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...since 2002, and the they are currently deployed into ebola outbreak areas. http://www.nyteknik.se/teknikn... (Article in swedish)

Yes. They use Oracle. It has gone about as well as you would expect. Seriously (in Swedish, sorry).

The last comment on that article claims that the Swedish police basically got a new CIO who felt he had to prove his worth by making some sort grand decision. He decided to switch tracks and use Siebel as the basis of their new system.

Sounds plausible enough.

Yes. They use Oracle. It has gone about as well as you would expect. Seriously (in Swedish, sorry).

The list of participants was over 30 people and included bloggers, local news, AP, tech sites, and many from the University of Bologna. It was a semi-closed pre-sales demonstration that could have been 100% closed. If you "follow the money" there is no scam. Any sales contract will be void if there is fraud. Rossi is not asking for outside investment-- he is only selling a product that he guarantees. This followup report includes more information and video. http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article3303682.ece

The fact that the thing is not engineered for high temperatures may limit its efficiency, but does not necessarily mean that there isn't a large generation of power in the system. It just means that there would be a much larger flow of the fluid to carry the heat away from the source and the fluid (light water, I think) could be at a low pressure. An observer saw a thermometer on the outgoing side registering about 109 degrees Centigrade. Not enough to melt many engineering plastics. The heat was reportedly dumped using some sort of radiator, and the fluid was recirculated to the cells.

I find it highly suspicious, however, that there was a generator set, rated at perhaps 500KW, running continuously during the test. Rossi's statement on this is that the genset was required to run pumps and instrumentation while the system was in 'self-sustaining' mode. It was also used to pump 400KW of heat into the system to raise the temperature to boiling point and get it there.

Time will tell, I guess.
Markets will fluctuate.
Someone will make a lot of money.

Let's hope it's real and Rossi builds and sells successful E-cats. It would change the world for the better.

Link to Rossi's own report:

http://db.tt/wu4OLbgk

Two seperate reports on the test:

http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article3303682.ece

http://pesn.com/2011/10/28/9501940_1_MW_E-Cat_Test_Successful/

The fact that the thing is not engineered for high temperatures may limit its efficiency, but does not necessarily mean that there isn't a large generation of power in the system. It just means that there would be a much larger flow of the fluid to carry the heat away from the source and the fluid (light water, I think) could be at a low pressure. An observer saw a thermometer on the outgoing side registering about 109 degrees Centigrade. Not enough to melt many engineering plastics. The heat was reportedly dumped using some sort of radiator, and the fluid was recirculated to the cells.

I find it highly suspicious, however, that there was a generator set, rated at perhaps 500KW, running continuously during the test. Rossi's statement on this is that the genset was required to run pumps and instrumentation while the system was in 'self-sustaining' mode. It was also used to pump 400KW of heat into the system to raise the temperature to boiling point and get it there.

Time will tell, I guess.
Markets will fluctuate.
Someone will make a lot of money.

Let's hope it's real and Rossi builds and sells successful E-cats. It would change the world for the better.

Link to Rossi's own report:

http://db.tt/wu4OLbgk

Two seperate reports on the test:

http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article3303682.ece

http://pesn.com/2011/10/28/9501940_1_MW_E-Cat_Test_Successful/

http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article3284823.ece

The E-Cat is deceptively simple: hydrogen is passed over a special catalyst based on nickel in a container about a litre in size, and enough heat is produced to boil water. A demonstration in January appeared to show a several kilowatts of output from a four hundred watt input.

From the picture, which shows tubes marked "H" and "O2", this looks like a system for converting hydrogen and oxygen into water and heat with a catalyst. That's a routine technology; after all, you can burn H and O2; a catalyst just lets you do it at a lower temperature. This doesn't appear to be a closed system; for that they'd have to crack the water produced (they get steam out) back into H and O2.

How are the volumes of H and O2 going in measured? How is the heat coming out measured? There's some detail on NyTeknik but not much. It's not clear why there's 30Kg of lead in the thing. I wonder what's inside that lead. It's supposedly not producing any high-energy particles. If it did, that would be interesting. They don't seem to have radiation detectors around.

