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Happy Birthday, America
"When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people
to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another,
and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station
to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent
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causes which impel them to the separation.
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that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than
to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the
same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it
is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to
provide new guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient
sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains
them to alter their former systems of government. ....
We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America,
in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world
for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority
of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that
these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent
states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown,
and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain,
is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as free and independent
states, they have full power to levey war, conclude peace, contract alliances,
establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent
states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a
firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge
to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.
[The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America]
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Purdue's review panel
complete's review of Taleyarkhan
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. A Purdue University examination committee
reviewing issues
concerning research on the use of sound waves to create nuclear fusion
reactions has completed its work.
"The committee has submitted a report, and I will take appropriate action
after studying the recommendations," said Charles O. Rutledge, vice president
for research, who appointed the committee in March.
Rutledge appointed the examination committee after the British research
journal Nature reported on its Web site that some researchers had raised
questions about the research of Rusi Taleyarkhan, a Purdue professor of
nuclear engineering.
{Ed. These were competitors and a graduate student}
Since joining the Purdue faculty in 2004 and previously at the Oak Ridge
National Laboratory, Taleyarkhan has published research findings in several
refereed journals showing evidence that "sonofusion" generates nuclear
reactions by creating tiny bubbles that implode with tremendous force.
Experimental nuclear fusion reactors have historically required large,
multibillion-dollar machines, but sonofusion devices might be built for
a fraction of the cost and theoretically could be an unlimited source of
clean energy.
Taleyarkhan first reported observing the bubble fusion effect in March
2002 in the journal Science. In addition to its potential as a new source
of clean energy, Taleyarkhan and other researchers believe sonofusion could
be used in a wide range of applications from homeland security to the study
of neutron stars and black holes.
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President Ronald Reagan:
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the
same,
or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children
and our children's children what it was once like in the United States
where men were free."
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AMERICAN PAPERS and
WEB INFO ON COLD FUSION
[A partial introduction]
Introduction to Cold Fusion
Further Introduction including
Engineering and the Optimal Operating Point
Cold Fusion Science -
Introduction to Material science
Public Open-House
Cold Fusion Demonstration at MIT and ICCF10
Theoretical
physics paper on cold fusion - MIT Research Laboratory for Electronics
2003 (pdf)
Production
of helium in cold fusion - SRI 2000 (pdf)
U.S.
Navy Technical Report 2002 - A Decade of [Cold Fusion] Research
at US Navy Laboratories (pdf)
Cold
Fusion Physics and Philosophy - Journal of Accountability in Research,
2000 (pdf)
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June 21, 2006 was the
Birthday of the ratification of the US Constitution, which is STILL ignored
by the US Patent Office in its "War on America" as a group within continues
to destroy and muzzle all Yankee Ingenuity in the fields of cold fusion,
alternative energy, and even room temperature superconductivity
June 21, 1788 - U.S. Constitution ratified
New Hampshire becomes the ninth and last necessary state to ratify
the Constitution of the United States, thereby making the document the
law of the land. By 1786, defects in the post-Revolutionary War Articles
of Confederation were apparent, such as the lack of central authority over
foreign and domestic commerce. Congress endorsed a plan to draft a new
constitution, and on May 25, 1787, the Constitutional Convention convened
at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. On September 17, 1787, after three
months of debate moderated by convention president George Washington, the
new U.S. constitution, which created a strong federal government with an
intricate system of checks and balances, was signed by 38 of the 41 delegates
present at the conclusion of the convention. As dictated by Article VII,
the document would not become binding until it was ratified by nine of
the 13 states. Beginning on December 7, five states--Delaware, Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, Georgia, and Connecticut--ratified it in quick succession.
.... The Constitution was thus narrowly ratified in Massachusetts, followed
by Maryland and South Carolina. On June 21, 1788, New Hampshire became
the ninth state to ratify the document, and it was subsequently agreed
that government under the U.S. Constitution would begin on March 4, 1789.
...
Article 1 The Congress
shall have power .... To promote the progress of science and useful arts,
by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right
to their respective writings and discoveries;" How
to help
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"Observation
Of Surface Distribution Of Products By X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry
During D2 Gas Permeation Through Pd Complexes",
Iwamura, Y., et alia, The 12th International Conference on Condensed
Matter Nuclear Science. 2005. Yokohama, Japan.
Technical Manuscripts and Updates
Cold
Fusion
Yoshiaki Arata (Osaka University) -
“Double-Structure” cold fusion cell
Japan Academy of Science B73, 62-7 (1997), B73,
1-6 (1997) Updated
pdf paper
George Miley et al. - "Use of Combined NAA
and SIMS Analyses for Impurity Level Isotope Detection"
Journal of Radiological and Nuclear Chemistry,
263 (3), 691-696 (2005) Updated
pdf paper
Xing Zhong Li "A Chinese View on Summary
of Condensed Matter Nuclear Science" Journal of Fusion Energy 23(3),
217-21 (2004) Updated
pdf paper
"The neglect of cold fusion is one of the biggest scandals
in the history of science."
-Sir Arthur C. Clarke
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An
All-Electric Car That Accelerates Faster Than a Ferrari
- Technology Review
SAN CARLOS, Calif. (AP) -- ... Silicon Valley thinks it can do what
Detroit could not -- create a thriving business selling electric cars.
In the 1990s, General Motors and other automakers spent billions to develop
battery-powered vehicles, but they flopped because most couldn't travel
more than 100 miles before having to recharge. ... At least three Silicon
Valley startups -- Tesla Motors of San Carlos, Wrightspeed Inc. of Woodside
and battery maker Li-on Cells of Menlo Park -- are among a small cadre
of companies nationwide developing electric cars or components.
.... Tesla and Wrightspeed are using lithium-ion batteries that are
more powerful, lighter and efficient than the lead acid batteries used
in early electric cars or the nickel metal hydride batteries used in today's
hybrids.
... In Tesla's workshop about 20 miles south of San Francisco, Eberhard
and Tarpenning offered a glimpse of their first model -- a sleek two-seater
called the Roadster that resembles a Lotus Elise -- but would not allow
photographs. ... To build the Roadster, Tesla engineers designed a sophisticated
battery system with more than 8,000 lithium-ion cells and a network of
computers to control them, Eberhard said. They also built an electric motor
that is more than twice as powerful as earlier electric vehicles. The Roadster
will be able to drive about 250 miles on a single three-hour charge, drive
up to 135 miles per hour and accelerate from zero to 60 in four seconds,
Eberhard said. It will cost between $85,000 and $120,000.
''The car business had more challenges than we expected,'' Tarpenning
said. Ian Wright, who left Tesla to start Wrightspeed last year,
is aiming at the same $3 billion market for high-performance sports cars.
The New Zealand-born electrical engineer spent nine months retooling an
Ariel Atom race car to run on a lithium-ion battery -- a prototype of the
car he hopes to eventually sell for about $120,000.
... With no doors, roof or windshield, a drive in Wrightspeed's X1 feels
like a roller coaster ride and can leave passengers wind-beaten and queasy.
It accelerates from zero to 60 mph in 3 seconds, making it one of the world's
fastest production cars. Last year, Wright's X1 beat a Porsche and Ferrari
in separate races.
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Strong Growth in World Energy Demand is Projected Through 2030 -
Cattle Network
"Worldwide marketed energy consumption is projected to grow by 71 percent
between 2003 and 2030 ... Petroleum consumption is still expected to grow
strongly, however, reaching 118 million barrels per day in 2030. The United
States, China, and India together account for 51 percent of the projected
growth in world oil use. Members of the Organization of Petroleum
Exporting Countries (OPEC) are expected to increase their supply of oil
by 14.6 million barrels per day between 2003 and 2030. Higher oil prices
contribute to a substantial increase in projected non-OPEC supply, which
rises by 23.7 million barrels per day, including 8.1million barrels per
day of unconventional production, over the same period. World unconventional
production (including oil sands, bitumen, biofuels, coal-to-liquids, and
gas-to-liquids) increases by 9.7 million barrels per day between 2003 and
2030, representing 25 percent of the total world liquids supply increase.
... Rising fossil fuel prices also allow renewable energy sources to
compete more effectively in the electric power sector. Consumption of hydroelectricity
and other grid-connected renewable energy sources expands by 2.4 percent
per year.
+ Higher fossil fuel prices and concerns about security of energy supplies
are expected to improve prospects for nuclear power capacity over the projection
period, and many countries are expected to build new nuclear power plants.
World nuclear capacity is projected to rise from 361 gigawatts in 2003
to 438 gigawatts in 2030, with significant declines in capacity projected
only for Europe, where several countries have either plans or mandates
to phase out nuclear power, or where old reactors are expected to be retired
and not replaced.
..... energy-related carbon dioxide emissions are projected to
rise from 25.0 billion metric tons in 2003 to 33.7 billion metric tons
in 2015 and 43.7 billion metric tons in 2030. Much of the projected increase
in emissions is expected to occur in the non-OECD regions of the world,
accompanying large increases fossil fuel use.."
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Super
Battery Victor Limjoco
As our portable devices get more high-tech, the batteries that power
them can seem to lag behind. But Joel Schindall and his team at M.I.T.
plan to make long charge times and expensive replacements a thing of the
past--by improving on technology from the past. .. But capacitors contain
energy as an electric field of charged particles created by two metal electrodes.
Capacitors charge faster and last longer than normal batteries. The problem
is that storage capacity is proportional to the surface area of the battery's
electrodes, so even today's most powerful capacitors hold 25 times less
energy than similarly sized standard chemical batteries.
The researchers solved this by covering the electrodes with millions
of tiny filaments called nanotubes. Each nanotube is 30,000 times thinner
than a human hair. Similar to how a thick, fuzzy bath towel soaks up more
water than a thin, flat bed sheet, the nanotube filaments on increase the
surface area of the electrodes and allow the capacitor to store more energy.
Schindall says this combines the strength of today's batteries with the
longevity and speed of capacitors.
Schindall thinks hybrid cars would be a particularly popular application
for these batteries, especially because current hybrid batteries are expensive
to replace. Schindall also sees the ecological benefit to these reinvented
capacitors. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, more than
3 billion industrial and household batteries were sold in the United States
in 1998. When these batteries are disposed, toxic chemicals like cadmium
can seep into the ground
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COLD FUSION
UPDATE
FROM RHODES SCHOLAR DR. ROBERT BASS:
An
Afternoon to Remember: Cold Fusion Session of APS Meeting (March 16, 2006)
- Robert W. Bass
courtesy of Infinite Energy
"Everyone aware of the potential epochal importance of condensed matter
nuclear science (CMNS) should be grateful to Scott Chubb for the arduous
but thankless annual task, for the past six years, of keeping the subject
alive at meetings of the American Physical Society (APS). (This year’s
session took place in Baltimore, Maryland on March 16, from 2:30 to 5:06
p.m.) ..... the 13 presenters or groups of presenters this year included
a gratifyingly high percentage of the most stalwart contributors to this
emerging field of revolutionary science.
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Atomic
Motor -
Cold
Fusion, Energy & Nanotech in a Networked World
Shining Light on Technology News & Media From One Nuclear
Engineer's Perspective
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Raiders Of The Lost Dimension Los Alamos
NM - Spacemart
A team of scientists working at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory's
Pulsed Field Facility at Los Alamos has uncovered an intriguing phenomenon
while studying magnetic waves in barium copper silicate, a 2,500-year-old
pigment known as Han purple. The researchers discovered that when they
exposed newly grown crystals of the pigment to very high magnetic fields
at very low temperatures, it entered a rarely observed state of matter.
At the threshold of that matter state--called the quantum critical point-the
waves actually lose a dimension. That is, the magnetic waves go from a
three-dimensional to a two-dimensional pattern. ... they discovered that
at high magnetic fields (above 23 Tesla) and at temperatures between 1
and 3 degrees Kelvin (or roughly minus 460 degrees Fahrenheit), the magnetic
waves in Han purple crystals "exist" in a unique state of matter called
a Bose Einstein condensate (BEC). In the BEC state, magnetic waves
propagate simultaneously in all of three directions (up-down, forward-backward
and left-right). At the quantum critical point, however, the waves stop
propagating in the up-down dimension, causing the magnetic ripples to exist
in only two dimensions, much the same way as ripples are confined to the
surface of a pond. .....
Microscopic image of Han Purple by Marcelo Jaime of MST-NHMFL
In the higher temperatures of the BEC state, the individual waves,
which are associated with magnetism from pairs of copper atoms in the Han
Purple pigment, lose their identities and condense into one giant wave
of undulating magnetism. As the temperature is lowered, this magnetic wave
becomes more sensitive to the vertical arrangement of individual copper
layers in the pigment -which are shifted relative to each other- in a phenomenon
called "geometrical frustration."
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"[W]hen the Paris Exhibition closes electric light will close
with it and no more be heard of." - Erasmus Wilson
(1878) Professor at Oxford University
"This `telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered
as a practical form of communication. The device is inherently of no value
to us." - Western Union internal memo, 1878
"Radio has no future." - Lord Kelvin (1824-1907),
British mathematician and physicist, ca. 1897.
"Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable
to breathe, would die of asphyxia." - Dr. Dionysus Lardner (1793-1859),
Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy at University College, London.
It'll
Never Work!
COLD FUSION TIMES
- INFORMATION FOR SKEPTICS
"... after a few more flashes in the pan, we shall hear
very little more of Edison or his electric lamp. Every claim he makes has
been tested and proved impracticable."
[New York Times,
January 16, 1880]
"Professor Goddard
... does not know the relation of action to reaction ... he only seems
to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in our high schools"
[New York Times,
January 13, 1920]
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Physicists
create great balls of fire
"Ball lightning – the mysterious slow-moving spheres of light occasionally
seen during thunderstorms – has been created in the lab. Researchers at
the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics and the Humboldt University
in Berlin have used underwater electrical discharges to generate luminous
plasma clouds resembling ball lightning that last for nearly half a second
and are up to 20 centimetres across. They hope that these artificial entities
will help them understand the bizarre phenomenon and perhaps even provide
insights into the hot plasmas needed for fusion power plants..... Most
accounts describe a hovering, glowing, ball-like object up to 40 centimetres
across, ranging in colour from red to yellow to blue and lasting for several
seconds or in rare cases even minutes. ....“It is likely that lightning
flashes and water interact to produce ball lightning,” says Fussmann. “We
therefore use a short, high-voltage discharge of 5000 volts to vaporise
some of the water in a glass tank and create the plasma ball.” The tank
contains two electrodes, one of which is insulated from the surrounding
water by a clay tube. The high voltage causes enormous currents of up to
60 amps – over 200 times those needed to cause death – to flow through
the water for a fraction of a second. These enter the clay tube, causing
the water there to evaporate and a luminous plasma ball - consisting of
ionised water molecules - to rise from the surface.
.... Despite the bright glow, the balls also appear to be rather cold,
much like neon lights. A sheet of paper placed above them is lifted but
does not catch fire.
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A Sponge's Guide to Nano-Assembly Technology
Review - Kevin Bullis
One of the ongoing goals of nanotechnology is to easily and inexpensively
create high-performance materials structured at the nanoscale. And one
of the most promising strategies is to attempt to mimic nature's remarkable
ability to self-assemble complex shapes with nanoscale precision. Now researchers
at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), using clues gleaned
from marine sponges, have developed a method of synthesizing semiconducting
materials with useful structures and novel electronic properties. The first
applications could be ways to make materials for more powerful batteries
and highly efficient solar cells at a lower price. .... Daniel Morse, professor
of molecular genetics and biochemistry at UCSB, who led the project. The
method works with a wide variety of materials. So far, he says, the group
has made "30 different kinds of oxides, hydroxides, and phosphates."
Morse and his colleagues began their research by studying the methods used
by marine sponges to make intricate glass skeletons called spicules (see
illustration). One type of sponge produces a cylinder that looks as if
it were made of woven glass fibers, although it isn't woven at all, but
assembled molecule by molecule to make the structure. In particular,
the researchers studied a type of sponge that makes tiny needles of glass.
They found that the genes responsible for the glass structures encode for
enzymes that serve as both a physical template for the structure and a
catalyst for assembling molecular precursors into the desired material.
"At first the crystals form at the [surface], but with time they begin
to project down into the solution like stalactites growing down from the
roof of a cave," Morse says. "What you end up with is a nanostructured
thin film of semiconductor with very high surface area because of all the
projecting thin plates or needles that project down into the solution."
