Reply #73: The upcoming DOE review of cold fusion is pivotal

[Mallove Fan 71]

For starters, check out New Energy Times and get acquainted with the history of this important scientific discovery. The Cold Fusion Report is as much a harrowing tale of survival as it is a documentary about a new branch of nuclear science with the potential to change the world.

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Carl Sagan once said that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Unfortunately, the early claims by Fleischmann and Pons were weak at best. Not only did the two University of Utah chemists fail to provide satisfactory evidence for their assertion of a nuclear reaction, but they could not reproduce the experiment on demand. Within half a year, the scientific community pronounced cold fusion a hoax and accused Fleischmann and Pons of practicing "pseudo-science." The two returned to relative obscurity, and their claim seemed to fade into history.
In truth, however, not only has experimentation into the viability of cold fusion persisted in the years since, but a worldwide scientific group now believes that cold fusion is real. Today, 15 years after the initial announcement of cold fusion, evidence for this new science is extraordinary. While theoretical understanding remains incomplete, scientists' capacity to replicate the experimental heat-generating effect has matured dramatically. Virtually all points of initial criticism have been answered.
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Also, you simply must read Dr. Mallove’s New Energy FAQs to get a comprehensive look at the major developments in energy sciences that you never hear about on the nightly news.

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… Despite the great accomplishments of modern official science, we have concluded that its organizations and journals are significantly mired in obsolete science and technology paradigms that are holding back progress; we hope that you will come to appreciate this. (If, in fact, that is not your opinion already!) The existence of New Energy R&D around the world and its under-reporting and mis-characterization by the "mainstream" scientific media is evidence of a profound paradigm paralysis.

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Our RW friends, in their furor to maintain the status quo, have opened the door for other nations to replace us as THE world superpower. Japan, Italy, France and China - just to name a few - have gotten the jump on us with a host of new technologies that are tapping into the far corners of our understanding of physics. They fully fund the research and grant the patents necessary to bring these technologies to market. The US suppresses the science, chokes out the innovators by denying research funds, and laughs them off the airwaves because our establishment scientists are either bought off or entrenched in their own paradigm. They don’t even look at the evidence anymore because they are so sure they’re right!!! (Does this remind you of anyone?!)

The DOE review came about because of the success of the Tenth International Conference on Cold Fusion

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The initiative that helped launch the impending review was a letter to U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham from MIT Professor Peter Hagelstein, a cold fusion theorist since 1989. Prof. Hagelstein chaired ICCF10, the Tenth International Conference on Cold Fusion, which was held in Cambridge, MA and in part at MIT, August 24-29, 2003. Solid demonstrations of excess power in electrolytic cells were exhibited on the MIT campus by two scientific groups. It was shortly after ICCF10 that Prof. Hagelstein wrote to Spencer Abraham.

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I don’t pretend to know how Hagelstein convinced Spencer Abraham to re-review Cold Fusion. I hope it was on the merits of the experiments themselves. Therefore, I hope it is given a fair review this time around. It could solve a whole host of problems “over there”.