Don andrea rossi biography

Italian entrepreneur (born )

Andrea Rossi (born 3 June ) is an Italian entrepreneur who claimed to have invented a cold fusion device.^[1][2][3]

In the s, Rossi claimed to have invented a process to convert organic waste into petroleum, and in he founded a company named Petroldragon to implement waste processing technology.

In the the company was shut down by the Italian government amid allegations of fraud, and Rossi was arrested.^[4] In Rossi moved to the United States and from to 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/ of the claimed performance.^[5][6]

In Rossi attempted to patent a device called an Energy Catalyzer (or E-Cat), which was a purported cold fusion or Low-Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) thermal power source.^[7][8] Rossi claimed that the device produc