.... Although the current process works only for thin films, further understanding
of the catalysis and templating methods of sponges could one day make it
possible to fabricate complex machine parts by piecing together molecules.
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THE REAL DEAL: Cold
Fusion: A Heated History
September 30, 2005; repeated February
24, 2006
Bruce Gellerman continues his investigation into the future of fusion
with a look at the latest research in the field of cold fusion, the science
of creating a nuclear reaction at room temperature. Most scientists call
sustained
cold fusion reactions impossible, but others say their experiments are
producing energy.
Transcript
"(Cold fusion) offers a chance to have the United States make the Kyoto
agreement moot, and make greenhouse warming moot."
MP3 [download and listen to
the radio show on the MIT 2005 CF Colloquium and Cold Fusion
Bruce Gellerman: "But reports of the death of cold fusion were
premature. The field was kept alive by a small community of researchers
who meet every 18 months or so. Critics call them a cult, but these true
believers are sustained by laboratory results they say prove cold fusion
can produce unlimited, safe, non-polluting energy. ..... History
can offer solace, of sorts, for cold fusion advocates. In 1905, Albert
Einstein came up with his revolutionary theory e=mc2, it laid the basis
for nuclear energy. But it wasn't until 27 years later, in 1932, that scientists
in the lab finally confirmed his theory. By that measure, cold fusion still
has time before it's fully recognized, or finally rejected, by the ultimate
arbiter in these matters: the scientific method."
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COLD
FUSION UPDATES FROM INFINITE ENERGY MAGAZINE
Infinite
Energy Articles (pdf)
An
Afternoon to Remember: Cold Fusion Session of APS Meeting (March 16, 2006)
- Robert W. Bass
Exposing
the "Real Embarrassments" of Cold Fusion - Scott Chubb
Travel
Report for the 12th International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear
Science (ICCF12)
The
2005 MIT Cold Fusion Colloquium, Honoring Eugene Mallove - Scott Chubb
Charge
Clusters: The work of Ken Shoulders - William Zebuhr
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(Hot)
Fusion
reactor work gets go-ahead
BBC - Seven international parties involved in an experimental nuclear
fusion reactor project have initialled a 10bn-euro (£6.8bn) agreement
on the plan. The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (Iter)
will be the most expensive joint scientific project after the International
Space Station. ... The seven-party consortium, which includes the
European Union, the US, Japan, China, Russia and others, agreed last year
to build Iter in Cadarache, in the southern French region of Provence.
It will produce the first sustained fusion reactions
[Ed: after cold fusion achieved it 17 years earlier]
The EU is to foot about 50% of the cost to build the experimental reactor.
.... If all goes well with the experimental reactor, officials hope to
set up a demonstration power plant at Cadarache by 2040.
[Ed: 51 years after cold fusion was successfully
achieved, then cover-ed up!]
To use controlled fusion reactions on Earth as an energy source, it
is necessary to heat a gas to temperatures exceeding 100 million Celsius
- many times hotter than the centre of the Sun. The technical requirements
to do this, which scientists have spent decades developing, are immense;
but the rewards, if Iter can be made to work successfully, are extremely
attractive. One kilogram of fusion fuel would produce the same amount of
energy as 10,000,000kg of fossil fuel. Fusion does produce radioactive
waste but not the volumes of long-term high-level radiotoxic materials
that have so burdened nuclear fission.
[Ed: Cold fusion has NO radioactive waste, but
makes helium!]
Officials project that 10-20% of the world's energy could come from
fusion by the end of the century.
However, environmental groups have criticised the project, saying there
was no guarantee that the billions of euros would result in a commercially
viable energy source. "Investment in energy efficiency and renewables is
the only reliable way to guarantee energy security," said Silvia Hermann,
from Friends of the Earth Europe. "Giving billions of euros to a single
nuclear project that is so far from reality is ill judged and irresponsible."
The European Commission said the investment costs were justified, explaining
that the technology used in fusion reactor plants would be "inherently
safe, with no possibility of meltdown, or runaway reactions."
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INFINITE
ENERGY MAGAZINE
INTEGRITY
RESEARCH INSTITUTE
NEWS AND ARCHIVES
Future
Energy Program
Newsletter
American
Antigravity
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COLD FUSION papers from
India
BARC Studies In Cold Fusion,
BARC Report 1500
ELECTROLYTIC EXPERIMENTS
Cold
Fusion Experiments Using a Commercial Pd-Ni Electrolyser - Krishnan,
Iyengar et alia
Preliminary
Results of Cold Fusion Studies Using a Five Module High Current Electrolytic
Cell - . Nayar, et alia
Observation
of Cold Fusion in a Ti-SS Electrolytic Cell - Krishnan et alia
Tritium
Generation during Electrolysis Experiment - Radhakrishnan,Sundaresan,
et alia
Tritium
Analysis of Samples Obtained from Various Electrolysis Experiments at BARC
- Murthy, Iyengar, Joseph, et alia
GAS LOADING EXPERIMENTS
Autoradiography
of Deuterated Ti and Pd Targets for Spatially Resolved Detection of Tritium
Produced by Cold Fusion -Rout, Srinivasan et alia
Evidence
for Production of Tritium via Cold Fusion Reactions in Deuterium Gas Loaded
Palladium - Krishnan, et alia
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"No one is going to help us.
We've got to do it ourselves.'
"United 93''
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Energy
secretary says coal, oil will power U.S. for decades
Houston Chronicle - Oil and coal will continue to power
the U.S. economy for many years, even as more emphasis is put on developing
alternative sources of energy, U.S. Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman said
Saturday in Houston. "Fossil fuels will continue to dominate ...
for several decades at least," Bodman said during a commencement address
to about 350 members of the South Texas College of Law 2006 graduating
class at the George R. Brown Convention Center. .... one of the most
important sources of energy will be nuclear power, along with the means
of safely operating the plants and disposing of nuclear waste, he said.
(Secretary) Bodman has told Congress that part of the solution will
come from increased research on hydrogen, solar and biological fuels, and
fusion,
a nuclear reaction that produces no radioactive waste.
["Perhaps someone should tell him that the only form of fusion
that produces no radioactive waste is Cold Fusion." - R. van
Spaandonk]
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Carbon
Fullerenes Now Have Metallic Cousins
Scientists have uncovered a class of gold atom clusters that are the
first known metallic hollow equivalents of the famous hollow carbon fullerenes
known as buckyballs.....
The fullerene is made up of a sphere of 60 carbon (C) atoms; gold (Au)
requires many fewer—16, 17 and 18 atoms, in triangular configurations more
gem-like than soccer ball. At more than 6 angstroms across, or roughly
a ten-millionth the size of a comma, they are nonetheless roomy enough
to cage a smaller atom.
Experiments at the PNNL-based W.R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences
Laboratory elicited the photoelectron spectra of clusters smaller than
Au32, which had been theorized as the gold-cage analog to C60 but ruled
out by Wang’s group in an experiment that showed it as being a compact
clump.
They instead turned their attention to clusters smaller than 20 atoms,
which earlier work by Wang’s group showed were 3-D, but larger than 13
atoms, known to be flat. The spectra and calculations showed that clusters
of 15 atoms or fewer remained flat but that all but one possible configuration
of 16, 17 and 18 atoms open in the middle. At 19 atoms, the spaces fill
in again to form a near-pyramid.
“Au-16 is beautiful and can be viewed as the smallest golden cage,”
Wang said. ....Wang and his co-workers suspect “that many different kinds
of atoms can be trapped inside” these hollow clusters, a process called
“doping.” “These doped cages may very well survive on surfaces,” suggesting
a method for influencing physical and chemical properties at smaller-than-nano
scales, “depending on the dopants.”
Wang’s group has not yet attempted to imprison a foreign atom in the
hollow Au cages, but they plan to try.
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Being
invisible 'a possibility' - Reuters
May 26, 2006
"NEW materials that can change the way light and other forms of radiation
bend around an object may provide a way to make objects invisible, researchers
said. Two separate teams of researchers have come up with theories
on ways to use experimental "metamaterials" to cloak an object and hide
it from visible light, infrared light, microwaves and perhaps even sonar
probes.
"Imagine a situation where a medium guides light around a hole in it,"
physicist Ulf Leonhardt of Britain's University of St Andrews, wrote in
one of the reports, published in tomorrow's issue of the journal Science.
"The light rays end up behind the object as if they had travelled in
a straight line.
"Any object placed in the hole would be hidden from sight. The medium
would create the ultimate optical illusion: invisibility," Mr Leonhardt
wrote. .... Metamaterials are composite structures that deliberately
resemble nothing found in nature. They are engineered to have unusual
properties, such as the ability to bend light in unique ways."
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"It looks like as if three men walking behind are seen .... during a
demonstration of optical camouflage technology at the Tokyo University
in Tokyo Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2003. The demonstration conducted by Faculty
of Engineering Prof. Susumu Tachi ... that will eventually enable camouflaged
objects virtually transparent by wearing an optical device. This photo
was taken through a viewfinder that provides with a combined image of moving
images taken behind Obana and him wearing a luminous jacket that makes
a transparent effect."
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Invisibility
cloak 'five years away' - Telegraph UK
"Scientists have taken the first steps towards creating a Harry Potter-style
cloak of invisibility.
Professor John Pendry, from Imperial College London, said that it may
not take long to develop an invisible fabric - assuming there is sufficient
research into the technology. .... The obvious military applications have
attracted support from the US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency
(Darpa), which funded the early research. Already the scientists
are a long way towards the easier goal of creating a cloak that can render
objects invisible to radar or radio waves. Both have longer wavelengths
than visible light, making them less challenging to work with. "We
are confident we can build a cloak that will work for radar within 18 months,"
said Prof Pendry, one of the authors of a research paper published today
in the journal Science.
The key to the invisibility cloak is "metamaterial" - exotic composite
material made using nanotechnology that can change the direction of electromagnetic
radiation. .... Metamaterials have already been demonstrated by Professor
David Smith, from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, one of the
US scientists who contributed to the Science paper."
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What is the response of the Dept. of Energy and the US
Patent Office to cold fusion and alternative energy?
Answer: "Look here at this neuralizer. You will remember
nothing except that there is nothing to see here. Now move along"
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U.S.
'Must Start Building Nuclear Power Plants,' President Bush Tells Industry
Executives - US Newswire via
Yahoo Nuclear Energy Institute
SAN FRANCISCO- President George W. Bush said the nation "must start
building nuclear power plants" in a videotaped address to the nation's
nuclear energy industry leaders here today.. "To maintain our economic
leadership and strengthen our energy security, America must start building
nuclear power plants."
"Our economy is creating new jobs. It is also creating new demands
for energy ... By expanding our use of nuclear power, we can make our energy
supply more reliable, our environment cleaner and our nation more secure
for future generations." ...
Over the past year, 10 companies have announced plans to file license
applications with the NRC for as many as 20 new nuclear power plants.
-- Industry-average production costs of 1.7 cents per kilowatt-hour
remain the lowest among all forms of energy except for hydroelectric facilities
and represent a 33 percent decline over the past 10 years.
-- The industry produced 782 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in
2005, the second-highest ever.
NEI President and CEO Frank L. "Skip" Bowman ... said. "Success
may require innovative approaches on both sides and new ways of doing business."
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DESPITE the US
Constitution, the directives of the US Congress, the
President, Secretary Bodman and
present situtation with overwhelming energy need requiring America (and
the Democracies) to invest in new technologies involving alternative energy
INCLUDING COLD FUSION, there has been, and is, nothing but obstruction,
cover-ups, and a systematic pattern of allowing
some in the DoE and USPTO to continue their nefarious disingenuous
behavior DESIGNED to rob future generations of Americans of the very technology
that was first announced in America on March 23, 1989, on the very same
day that the Exxon Valdez crashed.
(*) Despite
America's War on Terror, despite the rising cost of oil, despite Presidential
Directive, even now, the Patent Office has egregiously planned to "deep-six"
all cold fusion applications along with all applications involving room
temperature superconductivity and any application "which, if issued, would
generate unfavorable publicity for the USPTO".
Want
to help the United States of America gain energy independence?
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Complete
80-page legal decision - and biography of Tom Valone's 6-year,
cold fusion, IRI and COFE-centered, arbitration battle with the systematically
corrupt (*) USPTO and others who have worked to destroy the development
of cold fusion in the United States (as they transfer the technology overseas)
From the Decision: "What there is evidence
of is "harassment, or bad faith, malice or provocation on the part of others
involved in the matter," and it came in bundles. The
activities and motives of Park and Zimmerman have been extensively recounted
and explained, and with regard to the cancellation of grievant's State
Department, Secretary's Open Forum presentation, deplorable.
The malice shown by Park in his solely economic driven campaign to block
any of the nontraditional scientists from receiving recognition by any
government agency as having an idea worthy of a slice of government R&D
funding may be a point of pride within the APS. But to an outsider
who champions free and open exploration of any scientific thought, no matter
how far out on the fringe, his conduct is outrageous. The
worth of a new idea is to be determined in the democratic and open arena
of competing thoughts, and not blocked from the arena by the greedy economic
self-interest of those already in the limelight."
"Seemingly lost on those with control
over slicing the government pie who are persuaded by the relentless drumbeat
of the Parks and Zimmermans, is that those questing for "free energy,"
whether through cold fusion or by way of some other "emerging technology,"
may be similar to the alchemists of centuries back who never turned base
metals into gold, but were the forerunners of modern chemistry, got
the Periodic Table of Elements off to a start, and among all things, discovered
how to duplicate Asian porcelain which at the time was worth more than
its weight in gold..
So too, those in pursuit of "free energy" could
well spinoff useful advances in knowledge while failing to achieve their
"holy grail." ....
"None of Mr. Godici's
(Patent Commissioner) answers was totally satisfactory, and the urge, not
well restrained, to say, if not scream: Hold it a minute! Isn't
time to go back to the earlier days of the PTO when inventors had to produce
working models of their devices? .... the PTO has the National Institute
of Standards and Technology to test and verify or reject claims of subtle,
hard to grasp accomplishments."
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Constitution of the United States A History
Article
1 Section 8.
"The Congress shall
have power .... To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by
securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right
to their respective writings and discoveries;"
PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE
TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, THE US PATENT OFFICE,
THE US CONGRESS AND THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
(January 31, 2006)
President Bush: "Keeping America competitive requires affordable
energy. Here we have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil,
which is often imported from unstable parts of the world."
"The best way to break this addiction is through technology. Since
2001, we have spent nearly 10 billion dollars to develop cleaner, cheaper,
more reliable alernative energy sources – and we are on the threshold of
incredible advances. So tonight, I announce the Advanced Energy Initiative
– a 22-percent increase in clean-energy research at the Department of Energy,
to push for breakthroughs in two vital areas. To change how we power
our homes and offices, we will invest more in zero-emission coal-fired
plants; revolutionary solar and wind technologies; and clean, safe nuclear
energy."
"First: I propose to double the Federal commitment to the most critical
basic research programs in the physical sciences over the next ten years.
This
funding will support the work of America’s most creative minds as they
explore promising areas such as nanotechnology, supercomputing, and alternative
energy sources."
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For cold fusion, there has been systematically obstruction
by the US Patent Office (and some scientific journals) even as its technology
has progressed in every other country.
The Patent Office has defied the Constitution, the Congress and the
American people, thereby indirectly forcing Americans to remain "addicted
to oil" for almost two decades. And
there is absolutely no change in sight.
Call the President and your Senators and Congresspersons today and
DEMAND
that the US Patent Office take American inventors, cold fusion and
the US Consitution seriously.
"No
one is going to help us. We've got to do it ourselves."
Want to Help?
Demand a Congressional hearing
with examination of the backgrounds
-and the removal -
of all those in the US Patent
Office and Dept of Energy
who have conspired and systematically
attempted to stop and destroy American inventiveness and Yankee ingenuity
involving cold fusion while they have transferred these technologies overseas.
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Where
the dream of harnessing the sun's power could come true
James Randerson May 24, 2006 The Guardian
There is a deafening, unearthly howl as if a jumbo jet was firing up
its engines in the Albert Hall. On the screen in the control room a ghostly
pinkish glow whips round the edges of the inside of the nuclear reactor.
At its core it is 10 times hotter than the centre of the sun. This, according
to some physicists, is the solution to the energy crisis - a future with
cheap, reliable, safe and nearly waste-free power. ...
