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From: Remy C. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: endsecrecy list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [endsecrecy] Cold Fusion & Patent Office
Date: Friday, September 10, 1999 9:19 AM
Date: 6 August 1999
From: Hal Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hal Fox
President, Fusion Information Center
INVESTIGATION OF PATENT OFFICE
Special Agent Kimberlee Taylor
Office of the Inspector General
Commerce Department
Room 7614
14th and Constitution, NW
Washington, DC 20230
Phone 202-482-0909
Fax 202-501-0710
Due to complaints about the reluctance of the Office of Patents and
Trademarks to allow any patent applications for cold fusion, or low-energy
nuclear reactions to be processed beyond being rejected, an investigation
has been ordered.
Special Agent Kimberlee Taylor has been asked to get information about the
complaints against the actions of the Office of Patents and Trademarks and
report back to her supervisor. Dr. Mitchell Swartz has sent 35 pounds of
papers, books, and 3 videos to Ms. Taylor. Hal Fox has written a four-page
summary of the events that have attempted to dismiss cold fusion as bad
science.
It is believed that this investigation has been caused by citizens writing
to their elected officials (Senators and Members of Congress). It is
further strongly suggested that the best possible help for the support of
this investigation will be a considerable expression of concern from our
Senators and Members of Congress.
PLEASE WRITE THE MEMBER OF CONGRESS FROM YOUR DISTRICT AND BOTH SENATORS
FROM YOUR STATE. Send a copy to Ms. Kimberlee Taylor.
A brief summary of the history of the attempts to stop the development of
cold fusion is posted at ????? [ check http://www.padrak.com/ine ]
(Dr. Bailey put in a hot button or something and post the attachment)
Please help this important investigation by sharing this message with
everyone you can, especially via the internet. Here are salient features:
The United States is the only nation to deny inventors the right to patent
cold fusion and low-energy nuclear reactions inventions. Why?
Of over 3,000 technical papers on cold fusion (many theory and review
papers) over 600 papers from over 200 scientific laboratories from
precisely 30 countries have reported success in replicating or extending
the original discovery of Professors Pons and Fleischmann.
Over 100 cold fusion (new-hydrogen energy) patents have issued in Japan.
Seven international conferences have been held on cold fusion with an
estimated 200 or more scientists attending each conference. Is it
conceivable that all of this time and effort by world-class scientists
would be spent on a scientific fraud?
Two groups offer kits for sale with MONEY-BACK GUARANTEES of success.
Professor John Dash is preparing to sell cold fusion kits to high schools.
His summer classes for entering science students and interested high-school
students have had successful cold fusion experiments every summer for
several years.
The person in the Office of Patents and Trademarks who is the supervisor of
the activity to handle the class of inventions that include cold fusion and
low-energy nuclear reactions is Harvey Bhrendt. He is reported to state
that cold fusion is not real because there are no commercial products on
the market. Perhaps he hasn't heard about the products that are being
offered for sale with a money-back guarantee. Perhaps he realizes that it
is very difficult to commercial a product without patent protection.
The big issue is the denial to U.S. inventors of their constitutional
rights to the protection of their inventions!
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Here is the background information faxed to Special Agent Taylor:
Dear Ms. Kimberlee Taylor,
We have been informed that you are interested in information regarding cold
fusion and low-energy nuclear reactions and the policy of the Office of
Patents and Trademarks with respect to patent applications. The following
information may be of some interest:
A. BACKGROUND
As the director of the first research laboratory at the University of Utah
Research Park, I was intensely interested in the March 23, 1989
announcement of cold fusion called by the University of Utah administration
(not called by Pons and Fleischmann). The announcement of a new source of
energy was most exciting to me. That day I began the plans for trying to be
of some help (systems engineering background, missile system specialist for
several years). By mid April 1989 we had organized the Fusion Information
Center and obtained offices at the University of Utah Research Park.
By July 1989, we had decided that information gathering and publishing such
information would be our best role. Our first edition of Fusion Facts was
published in July 1989 and continued as a monthly publication for several
years before being incorporated as a part of the Journal of New Energy, a
peer-reviewed, quarterly, scientific journal (abstracted from the first
issue by Chemical Abstracts -- the world's foremost scientific abstracting
organization).
B. THE ATTACKS ON COLD FUSION
By the fall of 1989 it was apparent that someone had organized and was
carrying out a campaign against the new technology of cold fusion. Here are
the facts, insofar, as we have been able to gather and publish the facts.
Please note that all of this was done in secrecy (except for the ERAB sub
committee).
A subcommittee of the Energy Research Advisory Board traveled to various
laboratories where successes in cold fusion had been claimed. If the
research was measuring neutrons, they were told that it was background
radiation. If the researcher was getting tritium, they were told that it
was contamination. If excess heat was being produced, they were told that
they didn't have proper calorimetry. Except for one small paragraph in the
ERAB final report, demanded by one of the honest members of the committee,
the report was entirely negative about cold fusion.
An arrangement was made for someone in the Office of Patents (any type of
coercion or reward is unknown) to ensure that no cold fusion patent
application was accepted for patenting. Each person, as far as we have been
able to determine, was sent the same information: a copy of a newspaper
article from the New York Times saying that cold fusion doesn't work; a
copy of the paper by 16 Ph.D.s from MIT stating that they could not
replicate cold fusion (this is the paper where the authors removed the data
showing that they did get a small amount of excess heat).