(Some years ago, when the Pons- Fleischmann cold fusion flap was underway, I went to a talk at Stanford by some physicists who were trying to reproduce the experiment. They'd started out with radiation detectors and alarms surrounding the apparatus in case it suddenly produced dangerous amounts of radiation. After a while, it was clear that nothing dramatic was going to happen. They were trying to measure neutron output, and background radiation was more than whatever the cold fusion apparatus was putting out. They finally put it in a big box of lead cubes to get rid of background neutrons, and still couldn't measure any neutrons coming out. General feeling of exasperation after weeks of work.)

All these short tests of an hour or day are suspicious. If this thing really worked, they could set it on a glass table (so observers could check for external connections) and run it for a month. The short runs hint that some consumable is being used up.

See the E-cat run in self-sustained mode.

The comments about this is that they are very very skeptical.

The demo is supposed to be held at a currently undisclosed company in the U.S. at the end of October. Here is a info and video of the 1MW reactor: http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article3264361.ece

Link to article on Hägglund's new tank: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nyteknik.se%2Fnyheter%2Ffordon_motor%2Fbilar%2Farticle3246446.ece&act=url Image only: http://www.nyteknik.se/incoming/article3246738.ece/BINARY/original/stridsvagn_468.jpg

I hope Rossi "cold fusion" device will be used as energy source for cars:
http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article3126617.ece
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/mar/17/nuclear-future-beyond-japan/

Well, what about Cold Fusion reactors??
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/mar/17/nuclear-future-beyond-japan/
http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article3108242.ece

Rossi and Defcalion Technologies are currently constructing 1MW fusion reactor in Greece.
They say it will be ready in October this year and production of 20kW market ready devices should start in 2012.

New factory in Xanthi (100mln euros investment) is expected to manufacture 300.000 such devices per year:
http://translate.google.pl/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=pl&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=el&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.energypress.gr%2Fportal%2Fresource%2FcontentObject%2Fid%2Fe7cf318d-06b8-414a-8183-54af3baf5897

Cost of 1kWh energy production is expected to be within US cent range.

I saw this yesterday:
http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/fordon_motor/bilar/article2494299.ece
http://www.nyteknik.se/incoming/article2494304.ece/BINARY/original/airmotion700.jpg
http://www.nyteknik.se/incoming/article2494301.ece/BINARY/w468/airmotion468.jpg

Also this:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/indian-air-powered-city-cat-car-prepares-for-production-run/

"68MPH and a range of 125 miles"

On pressurized air ..

The thing to keep in mind, is you still need a form of energy to compress the air. Usually we're talking electricity. Granted, this tech + a huge power plant is probably still more efficient and green.

IMHO though, the real ticket would be if they combined this with a solar-powered compressor that could run while the car was sitting out in the parking lot for 8 hours, and in the driveway for another 3 or 4 (plug-in ability is for a back up). For the daily commute and around-town trips for the average person, I bet this would be plenty usable.

I saw this yesterday:
http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/fordon_motor/bilar/article2494299.ece
http://www.nyteknik.se/incoming/article2494304.ece/BINARY/original/airmotion700.jpg
http://www.nyteknik.se/incoming/article2494301.ece/BINARY/w468/airmotion468.jpg

Also this:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/indian-air-powered-city-cat-car-prepares-for-production-run/

"68MPH and a range of 125 miles"

On pressurized air ..

The thing to keep in mind, is you still need a form of energy to compress the air. Usually we're talking electricity. Granted, this tech + a huge power plant is probably still more efficient and green.

IMHO though, the real ticket would be if they combined this with a solar-powered compressor that could run while the car was sitting out in the parking lot for 8 hours, and in the driveway for another 3 or 4 (plug-in ability is for a back up). For the daily commute and around-town trips for the average person, I bet this would be plenty usable.

I saw this yesterday:
http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/fordon_motor/bilar/article2494299.ece
http://www.nyteknik.se/incoming/article2494304.ece/BINARY/original/airmotion700.jpg
http://www.nyteknik.se/incoming/article2494301.ece/BINARY/w468/airmotion468.jpg

Also this:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/indian-air-powered-city-cat-car-prepares-for-production-run/

"68MPH and a range of 125 miles"

On pressurized air ..

The thing to keep in mind, is you still need a form of energy to compress the air. Usually we're talking electricity. Granted, this tech + a huge power plant is probably still more efficient and green.

