United States Patent US 9,115,913 B1

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  • Andrea Rossi

    Giuseppe Censorio:
    Thank you for this information, although our strategy will be to cover the already massively installed all around the world solar panels.
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Giuseppe Censorio

    Dear Andrea,
    one of the most promising innovations in the photovoltaic field is the introduction of panels with a Silicon Carbide (SiC) substrate, which is estimated to improve efficiency by up to 65%. Combined with an Ecat it will definitely look great.
    Regards, Giuseppe

  • Mats Heijkenskjold

    Piero,

    ” The e-cat is already producing electrical energy, what else do we need?”

    Very good comment I think! I agree!

    Regards

    Mats Heijkenskjold

  • Piero

    Steven Nicholes Karels,

    I see your point. I’m sure Andrea will someday, maybe during one of his presentations, cast some light (pun intended) on our doubts.

    Looking forward for those events

    Piero

  • Andrea Rossi

    Michael S.:
    Thank you for your kind wishes; likewise, we wish you and your family all the best for the 2024.
    1- this information will be given at the introduction of the product
    2- same as above
    3- the cost/Kwh will be lower, but not for that reason: this issue too will be cleared at the introduction of the product.
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Michael S

    Dear Andrea,

    All the best in 2024 to you and your team !

    Could you please answer these questions:

    1/ Does the combination of EcatlepNGU and PV enhance the efficiency of the Ecat system in the sense that there’s more energy harvested than with the Ecat alone ? This considering that the Pv are mounted in a closed box together with the ecat and don’t receive Sun rays ?

    2/Does this mean that a larger spectrum of energy is harvested ?

    3/ will this combined PV-Ecatlep NGU sytem allow for a lower cost/kwh then Ecatlep NGU alone because of very cheaply available PV cells ?

    Best regards,

    Michael S.

  • Steven Nicholes Karels

    Piero,

    I also had the same questions. I suggest that the native energy produced by the SKLep NGU might be an intense light, which could internally be either converted to electricity or not converted at all.

    If this is the case, then a number of SKLep NGU units could be configured to only output optical light and not electricity. If the light was of sufficient energy and of the correct spectrum, then it could be converted by the solar panel into DC electrical power.

    The uncertainties I have on the SKLep NGU includes AR’s assertion that no or little heat is produced by the SKLep NGU. So, I don’t believe that an internal PV unit within the SKLep NGU converts the produced light to electrical power, as it is not 100% efficient and some heat would be produced.

    I would more likely guess that a condensation of electrons was somehow formed and the SKLep NGU inductively gathers the released energy when the electron grouping disperses. That still leaves the internal light generation issue, if it occurs, and how its energy is removed from the SKLep NGU system.

    If the SKLep NGU only produces electricity and the only goal was to supplement the electrical energy produced by the solar panel when the sunlight is insufficient for maximum output(e.g., clouds, snow, dust covering the panel surface, nighttime), then this could make some economic sense to use the existing inverter that is used to convert the solar panel’s DC power to useable AC power. If this were the implementation, which AR has said it is not, then the cost savings applies to using existing infrastructure for continuous power generation.

    But AR said it uses light from the SKLep NGU to strike the solar panel. So, given the AR statement of no or little heat generated by the SKLep NGU unit, this would tend to tell me that the SKLep NGU electrical generation is very efficient. While the solar panel’s efficiency in light-to-DC electrical power conversion is somewhere around 20%.

    The best guess I have is that something is missing that AR has not told us, for this to make economic sense. Or, maybe AR just wants to demonstrate a continuous output of the SKLep NGU and this is not an economic product?

  • Andrea Rossi

    Steven Nicholes Karels:
    Sorry, this too is an issue that so far we prefer to keep restricted,
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Andrea Rossi

    Piero:
    Thank you for your support and for your opinion,
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Piero

    Dear Andrea, I am really puzzled by the set up you are envisaging to supplement the energy produced by solar panels with an e-cat. Why using the e-cat energy to turn on a lamp that illuminates the solar panel which in turn generates the electricity? the efficiency of this process would be 10% at best. The e-cat is already producing electrical energy, what else do we need?
    I’m sure there is a rationale to this but it eludes my understanding.
    Good luck for the EV demo, that one can really make a bug slpash!