Its advocates say nuclear fusion is the most promising long-term solution
to t
he energy crisis, offering the possibility of abundant power from cheap
fuel with no greenhouse gases and low levels of radioactive waste. But
critics say the government is gambling huge sums of money - 44% of the
UK's research and development budget for energy - on a long shot with no
guarantee of ever producing useful energy. ... One of
fusion's big advantages over fission is safety. Firstly, there is no chance
of a runaway meltdown as happened at Chernobyl. If you stop applying the
fuel or switch off the magnetic jacket that keeps the fuel in the reactor,
the reaction just stops. "It is very difficult to keep it running.
It is like keeping honey on the back of a spoon," said Mathias Brix, a
physicist at Jet. Also, the quantities of fuel involved are much smaller
than in fission reactors.
Jet (Joint European Torus) - Experimental fusion reactor built in 1983
at Culham, near Oxford. It was the first fusion reactor in the world to
use fusion fuel (in 1991).
The reaction chamber of Jet at Culham, Oxfordshire.
[ Ed: Unlike hot fusion, cold fusion
does not make everything radioactive by neutron irradiation. And
cold fusion yielded the first fusion rreactors in the world to use fusion
fuel (in 1989). Also, unlike hot fusion, cold fusion has NO radioactive
waste and has already achieved breakeven.]
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The COLD FUSION TIMES agrees
with President Bush that:
"America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from
unstable parts of the world."
"To change how we power our homes and offices, we will invest more
in zero-emission coal-fired plants; revolutionary solar and wind technologies;
and clean, safe nuclear energy."
State
of The Union Address Transcript
(President)
Bush: U.S. on Verge of Energy Breakthrough - Deb Riechmann AP
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Saying the nation is on the verge of technological
breakthroughs that would "startle" most Americans, President Bush on Monday
outlined his energy proposals to help wean the country off foreign oil.
Less than half the crude oil used by refineries is produced in the United
States, while 60 percent comes from foreign nations .... "It
creates a national security issue and we're held hostage for energy by
foreign nations that may not like us," (President) Bush said.
....
"Our nation is on the threshold of new energy technology
that I think will startle the American people," (President) Bush
said. "We're on the edge of some amazing breakthroughs - breakthroughs
all aimed at enhancing our national security and our economic security
and the quality of life of the folks who live here in the United States."
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Although cold fusion has, for the
time being, been stopped for proceeding normally in the United States
of America by a systematic conspiracy by some in the Department of Energy
and the US Patent Office, it has proceeded worldwide, with superb experimental
work continuing in Japan, Russia, China, France, Italy, and India.
Iran
admits it is trying to develop nuclear fusion - The
Scotsman May 30, 2006
IRAN is pressing ahead with research tests on nuclear fusion, a type
of atomic reaction which has yet to be developed for commercial power generation,
a senior Iranian official said yesterday.
Iran said in the mid-1990s it was working on nuclear fusion research
but this is the first mention in years that the work is continuing and
comes at a time of heightened tension over Iran's nuclear programme.
... "Iran has done various fusion tests for research purposes at its
Amirabad research reactor over the last few years," the official said,
referring to the reactor in central Tehran, adding that Iran was continuing
to carry out such tests. We do fusion tests for research purposes from
time to time ....
Fusion tries to generate power by joining the nuclei of atoms together,
but scientists have yet to develop a commercial way of doing this so that
it produces more energy than it consumes."
[Ed: Meanwhile, America is taking the "go slow"
approach to fusion, even as cold fusion has demonstrated over-unity energy
production which could eliminate America's "addiction" to oil. Why
the obstruction? Much more below, and in the COLD FUSION TIMES.]
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British
Inventor Unveils 8000 MPG Car
Julie Farby - All Headline News Staff Writer
London, England (AHN)—A British inventor unveils the world's
most fuel-efficient vehicle, a three-wheel “TeamGreen” car capable of doing
8,000 miles to the gallon.The 45-year-old inventor, Andy Green, from the
University of Bath, built his budget eco-motor for just £2,000 ....
It has taken Mr. Green more than two years to design and build the car,
which will be the fourth eco-vehicle he has built. He holds the British
record for fuel-efficiency, with 6,603 miles to the gallon in a previous
car. .... the new vehicle is powered by a single cylinder four-stroke
engine with a capacity of just 35cc and runs with a special management
system incorporating fuel injection.
More info here:
Lone
inventor carries British hopes for world car race title
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Record-breaking
laser is hot stuff - Mark Peplow
With the heat of a burning sun, a laser pulse has ripped through pure
sapphire, heating it faster than any explosion ever recorded. The experiment
was a blast, say physicists who reckon their laser can drive temperature
increases of a billion billion (10**18) degrees per second, although they
could only keep it going for a couple of hundred femtoseconds (with a femtosecond
being 10**-15 s). That tops the previous heating-rate record, they say.
The intense heating power of the laser made miniature fireballs, just thousandths
of a millimetre in size, at pressures of 10 terapascals (10**13 Pa). That's
about 20 times the pressure at the Earth's core. .... The intense crush
also raised the temperature to about half a million °C. "You have the
same parameters in an atomic explosion," says Vladimir Tikhonchuk, a theoretical
physicist from the University of Bordeaux, France. The success shows
that scientists can now simulate the intense condition at the hearts of
planets, or possibly even trigger fusion reactions, using a conventional
tabletop laser. .... Each laser pulse lasted just 200 femtoseconds, enough
time for light travelling in a vacuum to zip across the width of a human
hair. The sapphire exploded under the heat in just a few femtoseconds,
and as the ball of shredded atoms grew it became much less dense, making
further heating much less efficient. ....
Two ovoids of melted saphire with tiny holes left behind by the laser
blast.
Juodkazis S., et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. , 96, 166101 (2006).
Haines M. G., et al. Phys. Rev. Lett., 96, 075003 (2006)
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JT-60
Tokamak Reactor Doubles Plasma Confinement Record
Sven Olsen - May 10, 2006
"The Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) just announced that its JT-60
Fusion Tokamak reactor nearly doubled the world record of tokamak plasma
from 16.5 seconds to 28.6 seconds. Nuclear physicists propose that
once tokamak reactors can achieve approximately 400 seconds of plasma,
the reactor will achieve a stable, sustainable nuclear fusion reaction.
The JT-60 tokamak is one of the largest tokamak reactors in operation
today, and was the same reactor that set the previous fusion confinement
time of 16.5 seconds. The previous world record for plasma duration
stood for two years."
Unlike hot fusion reactors, cold
fusion reactors have run for days and weeks, cleanly, without neutrons,
and without pollution or radioactive products. Yet, because of the
competition with oil and hot fusion, cold fusioneers have been attacked
for 17 years by the some in the DoE, the US Patent Office, and some hot
fusion physicists to a degree that is unknown in other competing energy
and science fields.
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U.S.
energy research is declining - Conference here shows other nations
way ahead
The Capital Times - Mike Ivey
"Given the decades-long warnings about a looming world energy crisis
- punctuated by the recent spike in crude oil prices - you'd assume the
U.S. has been ramping up its research and development spending on energy.
Think again. Since 1980, energy research has fallen from 10 percent
to 2 percent of total R&D spending.
....This comes as other nations, such as France and Finland, have
made startling advances in nuclear energy and dramatic reductions in carbon
dioxide emissions - the pollution from burning oil, gasoline, coal or other
fossil fuels and the major cause of global warming.
....Consider the U.S. is spending $67 billion annually on the war
on terror vs. $3.4 billion on energy research, according to the National
Science Foundation. Private sector pharmaceutical companies are investing
10 times as much in R&D as energy firms like Exxon Mobil or Chevron.
Need more numbers?
The U.S spent $58 billion annually (inflation-adjusted) during Reagan's
run-up on defense spending from 1981-89. It spent $23 billion in 1963-72
on Kennedy's Apollo project to put a man on the moon.
"We could kick the fossil fuel habit in 10 years if we had the same
kind of visionary leadership as JFK," says David Goodstein, author of "Out
of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil."
.... Finland is even a step further ahead, Perves said, opening a pressurized
nuclear reactor in 2005 that is the most efficient plant developed to date.
Meanwhile, the U.S. nuclear industry has been on hold, with no new plants
opened since the early 1970s. Wisconsin remains under a moratorium on construction
of any new nuclear plants, a law that dates to 1984. Corradini said Wisconsin
could build a state-of-the-art nuclear power plant for about the same cost
of the proposed new coal-burning facility in Oak Creek. "It's a political
question in this country," he said. "There is no leadership." In
addition to new sources of clean energy from the sun, wind or biofuels
such as ethanol, conference attendees said there are great strides to be
made in conservation or small-scale renewable energy projects like low-temperature
solar heating."
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Produce
More Domestic Energy, Now! - American Spectator - Quin Hillyer
"With higher gasoline prices a continuing political
concern, it's high time somebody placed the blame where it belongs -- and
high time that somebody recognizes that while there are few short-term
solutions that can immediately alleviate the cash crunch, it's worth realizing
that today's long-term solutions will one day make a difference in some
future year's short-term. ..... TODAY, LET'S FOCUS ON THE KEY problem of
a lack of domestic production of oil and gas. National public policy in
this regard has been horrendously negligent -- and the Alaskan refuge drilling
ban is only a small part of the problem.
The bigger problem is the overall moratorium on
all drilling off U.S. coasts except those in the central and western Gulf
of Mexico. Vast supplies of oil and natural gas lie off of Alaska, California,
Florida, Virginia, and (I'm told) probably New Jersey and the Carolinas
as well. But they lie untapped, forbidden from use by the utterly counterproductive
agitation by environmentalists and tourism boosters with overly heightened
sensitivities but too little sense (and too little knowledge)."
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High
Gasoline Prices Here to Stay - Bodman(U.S. Energy Secretary) - Forbes
WASHINGTON (AFX) - High gasoline prices are here to stay for at least
the next couple of years and the government can do little in the short
term to mitigate them, US Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said at the weekend.
'Suppliers have lost control of the market,' Bodman told NBC television,
in explaining how gasoline (petrol) prices had risen as much as 60 cents
a gallon, or at least 25 pct, in one month.
'We've got demand coming from China, from India, from the United States,'
reflecting strong economies, Bodman said.
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Energy
Sec: US 'Off Oil' in 4 Years - Newsmax.com
Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said Sunday that the U.S. was just "three
or four years" away from perfecting the process that would allow American
motorists to fuel their vehicles with ethanol instead of gasoline.
... "We will be in a position over the next three or four years . .
. where we will have designed the enzymes and we will be in a position
that we can then start the conversion."
.... Bodman estimated that by 2025, ethanol production would replace
about 20 percent of total U.S. gasoline consumption.
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Transmission of EVOs Through Metal - Ken Shoulders
High-density and highly organized clusters of electronic charge, or
EVOs, are shown to transit through metal with relative ease compared to
that of single electrons. Upon reaching an interface between metal and
vacuum, the charges exit the metal somewhat disheveled as clusters and
propagate through vacuum as both free electrons and clusters.
An EVO injection velocity of a few hundred volts easily penetrates
1 millimeter of aluminum. Although contrary to established electron penetration
theory, lower injection velocities produce greater EVO mobility and lifetime
within the metal target. The configuration used provides a cold, intense
electron emission source without concern for either work function or geometry
of the cathode.
[many papers at the site; excellent experiment work]
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Ex-CIA
chief: Oil key to U.S. security - Jason Cato
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Think gas prices are bad now? Imagine another terrorist attack
-- especially one on Saudi Arabian oil refineries, former CIA Director
R. James Woolsey said Monday during a visit to Pittsburgh.
..... One way to beat that -- and hit Islamic extremists in the pocketbook
-- is for Americans to start using renewable fuel, Woolsey said. That includes
ethanol and biofuels as alternatives to gas and diesel.
[Ed. Ending the conspiracy against cold fusion by the DOE and Dept of
Commerce would also help]
In addition to alternative fuels, Woolsey also advocates fuel-efficient
vehicles and technological advances to build cars and trucks out of lighter
carbon composites -- all in an effort to use less oil.
.... Continued dependency on foreign oil could pose problems if future
Middle Eastern regimes are not as cooperative .... Short of sweeping
technological and fuel changes, lawmakers in Washington, D.C., have become
focused on more short-term answers to high gasoline prices.
.... Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., has called for more
homegrown oil.
"Consumers are feeling pain at the pump, and Republicans are moving
aggressively to address their concerns," he said. "We must reduce our dependence
on foreign oil by increasing domestic exploration, improving our energy
infrastructure and continuing to encourage conservation."
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Argonne's
drive: new fuels for cars
Chicago Sun-Times - Tara Burghart
It's like a giant rolling Erector Set -- for engineers who really like
to play around with automotive components.
Formally called the Mobile Automotive Technology Testbed, the bare-bones
chassis plays a vital role in Argonne National Laboratory's research into
new ways to power vehicles. One day, the engineers can test how an electric
motor performs with a gasoline-powered engine and a manual transmission.
The next day they can substitute an engine fueled by hydrogen. Soon, they
intend to place giant batteries on the testbed's rear platform to research
a plug-in hybrid vehicle that could increase fuel efficiency and reduce
emissions. ...
The building where the testbed is housed illustrates the nation's changing
priorities. The structure previously was used for research into magnets
necessary for use in nuclear reactors. ...
Although Argonne has done work on fuel cells and similar futuristic
technologies, Hillebrand says he is most excited about its potential to
play a lead role among the national labs in developing plug-in hybrids.
A standard hybrid such as the Toyota Prius uses an electric motor,
a small battery and a gasoline motor. With a plug-in hybrid, the small
battery is replaced by much bigger battery packs that can be recharged
through a standard 120-volt outlet. With such a car, a driver
could travel the first 10, 20 or even 40 miles of a trip on battery power
before the vehicle would switch to the gasoline engine, Hillebrand says.
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Kramer
(100 MPG cars) come to Washington
Evworld -| Bill Moore
Felix Kramer is on a mission, one that carried him and his new plug-in
Toyota Prius hybrid to the steps of Capitol Hill. There he and representatives
of Electro Energy, which brought along their own plug-in Prius, showcased
to some of Washington's most powerful politicians .... For the auto companies
making the rounds in Washington, the message from GM and Ford was we're
doing E85, which is a relatively cheap fix of less than $200 per car and
according to Kramer, "lets them off of the hook for the next ten years."
While he favors ethanol, it alone isn't enough to seriously address America's
oil addiction when the nation consumes 140 billion gallons of gasoline
annually, while producing just under 5 billion gallons of ethanol.
"If you fuel the local miles with electricity, then you need only 40
billion gallons," he said. "That's really an achievable goal." He
went on to explain how his small, three-person team at California Cars
Initiative worked with Electro Energy, a Danbury, Connecticut firm that
has developed a technology to improve NiMH batteries for use in plug-in
hybrids ... "And so, we wanted to show a lithium ion car, the Energy CS
car that is my car, the car I drive every day, and this NiMH car from Connecticut.
It was a great combination to have those two cars there." Kramer
explained that there is a slight difference in the low-speed, electric-only
range of the two cars: Electro Energy's NiMH car will do about 20 miles,
while the Energy CS -- equipped with Valence Saphion lithium ion batteries
-- will do between 25-30 miles as long as the speed is below 35 mph, at
which point Toyota's computer control system will switch on the gasoline
engine.
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Bubble-fusion
group suffer setback - Team admits a mix-up with one of their neutron detectors
Nature - Eugenie Samuel Reich
An erratum providing details of the mistake by Rusi Taleyarkhan of Purdue
University and colleagues has been published in Physical Review Letters1.
.... Taleyarkhan claimed to have deployed three independent methods of
detecting these neutrons, one of which was a boron trifluoride gas proportional
tube with a polyethylene covering. His erratum notes that this actually
turned out to be a lithium iodide crystal scintillation detector, also
with a polyethylene covering. According to the erratum, the error
was discovered "upon disassembly of the outer coverings" of the detector
and is due to "an oversight which was based on incorrect information from
a person's recollection who loaned this apparatus for the study".
(Neutron expert Mike Saltmarsh of Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee)
points out that the data from the lithium iodide detector, as it is now
known to be, are consistent with Naranjo's claim. In Taleyarkhan's experiment,
the 'boron trifluoride' detector observed high levels of gamma rays (gamma-rays)
alongside the neutrons, despite the fact that boron trifluoride detectors
are not very sensitive to gamma-rays. Taleyarkhan and his colleagues suggest
that neutrons from fusion were interacting with the detector's polyethylene
coating to produce a slew of rays. But the lithium iodide detector
is more sensitive to gamma-rays, says Saltmarsh, and the lab source posited
by Naranjo could easily have provided enough for the levels observed.