IMHO though, the real ticket would be if they combined this with a solar-powered compressor that could run while the car was sitting out in the parking lot for 8 hours, and in the driveway for another 3 or 4 (plug-in ability is for a back up). For the daily commute and around-town trips for the average person, I bet this would be plenty usable.

I saw this yesterday:
http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/fordon_motor/bilar/article2494299.ece
http://www.nyteknik.se/incoming/article2494304.ece/BINARY/original/airmotion700.jpg
http://www.nyteknik.se/incoming/article2494301.ece/BINARY/w468/airmotion468.jpg

Also this:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/indian-air-powered-city-cat-car-prepares-for-production-run/

"68MPH and a range of 125 miles"

On pressurized air ..

I saw this yesterday:
http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/fordon_motor/bilar/article2494299.ece
http://www.nyteknik.se/incoming/article2494304.ece/BINARY/original/airmotion700.jpg
http://www.nyteknik.se/incoming/article2494301.ece/BINARY/w468/airmotion468.jpg

Also this:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/indian-air-powered-city-cat-car-prepares-for-production-run/

"68MPH and a range of 125 miles"

On pressurized air ..

I saw this yesterday:
http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/fordon_motor/bilar/article2494299.ece
http://www.nyteknik.se/incoming/article2494304.ece/BINARY/original/airmotion700.jpg
http://www.nyteknik.se/incoming/article2494301.ece/BINARY/w468/airmotion468.jpg

Also this:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/27/indian-air-powered-city-cat-car-prepares-for-production-run/

"68MPH and a range of 125 miles"

On pressurized air ..

Acquiescence rules are slightly different in Swedish procedures, however a neat reading of this is complicated by the fused civil/criminal trial.

However, no party should be expected to dig into the background of the members of the magistracy panel, and the panel members -- especially the professional magistrate -- are required to be aware of their duty to disclose potential conflicts to all the parties.

The magistrate in question should also have disclosed his participation in related cases in which questions about his private associations were raised in Tingsraetten, notably the effort to resist the seizure order against Bahnhof AB in 2005.

Although it is probable that one or more of the defendants knew this (it received a lot of coverage -- http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/it_telekom/allmant/article34986.ece -- and there are not nearly as many legal professionals per capita in Sweden as in the USA), there is no presumption of knowledge nor presumption of acquiescence unless this information was disclosed to counsel.

Although representation and advice roles of Swedish attorneys are somewhat different than in the USA (or even than in England and Wales) and they may be just as prone to being hard of hearing at inconvenient times as their counterparts there, there is an obligation to the reputation of the system of law that would require counsel to act on such information in a prompt manner. This is similar to a U.S. lawyer's duties as an officer of the court.

Hearing the first instance of this case while holding active membership in SFIR is so obviously questionable that Hr Norström's colleagues will be hoping he has come down with senile dementia and will quickly retire on health grounds.

A judge who has been mentally deranged for a few years without anyone intervening will be damaging enough to the repute of the Swedish system of justice; one that is outrageously and serially corrupt will have people worrying about its devastation.

Hey, look what I found... it's the same judge that ordered the Pirate Bay servers to be raided some two years ago!
Razzian mot Bahnhof (swedish)

Doesn't that strike you as sortof... odd?

Lawyer Peter Althin, representing the Pirate Bay spokesperson Peter Sunde calls for retrial

There have been a series of interesting events surrounding the extended Pirate Bay process. It started with PRQ (the web hotel hosting TPB) being illegally raided, and to add the icing on that cake, the minister in charge acting in violation of the Swedish constitution by directly ordering law enforcement (see New Technology's "Was the Raid a Judicial Scandal?" [in Swedish]). Then the FRA and IPRED bills passed in direct defiance of election promises and popular opinion folding to foreign pressure, as was the trial itself. It is hardly surprising that it turned out that the judge was cherry picked. The judge, Thomas NorstrÃm, argued that "My view has been that these activities do not constitute a conflict of interest," and he was not swayed in his judgement by involvement with copyright protection groups.

There was great surprise over the April 17th ruling. Even the legal experts that expected a conviction were taken aback by the prison sentence and the size of the compensatory fine.

