Sergio Focardi

Sergio Focardi (1932 – 22 June 2013) was an Italian physicist and professor emeritus at the University of Bologna.^[1][2][3] He led the Department of Bologna of the (Italian) National Institute for Nuclear Physics^[4][5][6] and the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences at the University of Bologna.^[7][8] He was a member of the President's Board of the Italian Physical Society.^[9] From 1992 he had been working on cold fusion with nickel-hydrogen reactors.^[10] From 2007 until his death, Focardi collaborated with inventor Andrea Rossi on the development of the Energy Catalyzer (E-Cat).^{[11][12][13][14][15]}

Studies on nickel-hydrogen exothermal systems

Diagram of the reactor devised by Focardi et al.^[16]

In the early 90s Sergio Focardi, together with physicists Roberto Habel and Francesco Piantelli, started to develop a nickel-hydrogen exothermal reactor. The results of their research were presented in 1994,^[17][18] and published on the peer-reviewed scientific journal Il Nuovo Cimento A.^{[19][20][21][22][23][24]}

See also

• Energy Catalyzer

References

External links

• English transcript of "Sergio Focardi Presents TED Talk on Nickel/Hydrogen Reaction" (original video with English subtitles available on YouTube).
• English transcript of "A radio interview with Sergio Focardi, the father of Ni-H Cold-Fusion". Città del Capo Radio Metropolitana, Bologna, Italy, 5 April 2011. Original audio (in Italian, here with English subtitles available on YouTube).
• EV World podcast. Andrea Rossi speaks about his relationship with Sergio Focardi, beginning at 6 minutes and 20 seconds.