Taleyarkhan's co-author Robert Block, of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
in New York, disagrees. Block says he and Taleyarkhan still think the observed
gamma-rays are produced by fusion neutrons colliding in the polyethylene
covering, no matter what the detector.
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Purdue
University scientist stands by his findings
Bubble
Fusion Research Under Scrutiny- Erico Guizzo
IEEE Spectrum
This past March, Purdue University, in West Lafayette, Ind., announced
that it was initiating a formal review of the bubble fusion research by
Taleyarkhan... Taleyarkhan told IEEE Spectrum that he was surprised
by the allegations, which he said had not been discussed with him directly,
and that he stands by his work.
... Though Taleyarkhan and his collaborators are able to provide lucid
accounts of how they believe they've achieved bubble fusion, relying on
accepted principles of nuclear physics, skepticism centers on whether their
neutrons are truly fusion's telltale neutrons
... In a commentary submitted to Physical Review Letters, Brian Naranjo,
a graduate student in Putterman's laboratory, analyzed data published in
Taleyarkhan's latest paper and concluded that the energy spectrum presented
as coming from neutrons produced in fusion is not the one expected for
that type of reaction..... Taleyarkhan's response is that Naranjo "did
not model the right experiment." The neutrons, he said, are not flying
directly to the detectors placed around the flask; they are reflecting
off different materials, such as the liquid, the glass flask, and ice packs
that surround the setup. "He did not account for those intervening materials,"
Taleyarkhan says, adding, "You have a whole rainbow of neutron energies
coming out."
Taleyarkhan's collaborator Richard T. Lahey Jr., a professor of engineering
and physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in Troy, N.Y., says that
a successful bubble fusion experiment depends heavily on the Pyrex glass
flask and the ceramic piezoelectric ring that is attached to it to generate
the sound waves. "I have offered to send actual design drawings so that
others can build it and use it. Some have taken me up on my offer, but
others have not." He says that Putterman was using a design "that was doomed
to failure" and that he told him so when visiting his laboratory at UCLA
last year.
.... "We had a demonstration, a live demonstration in our lab," Taleyarkhan
told Spectrum. To detect the neutrons that he says are proof of fusion,
Taleyarkhan used special plastic track detectors. These are transparent
rectangles 2 by 1.3 centimeters and about as thick as a credit card that
register the passage of neutrons that hit them; the tracks left are observable
under a microscope. Taleyarkhan placed two pieces close to the flask and
one away from it to serve as the background measurement. After several
hours of exposure, only the pieces next to the flask had a significant
number of neutron tracks. "It's actually live data. Unambiguous. You don't
have to depend on electronics and fancy equipment. You see this thing in
front of your eyes," Taleyarkhan says.
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Dr. Melvin H. Miles Cold Fusion Website
Great new website devoted to cold fusion by one of
the best researchers in the field, Dr. Mel Miles, PhD
Photo gallery
Dr. Miles'
Cold Fusion Internet Links
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The firing of GRABLE from a 280 mm cannon was the first time an atomic
artillery shell was fired and detonated. The Secretary of Defense, the
Secretary of the Army, and the Army Chief of Staff, along with 96 Congressional
observers, viewed the detonation from an area 11 kilometers west of ground
zero.
Video
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Atom
Breaks Rules, Beats Friction Live Science
30 March 2006 Bjorn Carey
Scientists have found a molecule that can spin freely in liquid, clearing
out water like a person swinging suitcases would clear a crowded room.
The molecule spins without causing friction. That shouldn't be possible,
according to a chemical physics theory. The finding could alter the way
scientists think about chemical reactions in liquids.
Researchers hit a drop of iodine cyanide and water with pulses from
an ultraviolet laser, exciting one type of molecule to reconfigure into
a small, peanut shape with a carbon atom on one end, a nitrogen atom on
the other.
The molecule heated up to 8,000 degrees Fahrenheit (4,427 Celsius)
and started spinning at a furious 270 trillion rotations per minute.
.... Within the first quarter-turn, the molecule created a shock wave that
kicked away surrounding water molecules. The peanut molecule created a
nearly frictionless zone for itself in the 10-trillionths of a second the
reaction lasted. ....After the molecule completed about 10 rotations,
the shock dwindled and the water molecules rushed back in. Despite
its fleeting nature, the reaction managed to smash the linear response
theory, a chemistry model that states such a thing can't happen in a liquid
environment. ... The molecule's activity also runs against Newton's
third law of motion, which states that for every action there is an equal,
but opposite, reaction. In the new experiment, there water molecules are
displaced, but they don't in turn do anything to the peanut molecule.
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Does
fusion scientist 'hold the secret'? -
Deseret News March 24, 2006 Elaine Jarvik
He was ballyhooed and then discredited and then
largely forgotten. But cold fusion pioneer Dr. Martin Fleischmann still
holds the secret to a cheap energy source for the world, says a California
company that plans to produce prototypes of a cold fusion-powered home
heater, with Fleischmann as "senior scientific adviser." ... Eventually,
though, "when truth and justice are done," says David Kubiak, the University
of Utah will bask in the glory of its association with cold fusion. Kubiak
is communications director of D2Fusion of Foster City, Calif., and Los
Alamos, N.M., which will be hosting Fleischmann and is setting up a lab
using his "recipe."
These days, Kubiak says, the term "cold fusion"
has generally been replaced by "solid state fusion," "low-energy nuclear
reactions" or "nuclear reactions in condensed matter." But the principles
are still the same — a fusion reaction produced at normal temperatures
using hydrogen-loving metals such as palladium or titanium.
To start with, D2Fusion plans to produce a 2,000-3,000
watt heater that would never need refueling. ...
Kubiak says scores of labs around the world are
pursuing cold-fusion techniques, some of them originally inspired by Fleischmann's
work in Utah. Fleischmann and Pons originally built their device for $100,000
in the basement of the Henry Eyring Chemistry Building. .... The
researchers now working on the technique "are not tin-pot inventors working
out of a garage," he says. "They're top-notch scientists, including a couple
of Nobel laureates." "Instead of arguing any more about the theoretical
basis of it," he says, "we're saying 'this works, this is where we should
be putting our attention.' "
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"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in
their home."
- Kenneth Olsen, president and founder of Digital Equipment Corp.,
1977.
It'll Never
Work! COLD
FUSION TIMES - INFORMATION FOR SKEPTICS
"There is not the slightest indication that [nuclear energy] will ever
be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at
will."
- Albert Einstein, 1932.
"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."
[Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de
Guerre]
"Heavier-than-air
flying machines are impossible."
[Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895]
"Airplanes are
interesting toys but of no military value."
[Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de
Guerre]
It'll Never Work!COLD
FUSION TIMES - INFORMATION FOR SKEPTICS
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Make
Way For Ethanol - How fields of corn may hold the key to the future’s fuel
source
The Guardian - Katie Westfall
The alcohol known as ethanol was used as a fuel in the early 20th century
before Prohibition criminalized alcohol production, but has recently re-entered
the limelight and is now being used as a fuel additive. It replaces the
anti-knocking agent known as MBTE, which is being phased out after it was
discovered to pollute groundwater.
Ethanol is most commonly used in a blend known as E10, which is 10
percent ethanol and 90 percent gasoline. However, with the development
of “flex-fuel” cars specifically built to handle a higher amount of the
alcohol, the ethanol industry is pushing for the use of E85, a mixture
of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline. Currently, there are about
five million of these vehicles produced or sold.
... The United States is not the first to experiment with alternative
fuels, and is, in fact, following in the wake of countries like Brazil,
which has been producing ethanol-running cars since the late 1970s. According
to an ethanol study conducted by the Solar Energy Research Institute, up
to 90 percent of new cars in Brazil run on pure ethanol produced from sugar
cane, with the remainder running on a blend of 20 percent ethanol and 80
percent gasoline.
Although research is not complete, the preliminary experiments and
computational studies have shown that, in some aspects, ethanol is better
for the environment than gasoline or diesel fuels.
..... Saxena thinks that these obstacles can be overcome and
that ethanol is a good stepping stone for energy evolution. “Ethanol
as an energy source is a good interim solution until we are able to accomplish
hydrogen economy, fuel cells and cold-fusion technologies,” he said.
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Sonofusion
- Background : The Star in a Jar
JET Energy
PHOTOGRAPH OF PHUSOR CATHODE SHOWS ASYMMETRIC ELECTROLYSIS OF
A DIFFERENT TYPE OF COLD FUSION SYSTEM .
Asymmetric Electrolysis (above)
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Hydrogen
fuel cells become faster and greener with new catalyst
Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
and the University of Idaho have developed a highly efficient catalyst
of multi-walled carbon nanotubes decorated with tiny particles of a platinum
and ruthenium composite. Preparation is a key factor in determining the
activity of a catalyst.
The researchers selected a process using supercritical
carbon dioxide, which has the properties of a gas and a liquid. The supercritical
fluid technology may result in products and processes that are cleaner,
less expensive and of higher quality than those produced using conventional
solvents.
Venture
capitalist backs biofuel, says country can go down petroleum-free path
Stanford Report, May 10, 2006
Delivering the keynote address at a Stanford
Institute for Economic Policy Research forum, titled "Prosperity Despite
Expensive Oil: Energy Solutions for California, America and the World,"
on April 21, (Vinod) Khosla endorsed ethanol technologies, which produce
"biofuels" out of switchgrass, wood chips, corn and recycled fast food
oil.
"I don't think oil will ever [fall to] $40 a
barrel until an alternative appears," Khosla said. "If an alternative appears,
we will see the manipulation of oil prices to drive alternatives out of
business. This [tax] is to assure Wall Street that [it] will not be subject
to oil price manipulation by Saudi Arabia."
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Clearwater
Man Puts Technology To Work
CLEARWATER -- Working in a small, two-room shop
at the Airport Business Center, Klein, 63, said he has developed a gas
that speeds welding and fusing times and improves automobile fuel efficiency
30 percent.
Klein said he has a patent pending on the gas
he has been working on for 12 years. Various models of his H2O electrolyzers
are being used across the country in high school shop classes and undergoing
testing to be certified for use in welding shops. Flipping a switch on
his H2O 1500, Klein picks up a hose with a metal tip, creates a spark,
and instantly a blue and white glowing stream shoots out of the metal tip.
He holds the tip with his fingers to prove how
cool it is to the touch, unlike such a tip when oxy-acetylene is burned
for welding. But the instant he sets the flame on a charcoal briquette,
it glows bright orange. Then, within seconds, he burns a hole through a
brick, cuts steel and melts Tungsten.
.... Klein said his method for introducing hydrogen
into a vehicle to increase mileage is superior to hydrogen used in fuel
cells.
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The Real Deal: America's Flying ReactorConvair
NB-36H - "The Crusader"
The NB-36H (originally designated XB-36H) was used in the studies and
testing of an airborne nuclear reactor..... The NB-36H, named The Crusader,
flew 47 times during the mid-1950s.
The project was classified until late 1955 when the Department of Defense
revealed the existance of the B-36 testbed for an airborne atomic reactor.
..... The XB-36H carried a crew of five: pilot, copilot, flight engineer,
and two nuclear engineers. All crew members were located in the forward
section of the aircraft while the atomic reactor was located aft.
SPECIFICATIONS Span: 230 ft. 0 in. Length: 162 ft.
1 in. (as B-36H, the NB-36H was slightly shorter) Height: 46 ft.
8 in. Weight: 357,500 lbs. (max. gross weight)
Crew: 5 (pilot, copilot, flight engineer and two nuclear engineers)
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British
Rail's nuclear flying saucer
Long-suffering rail commuters may be perplexed to learn that British
Rail once patented a design for a bizarre and apparently impractical nuclear
flying saucer. The spacecraft, "powered by laser-controlled thermonuclear
fusion", would have provided a much more interesting commute. .... According
to The Register, the patent probably remained hidden for so long because
it concerned nuclear technology and was filed during the Cold War.
The
next saucer to Shoeburyness leaves from platform 5 ...
"We're getting there." That was the motto of British Rail in its 1980s
heyday. But how they thought they might get there will come as a surprise
to even diehard trainspotters: a decade earlier engineers had patented
plans to transport passengers by nuclear-powered flying saucer ...
(I)n 1973 an inventor, Charles Osmond Frederick, patented the design for
a craft powered by laser-controlled thermonuclear fusion. Designed to reach
high speeds in space, it was meant to move us around the globe and even
to other planets.... The disc would have had a flat, slightly concave
underside, the patent said. "A controlled thermonuclear fusion reaction
is ignited by one or more pulsed laser beams produced by lasers and reflected
or focused on to a central reaction zone on the underside of the platform."
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Rejection
leaves bubble-fusion patent high and dry - Eugenie Reich
"The US patent office has been drawn into the debate over whether bubble
fusion has been achieved. In a crushing rejection of a patent application
on the phenomenon, patent examiner Ricardo Palabrica concludes that despite
the claims for bubble fusion presented in Science1 in 2002, he doesn't
believe a word of them. "There is no reputable evidence of record to support
any allegations or claims that the invention is capable of operating as
indicated," he writes. .... In his assessment, published in September 2005,
he attacks Taleyarkhan's claimed invention as "nothing more than a variation"
of the discredited concept of cold fusion first put forward in the late
1980s by Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons, and cites reproducibility
concerns as a serious obstacle to obtaining a patent. "The statute requires
the applicant to inform, not to direct others to find out for themselves
[how to reproduce the invention]," he writes. .... The rejection could
have been appealed but in December 2005 the DOE instead abandoned the claim
altogether. A version of the patent filed in 2002 at the World Intellectual
Property Organization is still under review in many countries."
What exactly is the background
of the patent Examiner who denied the American DOE a patent on this subject?
Mr. Ricardo Palabrica may have also worked for the
(International Atomic Energy Commission) IAEA which may
have serious implications given that America is conducting a War on Terror
while "addicted to oil".
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Mr. Palabrica apparently has also worked to circumvent dual
regulation of the Civilian Radioactive Waste Management program Avoiding
dual regulation of the Civilian Radioactive Waste Management program Vlahakis,
John G; Palabrica, Ricardo J The 5th Annual International Conference
on High Level Radioactive Waste Management. Part 3 (of 4), Las Vegas, NV,
USA, 05/22-26/94; pp. 1593-1596. 1994 - The Office of Civilian Radioactive
Waste Management (RW) has successfully negotiated the issuance of a Department
of Energy (DOE) Headquarters Order that provides for exemption of RW from
certain DOE directives....This Order is necessary to avoid the unwarranted
cost and potential confusion resulting from dual regulation of RW facilities
and activities by DOE and NRC.
Palabrica, R.J,, “International experience in the
implementation of the lesson learned from the Three Mile Island incident”,
Operational Safety of Nuclear Power Plants (Proc. Symp. Marseilles, 1983),
Vol. 2, IAEA, Vienna (1984) , pp. 215–226.]
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===> Exactly when was Article
1 Section 8 amended to say "The Congress
shall have power ... To promote the progress of science and useful arts,
by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right
to their respective writings and discoveries except when either anyone
from the International Atomic Energy Commission or Mohammad El-Baradei
refuse to allow it."?
[For Americans who want energy independence
and are seriously concerned about this]
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Radioactive
material found under N.Y. plant
High
levels of strontium detected in groundwater near Hudson River
The radioactive leak in groundwater near the Hudson River came from
the Indian Point nuclear power plant located in Buchanan, N.Y.
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - High levels of a radioactive material — nearly
three times the amount permitted in drinking water — were found in groundwater
near the Hudson River beneath a nuclear plant, the owner said Tuesday.
The groundwater does not intersect drinking supplies, and although the
strontium-90 is believed to have reached the Hudson it would be safely
diluted in the river, said Jim Steets, spokesman for Entergy Nuclear Northeast.
The strontium ... was found in a well dug in a search for the source
of a leak of radioactive water at the Indian Point complex, about 30 miles
north of New York City. NRC spokesman Neil Sheehan said Tuesday that
the commission still believes that radioactivity in the water — given that
it is not drinking water — is well below the level that would "pose a risk
to public health and safety."
Entergy said water samples were taken at four depths in the well. Strontium
levels, in picocuries per liter, were 2.4, 3.86, 18.2, and 22.7. The drinking
water limit is 8. Tritium, which becomes dangerous only at much higher
concentrations than strontium, was found at 12,800, 14,700, 28,000 and
13,300 picocuries per liter. The drinking water limit is 20,000.
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"The horse is here to stay, but the automobile is only a novelty—a
fad."
