Andrea Rossi (entrepreneur), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Inventor and businessperson
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Place of Birth: Milan, Lombardy, Italy
About Andrea Rossi (entrepreneur)
- Andrea Rossi (born 3 June 1950) is an Italian entrepreneur who claims to have invented a cold fusion device.In the 1970s, Rossi claimed to have invented a process to convert organic waste into petroleum, and in 1978 he founded a company named Petroldragon to process waste.
- In the 1989 the company was shut down by the Italian government amid allegations of fraud, and Rossi was arrested.
- In 1996 Rossi moved to the United States and from 2001 to 2003 he worked under a U.S.
- Army contract to make a thermoelectric device that, while promising to be superior to other devices, produced only around 1/1000 of the claimed performance.In 2008 Rossi attempted to patent a device called an Energy Catalyzer (or E-Cat), which is a purported cold fusion or Low-Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) thermal power source.
- Rossi claims that the device produces massive amounts of excess heat that can be used to produce electricity, but independent attempts to reproduce the effect have failed.
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