the UNIVERSITY OF BELIZE LACK OF APPLIED MECHANICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH LAB PROBLEM IN BELIZE.

THE APPLIED MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT, SHOULD BE DUPLICATING, AND VERIFYING THESE THERMAL GAINS. IF TRUE? CAN BE DUPLICATED, ALL MANNER OF ELECTRICAL POWER PRODUCTION IS POSSIBLE IN RURAL BELIZE, SAVING OUR FOREIGN EXCHANGE AND RELIANCE ON FOREIGN ENERGY SUPPLIES

The return of cold fusion?
As example -- in the comments:

gernos on May 19, 2011 - 3:47pm

I understand why you have got this impression, because it is what Rossi and Focardi themselves tend to believe. However, they are not theorists, admit they haven't the slightest notion of what is going on, and have absolutely no evidence to support Widom's or any other proposed mechanism. Focardi (Rossi is really only the backer) has taken a entirely pragmatic suck-it-and-see approach to this since he first published in 1994. He just claims to produce heat at 400 celsius - lots of it - from a miniscule consumption of H2 and Ni nanopowder.

(circa 250 KWh from a consumption of 0.25g H2 and 2.5g Ni each and every day for around six months)

[My comment: Tack on a low and very fair 30% thermal to electric conversion efficiency -- 250 * .30 = 75 kwE (meaning electric power "out") -- for six months -- using "0.25g H2 and 2.5g Ni" -- now that is as close to "free" as one can get!!]

Having met him a couple of times, I am completely convinced by his honesty. Of all the possible interpretations, this is NOT a scam. For one thing, R&F wouldn't have invited the boss of the physics dept of Bologna from whom they lease the lab space to the public demonstrations in February. Needless to say, he left the meeting entirely convinced by the huge exothermy, in common with all other 50 participants, many of whom are highly qualified scientists.

I have every sympathy with people who see this as yet another free energy scam. Thermodynamics-violating free energy scams annoy me more than most, probably because I studied, researched and taught quantum physics at Oxford University from 1978-1999. However, for a number of reasons that I find compelling, the details of which I will not bore you all with here, I remain convinced that: Its Different This Time.