A person (representing powers-that-be in Washington, D.C.) called many of
the physics and chemistry departments at major universities in the United
States. Here was his message as relayed to me from one such department: "If
you have so much as a graduate student working on cold fusion, you will get
no contracts out of Washington."
All editors of the major scientific journals were contacted and were
instructed not to publish articles on cold fusion. All editors but one then
set up barriers against cold fusion publications. The one editor who did
not accept that type of instruction was Professor George Miley, editor
until this year of Fusion Technology, the international journal of the
American Nuclear Society.
An amount of $30,000 (or $40,000 - different sources) was given to Random
House to have a "hatchet job" done against cold fusion. The result was the
widely acclaimed (by orchestration) book by Gary Taubes, BAD SCIENCE, THE
SHORT LIFE AND WEIRD TIMES OF COLD FUSION, c1993. For one knowledgeable
about the cold fusion developments, it is obvious that this book was a
deliberate hatchet job.
In addition to the above well-orchestrated activities, some appointed, or
self-appointed scientists have been very active in traveling to
conventions, etc. and doing their best to challenge any positive cold
fusion results. Two of these are (were) Dr. Douglas R.O. Morrison (CERN,
Switzerland) and Professor John R. Huizenga of University of Rochester
(chairman of the ERAB sub committee, if my memory is correct).
One of the most active protagonists has been Robert Parks, with some
association with the American Physical Society. (The current president of
the American Physical Society, in a recent conversation, denies that Robert
Parks speaks for the society.) Parks was instrumental in preventing a
recent conference from being held in a proffered auditorium in a government
facility. Parks has an email list of many people in the DOE and about once
a month or more often sends out statements that ridicule any cold fusion or
low-energy nuclear reaction experiments, papers, books, etc.
Please recognize that this anti-cold-fusion program was a very-well,
planned and orchestrated scheme to destroy cold fusion. These were clever
and well-done operations. We have been told that were it not for Fusion
Facts and its rapid exchange of information of successes in various parts
of the world, cold fusion would have been dead. That is more credit than we
deserve.
C. THE COLLECTION OF PROFESSIONAL PAPERS
The Fusion Information Center, Inc. is believed to have accumulated the
world's largest collection of papers on cold nuclear fusion, new-hydrogen
energy (the Japanese label), low-energy nuclear reactions, and other
enhanced energy papers. We have collected and reviewed over 3,000 papers on
cold fusion and low-energy nuclear reactions, read the papers, written
reviews, and published the reviews. Over 600 papers from over 200
laboratories in 30 countries report some successes in replicating or
extending the original work of Pons and Fleischmann. Dr. Mitchell Swartz
and I have presented papers on this extensive review of the literature.
In addition, this office has published New Energy News, for the past six
years. All members of the Institute of New Energy receive this newsletter.
In addition, beginning in January 1996, this office began publishing the
Journal of New Energy, a quarterly, peer-reviewed, scientific journal. The
reason was the lack of professional journals that would publish some of the
new-energy and new-science papers. For example, we have published six
papers about torsion field fluctuations which report on formerly
highly-secret work done by over 25 laboratories in the former USSR. This
journal has published two issues providing the proceedings of two
International Conferences on Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions.
All of this published information (Fusion Facts, New Energy News, & Journal
of New Energy), covering a ten-year period, has now been published on a
CD-ROM. If a copy of this CD-ROM would be of interest to you, we would be
pleased to send you a copy.
D. THE ROLE OF THE DOE
As is well-known, political appointees to government agencies come and go
but the real work of the agency is accomplished by the network of civil
servants who bear the burden of continuing and exercising the Congressional
mandates for their offices.
Here is a summary of the current situation in DOE:
The DOE is required by law to handle the disposition of all high-level
nuclear wastes including weapons-related liquid wastes (such as at the
Hanford Site, Washington state) and the spent-fuel pellets from nuclear
power plants and from nuclear submarines. In about 1993 or 1994 a contact
was given to the National Research Council to prepare a study on the best
methods for separation and/or transmutation of nuclear wastes. The result
was the following large publication printed and distributed in
1996: Nuclear Wastes: Technologies for Separations and Transmutation,
Committee on Separations Technology and Transmutation Systems, Board on
Radioactive Waste Management, Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and
Resources, National Research Council, published by National Academy Press,
Washington, D.C. c1996 by the National Academy of Sciences.
It is not known if the contract was awarded with counsel and advice on the
expected outcome. However, the end result was a statement to the effect
that there is no known method of handling radioactive wastes that is more
cost-effective than geologic storage. That has been and still is the major
objective of the DOE - geologic storage. Any proposals that claim to have
new technology that will stabilize high-level radioactive wastes are
rejected. In one DOE document asking for proposals, it was explicitly
stated that no cold fusion proposals would be accepted.
Several laboratories, included our own, have demonstrated that there is
technology that appears to be effective in transmuting radioactive wastes.
None of this work, to our knowledge, is government funded. Apparently, the
network of those opposing cold fusion and other low-energy nuclear
reactions is most effective throughout the DOE as well as in the
appropriate division of the Office of Patents. It is believed that this
opposition group is mainly related to the hot-fusion community of scholars
and lobbyists and that the activities are being largely supported by
federal funds provided to the hot fusion community.
/s/ Hal Fox
President, Fusion Information Center
[for more info also see http://www.infinite-energy.com ]
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