Noticed gas prices falling lately? There are many causes, almost like a house of cards effect going on, but here is one discernable set of fingers that are still tugging at the futures market with traceable effects ....
http://www.e-catworld.com/2015/02/18/new-official-web-site-andrea-rossi-com-p... This one is referred to as "the new plant" and yes it looks like a commercially refined process compared to what we were allowed to see of the first 3 plants ever constructed.
The burgeoning amount of stuff showing up associated with LENR is getting difficult to follow as more and more players pop out of the woodwork and more and more scientific / university / worldwide various governmental research groups kick up into the mix.
National patents have been granted in just about every nation EXCEPT the USA at this point in time. Italy and Sweden have been back-dating their "origin" patents to predate all others (the patent war has begun in earnest). All other players are just pressing patents on the commercialization aspects that they are actively pursuing.
Not much doubt that it is real any more .....
Also is becoming clear that this is a touchy process and requires some fairly serious computing power aimed at the knob variables to keep it within the control limits while working against a changing load.
It ls at the early pre Ford Model A level, awaiting for the necessary tech developments to make the Model A and Model T full commercial expansions possible.
Industrial Heat and its international lawyers are still pressing previous licensees and regional representatives to sell back their original licenses since the tech has shifted and the old licenses do not apply to what will be licensed going out in the future.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is still getting false complaints from cranks to go check for a for an unlicensed nuclear facility located here and then there (they have tried several locations now). I suspect competitors and internet cranks are spending a lot of time trying to figure out where Rossi and his 4 man crew are flying to all the time.
As I have said before, there is a strong element in LENR that wishes to stop referring to nuclear anything in the name as no one can prove a traditional nuclear activity is going on in this lattice assisted isotopic transformational stuff at this point in time. A new name that more accurately states what is going on is being sought, one that will also keep Nuclear Regulatory Commission goons out of it.
The Regulatory Commission is taking a developing stance that if they cannot detect radiation then nothing that they need to be concerned with is going on at that particular facility.
Believe it or not, that is a rational stance for them to take as RADIATION is the danger from traditional nuclear and that is what all the tons of regulations and rules are all about ......