Just now, he sent me this: Jed, This was my short reply yesterday to Dr. Boysen. I read about Dr. Boysen on the ARPA-E site, and he had some past connection with MIT. Mel Miles
Dr. Melvin H. Miles 807 W. Mamie Ridgecrest, CA 93555 melmil...@juno.com --------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Melvin H Miles <melmil...@juno.com> To: dane.boy...@hq.doe.gov Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 19:48:00 -0800 Subject: Re: ARPA-E Open Ideas Dr. Boysen: Thank you for your prompt reply that saves me from doing the useless task of preparing my "Open Ideas" concept. I think that there will eventually be interest at DOE in cold fusion, but this will not be anytime soon. Meanwhile, investigations continue in many countries including a $5 million program at the University of Missouri. Dr. Melvin H. Miles On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 13:39:29 -0500 "Boysen, Dane" <dane.boy...@hq.doe.gov> writes: > We are not really interested in cold fusion type concepts--this was > included to capture ideas that might be more akin to muon-fusion. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Melvin H Miles [mailto:melmil...@juno.com] > Sent: Monday, January 27, 2014 11:37 PM Eastern Standard Time > To: Boysen, Dane > Subject: ARPA-E Open Ideas > > Dr. Boysen: > I have looked over the ARPA-E "Open Innovative Development In > Energy-Related Applied Science (Open Ideas) issued September 27, > 2013. > On page 7, Section 3.6 it states "low-energy nuclear reactions". > Does > this statement include cold fusion proposals? The statement, > "LENR" is > often used by people in the cold fusion field. However, I have > also > heard that this refers to a certain type of nuclear studies but not > cold > fusion. Could you clarify this for me? > > From 1990 to 1995 I carried out cold fusion research at the Navy > laboratory at China Lake, and I was the first to show a > correlation > between the excess heat and the production of helium-4. I am now > retired > from China Lake, but I am affiliated with the University of La > Verne. I > have a possible concept, but I do not want to waste my time on a > proposal > if there is no real interest by ARPA-E in anything related to cold > fusion. > > Incidently, I was asked to write a chapter on cold fusion for a > book > that will honor Martin Fleischmann's many major contributions to > electrochemistry and science. This book will be published by Wiley > around August of this year. I hope this chapter will prove useful > in > providing Martin the credit he deserves for his efforts in cold > fusion > and perhaps help to change the misunderstanding about this topic. > > Mel Miles > > Dr. Melvin H. Miles > 807 W. Mamie > Ridgecrest, CA 93555 > melmil...@juno.com >