Professors who are testing E-cat respond to criticism

The article is clearly moderate about claims, but standing on it.

There is a photo (by Mats) of an E-cat that did not produce heat in september 2012. So clearly it is not saying that this affair is simple.

Google translates works for me

it is a very limited commitment in E-cat technology, just claiming they have interesting indication that deserve more investigation.

In a way just claiming it deserve more investigation is spotting the irrationality of usual deniers who answers : "DONT'T LOOK INTO THE TELESCOPE" (for fear to see the Jupiter's moons).

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"Only testing can determine if Rossi's machine works"

DEBATE. Science Radio program on our tests of Andrea Rossi energy catalyst in Uppsala and Bologna contains factual errors and give a serious impression. This was written by researchers at KTH and Uppsala University.

Andrea Rossi, the inventor of the E-Cat reactor, has been portrayed as a deceiver in a number of programs in science radio entitled The blind belief in cold fusion. Additionally blamed Uppsala and KTH researchers for being accomplices to Rossi's work with his E-Cat invention, claimed to be an outright scam because it does not have detailed knowledge of how it is designed and whether it works.

Incidentally programs incorporate a variety of factual errors that reinforces the impression of an unserious party submission concerning Rossi as a person as well as the field of study LENR (cold fusion). There is therefore reason to comment on the motives and the role we have had in the experiments with the E-Cat reactor and to clarify what is an accurate description.

Already in 2011 during a visit to Bologna, where we monitored a test experiment with an E-Cat reactor, revealed indications that a significant heat development took place. It was considerably larger than one would expect from a purely chemical combustion.

This result was sensational and it gave reason to follow the further development of E-Cat reactor. In particular, like Rossi, 28 April 2011 granted an Italian patent for his invention. For a couple of additional tests in Uppsala and Bologna emerged, however no results from which any firm conclusions could be drawn.The test in Uppsala defaulted because of a ruptured chemical weld.

In the autumn of 2012 did Professor Giuseppe Levi at Bologna University and his student Evelyn Foschi a test experiment in Ferrara with a new development of E-Catreaktorn. This experiment was conducted independently of Rossi in the sense that all measuring equipment belonged to Levi, and he himself did all the analysis of the measurement results.

These results again showed an anomalous heat production. This prompted us to work with Levi do a longer test under rigorous conditions, which was done in March 2013. Our obvious starting point is that it is only through careful experimental test that it is possible to determine if the E-Cat reactor works or not.

The result of this longer test also showed a clear indication of anomalous heat production. The experiment and the results are described in the article "Indication of anomalous heat energy production in a reactor device," arXiv: 1305.3913.

The main conclusion of this article is that the results indicate that an anomalous heat production has taken place in such quantities that it can not have chemical origin. In contrast made in the article no speculation about the likely sources of heat production. In particular made no connections to cold fusion, which can not be done without knowledge of reactor fuel isotopic composition before and after combustion.

The conclusion is that new tests must be partly to clarify whether an anomalous heat production actually takes place and also investigate whether a change in the fuel's overall isotopic composition takes place.

We assessed the results of Ferrara experiment to be interesting enough to continue testing experiments. Such tests have now been carried out and the results will be reported in a new scientific article.

Bo Höistad, Professor Emeritus of Nuclear Physics
Torbjörn Hartman, Radiation Protection Officer, Svedberg Laboratory
Roland Pettersson, retired lecturer in Physical and Analytical Chemistry
Lars Tegnér, physical chemist

all at Uppsala University

Hanno Essén, associate professor of theoretical physics and a lecturer at KTH

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Sylvie Coyaud
answers to the physicist letter in english there
http://ocasapiens-dweb.blogaut…sion-iv-versione-inglese/

basically for each sentence she ask for evidence, as she does not trust any of them.