- 'Advice' from a president of the Michigan Savings Bank to Henry Ford's
lawyer Horace Rackham. Rackham ignored the advice and invested $5000 in
Ford stock, selling it later for $12.5 million.
"... after a few more flashes in the pan, we
shall hear very little more of Edison or his electric lamp. Every claim
he makes has been tested and proved impracticable."
[New York Times,
January 16, 1880]
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The US Patent Office discriminates against Yankee ingenuity by being
disingenuous, by "losing" records, and by being fixated upon events in
1989.
AMERICA
NEEDS A "MANHATTAN PROJECT" FOR COLD FUSION
WHICH WILL BE THE WORLD'S FUTURE CLEAN ENERGY
SOURCE
But this
has so far been obstructed by many including some in the DOE
and the US Patent Office, some who apparently have worked for IAEA
and others who routinely and systematically stiffle free trade and national
development for their own nefarious and egregious reasons.
Congress funds the Patent Office "To promote
the progress of science and useful arts" and yet there is no
promotion and stiffled limited, if any, progress in America.
Hopefully DOE's Secretary Bodman and the Patent Office's Director
Dudas will finally take President Bush's Directive (SOTU 1/31/06) seriously.
But they will not without YOUR help NOW.
Call your Senator and Congressperson today and
DEMAND that the US Congress force the DOE and the US Patent Office
to FINALLY take cold fusion seriously now --
or that they henceforth forever be held accountable for making America
addicted to oil.
President George W. Bush E-mail Address: President@whitehouse.gov
Business Information: Fax: (202) 456-2461 White House
Opinion Line: (202) 456-1111
Toll free number to reach the US Capitol......1-877-762-8762
You can help!!!! At least, write all your Representatives
and Senators.
March 4th was the 217th Anniversary of the United States Constitution
(day it went into effect March 4, 1789).
Constitution of the United States A History
Article
1 Section 8.
"The Congress shall have power .... To promote
the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times
to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings
and discoveries;"
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Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle:
"Victory belongs to those
who believe in it the most and believe in it the longest."
State
of The Union Address Transcript
White House | January 31, 2006 | President George Bush
"Our nation is grateful to the fallen,
who live in the memory of our country.
We're grateful to all
who volunteer to wear our nation's uniform
-- and as we honor our brave troops,
let us never forget the sacrifices
of America's military families."
[click each image for more information]
Ray
Charles -- "America The Beautiful"
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Report
of Mike McKubre about the 5th ASTI and first ISCMNS meetings
DOE
Warms to Cold Fusion
Whether outraged
or supportive about DOE's planned reevaluation of cold fusion,
most scientists
remain deeply skeptical that it's real.
COLD FUSION TIMES
"Your complete guide to cold fusion, condensed matter nuclear
science, and low energy nuclear reactions"
"We coldly go where no one has gone before"
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Chinese
experimental thermonuclear reactor on discharge test in July - People's
Daily
China's new generation experimental Tokamak fusion device will conduct
its first discharge test in July or August this year. If the experiments
prove successful, it would be the world's first experimental nuclear fusion
device to come into operation. . ... China has provided the project, dubbed
the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), with an investment
of 165 million yuan (about 20 million U.S. dollars).
Using deuterium, which is in seawater, as fuel for reaction, a hydrogen
plasma torus operating at over 100 million Celsius degrees will produce
500 megawatts of fusion power. The development of ITER is based on the
idea of edging out irrecycled mineral resources such as uranium and plutonium.
The EAST is an upgrade of China's first superconducting Tokamak device,
dubbed HT-7, which was also built by the plasma physics institute in 1994.
The HT-7 made China the fourth country in the world, after Russia, France
and Japan, to have such a device.
Building
with light materials
Japan - A building under construction in Japan will use natural light to
illuminate its rooms, even during the night.
Japanese construction company Shimizu and electronics giant Sharp have
jointly developed a transparent building material that absorbs light during
the day and uses it to light up rooms when the Sun goes down. The material
is being used to construct a new office complex in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture,
on the south eastern edge of Japan.
Sections of the office's walls look transparent, but actually contain
incredibly thin solar panels and as many as 320 light-emitting diodes that
release whitish-blue light at night. .... the walls can convert 7% of solar
energy into electricity and illuminate the building for an average of 4.6
hours every night.
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More
cold water on fusion theory - Fascination with cold fusion Persists
- Apr. 15, 2006 Toronto Star - Jay Ingram
It sounds weird, but in certain special circumstances, sound waves in
a liquid can cause bubbles to collapse, and when they do they produce huge
amounts (relative to their size, anyway) of energy. They can also reach
temperatures that could sustain fusion. Taleyarkhan has seen this happen,
more than once.
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Nuclear
fusion - Once is happenstance - Mar 9, 2006
The Economist
MAKE a mistaken claim in any branch of science, and endeavours in that
field may be tainted for years. Faced with two such claims, the field is
definitely in trouble. And that now seems to be the case for so-called
“tabletop fusion”. .... Dr Naranjo took his data from a paper published
by Dr Taleyarkhan in January. This appeared in an electronic format that
allowed him to deduce those data from the graphs it showed, even though
the raw numbers were not published. He argues that the resulting neutron
energies are consistent with the decay of a standard radioactive source
called 2{+5}2californium. Dr Taleyarkhan's description of his method explicitly
excludes the possibility of such a source being present. Moreover, if Dr
Naranjo is correct, 2{+5}2californium would appear to be present only in
the experimental runs using deuterated acetone and not in the control experiments
using normal acetone, pointing to the possibility of direct human interference.
There is a certain amount of “history” between the two scientists. Dr Naranjo
works in the laboratory of Seth Putterman, one of three researchers who
peer-reviewed Dr Taleyarkhan's original Science paper and did not like
it. When the journal published the paper anyway, Dr Putterman went public,
arguing that Dr Taleyarkhan had not ruled out several potential sources
of error in his paper. ... Moreover, the American patent office has quietly
but firmly rejected Dr Taleyarkhan's bubble-fusion device. An application
for a patent was filed in 2003, when he was still at Oak Ridge, on behalf
of the Department of Energy, which funded the work. On December 27th last
year the department formally abandoned the claim. Ricardo Palabrica of
the Patent Office had described the application as “no more than just an
unproven concept”.
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Rejection
leaves bubble-fusion patent high and dry - Eugenie Reich
"The US patent office has been drawn into the debate over whether bubble
fusion has been achieved. In a crushing rejection of a patent application
on the phenomenon, patent examiner Ricardo Palabrica concludes that despite
the claims for bubble fusion presented in Science1 in 2002, he doesn't
believe a word of them. "There is no reputable evidence of record to support
any allegations or claims that the invention is capable of operating as
indicated," he writes. .... In his assessment, published in September 2005,
he attacks Taleyarkhan's claimed invention as "nothing more than a variation"
of the discredited concept of cold fusion first put forward in the late
1980s by Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons, and cites reproducibility
concerns as a serious obstacle to obtaining a patent. "The statute requires
the applicant to inform, not to direct others to find out for themselves
[how to reproduce the invention]," he writes. .... The rejection could
have been appealed but in December 2005 the DOE instead abandoned the claim
altogether. A version of the patent filed in 2002 at the World Intellectual
Property Organization is still under review in many countries."
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Purdue
University investigating 'sonofusion' claims - PhysOrgForum
"I have asked Purdue's Office of the Vice President of Research to
conduct a thorough review of the work and any concerns expressed about
it," Purdue Provost Sally Mason said in a statement published on the university
website. The research claims are very significant, and the allegations
are very serious. As in any scientific endeavor, Purdue's ultimate goals
are truth and integrity," she added. Taleyarkhan first published
his research findings four years ago in Science magazine and later in several
prestigious scientific journals. He claimed to have generated nuclear reactions
by creating tiny bubbles that implode with tremendous force. .... Purdue
said Talyarkhan and his co-authors stand by their findings and that the
Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency continued to fund
sonofusion research at Purdue and at other universities.
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Scientist
Says He Stands by Fusion Data
- March 9, 2006 Kenneth Chang
"A nuclear scientist at Purdue said yesterday
that he would cooperate with the university's review of his fusion research.
"From a technical point, we stand by our data," said the scientist, Rusi
P. Taleyarkhan, a professor of nuclear engineering. Dr. Taleyarkhan said
that he saw the article for the first time yesterday and that his Purdue
colleagues' complaints "came as a major surprise to me."
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College
Reviews Physicist's Tabletop Fusion Claims
Evidence
suggests the Purdue researcher's data are flawed
He
stands by his work - Thomas H. Maugh II
Taleyarkhan expressed confidence that Purdue's review would vindicate
his claims, but other researchers said the evidence was likely to be a
death knell for the controversial technology, which proponents had claimed
would eventually become a major energy source. ... Taleyarkhan has been
"negligent or jumped the gun or concocted data — one of those — and has
distracted us from a serious problem at the frontiers of research," said
UCLA physicist Seth J. Putterman .... Taleyarkhan reported that he
generated bubbles using neutrons to bombard acetone whose hydrogen atoms
had been replaced with deuterium, then collapsed the bubbles with a blast
of ultrasonic energy. He said he observed neutrons and tritium, both
byproducts of the fusion of deuterium atoms. He submitted a paper to the
journal Science, where it was published over the vehement objections of
three separate reviewers: Suslick, Putterman and physicist Lawrence A.
Crum of the University of Washington.
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Is
bubble fusion simply hot air? Concerns gather momentum over claims for
table-top energy production
In 2002, Taleyarkhan claimed to have demonstrated
this effect, generating energy by fusing the nuclei of deuterium, a heavier
isotope of hydrogen, inside collapsing bubbles2, and followed it in 2004
with further positive results3.
But his results have been controversial from
the start. When Science published Taleyarkhan's initial paper, the three
researchers who peer-reviewed the work took the unusual step of shedding
their anonymity to criticize the journal's decision to publish4. The three
- Seth Putterman of the University of California, Los Angeles, Ken Suslick
of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Lawrence Crum of
the University of Washington in Seattle - argued that Taleyarkhan had not
ruled out several potential sources of error in his paper.
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Purdue
scientist is under scrutiny - Will Higgins
Purdue University is reviewing allegations that one of its professors,
a scientist who claims he has developed a way to produce nuclear fusion
in a test tube, misrepresented his research findings.
In a telephone interview Wednesday, Rusi Taleyarkhan, a member
of Purdue's faculty since 2004, said he stands by his work "absolutely."
Last spring, two junior Purdue researchers, post-doctoral research associate
Yiban Xu and graduate research assistant Adam Butt, claimed to have confirmed
Taleyarkhan's findings in research published in the magazine Nuclear Engineering
and Design. Xu and Butt's research was the first confirmation of Taleyarkhan's
work. Xu said Wednesday he stands by his study. Butt could not be
reached for comment.
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Bubble
bursts for table-top fusion - Data analysis calls bubble fusion into question
- Eugenie Samuel Reich
Putterman has been a key critic of Taleyarkhan's work since 2002, when
Taleyarkhan first published his claim to have achieved bubble fusion. Putterman
and others argue that Taleyarkhan has not been able to rule out several
potential sources of error in his experiment. In particular, they were
concerned that the source of neutrons Taleyarkhan used to seed bubble formation
in the liquid could have been responsible for the neutrons detected during
the experiment and cited as evidence for fusion. But Naranjo and
Putterman say that the spectrum that Taleyarkhan claims proves neutrons
were generated by fusion looks nothing like it should given the equipment
used. ... "The published spectrum is totally inconsistent with that of
2.45 MeV neutrons, raising doubt over the fusion claim," says Naranjo.
The spectrum for such neutrons should have a hump in the middle and a sharp
cut-off at higher energies.
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Scientists
unplug tabletop fusion - Chris Williams March 8, 2006
Today marks the fourth anniversary of the original
announcement and four years in which nobody outside Taleyarkhan's research
group has been able to reproduce the positive results.
Taleyarkhan's big idea of sonoluminescent fusion
involves firing soundwaves at a container of bubbling acetone "seeded"
with a beam of neutrons....Taleyarkhan defended his findings in a 2005
episode of the BBC's Horizon strand, protesting: "My lab has been audited,
my instruments have been audited, my books have been audited, the data
speaks for itself."
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University
to Investigate Fusion Study - Kenneth Chang
March 8, 2006
Purdue University has opened an investigation
into "extremely serious" concerns regarding the research of a professor
who said he had produced nuclear fusion in a tabletop experiment... Taleyarkhan..
said they were able to achieve the same feat by blasting a container of
liquid solvent with strong ultrasonic vibrations.
... Brian Naranjo, a graduate student at the
University of California, Los Angeles, [CFTimes Ed: Naranjo is co-author
with Seth Putterman of a competing system] said his analysis of data from
the last scientific paper that was published by Dr. Taleyarkhan's group
showed a chance of less than one in 10 million that the emission pattern
could have been generated by fusion. Instead, Mr. Naranjo said that
the pattern of particles seen in the experiment much more closely matched
that given off by californium
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(WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Taleyarkhan, whose study was published
while he was at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory
in Tennessee, now works at Purdue
University in Indiana and has also been trying to replicate his earlier
findings.
... Naranjo's lab reported in April 2005 that it had achieved cold
fusion by heating a lithium crystal soaked in deuterium gas. ... In his
original report, published in the journal Science in 2002, Talayarkhan
and colleagues said they created nuclear fusion in a beaker of chemically
altered acetone by bombarding it with neutrons and then sound waves to
make bubbles.
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Blog excerpts on the Sonofusion
controversy
FRee Republic: University
checks "bubble fusion" fraud claim (cold fusion fraud)
"As anyone who has paid attention
to the cold fusion committee in the past 15 years, you would know that
if literally God himself handed a working prototype that produced cold
fusion, the cold fusion committee would call it a fraud. It's never enough
with them."
Biodiesel
now.com
"It does seem that it is the group
at UC that is raising the biggest stink about this claim, and since they
have a competing claim of table-top fusion of their own, it does raise
questions about their impartiality."
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Experts argue about
Cold fusion Haiko Lietz -
Handelsblatt,
March 23, 2006, p.11
"At present a public dispute raves
over "bubble fusion" among physicists, which is often called "cold fusion";
both promise fusion energy without much expenditure. Rusi Taleyarkhan of
the Purdue university in Indiana uses fusion of hydrogen atoms in
the solvent acetone, after its hydrogen atoms were replaced by deuterium
(heavy hydrogen with neutron in the core) in an ultrasonic field.
With fusion much energy becomes
free. Controlled "hot fusion" after the model of the sun is considered
as the energy source of the future. ... Cold fusion was presented
today 17 years ago by Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons as deuterium
fusion at ambient temperature. The two chemistry professors maintained
it in a cathode of the precious metal palladium. Since that time cold fusion
has been continuously investigated.
The "most convincing evidence"
would come from Germany. Physicists of the Technical University of Berlin
even measured abnormally high fusion rates in metals with accelerator experiments
in a temperature range between hot and cold fusion in palladium and an
unexpected weakening of neutron production. These results were published
recently in the "European Physical Journal A".
"Although cold fusion has the potential
to solve our energy problems it is a red cloth for science and politics",
says Jan Marwan. The chemist terminated his academic career, to develop
cold fusion as a commercial energy source in his lab in Berlin."
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Cheap
Hydrogen Fuel: GE says its new machine could make the hydrogen economy
affordable
Technology Review March 9, 2006 - David Talbot
GE says its new machine could make the hydrogen economy affordable,
by slashing the cost of water-splitting technology. ...Now researchers
at GE say they've come up with a less expensive, easy-to-manufacture apparatus
that can directly produce hydrogen via electrolysis for about $3 per kilogram
-- a quantity roughly comparable to a gallon of gasoline -- down from today's
$8 per kilogram. That could make it economically practical for future fuel-cell
vehicles that run on hydrogen...... Bourgeois' research team came up with
a way to make future electrolyzers largely out of plastic. They used a
GE plastic called Noryl that is extremely resistant to the highly alkaline
potassium hydroxide. And because the plastic is easy to form and join,
manufacturing an electrolyzer is relatively cheap. Inside the plastic housing,
metal electrodes still do the same job. But because GE is using less electrode
material, the reactivity of the electrodes' surfaces is improved. To do
this, the researchers borrowed a spray-coating process -- normally used
to apply coatings for parts on jet engines -- to coat the electrodes with
a proprietary nickel-based catalyst with a large surface area.