The current debate on Swedish technical boards is one of conspiracy theories. Swedes are generally relatively hesitant of suggesting conspiracies, but this one reeks of collusion.

The former Chief Prosecutor Sven-Erik Alhem says (in Swedish) that this will hurt the international renown of Swedish courts as well as damage domestic belief in judicial neutrality and safety.

Also interesting is the public statement from the Pirate Party which calls this "Corruption and miscarriage of justice" and "The copyright lobby has really managed to bring corruption to Sweden".

This may turn out to be a huge inconvenience for the copyright organisations and for the ruling coalition.

The "scam" is that Pickens founded the Clean Energy Fuels Corporation which makes natural gas vehicles. Hence, his plan to use wind power to displace natural gas use and run the vehicles on the displaced natural gas (rather than any other alternative drivetrain, such as electric, which could use the windpower directly). Of course, one problem that immediately surfaces is that natural gas generation tends to be used more for peaking than for baseload, which is generally coal or nuclear -- that is, to say, that it ramps up and down quickly to adjust for sudden spikes in demand or drops in production. Wind power is precisely the opposite; it's unpredictable, so you need *extra* peaking generation to compensate, and overall you displace some baseload. Sounds to me more like Pickens will be displacing coal and nuclear, not natural gas. While that is good in other respects, few are proposing to make coal and nuclear cars**. But any influx of cash into natural gas vehicles, irregardless of sustainability or whether or not he's actually displacing any natural gas use, will certainly help his pocketbooks.

Don't get me wrong; natural gas is a potentially bigger resource than oil, has a lower carbon content per joule, and burns cleaner. Switching vehicles to natural gas isn't a bad thing (although electricity is much better). But the concept of displacing natural gas-fired generation with wind doesn't make sense on the face of it.

** - Note that I said few, not none. Who can forget the Ford Nucleon, or the wood-powered car?

Which is kind of funny because when they bought (ordered) it, they said it would not be used for this purpose (link).

Yes, this was done a couple of years ago in Sweden as a Master Thesis, which was described in Swedish Engineering paper Ny Teknik http://www.nyteknik.se/efter_jobbet/kaianders/article32986.ece (sorry, swedish only). The student Marie Sandström tested a simple yello, which was created using the same method as mentioned in the article above, on three commercial fingerprint-readers on the CeBit fair in 2004.

I read this article yesterday, it seems related: Skjut från höften (in Swedish, but has some pretty pictures!)

It's about a Standford Scientist, Ren Ng, that has made a camera where the focus plane can be set after the shot has been taken, using a set of microlenses just the way this article describes. Should be related, but how could a camera already be working if these guys just publicized?

I make no claim that the central right coalition are better than the Social Democrats or the other way around, but the investigation that led to this proposal was actually initiated by the Social Democrats before the last election. Additionally a representative from the current government interviewed by the Swedish National Television said that they have no intention of turning the proposition into a new law.

For Swedish-speaking users my sources are this article in NyTeknik http://www.nyteknik.se/art/52077/ and the the news program Rapport 19.30 on Swedish National Television (http://www.svt.se/).

Recently APB got a permit to stor IP adresses ( since it is personal data they need a permit).

This came after it was brougth to light that APB did break the "personal information law", they therefore sought and recived a permit to store certain information.

As a of this ISP also need a permit to handle the data and are not allowed to just hand it over, also it means that the ips in the register needs to be handled according to the law and that anyone may request all and any information about themselves from the register.

Details in swedish http://www.nyteknik.se/art/42730

They can go really low. The Swedish government recently got a deal 5-10% below the discount normally given to major customers.
http://www.nyteknik.se/pub/ipsart.asp?art_id=40412 (in swedish)

Great news, I needed a bit cheering up. Just yesterday I read that Ericsson has started to threaten the Swedish government that research and development will be moved out of Europe to countries that "respect software patents" (the spokesman mentions Japan and the US).

Biometrics can certainly be spoofed. How easy this is depends entirely upon the equipment being used for recording and verifying it.

