Andrea Rossi Scientist
Andrea Rossi (born 3 June 1950) is an Italian inventor, "convicted scam artist" and entrepreneur.He claimed to have invented a process to convert organic waste into oil for which, in 1978, he founded a company named Petroldragon. In the early 1990s, the company was disbanded and Rossi jailed following accusations of dumping environmental toxins, as well as tax fraud.In 2008 he attempted to patent a device called an Energy Catalyzer (or E-Cat), which is a purported cold fusion or Low-Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) thermal power source.