NEW ENERGY
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2004 -- Issue #7
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Table of Contents:
New Book on Cold Fusion Available Now
U.S. Department of Energy 2004 Cold Fusion Review
11th International Conference on Cold Fusion,
Marseilles, France
Cold Fusion in the News
Speakers Available - Experts on the Subject of Cold
Fusion
Recent Updates to the New
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New Book on Cold Fusion
Available Now
The Rebirth of Cold Fusion: Real Science, Real Hope, Real
Energy by Steven B. Krivit and Nadine Winocur, Psy.D., Foreword
by Sir Arthur C. Clarke
The Rebirth of Cold Fusion informs the general public about the science
and significance of this new field of energy research. The original
promise of cold fusion - nuclear energy in a tabletop device without
harmful radiation - has gained increasing credibility with scientists
around the world who have now replicated it hundreds of times through a
variety of methods. Through investigative reports and firsthand
interviews with cold fusion researchers and critics, this book vividly
portrays how the social and political environment failed to support
scientific objectivity and resulted in the premature rejection of what
may, in fact, turn out to be the planet's greatest hope for
survival.
http://www.newenergytimes.com/
U.S. Department of Energy
2004 Cold Fusion Review
Researchers and science journalists from around the world
continue to wait for a conclusion from the 2004 Department of Energy Cold
Fusion Review. On Oct. 29, Dr. James Decker, Deputy Directory of the
DOE'S Office of Science wrote, "We have the reports of 18 reviewers
which I received last Wednesday before going on travel. Some of
those reports were received later than anticipated. We are carefully
sorting through the reviewers' comments. Some time ago, we had a
media inquiry that we answered by saying we would release something by
the end of the year. I was optimistic in thinking we could get
something out this month. I assure you I am working to achieve a
release as soon as possible." Decker had also indicated that
his current hope for release of a conclusion was during the month of
November, but that his priority was to insure that DOE's conclusion was
an accurate and fair representation of the various reviewers, rather than
to rush to achieve a specific deadline.
An interesting twist to the anticipated completion of this review
is the Nov. 15, 2004 announcement of the resignation of Energy Secretary
Spencer Abraham. According to Reuters, Abraham will stay on until a
successor is in place. It was Abraham who took the initiative to receive
the interest from the cold fusion community and subsequently task the
Office of Science to look into the current status of cold fusion. It has
been expected that any announcement from DOE regarding the review would
originate from Abraham's office after receiving input from Decker's
Office.
http://olympics.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=6815097
New Energy Times (tm) is pleased to present a new web page dedicated to
the publicly-known information about the 2004 U.S. Department of Energy
Cold Fusion Review, as well as the original 1989 review. The page
includes an audio recording, notes from a slide presentation, 8 full-text
papers, and excerpts from The Rebirth of Cold Fusion. The slide
presentation includes, among other details, the names of 11 of the 18
reviewers of this years' review. The other reviewers' names remain
secret.
http://www.newenergytimes.com/doe/doe.htm
11th International
Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science
(ICCF-11), Marseilles-Luminy, France
Continuing the 15-year tradition which has sustained the body of
accumulated knowledge in the field of cold fusion and low energy nuclear
reactions, the ICCF-11 conference took place on Oct. 31 through Nov. 5,
2004. The conference was hosted by Jean Paul Biberian, a professor at the
University of Marseilles-Luminy, France, and Vittorio Violante a
researcher at ENEA Frascati, Italy. Brian Josephson, 1973 Nobel Prize
winner in physics, also gave a talk on "Good and Bad Ways of Doing
Science." The conference was held in Marseilles, France.
ICCF is the largest scientific conference in the world devoted
exclusively to cold fusion/condensed matter nuclear science. The
conference is held once every 12 to 14 months, and rotates between North
America, the European continent, and Asia. Scientists from 21
nations and 5 continents attended ICCF-11. Detailed reports of the
conference will be presented in subsequent newsletters. Abstracts are now
on-line. Thank you for your patience.
http://www.newenergytimes.com/iccf11/iccf11.htm
Cold Fusion in the
News
IEEE Spectrum: Cold Fusion Back From the Dead, by
Justin Mullins
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/resource/sep04/0904nfus.html
"Later this month, the U.S. Department of Energy will receive a
report from a panel of experts on the prospects for cold fusion the
supposed generation of thermonuclear energy using tabletop apparatus.
It's an extraordinary reversal of fortune: more than a few heads turned
earlier this year when James Decker, the deputy director of the DOE's
Office of Science, announced that he was initiating the review of cold
fusion science. Back in November 1989, it had been the department's own
investigation that determined the evidence behind cold fusion was
unconvincing. Clearly, something important has changed to grab the
department's attention now." [Note: "thermonuclear"
is misleading, and should simply read "nuclear."]
Nashua Telegraph: Science With Attitude, by Dave Brooks
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040519/COLUMNISTS03/205190305
(In this article, Mr. Brooks discusses the future of the New Energy
Foundation and Infinite Energy magazine, which were founded by the
recently deceased cold fusion advocate, Eugene Mallove.)
Bill Zebuhr, president of Nashua-based Ovation Products, was a friend of
Mallove and chairman of the board of directors of the New Energy
Foundation, a nonprofit that Mallove founded. The future of that
foundation and Infinite Energy magazine are up in the air. "The plan
is to keep everything going, best we can. We'll change, but we'll do what
we can, Zebuhr said. He admitted, though, that one of the Granite States
more unusual institutions is in for hard times. "Gene was unique.
You can't replace him," Zebuhr said.
Telopolis: The return of Cold Fusion?, by Haiko Lietz
http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/co/18580/1.html
After 15 years of uncertainty, Cold Fusion is possibly close to its
breakthrough. Many dozens of researchers from all over the world claim to
have measured the fusion of nuclei at room temperature. A review of the
accumulated evidence by the US Department of Energy is about to be
finished. Researchers, who have steadily worked on the subject, wish for
recognition that low energy nuclear reactions represent a legitimate
scientific field of inquiry.
Speakers Available
- Experts on the Subject of Cold Fusion
Steven B. Krivit - General audiences (Founder of New Energy
Times and co-author of The Rebirth of Cold Fusion)
Charles G. Beaudette - Academic audiences (Author of Excess Heat and
Why Cold Fusion Research Prevailed, 2nd Ed.)
David J. Nagel - Government and Military audiences (Key participant in
the 2004 DOE Cold Fusion Review)
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"Pathological Disbelief:" Lecture by Brian
Josephson, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge
Lecture given at the Nobel Laureatesmeeting Lindau, June 30th.,
2004
http://www.newenergytimes.com/library/2004JosephsonB-LindauLecture.pdf
The 2004 U.S. Department of Energy Cold Fusion Review
http://www.newenergytimes.com/doe/doe.htm
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