A fantastic invention or fantasy?

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Andrea Rossi claims that a 1000 MW nuclear reactor in Greece will be operational by October 2011, promising electricity at significantly lower costs and without pollution. While some individuals express optimism about Rossi's project, skepticism remains prevalent, particularly regarding the credibility of the claims and the history of cold fusion being associated with unproven theories. Critics highlight that if Rossi's cold fusion technology were legitimate, it would gain widespread recognition and validation in the scientific community. The discussion emphasizes the need for caution and the importance of waiting for verifiable results before drawing conclusions. Overall, the debate reflects a mix of hope for revolutionary energy solutions and a strong current of skepticism rooted in past experiences with cold fusion claims.
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An Italian inventor, Andrea Rossi, claims that a 1000 MW nuclear reactor, being constructed in Greece, will become operational in October 2011. I hope he is right; how can one not be happy to have electricity which is ten times less expensive than from coal, and without any pollution? But I am skeptical. Why? Read this paper:

http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/cf/rossi.html

But many reputable people take his claim seriously, as illustrated in these two posts:

http://www.rainews24.rai.it/it/video.php?id=23096



How can such optimism be explained?
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Ludwik Kowalski (see Wikipedia)
author of: http://csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/life/intro.html
 
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I didn't watch the vids in the links. Are any of these "reputable people" physicists? Cold fusion has be a staple of crackpots for some time. I don't know that it will never be possible, but if he has done repeatable cold fusion, it would be known all over the world as soon as it was confirmed.
 
We'll just have to wait and see. There are plenty of reasons to be highly skeptical, but in the end we will just have to wait.
 
See our skepticism and debunking forum for recent threads on this. It doesn't qualify for the engineering forums - there is no engineering to discuss.
 

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