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The
atom bombshell that is splitting opinion
Financial Times March 9, 2006 - Robert Matthews
Dr Mills first came across quantum mechanics after graduating
in medicine from Harvard and taking up post-graduate studies in electrical
engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Struck by the
weirdness of the theory, he set about devising a radically different account
of the sub-atomic world, based on ideas from Victorian physics.
In a series of papers published in academic journals, he argues for
a new picture of the hydrogen atom, with the lone electron whizzing around
a central proton replaced with a spherical shell of electric charge.
.... According to Dr Mills, this simple modification utterly transforms
the physics of the atom. While all the successes of conventional quantum
mechanics are kept, a whole raft of solutions to previously insoluble problems
emerge – such as the predictions of the properties of molecules.
.... Whether his theory is right is ultimately irrelevant, however.
What really matters is whether hot hydrogen can be persuaded to give out
more energy than it takes in, making it a viable power source.
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No
future for [hot] fusion power, says top scientist
March 9 2006, NewScientist - David L Chandler
Nuclear fusion will never be a practical source of electrical power, argues
a prominent scientist in the journal Science. Even nuclear fusion’s
staunchest advocates admit a power-producing fusion plant is still decades
away at best, despite forty years of hard work and well over $20 billion
spent on the research. But the new paper, personally backed by the journal’s
editor, issues a strong challenge to the entire fusion programme, arguing
that the whole massive endeavour is never likely to lead to anything practical
or useful. "The history of this dream is as discouraging as it is
expensive," wrote William Parkins, a physicist who worked on the Manhattan
Project during the second world war, who later became the chief scientist
at US engineering firm Rockwell International. ...The issues include
the potentially prohibitive costs of building, and the difficulties of
repairing and maintaining the reaction vessel. This massive "blanket" of
lithium and rare metals – that must surround the fusion-generating plasma
in order to absorb its emitted neutrons – will degrade and become radioactive
over time, requiring regular dismantling and replacement. But Porkolab
concedes that a functioning power-producing fusion reactor is probably
50 years off, and that is too far in the future for any reasonable conclusions
to be drawn on its economic viability. "It depends on what the price of
oil is going to be 50 years from now," he says.
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Did
"Dark Matter" Create the First Stars? - Max Planck
Society March, 15 2006
"Dark matter could be "sterile" neutrinos, whose decay led to the formation
of stars in the early universe
Dark matter may have played a major role in creating stars at the very
beginnings of the universe. If that is the case, however, the dark matter
must consist of particles called "sterile neutrinos". ... when sterile
neutrinos decay, it speeds up the creation of molecular hydrogen. This
process could have helped light up the first stars only some 20 to 100
million years after the big bang. This first generation of stars then ionised
the gas surrounding them, some 150 to 400 million years after the big bang.
All of this provides a simple explanation to some rather puzzling observations
concerning dark matter, neutron stars, and antimatter (Physical Review
Letters, March 10, 2006).
The total number of sterile neutrinos in the universe is unclear.
If a sterile neutrino only has a mass of a few kiloelectronvolts (1 keV
is a millionth of the mass of a hydrogen atom), that would explain the
huge, missing mass in the universe, sometimes called "dark matter".
... sterile neutrinos can help explain the absence of antimatter in the
universe. In the early universe, sterile neutrinos could have "stolen"
what is called the "lepton number" from plasma. At a later time, the lack
of lepton number was converted to a non-zero baryon number. The resulting
asymmetry between baryons (like protons) and antibaryons (like antiprotons)
could be the reason why the universe has no antimatter."
Sterile neutrinos:
references and links
Head of the "guitar nebula". The formation contains a fast moving pulsar
followed by a tail of gas.
[Hubble Space Telescope (NASA/ESA), Shami Shatterjee]
"Pulsars
are neutron stars rotating at a very high velocity. They are created
in supernova explosions and normally are ejected in one direction. The
explosion gives them a "push", like a rocket engine. Pulsars can have velocities
of hundreds of kilometres per second - or sometimes even thousands. The
origin of these velocities remains unknown, but the emission of sterile
neutrinos would explain the pulsar kicks."
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Air
Force committed to energy-efficient strategies
3/6/2006 - WASHINGTON (AFPN) --
The Air Force continues its pledge to be a leader in energy stewardship.
According to Dr. Sega, the Air Force is also looking at alternative sources
of energy, from potential conversion of natural gas or coal to jet fuel,
to increased use of renewable energy sources.
Nuclear
Reactors Top Dubai Ports' Cargo List
Nuclear reactors are among the most significant U.S. exports shipped
out of five of the six ports slated for takeover by a Dubai company next
week. ... The Port of Miami unloads 1,247 ships annually. There the two
top products are "apparel [and] nuclear reactors."
Alternative-Energy
Stocks Shine As High Oil Costs Here To Stay
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IMPORTANT FUSION, ENERGY, and
NUCLEAR UPDATES
Toshiba
faces hurdles to buy Westinghouse
TOKYO - The head of Toshiba had good reason to sound a trifle defensive
about his company's $5.4 billion purchase of U.S. nuclear power company
Westinghouse. ...following the announcement earlier this month that the
electronics company will buy Monroeville, Pa.-based Westinghouse Electric
Co. from British Nuclear Fuels PLC. .... Toshiba has built 22 nuclear power
plants in Japan since entering the business in 1966, and is building another
one here and two in Taiwan.
.... By acquiring Westinghouse, Toshiba becomes the world's No. 1 nuclear
power company, with a 28 percent share in the global market, Nishida said.
U.S.,
Britain conduct nuclear experiment at Nevada Test Site
LAS VEGAS (AP) - U.S. and British government scientists performed an
underground nuclear experiment, short of a nuclear blast, Tuesday at the
Nevada
Test Site, the National Nuclear Security Administration said. Scientists
for the first time posted a nearly eight minute video Web log of preparations
for the subcritical experiment. The operation, dubbed "Krakatau," involved
detonating high explosives around a radioactive material in a vault about
1,000 feet below ground at a remote part of the desert testing range.
U.S. Department of Energy
Nevada Site Office
Historical
Test Films
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Updates on the Murder of
Dr. Mallove
Man
to face trial for murder of New Hampshire man
NEW LONDON, Conn. A judge in Connecticut has
ruled there is enough evidence to try a Groton (Connecticut) man for murder
in the killing of a New Hampshire man last year in an apparent robbery.
The judge ruled yesterday that 39-year-old Joseph
Reilly will face trial in the beating death of Eugene Mallove, a scientist
and author. Forty-three-year-old Gary McAvoy, formerly of Norwich, also
is charged with murder.
Judge
finds probable cause for Mallove murder trial
NEW LONDON —Despite a lack of direct forensic evidence, a Superior
Court judge Tuesday ruled that state prosecutors showed enough for her
to find probable cause to send a man to trial for murder.Joseph Reilly,
39, now awaits a trial on the charge of felony murder in the beating death
of Eugene Mallove, 56, according to Tuesday’s ruling by Judge Susan B.
Handy.
Reilly is one of two convicts charged in connection with the May 14,
2004, slaying of Mallove at his childhood home at 119 Salem Turnpike in
Norwich. Norwich police have also arrested Gary McAvoy, 43, who waived
his right to a probable cause hearing.
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Updates on the Murder of
Dr. Mallove (cont.)
Evidence
may link together three crimes
STONINGTON -- Investigators are now trying
to piece together evidence involved in three violent crimes that happened
in southeastern Connecticut. Stonington police are not commenting on any
evidence they found linking a Jarion Childs, 27, a former Groton basketball
standout, to the beating, robbery and death of an 89-year-old local farmer....Now
the evidence gathered at the Groton and Stonington crime scenes may be
connected to a murder case 20 miles away. Eugene Mallove, a world expert
on cold fusion, was killed during what police suspect was a robbery at
his mother's rental property in Norwich.
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Record
Set for Hottest Temperature on Earth: 3.6 Billion Degrees in Lab Ker
Than
Scientists have produced superheated gas exceeding temperatures of
2 billion degrees Kelvin, or 3.6 billion degrees Fahrenheit. ...They don't
know how they did it. The feat was accomplished in the Z machine at Sandia
National Laboratories. Thermonuclear explosions are estimated to reach
only tens to hundreds of millions of degrees Kelvin; other nuclear fusion
experiments have achieved temperatures of about 500 million degrees Kelvin,
said a spokesperson at the lab. The achievement was detailed in the Feb.
24 issue of the journal Physical Review Letters. The Z machine is the largest
X-ray generator in the world. It’s designed to test materials under extreme
temperatures and pressures. It works by releasing 20 million amps of electricity
into a vertical array of very fine tungsten wires. The wires dissolve into
a cloud of charged particles, a superheated gas called plasma. A very strong
magnetic field compresses the plasma into the thickness of a pencil lead.
.... Sandia researchers still aren’t sure how the machine achieved the
new record. Part of it is probably due to the replacement of the tungsten
steel wires with slightly thicker steel wires, which allow the plasma ions
to travel faster and thus achieve higher temperatures.
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Whatever
Happened to Cold Fusion? Susan
Kruglinski
DISCOVER 27, 3 March 2006
"In 1989 Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann
made front-page news when they announced that they had fused the nuclei
of atoms in a jar of water—a process that normally requires the heat of
an H-bomb. In theory, room-temperature, or "cold," fusion could provide
cheap, nearly limitless energy. No replication of the experiment could
pass muster with critics, and most researchers dismissed the work as bogus."
Cold Fusion Times: This is nonsense.
Multiple replications followed, and they should have satisfied pathological
critics IF they were really able to read and understand science.
"Still, a few physicists keep the field alive
and kicking. "There's something in the neighborhood of 20 basic experiments
out there these days that are of interest," says MIT physicist Peter Hagelstein.
... The scientists who continue to work in the field claim that their experiments
show minute, unexplained outputs of energy.. .... Hagelstein insists that
those beyond the inner circle don't know the whole story. ""
Cold Fusion Times: Incorrect. Very
large amounts of excess heat develop in successful experiments which are
much greater than 'minute'. Energy gains of 200-300% beyond the input
have been reported over and over.
Discover Magazine, like the pathological critics,
OUGHT to consider actually reading the papers, journals, and conference
proceedings OR subscribe to the COLD FUSION TIMES.
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THE
REAL DEAL: Superb Book on Cold Fusion
Cold
Fusion: Condensed Matter Nuclear Science
[Proceedings
ICCF-11]
Edited by Jean-Paul Biberian
(Université de la Méditerranée, France)
916 pages (February, 2006)
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THE
REAL DEAL: Superb Book on Cold Fusion
Cold
Fusion: Condensed Matter
Nuclear
Science
[Proceedings
ICCF-10]
Peter L. Hagelstein and Scott Chubb (Editors)
1048 pages World Scientific Publishing Company (January 30, 2006)
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Nuclear
Transmutation: The Reality of Cold Fusion
Tadahiko
Mizuno |
Fire
from Ice : Searching for the Truth Behind the Cold Fusion Furor
Dr.
Eugene J. Mallove |
Excess
Heat: Why Cold Fusion Research Prevailed
Charles
G. Beaudette |
Electrogravitics
Systems : Reports on a New Propulsion Methodology
Thomas
Valone |
FUSION ENERGY, Hearing before the Subcommittee on
Energy of the Committee on Science, Space and Technology, U.S. House of
Representatives" ISBN 0-16-041505-5. (May 5, 1993) U.S. Government Printing
Office,
(202) 783-3238 |
Hal Fox "Cold Fusion Impact"
ISBN-0-96349780-4
(Fusion Information Center 1993) |
Richard
Milton, "Forbidden Science", ISBN 1-85702-302-1
Paul
A. Laviolette
Subquantum
Kinetics : The Alchemy of Creation Paul A. Laviolette
Quest
for Zero Point Energy Engineering Principles for Free Energy Moray
B. King |
Cold
Fusion - Making of a Scientific Controversy Peat FD
Cold
Fusion Scientific Fiasco of the Century Huizenga JR
Dialogue
on Chemically Induced Nuclear Effects : A Guide for the Perplexed About
Cold Fusion Hoffman N
Too
Hot to Handle The Race for Cold Fusion Close F |
Strategy Kinetics
- Overcoming Uncertainty
Through Dynamic Strategy Development
And Implementation
Cold Fusion
".... You may remember that in the 1980s,
chemists Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann created a sensation when they
announced they had produced excess energy -- more out than went in -- in
a table-top experiment. The source of this excess energy was cold fusion,
sometimes referred to as Low Energy Nuclear Reactions ("LENR"). ...
Many tried to duplicate the Pons and Fleischmann
results. Some at MIT failed to reproduce the results although there has
been a long running battle over falsified data, misrepresentation, and
the intrusion of funding politics and the defense of scientific reputations
related to the negative MIT results. Based on these and other negative
results, the Department of Energy has for a long time not taken serious
any of the positive cold fusion results. And for the most part, the US
Patent Office has refused for a long time to grant patents explicitly relating
to cold fusion, although a few following the original Pons and Fleischmann
results.
Turns out that it's not easy to do the proper
experiments and for a couple of reasons. First, calorimetry - roughly the
science of heat measurement - is a difficult and some would say a dying
art. More importantly, according to some, is that most experiments did
not use controls, a foundation of much experimental science. In the experimental
sciences, results are always in comparison to something. ...
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Here's what I believe to be the consensus views
of those working in the field:
Cold Fusion is real and has been reproduced
many times in several labs around the world.
The hurricanes that blow against the reality
of CF are driven in large part by those whose economic interests are threatened
if CF is real, namely carbon-based energy industries and the hot fusion
research community.
.... The research continues to accumulate
on both the experimental and theoretical fronts. The open question
seems to be when the CF community will reach the tipping point."
Cold
Fusion Redux
"So the future of energy just might include Cold
Fusion..."
'AFTER 16 years, it's back. In fact, cold fusion
never really went away. Over a 10-year period from 1989, US navy labs ran
more than 200 experiments to investigate whether nuclear reactions generating
more energy than they consume - supposedly only possible inside stars -
can occur at room temperature. ... according to David Nagel, an engineer
at George Washington University in Washington DC. Superconductors took
40 years to explain, he points out, so there's no reason to dismiss cold
fusion. "The experimental case is bulletproof," he says. "You can't make
it go away."'
Peak
Oil Scenarios
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Quantum
computer works best switched off
NewScientist February 22 2006
"A quantum computer program has produced an answer without
actually running.
The idea behind the feat, first proposed in 1998, is to put a quantum
computer into a “superposition”, a state in which it is both running and
not running. It is as if you asked Schrödinger's cat to hit "Run".
With the right set-up, the theory suggested, the computer would sometimes
get an answer out of the computer even though the program did not run.
...
They send a photon into a system of mirrors and other optical devices,
which included a set of components that run a simple database search by
changing the properties of the photon.
The new design includes a quantum trick called the Zeno effect. Repeated
measurements stop the photon from entering the actual program, but allow
its quantum nature to flirt with the program's components - so it can become
gradually altered even though it never actually passes through.
"It is very bizarre that you know your computer has not run but you
also know what the answer is," says team member Onur Hosten."
Nature (vol 439, p 949)
New Scientist magazine, 2540, 22 February 2006, page 21
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Nanoscience
Study Shows That Quantum Dots "Talk" - Feb
21, 2006 , Christina Dierkes
Athens, Ohio — "Scientists who hope to use quantum dots as the building
blocks for the next generation of computers have found a way to make these
artificial atoms communicate.
“Essentially, the dots talk to each other,” said Ameenah Al-Ahmadi.
... The dots are tiny, engineered spherical crystals about 5 nanometers
in diameter. An average biological cell, in comparison, has a diameter
of about 1,000 nanometers. Researchers believe that quantum dots will be
extremely useful in developing nanoscale technologies because they are
versatile and uniform, which could eliminate possible variations and flaws
in materials.
In the recent study, the researchers were the first to use theoretical
models to show how light energy shining on quantum dots would prompt them
to transfer energy in a “coherent” fashion. They found that when the dots
were arranged a certain distance from each other – greater than the radius
of the dots – light waves traveled between the nanocrystals in a consistent
pattern. In previous research, the light’s wavelength would change or become
irregular during the energy exchange, which creates a breakdown in communication
between quantum dots.....
The applications of the new quantum dot technology also could include
medical imaging. Quantum dots could be injected into the patient, and a
device containing more quantum dots could be used to show the position
of dots under the skin. Current biology research has had great success
with this type of imaging in mouse models, Ulloa said. The dots have fewer
side effects than contrast chemicals used in X-rays, and may eventually
replace traditional contrast media."
