Lifelong free energy advocate Andrea Rossi has been back in the news as he continues to pitch his eCAT magical energy device,

which he variously claims runs on cold fusion, which is not a thing, or zero point energy, which is also not a thing.

Is it possible that a miraculous solution to clean free energy

has been right in front of us this whole time

and has eluded everyone except Rossi?

And in our extended content for premium members,

a 2024 challenge in which an electric car, powered by the ECAT, ended

up with more charge than it started with.

That and more is coming up next on Skeptoid.

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Testing the Rossi eCat.

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Today, we're going to have a look at a cold fusion device, also called L-E-N-R for low-energy nuclear reaction,

that has been around far longer than most, and which promises to solve the world's energy problems

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