ALL going well, the world's energy crisis may be solved in the auditorium of the Mullumbimby Ex-Services Club tonight.

A community group will gather to discuss the work of an Italian inventor who claims to have developed a machine that can produce large amounts of energy from almost nothing.

An Italian inventor claims to have developed a machine that can produce large amounts of energy. If verified, entrepreneur Dick Smith is ready to award the group $200,000. Credit:Eddie Jim

The Byron New Energy Charitable Trust, founded by a local retiree, Sol Millin, is hoping to convince prospective investors of the technology's merit. The mastermind behind the invention, physicist Andrea Rossi, will appear via Skype.

The entrepreneur Dick Smith has sent a consulting aerospace engineer, Ian Bryce, who has a science background, to assess the machine on his behalf.