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2006 APS Meeting on
Cold Fusion
Cold
Fusion – A 17 Year Retrospective - Michael McKubre , Francis
Tanzella
Recent
Developments in Cold Fusion / Condensed Matter Nuclear Science - Steven
Krivit
Role
of Finite Size in Triggering Excess Heat: Why Nanoscale PdD Crystals Turn
on Faster - Scott Chubb
Resolving
the Laughlin Paradox - Talbot Chubb
Dynamics
of Non-linear Soft X-Ray Emission from a Plasma Discharge-Driven Hydride
Target George H. Miley , Yang Yang , Michael Romer , Munima Haque
, Ian Percel , Andrei Lipson , Heinz Hora
Control
of Tardive Thermal Power - Mitchell Swartz
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2006 APS Meeting on
Cold Fusion (cont.)
Progress
in Excess of Power Experiments with Electrochemical Loading of Deuterium
in Palladium
V. Violante , M. Bertolotti , E. Castagna , C. Sibilia , Irv Dardik
, S. Lesin , T. Ziloy , F. Sarto , F. Tanzella , Michael C. H. McKubre
Cavitation
Foil Damage - Roger Stringham
Isoperibolic
Calorimetry Applied To The Pt/D2O Blank System - Martin Fleischmann
, Melvin Miles
New
Mechanism of Low Energy Nuclear Reactions Using Superlow Energy Fields
- F.A. Gareev , I.E. Zhidkova
Comments
on Summary of Condensed Matter Nuclear Science - Xing Z. Li , Bin Liu
, Qing M. Wei , Shu X. Zheng , Dong X. Cao
Excess
heat observed during electrolysis of deuterated phosphoric acid with palladium
electrodes and a solid state electrolyte in deuterium gas - J.-P. Biberian
, G. Lonchampt
Creating
an International Scientific Society as an Act of Scientific Rebellion
- William Collis
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Nanotechnology
and Energy
MIT
researchers introduce nanotech battery
Nanotube ultracapacitors would store energy on atomic level,
providing what is said to be the first technologically significant and
economically viable alternative to conventional batteries in more than
200 years.
Carbon nanotubes are key to MIT researchers' efforts to improve
on an energy storage device called an ultracapacitor.
Capacitors store energy as an electrical field, making them
more efficient than standard batteries, which get their energy from chemical
reactions. Ultracapacitors are capacitor-based storage cells that provide
quick, massive bursts of instant energy. .. The LEES ultracapacitor has
the capacity to overcome this energy limitation by using vertically aligned,
single-wall carbon nanotubes -- one thirty-thousandth the diameter of a
human hair and 100,000 times as long as they are wide. ...Storage capacity
in an ultracapacitor is proportional to the surface area of the electrodes.
Today's ultracapacitors use electrodes made of activated carbon, which
is extremely porous and therefore has a very large surface area. However,
the pores in the carbon are irregular in size and shape, which reduces
efficiency. The vertically aligned nanotubes in the LEES ultracapacitor
have a regular shape, and a size that is only several atomic diameters
in width. The result is a significantly more effective surface area, which
equates to significantly increased storage capacity.
MIT
researchers fired up about battery alternative
Nanotube Structures
Key to Battery Alternative
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MIT
develops new fast-charging battery technology
ideal
for automobiles
"The MIT team's new lithium battery contains manganese and
nickel, which are cheaper than cobalt.
Scientists already knew that lithium nickel manganese oxide could store
a lot of energy, but the material took too long to charge to be commercially
useful. The MIT researchers set out to modify the material's structure
to make it capable of charging and discharging more quickly..... Lithium
nickel manganese oxide consists of layers of metal (nickel and manganese)
separated from lithium layers by oxygen. The major problem with the compound
was that the crystalline structure was too "disordered," meaning that the
nickel and lithium were drawn to each other, interfering with the flow
of lithium ions and slowing down the charging rate.
Lithium ions carry the battery's charge, so to maximize the speed at
which the battery can charge and discharge, the researchers designed and
synthesized a material with a very ordered crystalline structure, allowing
lithium ions to freely flow between the metal layers. A battery made from
the new material can charge or discharge in about 10 minutes -- about 10
times faster than the unmodified lithium nickel manganese oxide."
An electron micrograph of lithium nickel manganese oxide. The white
layers are
nickel manganese oxide; dark layers are lithium
Lithium nickel manganese oxide consists of layers of transition metal
(nickel and manganese, blue layer) separated from lithium layers (green)
by oxygen (red) [Ceder Laboratory]
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A very sad day for cold fusion, science and Energy
security for America and the Free World
Glenn
T. Seaborg briefing President George Bush on how to
cover
up the 'cold fusion' phenomena
White
House on April 14, 1989 - Beginning the coverup of cold fusion:
Dr. Seaborg describes cold fusion as, "the idea that you could fuse
nuclei very easily and get a lot of energy just by passing electric current
through water." "The idea swept the country and I was called to Washington
to brief the President on it. "I decided to take my background as
a nuclear scientist and really come to the sensible conclusion that this
work was not right, that it was really, well... cold. You couldn't do it."
But the idea could not be easily dismissed, and Dr. Seaborg made the President
aware of this. "I said, 'You can't just go out and say, "This is
not valid." You're going to have to create a high-level panel that will
study it for six months, and then they'll tell you it's not valid '; and
that's what he did."
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Lab
fireball 'may be black hole'
Creating the conditions for the formation of black holes is
one of the aims of particle physics
A fireball created in a US particle accelerator has the characteristics
of a black hole, a physicist has said.
It was generated at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in New
York, US, which smashes beams of gold nuclei together at near light speeds.
Horatiu Nastase says his calculations show that the core of the fireball
has a striking similarity to a black hole.
His work has been published on the pre-print website arxiv.org and is
reported in New Scientist magazine.
When the gold nuclei smash into each other they are broken down into
particles called quarks and gluons.
These form a ball of plasma about 300 times hotter than the surface
of the Sun. This fireball, which lasts just 10 million, billion, billionths
of a second, can be detected because it absorbs jets of particles produced
by the beam collisions.
But Nastase, of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, says there
is something unusual about it.
Ten times as many jets were being absorbed by the fireball as were predicted
by calculations.
The Brown researcher thinks the particles are disappearing into the
fireball's core and reappearing as thermal radiation, just as matter is
thought to fall into a black hole and come out as "Hawking" radiation.
However, even if the ball of plasma is a black hole, it is not thought
to pose a threat. At these energies and distances, gravity is not the dominant
force in a black hole.
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COLD FUSION
REFERENCES AND LINKS
Cold Fusion Times References
(UPDATED)
Cold Fusion Times Cold Fusion Links
Dr. Britz Papers
(missing conference, JNE, etc)
Lietz
References
Free
Energy News Directory
'LENR site' References
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Tom Bearden Website
A Partial List
of Successful Documented EM Over-Unity and Negative Resistor Devices and
Processes
Ferroelectric
Capacitors and the Magnetic Resonance Amplifier
Hitachi Engineers confirm
Over-Unity Process
Dr. Deborah Chung's
Negative Resistor
Flynn research
Parallel
Path Electromagnetic Motors
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UPCOMING COLD FUSION MEETINGS:
23-25 September 2006: The 7th International Workshop on Anomalies
in Hydrogen / Deuterium Loaded Metals - Asti, Italy
10-15 June 2007: ICCF13 - Sochi, Russia at the Dagomys Hotel -
Dr. Yuri Bazhutov
2008: ICCF14 - Washington DC, US
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The
International Society for Condensed Matter Nuclear Science
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Other Alternative Energy
Updates
Novel
invention could mean cheaper source of energy from solar power
The only way to make photovoltaic energy more
widely used, is to make devices (including solar panels) that are much
cheaper than the current silicon-based devices. The most promising PV material
identified to date is Copper-Indium-Gallium-Diselenide (CIGS). CIGS
is much more efficient than silicon at converting incident sunlight into
an electric current: Less than one micron of CIGS absorbs more than 99%
of available incident solar energy, compared to 350 microns of silicon
to do the same job.
“Dark
energy” might not exist, scientists say
A growing number of researchers claim a mysterious “dark energy,” which
most cosmologists believe fills space, might not exist. Instead, they say,
the laws of gravity might need some correction. ...
In a new paper, three researchers say they can account for the accelerated
expansion by tweaking the laws of gravity, with no need for dark energy.
...
Not unlike dark energy, dark matter is an unseen substance that astronomers
believe pervades the cosmos, but it is different. Dark matter, which would
comprise more than 90% of the weight of the universe, is thought to betray
its existence through its gravitational pull on nearby objects. ...
.The accelerated cosmic expansion, which prompted the dark energy idea,
was detected in 1998 through observations of distant exploding stars known
as supernovae. Two separate groups found supernovae that were dimmer, and
thus further away, than they should have been if the universe was expanding
at a steady rate, as was then believed.
The key to the proposal from Mena’s team is that gravity is modified
in such a way that the change is noticeable only at the largest distance
scales—the only scales over which the accelerated expansion is evident.
Pond
life: the future of energy - Hydrogen-producing algae breakthrough -
Chris Williams
Genetic engineers have made a leap in developing a strain of algae with
the potential to supply fuel for a future hydrogen economy, Wired reports.
Unpublished work from the University of California at Berkeley may have
brought the technology past the economically viable 10 per cent efficiency
level. By shortening the chlorophyll stacks in the photosynthetic organelles,
plant physiologist Tasios Melis has "probably" passed the threshold.
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cells alternate between trapping carbon dioxide
by photosysnesis and hydrogen production. Research has already ramped-up
the rate by a factor of 100,000 by isolating the algae from sulphur, and
groups are working to further improve it. One problem is the hydrogenase
enzyme, which releases the precious fuel, cannot currently function in
the presence of oxygen - but photosynthesis produces oxygen.
Tapping
Rocks for Power
A
European consortium is drawing closer to building a megawatt-scale power
plant that uses bedrock heat - Peter Fairley
Spend time in the French village of Soultz-sous-Forêts and you're
likely to experience a manmade earthquake. The vibrations -- some as high
as 2.87 on the Richter scale -- are the most conspicuous element of a renewable
energy research program that may succeed where others have failed. By fracturing
granite bedrock located five kilometers below the surface and pumping in
super-saline water, a team of French, German, and Swiss engineers are extracting
the rock's thermal energy, and they plan to use it to produce pollution-free
electricity. .... By this time next year, they expect to be transforming
this heat into at least 1.5 megawatts of renewable power for the grid.
Scientists
back nuclear power to help beat global warming -
James Kirkup
NUCLEAR power must be part of attempts to address global warming, according
to a government-sponsored study of climate change. In an apocalyptic assessment
endorsed by Tony Blair, an international group of scientists warned in
the study published yesterday that increasing temperatures caused by the
greenhouse effect pose a pressing threat to humanity.... Governments should
use a variety of means to cut emissions in "wedges", including increasing
energy efficiency, nuclear energy, low-emission transport fuels and fossil-fuel
power plants with carbon-capture technology, they said.
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Other Alternative Energy
Updates
Polysilicon
used for solar cells is in short supply
HONOLULU - In a state where tropical
sunshine is near constant and electricity costs twice the national average,
solar power seems an easy answer. But with the panels that produce
the electricity already popular abroad and a batch of new domestic tax
credits just kicking in, solar suppliers locally and around the globe are
scrambling for stock. ... The problem is that while demand for solar panels
is increasing, the ability to meet that demand hasn’t caught up, said Reed,
president of the Hawaii Solar Energy Association.
The material used is known as polysilicon, a
form of silicon refined to form crystals that are then sliced into wafers
used to form the silicon cells for solar panels or the microchips in computers
and cell phones. In 2006 the solar industry is on track to use more of
the silicon, known as polysilicon, than the entire semiconductor industry,
Resch said. “We’ve grown to such a point that there is no available
polysilicon feedstock to continue to put into the solar industry so that
we can grow at that rate,” he said. ... Contract prices are coming in at
$70 per kilogram, up from $30 per kilogram just two years ago, she said.
Bio-diesel
car rental opens in world's car capital
LOS ANGELES - A company offering rental cars powered
entirely by bio-diesel set up shop in Los Angeles on Tuesday, hoping to
bring the aroma of popcorn and doughnuts to the city's smoggy freeways.
Just one snag -- there is only one place in town
to fill up. Bio-Beetle Eco Rental Cars, which started out on the Hawaiian
island of Maui three years ago, opened for business near Los Angeles International
Airport with four cars fueled by filtered vegetable oil.. ... Bio-diesel
costs $3.45 a gallon -- about $1 more than regular gas -- but the cars
get between 400 and 800 miles per tank. There is only one place where customers
can fill up but Stenshol said he hoped to help set up other refueling stations
in the Los Angeles metro area.
Milestones
and Trends in Renewable Energy -- 2005 and 2006
Reflecting on major milestones in clean energy
technology advancement in 2005, with a look forward to probable developments
in 2006.
What
Lies Beneath the Void
Professor Chris Binns (Physics and Astronomy)
on his exciting project connected to the 'zero-point energy' of space.
Three thousand years ago the Greek philosophers Leucippus and his student
Demokritos proposed the concept of the atom, as a fundamental building
block of materials, in order to circumvent a paradox that arises with continuous
elements (such as earth fire air and water). They pointed out that if matter
was really a continuum then you could cut it into smaller and smaller pieces
ad infinitum and, in principle, cut it out of existence into pieces of
nothing that could not then be reassembled. Thus, they reasoned, there
must be a smallest piece of matter that could not be further divided the
a-tomon (uncuttable) from which the word atom is derived.
Magnetic
Power Inc. is Nearing Pre-Production Stage with Zero Point Energy Modules
Modules built with off-the-shelf components are
expected to generate electricity anywhere, any time, for less than 1 cent
per kilowatt-hour. One kW modules expected for market early next
year.
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NY team confirms UCLA tabletop fusion Science Blog
2/13/2006
"Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
have developed a tabletop accelerator that produces nuclear fusion at room
temperature, providing confirmation of an earlier experiment conducted
at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), while offering substantial
improvements over the original design.
The device, which uses two opposing crystals
to generate a powerful electric field, could potentially lead to a portable,
battery-operated neutron generator for a variety of applications, from
non-destructive testing to detecting explosives and scanning luggage at
airports. The new results are described in the Feb. 10 issue of Physical
Review Letters. ...
The device is essentially a tabletop particle
accelerator. At its heart are two opposing "pyroelectric" crystals that
create a strong electric field when heated or cooled. The device is filled
with deuterium gas -- a more massive cousin of hydrogen with an extra neutron
in its nucleus. The electric field rips electrons from the gas, creating
deuterium ions and accelerating them into a deuterium target on one of
the crystals. "
An
internal view of the vacuum chamber containing the fusion device,
showing two pyroelectric crystals that generate a powerful electric
field when heated or cooled.
Credit: Rensselaer/Danon
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Double crystal fusion' could pave the way for portable device
"Our study shows that 'crystal fusion' is a mature technology with considerable
commercial potential," says Yaron Danon, associate professor of mechanical,
aerospace, and nuclear engineering at Rensselaer. "This new device is simpler
and less expensive than the previous version, and it has the potential
to produce even more neutrons."
A research team led by Seth Putterman, professor of physics at UCLA,
reported on a similar apparatus in 2005, but two important features distinguish
the new device: "Our device uses two crystals instead of one, which doubles
the acceleration potential," says Jeffrey Geuther, a graduate student in
nuclear engineering at Rensselaer and lead author of the paper. "And our
setup does not require cooling the crystals to cryogenic temperatures --
an important step that reduces both the complexity and the cost of the
equipment."
The new study also verified the fundamental physics behind the original
experiment. This suggests that pyroelectric crystals are in fact a viable
means of producing nuclear fusion, and that commercial applications may
be closer than originally thought, according to Danon.
The concept could also lead to a portable x-ray generator, according
to Danon. "There is already a commercial portable pyroelectric x-ray product
available, but it does not produce enough energy to provide the 50,000
electron volts needed for medical imaging," he says. "Our device is capable
of producing about 200,000 electron volts, which could meet these requirements
and could also be enough to penetrate several millimeters of steel."
In the more distant future, Danon envisions a number of other medical
applications of pyroelectric crystals, including a wearable device that
could provide safe, continuous cancer treatment.
