Accumulated evidence that Rossi E-cat was fraud

In November 2016 and in previous writing Steven Krivit details evidence of the Andrea Rossi energy catalyzer (e-cat) fraud. Rossi take $11 million from Industrial Heat and employ his own engineers for Industrial Heat’s due diligence tests, but in 2011 he also demanded that multiple parties, including NASA, pay him large sums of money for …

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Australia and partners Boeing, BAE Systems and DLR (German Aerospace Center) have a successful mach 7.5 hypersonic missile test

Chief Defence Scientist Dr Alex Zelinsky today congratulated an Australian-United States team on the success of an experimental hypersonic flight at the Woomera Test Range. The experimental rocket reached an apogee of 278 km, achieving the targeted speed of Mach 7.5 (seven and a half times the speed of sound). The team estimates that its …

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Rossi 1 Megawatt Energy Catalyzer is a failure after 3 years of testing by Industrial Heat

A lawsuit has been filed by Andrea Rossi and Leonardo Corporation against Industrial Heat. Industrial Heat rejects the claims in the suit. They are without merit and we are prepared to vigorously defend ourselves against this action. Industrial Heat has worked for over three years to substantiate the results claimed by Mr. Rossi from the …

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USA not stepping up so France will end up working with Russia and Assad against ISIS

French President Hollande earlier this week signaled a shift in his long-standing position that Assad should go before any solution could be found to the Syrian crisis. In recent days, Paris and Moscow appeared to move closer diplomatically after ISIL claimed responsibility for the downing of a Russian plane over Egypt’s Sinai desert and the …

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World has now warmed 1 degree Celsius from pre-industrial times and would warm another 0.6 degrees if CO2 emissions stopped today

Even if carbon dioxide levels stopped rising today, the world would still warm by 1.6 °C above pre-industrial levels –which is more than three-quarters of the way to the 2 °C limit the world is supposed to be aiming for. That is the implication of two sets of figures announced on Monday. Global average levels …

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Carnival of Nuclear Energy 282

1. James Conca, Forbes, Should We Fear That Russian Nuclear Materials Are Being Smuggled To Terrorists? FBI and Moldova have been thwarting Russian nuclear smugglers trying to sell radioactive and nuclear materials to terrorists. Four such sting operations have occurred in Moldova since 2010, with the smugglers trying to sell radioactive uranium and cesium for …

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Russia’s MBIR sodium-cooled fast neutron research reactor gets construction licence

Russian regulator Rostechnadzor has issued a construction licence for the multipurpose sodium-cooled fast neutron research reactor, or MBIR by its Russian acronym. The reactor complex will be located at the site of the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors (RIAR), in Dimitrovgrad. In November, Uralenergostroy was selected in an open tender as the general contractor for …

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Complete Woolly Mammoth Genome Sequenced

An international team of scientists has sequenced the complete genome of the woolly mammoth. A US team is already attempting to study the animals’ characteristics by inserting mammoth genes into elephant stem cells. Current Biology – Complete Genomes Reveal Signatures of Demographic and Genetic Declines in the Woolly Mammoth Highlights •Complete high-quality genomes from two …

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Google internet balloons and drones could boost GDP by trillions and save millions of lives

Expanding broadband access through wireless networks would be cheaper than building fixed wireline networks, however the benefits would be smaller, according to the Copenhagen Consensus latest study. Reaching 90% of the world’s people with wireless service by 2030, up from 32% now, would produce economic gains of $17 for every $1 spent, it estimated. That’s …

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