In January 2011 researchers from the University of Bologna,
Andrea Rossi and Sergio Focardi, claimed to have successfully
demonstrated commercially viable cold fusion in a device called an Energy Catalyzer. In March 2011, two Swedish physicists evaluated the device. As the target is immediate commercialization, the inventors say that
details of the invention will not be published yet. The international
patent application has been partially rejected because it seemed to
"offend against the generally accepted laws of physics and established
theories" and to overcome this problem the application should have
contained either experimental evidence or a firm theoretical basis in
current scientific theories. Due to this secrecy, the Swedish evaluators were not allowed to examine
the inside of the reactor, and there is still uncertainty about the
viability of the invention. Peer-reviewed journals have not published papers on this invention,
leading Rossi to create his own online blog,
called the Journal of Nuclear Physics.
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