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Nanotubes
break superconducting record
- 14 February 2006
"Physicists in Japan have shown that "entirely
end-bonded" multi-walled carbon nanotubes can superconduct at temperatures
as high as 12 K, which is 30 times greater than for single-walled carbon
nanotubes. .... However, 1D conductors like carbon nanotubes -- rolled
up sheets of graphite just nanometres in diameter -- are not naturally
superconducting. One reason for this is the presence of so-called Tomonaga-Luttinger
liquid (TLL) states in the material, which cause the electrons to repulse
each other and so destroy Cooper pairs.
Now, however, Haruyama and colleagues have designed
a system in which there is a superconducting phase that can compete with
the TLL phase and even overcome it -- a feat hitherto believed impossible.
The system consists of an array of multi-walled carbon nanotubes, each
of which consists of a series of concentric nanotube shells. Electrical
contacts made of metal are bonded to the tubes so they touch the top of
all the shells. Conventional "bulk junction" contacts, in contrast, touch
only the outermost shell of a tube and along its length.
Haruyama and co-workers grew their multiwalled
nanotubes from a template of porous alumina. Next, they cut the tops off
the nanotubes using ultrasound or etching techniques and then evaporated
a gold electrode onto the exposed ends of the tubes. In this way, nearly
all of the nanotube shells were made electrically active."
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American Nuclear Society Meeting on Cold Fusion (11/17/05)
“Nuclear
Reaction Pathways Resulting From Phonon Interactions,” Peter Hagelstein
(MIT)
“Evidence
for Intense Soft X-Ray Emission From a Hydride Target Undergoing Intense
Deuteron Bombardment,” George Miley (Univ. of Illinois)
“Dual
Ohmic Controls Improve Understanding of ‘Heat After Death,’” Mitchell Swartz,
Gayle Verner (JET Energy)
“Bose-Einstein
Fusion Mechanism for Low-Energy Nuclear Reaction and Transmutation Processes
in Micro- and Nano-Scale High-Density Deuteron Plasmas,” Yeong Kim (Purdue
Univ.)
“Coherent
Zener Breakdown and Tunneling in Finite Lattices: Why Nano-Scale PdD Crystals
Can Turn-On Faster,” Scott Chubb
“Three
Types of DD Fusion,” Talbot Chubb (Naval Research Laboratory)
“Low
Energy Nuclear Reactions,” David Nagel (George Washington Univ.)
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JET Energy
Introduction
to Cold Fusion
(Introduction
including Engineering and the Optimal Operating Point
Cold Fusion
Science - More Engineering and material science
Public
Open-House Cold Fusion Demonstration at MIT and ICCF10
More information
about CF Devices
PowerPedia:Cold
fusion
D2Fusion,
Inc.
ESSAY:
Cold Fusion Is Really Solid-State Fusion Russ George
Haiko Lietz's Site:
Bubble Fusion
takes next hurdle
The world
needs an Apollo-type program for cold fusion
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Blacklight
Chemical Technologies
"The lower-energy atomic hydrogen product of the BlackLight
Process reacts with an electron to form a hydride ion, which further
reacts with elements other than hydrogen to form novel proprietary compounds
called hydrino hydride compounds (HHCs). BlackLight is developing the vast
class of proprietary chemical compounds formed via the BlackLight Process.
Test results indicate that the properties of HHCs are rich in diversity
due to their extraordinary binding energy (i.e., the energy required to
remove an electron which determines the chemical reactivity and properties).
Hydrino hydride ions have the potential to be as useful as
carbon as a base “element.” Carbon is a base element for many useful
compounds ranging from diamonds, to synthetic fibers, to liquid gasoline,
to pharmaceuticals. The novel compositions of matter and associated technologies
could have far-reaching applications in many industries including the chemical,
lighting, computer, energetic materials, battery, propellant, surface coatings,
electronics, telecommunications, aerospace, and automotive industries."
Role
of atomic hydrogen density and energy in low power chemical vapor deposition
synthesis of diamond films
Highly
stable novel inorganic hydrides from aqueous electrolysis and plasma electrolysis
Key Publications
and Recent Papers
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Thermonuclear
Squeeze:
Altered
method extends bubble-fusion claim
Peter Weiss
A technique that some scientists claim generates thermonuclear fusion
in a benchtop apparatus works even without its controversial neutron trigger.
So say the researchers who, since 2002, have reported that nuclear-fusion
reactions can occur in a vat of chilled solvent agitated by ultrasound.
Fusion reactions take place in the vat because clusters of bubbles
form and then violently collapse, explains nuclear engineer and team leader
Rusi P. Taleyarkhan of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind. A neutron
or another energetic particle triggers a bubble to form in a low-pressure
trough of the ultrasound waves, he says. Then, high pressure from the wave
crushes the orb to an enormous density and temperature that fuse some atomic
nuclei of the bubble's gas.
Lawrence A. Crum of the University of Washington in Seattle says that
the new work "increases the credibility" of bubble fusion. But "unless
it's reproduced in someone else's lab, I'm not going to believe it," he
adds.
Shapiro, D., and M. Saltmarsh. 2002. Nuclear fusion in collapsing bubbles—is
it there? An attempt to repeat the observation of nuclear emissions from
sonoluminescence. Physical
Review Letters 89(Sept. 2):104302.
Taleyarkhan, R.P., et al. 2004. Additional evidence of nuclear emissions
during acoustic cavitation. Physical
Review E 69():036109.
Taleyarkhan, R.P., et al. 2002. Evidence for nuclear emissions during
acoustic cavitation. Science
295(March 8):1868-1873.
Xu, Y., and A. Butt. 2005. Confirmatory experiments for nuclear emissions
during acoustic cavitation. Nuclear Engineering and Design 235:1317-1324.
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Sonofusion
Experiment Produces Results Without External Neutron Source
A team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, Purdue University, and the Russian Academy of Sciences has used
sound waves to induce nuclear fusion without the need for an external neutron
source, according to a paper in the Jan. 27 issue of Physical Review Letters.
By bombarding a special mixture of acetone and
benzene with oscillating sound waves, the researchers caused bubbles in
the mixture to expand and then violently collapse. This technique, which
has been dubbed “sonofusion,” produces a shock wave that has the potential
to fuse nuclei together, according to the team.
In the new setup, the researchers dissolved natural
uranium in the solution, which produces bubbles through radioactive decay.
... The experiment was specifically designed to address a fundamental research
question, not to make a device that would be capable of producing energy,
Block says. At this stage the new device uses much more energy than it
releases, but it could prove to be an inexpensive and portable source of
neutrons for sensing and imaging applications.
To verify the presence of fusion, the researchers
used three independent neutron detectors and one gamma ray detector. All
four detectors produced the same results: a statistically significant increase
in the amount of nuclear emissions due to sonofusion when compared to background
levels.
The latest experiment was conducted at Purdue
University. At Rensselaer and in Russia, Lahey and Robert I. Nigmatulin
performed the theoretical analysis of the bubble dynamics and predicted
the shock-induced pressures, temperatures, and densities in the imploding
bubbles. Block helped to design, set up, and calibrate a state-of-the-art
neutron and gamma ray detection system for the new experiments.
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New Issue: Volume 12
Number 2 (click for larger image)
July 2005 issue (Volume 12, number 2) of the COLD
FUSION TIMES
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July 2005 issue (Volume 12, number 2) of the COLD
FUSION TIMES
2005 MIT Cold Fusion Colloquium with Tribute to Dr.
Eugene Mallove
FUSION ADVANCES
Cavitation/Ferroelectic Fusion
D-D Fusion in Ferroelectrics
FUSION AROUND THE WORLD
DOE 2nd Review
2nd DOE Review Analyzed Summary of DOE
DOE Report on “Cold Fusion” Recommends More Research
Update on Murder of Dr. Mallove
Murder Suspects Identified
Suspect In Mallove Murder Has Probable Cause Hearing
Accountability
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ICCF-12
The 12th International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science
Yokohama, Japan
Excellent Review by Dr. Scott Chubb in this month's Infinite
Energy
Download
the INFINITE ENERGY FREE selection of IE articles (.pdf)
"Cold fusioneers' science is 'not bad'.
The pathologic skeptics just describe it that way."
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Scientists
moot gravity-busting hyperdrive Mars in three hours - theoretically
- Lester Haines
The US military is considering testing the principle behind
a type of space drive which holds the promise of reaching Mars in just
three hours. ...The basic concept is this: according to the paper's authors
- Jochem Häuser, a physicist and professor of computer science at
the University of Applied Sciences in Salzgitter and Walter Dröscher,
a retired Austrian patent officer - if you put a huge rotating ring above
a superconducting coil and pump enough current through the coil, the resulting
large magnetic field will "reduce the gravitational pull on the ring to
the point where it floats free".
The origins of this "repulsive anti-gravity force" and the hyperdrive
it might power lie in the work of German scientist Burkhard Heim, who -
as part of his attempts to reconcile quantum mechanics and Einstein's general
theory of relativity - formulated a theoretical six-dimensioned universe
by bolting on two new sub-dimensions to Einstein's generally-accepted four
(three space, one time).
Heim, then, proposed that "a rotating magnetic field could reduce the
influence of gravity on a spacecraft enough for it to take off" - an idea
which caught the eye of Wernher von Braun when it was first proposed in
1959 and the rocket scientist was working on the US's Saturn launch vehicle.
Dröscher expanded on Heim's work, in the process reactivating
two further dimensions the latter had originally discarded. Thus "Heim-Dröscher
space" was born - an eight-dimensional concept of which Dröscher says:
"If Heim's picture is to make sense, we are forced to postulate two more
fundamental forces."
The said extra forces are: "A repulsive anti-gravity similar to the
dark energy that appears to be causing the universe's expansion to accelerate";
and a second resulting from the "interaction of Heim's fifth and sixth
dimensions and the extra dimensions that Dröscher introduced". Crucially,
it "produces pairs of 'gravitophotons' - particles that mediate the interconversion
of electromagnetic and gravitational energy".
Furthermore, Dröscher and Häuser's proposed practical experiment
to prove their theory requires "a magnetic coil several metres in diameter
capable of sustaining an enormous current density" - something which the
majority of engineers say is "not feasible with existing materials and
technology"."
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SECOND
ARREST IN MALLOVE MURDER
On July 26, 2005 at 11:00am, detectives from the Norwich Police Department
arrested Joseph P. Reilly for the murder of Dr. Eugene F. Mallove on May
14th, 2004. The arrest is the second by the Norwich Police Department.
Like the putative perp, previously arrested, McAvoy [see COLD
FUSION TIMES v 12, number 2], Reilly was developed as a suspect early
in the investigation Recent evidence was developed by detectives
leading to the arrest.
The investigation remains open. The Norwich Police Department
encourages anyone with information pertaining to this incident to contact
Norwich Police Detectives at 892-2889 or the anonymous tip-line at 886-5561,
extension 500.
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The
2005 MIT Cold Fusion Colloquium, Honoring Eugene Mallove
Scott Chubb
The event, held on May 21, 2005, and the location were especially
appropriate. The event was timely because although Eugene Mallove was tragically
murdered slightly more than a year ago, many people who have been involved
with cold fusion research have not had the opportunity to publicly acknowledge
and mourn their deeply-felt sense of loss. Scientific talks related to
cold fusion, the associated controversy, and related science were scheduled
in the Physics Department, Room 6-120, at MIT, between 8:30 a.m. and 6:30
p.m. Following the scientific talks, additional informal discussions and
presentations took place, including a screening of a movie about cold fusion,
"Breaking Symmetry," produced and written by former MIT professor, Dr.
Keith Johnson, which evolved as a direct consequence of a misrepresentation
of the relevant science, including a fraudulent negative excess heat measurement,
that took place at the MIT Plasma Fusion Center, immediately after the
initial cold fusion announcements in 1989.
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Inmate
charged in Mallove slaying - Norwich Bulletin
Thursday, June 2, 2005 - NORWICH — A man serving
five years for larceny has been charged with felony murder in the death
of Dr. Eugene Mallove, whose body was discovered at his parent’s home May
14, 2004. Gary McAvoy, 43, who is incarcerated at MacDougall-Walker Correctional
Institution in Suffield, was arrested by detectives of the Norwich Police
Department at 9:20 a.m. Wednesday.
June 2, 2005 - SUFFIELD, Conn. -- A man serving
a five-year prison sentence for larceny has been charged with felony murder
in connection with the year-old killing of a science writer from New Hampshire,
police said. Gary McAvoy, 43, was arrested Wednesday morning at MacDougall-Walker
Correctional Institution in Suffield, where he is serving his sentence.
He is accused of killing Eugene Mallove, 56, of Pembroke, N.H., during
an apparent robbery at a Norwich home rented by Mallove's family. Mallove
was beaten and died on May 14, 2004. He was found on the lawn of the home
with head and neck injuries. His minivan was found in an employee parking
lot at Foxwoods Casino Resort near Ledyard.
Last month, Norwich police asked for help solving the
case from noted forensic expert Henry Lee, a former state public safety
commissioner who has worked on cases involving O.J. Simpson, Jon Benet
Ramsey and William Kennedy Smith. Neighbors said they're glad police made
an arrest. "Everyone will be relieved now, especially his wife and family,"
Barbara Ayala, whose mother lives nearby, told WVIT-TV.
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Arrest
made in Mallove slaying - Greg Smith -
Norwich Bulletin
June 3, 2005 - NORWICH-- Norwich police have
charged a former city man in a year-old murder case that has haunted the
family of a widely respected New Hampshire scientist. Gary McAvoy,
43, who is already serving a five-year prison term, was arraigned Wednesday
on the charge of felony murder in the May 14, 2004, slaying of Eugene Mallove.
Investigators don't believe McAvoy acted alone in the
crime, based on evidence and investigation in the case, Norwich Detective
Lt. Timothy Menard said. Further arrests are expected. McAvoy's former
address is listed as 313 Main St. in Norwich, the site of a halfway house
operated by the Southeastern Connecticut Council on Alcoholism and Drug
Dependence, town records show. He is being held on a $1 million bond in
the case. Court records were sealed at the request of police Wednesday
during McAvoy's appearance in Norwich Superior Court.
McAvoy has a long list of prior arrests stemming from
at least 1999, when court records show he was arrested on charges of first-degree
burglary, threatening, disorderly conduct, criminal mischief, violation
of a protective order third-degree assault, and drunken driving. He was
sentenced to at least one year in prison. In May and July 2004, he faced
larceny and burglary charges in New Britain. He was arrested again in August
2004 in Waterford on three counts of third-degree larceny and two counts
of third-degree burglary. Groton City police arrested McAvoy in September
2004 on larceny, criminal mischief and criminal trespassing charges. In
December 2004, he was sentenced to a total of five years based on several
cases. He is not scheduled to be released until 2009.
At the time of his death, Mallove had been working at
his former Norwich home, which is now a rental property.McAvoy was an early
suspect in the case, Menard said, but only recently was there enough evidence
to justify an arrest warrant.
"I would never have given up hope," Ethan Mallove said.
"Closure is still a long ways away. This morning's news was an introductory
phase."
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Part I: 2005 MIT Cold Fusion Colloquium
Cold Fusion Science and Technology
with Special Tribute to Dr. Eugene Mallove at MIT
on May 21, 2005
Experimental Reports of Cold Fusion Systems
David
Nagel - Evidence That Cold Fusion Involves Nuclear Reactions
Russ George
- Acoustic-induced Cold Fusion Experiments
John Dash
- Characterization of Titanium Cathodes after Electrolysis in Heavy Water
Peter Hagelstein
- Interactions of Phonons and Lattice Nuclei in Cold Fusion
Mitchell Swartz
- Possible Parameter to Describe Optimal Operating Point Width
Theoretical Strides in Understanding of Cold Fusion
Systems
Yeong Kim
- Micro/Nano High-Density Plasmas and Cold Fusion/Acoustic-Induced Cold
Fusion
Talbot Chubb
- Bloch Nuclei and Phonon De-excitation
Scott Chubb
- Understanding Cold Fusion using Conventional Condensed matter Physics
Robert Bass
- Do Current Concepts Resolve the Chief Challenge to Cold Fusion Theory?
Keith Johnson
- Anomalous Superconducting Properties of the PdHx/PdDx System
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Part I: 2005 MIT Cold
Fusion Colloquium
Pictures
of 2005 MIT Colloquium (click here)
Intellectual Property, Patent Office Accountability
Robert Rines
- The Patent Office in Cold Fusion
Experimental Strides in New Alternative Clean Energy
Systems
Ken Shoulders
- Charge Clusters and the Hutchinson Effect
Peter Graneau
- Alternative Energy using Latent Energy of Water
Brian Ahern
- Catalyzed Combustion for High Efficiency and Reduced Emissions
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