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
>

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