The Leonardo Foundation article on Prometheus
(Ground Control's Daughter Company)
The new fire of Prometheus:
Majorana unveils the Kilometro Rosso hydrogen reactor
From the highway it is impossible not to notice the Kilometro Rosso. A streamlined vermilion-coloured curtain, precisely one kilometer long, hides from the motorist's gaze a reality that brings together companies and public laboratories in the area, connecting the world of scientific research and that of business. The director is Salvatore Majorana, engineer and manager with international experience, great-grandson of the famous physicist Ettore Majorana. And he is the one who talks to us about the Prometheus project, for the production of hydrogen aimed at creating green energy
How was the Prometheus project born?
The Prometheus project was born from the intuition of a group of technicians, who, intrigued by a phenomenon they had observed, in an attempt to generate a more ecological car, realized that by inducing a particular reaction in the combustion chamber they were able to have effects unexpected. The challenge of studying those reactions was taken up by Fabrizio Petrucci who put together a team, formed a Newco , and thus started a startup that began to work on the stabilization of these phenomena, work entrusted to the technical guidance of Carlo Miglietta and Dario Calzavara.
From 2018 to 2024 we worked to reproduce, control and analyze the phenomenon and obtained certification of the effects produced by the triggered reaction from independent third parties. In a first phase, in fact, what was measured in the laboratories with the available instrumentation was difficult to understand: levels of hydrogen or other substances that could not be correlated with the phenomenon. We went to ask companies and universities (Polytechnic University of Milan, University of Milan-Bicocca) to make measurements with their most sophisticated instruments. Today we can calmly say that we are able to generate a reaction inside a specially designed reactor which at the exit allows us to collect hydrogen to be used to produce green energy. However, we are not able to fully explain why, but we will try to understand it.
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