success_yet_again/ Richard Chirgwin, The Register: "Italian entrepreneur Andrea Rossi"
  3. ^ http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/tecnologie/2011-10-13/fusione-fredda-sfida-continua-210440.shtml?uuid=AaIpikCE Paolo Magliocco, Il Sole 24 Ore,
    "Fusione fredda: la sfida continua. L'esperimento dell'imprenditore Andrea Rossi".
    TRANSLATION:
    "Cold fusion: the challenge continues. The experiment performed by entrepreneur Andrea Rossi"
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference la Reppublica 1989 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Huston, John; Wyatt, Chris; Nichols, Chris; Binder, Michael J.; Holcomb, Franklin H. (September 2004). Application of Thermoelectric Devices to Fuel Cell Power Generation: Demonstration and Evaluation. Champaign, Illinois: Construction Engineering Research Laboratory of the Engineer Research and Development Center. Archived from the original on 18 April 2012. Retrieved 1 November 2011. (online pdf)
  6. ^ Main, Douglas (25 January 2014). "Dubious Cold Fusion Machine Acquired By North Carolina Company". Popular Science. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
  7. ^ World Intellectual Property Organization publication number WO/2009/125444.
  8. ^ Ritter, Stephen K. (28 November 2016). "Cold Fusion Lives: Experiments Create Energy When None Should Exist". Scientific American. Retrieved 15 March 2018.