"Refluopetrolio": an ancient Italian invention which could have changed the world?
More than 30 years ago an Italian philosopher and inventor, big fan of energy environment, announced his new invention, something which looked like to be able to change the whole world: he created a method to turn waste into crude oil. The guy created a society, named Petroldragon, which collected waste from other companies asking justa few money for the service. “Waste” like tyres visible in the picture above, which his invention was going to turn into petrol. The method is now known as thermal depolymerization.
What did it happened to such an amazing invention?
Petroldragon company was closed for legal complains, inventor arrested and sent to jail as accused of illegal manipulation and collection of toxic waste, once a new law was created, which changed the definition of material used by Petroldragon from “waste” to “toxic waste”.
Did Petroldragon ever produced crude oil from waste? On inventor’s site a car running on such product is described, but it’s hard to find independent sources about this fact. Several newspaper in following years depicted the inventor as a swindler and even a criminal, being responsible of polluting several square kilometers of terrain.
Only one italian newspaper archive out of 3 collects positive articles about the invention; all others talk about hoax, crime, and so on.
Some source also report that the Italian guy was even arrested for illegal trade of gold and other valuables: indeed, he had also founded a company which extracted such elements from waste. Inventor was eventually cleared and he got out of the jail, but Italian government had to spent millions of dollars to clean the contamned and polluted terrain: being closed for long time due to legal concerns, Petroldragon waste tanks eventually had broken, spreading liquid waste on terrain around.
Whole story looks like a fantasy movie rather than a real fact: was the inventor actually unfairly persecuted, or was he just a slinder, making money out of toxic waste? Was his invention a hoax… or was it just uncomfortable to crude oil economy? Where actually created specific new laws on purpose of preventing the inventor from being authorized to carry on his work? Or was it eventually contacted by USA energy-related companies to buy his patent, the inventore refusing to sell wanting to develope his idea in his own country? Was he actually contacted by local energy companies ENU and AGIP, which eventually denounced him due to damages his “artificial crude oil”, named “refluopetrolio” caused to companies’ plants?
And what about the inventor? What did it happened to him? Where is he, what is he doing right now?
He’s presenting his new invention to the world. Some scientists from all over the world are examining it, trying to determine if it actually works, or if it’s an hoax, or just a mistake, or a scientific misunderstanding; it’s a device capable, apparently, of producing several hundreds of watts for several hours using just a few grams of nickel and hydrogen. It’s named “energy catalyzer”, or “e-cat”. It was presented to the public for first time on january, 14th in Bologna (Italy).
Sevearl additional demonstrations have been performed in front of several scientists; none up to now was able to demonstrate it’s an hoax, neither to understand and explain how the machine works. It just does.
But this time it’s not 1978, like it was when “refluopetrolio” production procedure was invented: more than 30 years passed, now Internet allows sharing information and scientific data among millions of people around the world, without any newspaper “filtering” the actual results, facts and happenings. Once he will obtain the patent he requested, everybody will be able to create on its own this device, and he himself will be able to sell it and spread it around.
Will this happen.
Possibily not: it looks like patent won’t be accpeted, having a similar invention already been patented several years ago by another Italian guy named Piantelli.
Whatever it happens, the inventor is not going to develop and sell his invention in Italy: remembering his past experience, he decided to go abroad, selling his patent to Greek company Defkalion, which on november 2011 will build a 1 MV electric plant based on the invention of this guy: the person which is surprising scientifists all over the world with this new, apparently revolutionary invention, is the same guy who back in 1978 almost caused a revolution in petrol market with is “rfluopetrolio” invention.
Andrea Rossi: cheater or cheated?
Matter needs by sure additoinal investigations.