  • Steven Nicholes Karels

    Dear Andrea Rossi,

    On the proposed Solar Panel illuminated by an SKLep NGU, is the light coming from the NGU unit of constant intensity or does it fluctuate or have a high frequency nature?

  • Andrea Rossi

    Raffaele Bongo:
    Sorry, this information is restricted, so far,
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Raffaele Bongo

    Hello Dr Russi
    To satisfy my curiosity, can you elaborate on how the Ecat illuminates the solar panel?
    1 – Via a lamp powered by the E-Cat?
    2 – By light produced directly by the E-Cat?
    Tank you very much
    Best regards
    Raffaele

  • Andrea Rossi

    Gregory Daigle:
    Sorry, I do not have time to donate to “critiques” made by trolls. I suggest you to do the same. The streaming , that will be restarted as soon as possible, will be exactly the same as before, with the Ecat updated, whatever the “couldbes”.
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Dr. Rossi,

    Regarding the NGU lamp streaming, I have heard others critique your former streaming setup saying that it could be accomplished with a focused beam out of view of the camera being directed at the headlamp making it look like your lamp is on despite only being reflected light.

    Will your new setup avoid any such criticism or others regarding hidden wires?

    Warm regards,
    Greg

  • Andrea Rossi

    Steven Nicholes Karels:
    Yes,
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Steven Nicholes Karels

    Dear Andrea Rossi,

    I was under the impression that the SKLep SSM produced very little heat while it is operating. Is the same true of the SKLep NGU unit?

  • Andrea Rossi

    Calle H:
    We will give the description when we will introduce the product.
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Calle H

    Dear Dr. Rossi,
    May I ask about the solar cell application: Is it so that you are using bifacial solar panels illuminated on the back side by LED lamps powered by EcatSKL-NGU which in combination with regular daylight on the front side of the panel will result in an unexpected and innovative cell performance so that the net power output (cell output minus EcatSKL-NGU consumption) exceeds the the power by a one side illuminated solar cell?
    Kind regards,
    Calle H

  • Andrea Rossi

    Gavino Mamia:
    Not much time, we will try to restart the streaming within January: we will anticipate the precise date as soon as we will be 100% sure.
    Our entire Team wishes you and your family a happy and successful year !

  • Gavino Mamia

    Hello Doctor Rossi
    Is there still much time before the NGU lamp comes online?
    Happy 2024 to you and your entire team

  • Andrea Rossi

    Audun:
    Happy New year to you and your family !
    Answer: I hope so
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Audun

    Dear Dr Andrea Rossi,
    Happy New Year to you and your team!
    Do you think 2024 will be the year where the ECAT NGU will reach the neccesary level of maturity to start the mass production?

  • Andrea Rossi

    Raffaele Bongo:
    Thank you for your kind wishes, that I share with you.
    My progress in tennis is inversely proportional to the technological progress of the Ecat.
    Happy New Year also to you and your family,
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Andrea Rossi

    Giuseppe Censorio:
    Probably in a second phase a redesign will naturally emerge as opportune,
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Andrea Rossi

    Richard Stettler:
    We are following just one product, the EcatSKL-NGU; the difference is just in the applications.
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Richard Stettler

    Hello Dr. Rossi,

    As I follow your work for years and placed orders years past, I wondering why you work on so many different products without going to sell at least one product of this development till now?
    The world need heat, light, electric power.
    Best regards, Richard

  • Giuseppe Censorio

    Dear Andrea,
    happy New Year.
    Regarding the improvement of the performance of photovoltaic panels through the light emitted by ECATs, can we at this point imagine a re-engineering of the panels themselves? For example, could they become more or less large boxes where each wall is made up of photovoltaic panels with an Ecat in the centre? This would also eliminate excessive light pollution. Each box could be flattened on the ground or stacked on top of each other.
    Regards, Giuseppe

