Engineer Maico Marzocchi made a comment on Andrea Rossi’s Journal of Nuclear Physics today, part of which I will repeat here. Maico talks about the time he spent working with Andrea Rossi on preparing the E-Cat for the Latina demonstration, installed in Maico’s own Renault Twizy.
https://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=892&cpage=838#comment-1684132
He writes:
“I am aware that the E-Cat is not certified for automotive, not yet I say ;), but from what I could see in the 10 hours in which we did the static tests at the same power of the demo (2 hours on September 6th in my garage, then one day I will also talk about those tests…. and 8 hours on September 7th on the roller bench) the “performance” is all there, and therefore “any” Automotive company with all “its skills” and “knowledge”, if only it wanted, could obtain this “certification” in a short time.
“Let me fantasize a bit about this thing…. 😉
“However, what I saw in those 2 days (6 – 7 September 2024), and that I was able to “touch with my hand” in Your presence (the explosion-proof Box that was also used for the Latina demo), as I have already said several times, has nothing to do with a “battery pack”, it absolutely does not have a voltage behavior (and also current) comparable to a battery:
“1) The behavior of the voltage at the ends of the E-Cat does not have the characteristics of a voltage coming from the batteries (and here I stop again)
2) after having “extracted” from that “explosion-proof box”, containing the E-Cat NGU array, for more than 10 hours “powers” comparable to those of the demo, the level of the voltage supplied by the BOX itself remained constant…. no drop even of a few millivolts (both in the 10 hours overall of the static tests of 6-7 September, which in the 6 1/2 hours of the Latina demonstration)
3) The explosion-proof BOX remained cold, no increase in temperature, not even a few degrees.
4) I also want to add another piece of data since the fanciful suppositions that I have read, or that have been addressed to me, also concern this aspect. The explosion-proof box containing the E-Cat NGU array does NOT have a water exhaust pipe, and I certainly did NOT modify my Twizy to prevent it from “flooding” :D. A fuel cell, in addition to having to contain “the fuel” (hydrogen), produces water as waste (from 8 to 9 liters per Kwh produced), and also a fair bit of heat.“Just to “sum up”:
“A) In points 1-2 I have all the elements to exclude with certainty the presence of batteries inside the explosion-proof BOX containing the E-Cat NGU array
b) In points 3-4 I have all the elements to exclude with certainty the presence of a fuel cell inside the explosion-proof BOX containing the E-Cat NGU array“So what was there, for me, inside the explosion-proof BOX?
“The answer is simpler than you might imagine: an array of E-Cat NGUs with about 3kW of power ;)…. which according to “current science” “should NOT exist” but which, thanks also to the demonstration in Latina, seems “to exist” !!! and it exists thanks to Dr. Rossi who discovered it for US 😉
[. . .]“One thing is certain, the demonstration of the E-Cat EV of Latina, has demonstrated, without a shadow of a doubt, that its E-Cat NGU is ready and mature to “go to the next level” and that is from experimentation, to production and then to delivery.”
It seems clear to me from the above, and from comments Maico has made previously, that there is information about the voltage and current from the E-Cat that Maico is not at liberty to reveal. I am not sure why he can’t say what that information is, but I have always suspected that there are unique characteristics about the behavior of the E-Cat that Andrea Rossi does not want to reveal at this point.
One thing that has often been referenced by Andrea Rossi is that when it is in operation, the E-Cat is “intrinsically cold”. He has often said that even when you combine multiple E-Cats together, no special cooling is needed. Maico notes above that the box did not give off any heat at all during 10 hours of operation.
