Jed,
I disagree with your repeated comments about the "experts" understanding
global warming.
I wrote "There is nothing unusual about the weather." If you follow the
link you will see that is true.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/11/29/climate-and-human-civilization-over-the-last-18000-years-2/
Not to mention that the satellite temperature measurements show no
increase for the last ~19 years which falsifies the IPCC model projections.
Likewise, THE government expertise in energy is supposed to reside in
the Dept of Energy. I have had an extended discussions with them about
LENR and can confirm that the universal consensus there is that LENR is
impossible because there is now way of overcoming the Coulomb barrier at
low temperature. I have a friend there that tries to bring up the
subject, but he is told to shut up as LENR is pseudo science. Experts
are not immune from group-think.
In frustration I wrote the following letter on 7/7/2015. I have not
received a reply.
To Dr. Ernest Moniz - Secretary of Energy
Dear Dr. Moniz,
I read that you have been closely associated with DOE and MIT for many
years. Why have both those organizations ignored LENR (aka cold fusion)?
In fact both were involved in the infanticide of that field in 1989 –
1990. May I suggest you read the few pages by Beaudette linked here to
see why that was a mistake?
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/BeaudetteCexcessheat.pdf
See also the special section on LENR in /Current Science,/ starting with
McKubre’s paper.
http://www.currentscience.ac.in/php/feat.php?feature=Special%20Section:%20Low%20Energy%20Nuclear%20Reactions&featid=10094
The game changed after Andrea Rossi contacted Prof Focardi in 2007 and
he demonstrated a reactor called the E-Cat (Energy Catalyzer) in 2011
that was capable of generating kW of heat. Developed with his own
funds, some details of the design were not released. The refusal of the
Patent Office to consider patents on cold fusion – thanks to DOE staff –
didn’t help.
In 2013-2014 ELFORSK (Swedish equivalent of EPRI) tested the later high
temperature E-Cat twice at Lugano. The second time for a month, when it
produced 1.5 MW of excess heat. Late last year and again this year Dr.
Parkhomov replicated the Lugano test in Russia. Reported at the ICCF-19
Conference.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/242284200/Observation-of-abundant-heat-production-from-a-reactor-device-and-of-isotopic-changes-in-the-fuel
Rossi sold the rights for the E-Cat to Industrial Heat LLC over a year
ago. They have built a 1 MW thermal LENR plant that has been operating
for 137 days (/now 9 months/)as part of a one year trial. Norway's
largest newspaper Aftenposten has reported they have expert third party
confirmation that it is operating well Other independent reports are
that it is running well with a COP of 20 – 80(!) Photos of the plant
http://andrea-rossi.com/1mw-plant/
LENR is proven beyond reasonable doubt. Some of your people like NASA
Chief Scientist Dennis Bushnell endorse it but DOE doesn’t. From direct
experience of DOE (eg. cleaning up the radwaste at Hanford – we would
have finished by now) I don’t expect DOE to help, but you should
re-evaluate money you are spending on renewable energy, like ITER and
solar, and fire the group-think physicists who have provided such poor
advice, missing something as important as LENR.
You have been with tasked with implementing critical Department *of
*Energy missions in support of President Obama's goals of growing the
economy, enhancing security and protecting the environment. But by not
even considering cheap, safe, pollution free LENR I think you have
failed in your duty.
Sincerely,
Adrian Ashfield