  • Raffaele Bongo

    Hello Dr. Rossi
    I wish a happy new year 2024 to your entire team as well as to all those who support you.
    I hope that this year you will do a good job and that a lot of electrons will flow in the new version of the E-Cat. Let it finally leave the laboratory and let this generator set out to conquer the world.
    For your pleasure I hope, in the absence of winning a match against your wife, to see you achieve a few modest winning points in tennis.
    Best regards
    Raffaele

  • Andrea Rossi

    Iggy Dalrymple:
    Thank you for the suggestion,
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Iggy Dalrymple

    Dr Rossi,
    Could the EcatNGU/solar panel combo work more efficiently if placed in an enclosed mirrored chamber ?
    Iggy

  • Andrea Rossi

    Martyn Aubrey:
    We are working on the details, I prefer not to enter in them so far, it is premature,
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Martyn Aubrey

    Dear Dr Rossi,

    Harry asked “Is the increase in electrical power from a solar panel supplemented by:”?

    You answered “2” (“Light from the E-Cat shining onto the panel”)

    As the solar panel is flat, would that imply that multiple Ecats could also be arranged in a flat array to roughly match the size and shape of the solar panel, or would one Ecat be sufficient to light each solar panel?

    Curious regards,
    Martyn Aubrey

  • Andrea Rossi

    Steven Nicholes Karels:
    1. to be decided
    2. we’ll see
    3. to be decided
    4. same as above
    5. thank you for the suggestion
    6. will depend on the situation
    7. probably days
    8. I don’t think we will need it
    9. thank you for the suggestions
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Andrea Rossi

    Martyn Aubrey:
    Thank you very much from all of us for your kind wishes, and you and your family too we wish to have a 2024 of peace and success,
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Martyn Aubrey

    Dear Dr Rossi,

    I wish yourself, your excellent team and your families, a very Happy New Year for 2024.

    Good luck for your work with the development and testing of the Ecat SKLep NGU.
    May you have the great success that you deserve.

    Kind regards,
    Martyn Aubrey

  • Steven Nicholes Karels

    Dear Andrea Rossi,

    On the demonstration of the Solar Panel system, modified with E-Cat technology, a few questions:

    1. Are you planning an outdoor (specifically sun lite environment) or are you planning an indoor environment?
    2. Will you have an identical but unmodified Solar Panel next to the E-Cat equipped Solar Panel?
    3. Will you be making DC voltage and DC current measurements of the outputs of each Solar Panel? A digital power meter with power and total energy would be a bonus.
    4. If performed outdoors, you could present nighttime conditions by laying an optically opaque covering over each Solar Panel. Is this your plan?
    5. If you are going to measure the output of each Solar Panel, I would recommend both a digital measurement device and also analog meters for Voltage and Amperage coming from each Solar Panel – to minimize measurement credibility challenges. Thoughts?
    6. The Solar Panels, to produce current, will require a load. This could be a resistive load or it could be a micro-inverter. You would not want to run the Solar Panels in series, as that would defeat the test purposes. How will you address this issue?
    7. How long of a demonstration period are you anticipating? minutes, hours, days?
    8. If there is electrical power going to the E-Cat devices, you will need to measure the Voltage and the Current. Comments?
    9. If the load is resistive, then the two load resistors must be identical in power and resistance. If you employ micro-inverters, they should be identical. The micro-inverters should be monitored in terms of their input and output measurements using their standard remote monitoring systems. Thoughts?

  • Andrea Rossi

    Dear Readers:
    Please go to
    http://www.rossilivecat.com
    to find easy all the comments published in this blog in all the other posts,
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Andrea Rossi

    Roberto:
    Thank you for your support, and Happy New Year also to you and your family,
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Roberto

    Dear Dr Andrea Rossi,
    Happy New Year to you and your team, not only for the progress of the Ecat system, but also for this inportant blog, that in its over 3300 pages has collected an immense library of important information contained in the comments and the links and references of it.
    Cheers,
    Roberto

  • Andrea Rossi

    A. Hornung:
    True,
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Andrea Rossi

    Steven Nicholes Karels:
    Thank you for your insight,
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Steven Nicholes Karels

    Dear Andrea Rossi,

    Regarding the use of SKLep NGU units to provide “Light from the E-Cat onto the panel”.

