Today has been a somewhat boring day at work so I decided to muck around researching different energy sources, I'm looking into a small solar setup at home but somehow stumbled across these guys, Andrea Rossi and Professor Sergio Focardi of the University of Bologna in Italy.
They appear to have developed a Fusion type device, he(they) are claiming that for 400-800W of input power he can get 12-15kw in water heating out of it. The reaction involves Nickel, Cooper and hydrogen and some other patent pending ingredients.
If you can't sit through the 41 minute video have a look at this article
http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/01/focardi-and-rossi-energy-catalyzer.html#
You tube link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4JUJhkpc3I
turn on the English sub-titles hit the CC button.
I wonder just how close we are to something that could replace traditional energy sources such as oil, natural gas, and coal etc to something like this, or do you think this a hoax, on the face of it they appear genuine and acknowledge there is still a ways to go until a commercial solution is found, but I'm sure at the quoted 1cent per kw/h (about a 20th of what I'm paying now) I'd like to think this was real.
Your thoughts.