[Okay, folks. Let's get serious about this. Anyone who would like to
sign it, or change it and than sign it, should contact me. I will be
a victory celebration party starting at 6:30 p.m., but let's get this
uploaded tomorrow. - Jed]
Open Letter to President-elect Obama:
Cold fusion (the Fleischmann-Pons effect) has been replicated by
hundreds of scientists, and these replications have been published in
roughly 1000 peer-reviewed papers in mainstream journals.
Researchers are confident that this is a nuclear effect because it
has produced as much as 10,000 times more energy per gram of fuel
than any chemical reaction can, and no chemical ash has ever been
discovered in a cell. It can probably produce millions of times more
energy than any chemical reaction. It has reached temperatures and
power density equal to the core of a conventional fission reactor. At
present, the reaction cannot easily be reproduced or controlled, but
if researchers learn to control it, it may become a practical source
of energy. It will have profound advantages over all other sources of
energy: it produces virtually no pollution or radioactive byproducts;
the fuel is inexhaustible; and the cost will be far cheaper than any
alternative such as coal, nuclear or wind power.
We urge the federal government to allocate between $5 and $10 million
a year to this research. Many senior researchers at National
laboratories and the U. S. Navy would like to perform cold fusion
research, but they have not been funded.
Technical details about cold fusion, including hundreds of scientific
papers, can be found at this website, LENR-CANR.org