    I am sure you will say how you implement is confidential and/or that we need to wait until the demonstration to know how the implementation is accomplished.

    With that said, I would suggest this, at first glance, this seems to be a very inefficient way of using eCat technology.

    Most Solar Panels in use today are around 20% efficient in terms of converting solar spectrum (light) energy into DC electricity. This DC electricity would feed either a micro-inverter or a solar inverter to convert light into usable AC electrical power.

    Previous to your “Light from the E-Cat onto the panel” posting, I had assumed, apparently incorrectly, that your implementation would supplement the electrical energy coming from the Solar Panel(s) and feed the E-Cat energy in parallel to the conversion unit.

    Apparently, using are using light energy, generated by the E-Cat unit, to illuminate the Solar Panel.

    This light coming from the E-Cat could either be optical energy normally generated but not visible to an exterior viewer, OR it could be light from a light emitting device, such as an LED, that uses the electrical power generated by the E-Cat unit.

    I would assume there are two ways of applying the E-Cat light to the Solar Panel: A closed optical reflector/resonance cavity; Or an open means, such as shining the generated optical power onto the Solar Panel.

    The closed resonator approach would be a reflective box laid over the Solar Panel with E-Cat light energy entering the resonant cavity and reflecting the E-Cat light around the resonator until it is absorbed by the PV cells in the Solar Panel. The problem with this approach is that you do not capture the free sunlight available during the daytime.

    The open approach would be where the E-Cat light is directed toward the PV cells in the Solar Panel, in addition to any sunlight falling onto the Solar Panel. Here, some of the E-Cat light is reflected off the PV cells or does not strike a PV cell and is lost to the environment. This amounts to Light Pollution.

    Normal Solar Panel operation during daytime does not contribute to Light Pollution because the ambient illumination is dominated by Solar illumination. But at night, this E-Cat generated Light Pollution could be a major issue for the open case.

    To make this economically practical, one would assume 24/7 E-Cat operation. The lifetime of the PV cells in the Solar Panel are related to the number of hours of exposure to direct light, usually sunlight. 24/7 Illuminating the PV cells within the Solar Panel will decrease their lifetime by a factor or 3 or 4. So, an E-Cat Solar Panel might have an operational lifetime of 6 to 8 years instead of the normal industry standard of 25 years. This would need to be addressed in your economic analysis.

    The advantages of your proposed approach, as I understand it, is constant electrical power available 24/7, with no environmental effects degrading operation – i.e., clouds, snow, weather effects.

    Thoughts?

  • A.Hornung

    So, i understand: There is something fishy.

  • Andrea Rossi

    TO ALL OUR READERS: WE ALL OF THE ECAT TEAM WISH YOU A PEACEFUL AND SUCCESSFUL YEAR 2014 !!!

  • Andrea Rossi

    Mats Heijkenskjold:
    Confidential,
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Andrea Rossi

    Renato:
    Thank you for your kind wishes; I send you, likewise, my best wished to you and your family,
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

  • Renato

    Dear Andrea,

    Wishing you and your family a New Year 2024 full of health and success !

    And I wish you and all the JoNP readers that 2024 will be the
    turning point for the diffusion of the E-Cat, as you deserve,
    thanks to your perseverance and the enormous work you did along so many years.

    Best wishes !
    Renato

  • Mats Heijkenskjold

    Dear Andrea,

    In your answer to Harry you said:”Light from the E-Cat shining onto the panel.”

    The light then must be of a considerable amount in order to “help” the solar panel to achieve the better COP value.

    Any digit of the light power?

    Best regards,

    Mats Heijkenskjold

  • Andrea Rossi

    Harry:
    2
    Warm Regards,
    A.R.

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