Here's a link to a Norwegian article about one successful breach:
http://www.tu.no/nyheter/ikt/article30692.ece
The article links to this Swedish one on the same story:
http://www.nyteknik.se/pub/ipsart.asp?art_id=37392
and this concerning some Japanese experiments:
http://www.rootsecure.net/content/downloads/pdf_do wnloads/fingerprint_scanners.pdf

(mind the /.-inserted spaces in those links if you're copying them)

This was actually done by a swedish student. She copied her fingerprints by using a gelatinbased (I really hope this is the english word) solution.
She then went with a friend to a big exihition and succesfully fooled the majority of all the biometric sensors.
The article (in the sedish magazine Ny Teknik) also stated that she had been offered a job from several of the exihbitors.
http://www.nyteknik.se/pub/ipsart.asp?art_id=37392 Page in swedish.

According to this article (Sorry, Swedish only) the Swedish music publicist Bonnier Music will stop using copy protection on their records.

"If copy protection does not give satisfactory availability to the music people pay for it is a total fiasco", says Ludvig Werner of Bonnier Music.

The big international record companies forces their Swedish subsidiaries to use copy protection on their records, even though they think that the current copy protection schemes are unsatisfactory.

ABB has a version of an inductive cage which provides power to wireless sensors around a robot.
It has been developed using bluetooth, then modified for power-conservation and better realtime characteristics. It stays longer in hibernation then sends important sensor data on several of the bluetooth bands for a higher probability of success with less time for link negotiations.

Their "standard" is called WISA (Wireless interface for sensors and actuators), here's an article in swedish, though the magnetic power solution appears to be norwegian.

The swedish magazine "Ny Teknik" (New Technology) had a small article about Robocoaster a couple of months ago. Here is a quick translation done by me:

Robot manufacturer aims for the amusement parks

The german robot manufacturer Kuka has had its system Robocoaster approved for human transportation, something which opens up a completely new market, namely the entertainment industry.

Kuka, which normally are welding robot experts, is now committed to a amusement park robot, which they hope will be sold to amusement parks all over the world, writes the danish paper Ingeniøren.

The robot system, called the Robocoaster, can lift 500 kilograms. It is part of an ride attraction where two people are buckled up in a seat and twirled upside down, back and forth in high speed. Robocoaster was presented for the first time at the Hannover trade fair this april, and according to Kuka's Martin Kuhnhen, the company has already sold the first system to an amusement park.

Søren Robert Lund at Tivoli in Copenhagen sees big opportunities with the new robot:
- The robot looks very exciting, he says to Ingeniøren. At Tivoli, we go for the attractions that are an experience for those who ride, but also for those who watch.

He also sees the possibilities with integrating the amusement robot in environments where the visitor for example can meet Harry Potter in a Quidditch game or fight with light sabres in Star Wars.

The Robocoaster is approved according to the security standard ISO 10218 and it has been applied in more than 35 000 industrial applications all around the world.

The swedish magazine "Ny Teknik" (New Technology) had a small article about Robocoaster a couple of months ago. Here is a quick translation done by me:

Robot manufacturer aims for the amusement parks

The german robot manufacturer Kuka has had its system Robocoaster approved for human transportation, something which opens up a completely new market, namely the entertainment industry.

Kuka, which normally are welding robot experts, is now committed to a amusement park robot, which they hope will be sold to amusement parks all over the world, writes the danish paper Ingeniøren.

The robot system, called the Robocoaster, can lift 500 kilograms. It is part of an ride attraction where two people are buckled up in a seat and twirled upside down, back and forth in high speed. Robocoaster was presented for the first time at the Hannover trade fair this april, and according to Kuka's Martin Kuhnhen, the company has already sold the first system to an amusement park.

Søren Robert Lund at Tivoli in Copenhagen sees big opportunities with the new robot:
- The robot looks very exciting, he says to Ingeniøren. At Tivoli, we go for the attractions that are an experience for those who ride, but also for those who watch.

He also sees the possibilities with integrating the amusement robot in environments where the visitor for example can meet Harry Potter in a Quidditch game or fight with light sabres in Star Wars.

The Robocoaster is approved according to the security standard ISO 10218 and it has been applied in more than 35 000 industrial applications all around the world.

I haven't read the article, but there is another interesting article four those of you that understand Swedish: http://www.nyteknik.se/arki v99/99-42/99-42-plasma.shtml.

A Swedish scientist, Erik Witalis, designed a weapon that he believes is used in the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) program. It shoots plasma pellets which starts a small nuclear fusion reaction when it hits the target missile.