Ah, this is good. This is what I was looking for. No doubt they will
be swamped with millions of letters, but perhaps mine will get
through. It is worth sending an e-mail.
I have put on hold the idea of publishing this letter on
LENR-CANR.org because there is no interest on the part of researchers
and I do not want it to appear under my name alone. The researchers
have credibility, but I do not.
Below is the latest and probably last version of the letter, which I
just posted to this website. I hope there are no typos, although I
suppose it would look more authentic if there were.
Ed Storms contributed to this but I take full responsibility for it.
If there are mistakes or assertions people do not agree with, he is
not to blame. I think he is happy with the statement about
"temperatures and power density."
- Jed
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I call your attention to a source of energy that has been largely
ignored, but has huge potential: cold fusion (the Fleischmann-Pons effect).
This is a fusion reaction between deuterium atoms in solid materials.
Over the last 20 years, it has been explored in laboratories
world-wide and found to be much more efficient and cheaper than the
conventional plasma fusion (ITER) method. It has produced thousands
of times more energy per gram of fuel than any chemical reaction, and
it can probably generate millions of times more. In some experiments,
it has reached temperatures and power density comparable to the core
of a conventional fission reactor.
This method is still not sufficiently understood to be scaled up or
commercialized, but the potential is great. Government funding is
needed to help achieve this understanding. Senior researchers at
National Laboratories, the U. S. Navy and other government
laboratories have done outstanding cold fusion research in the past,
and they would like to do more, but they have not been adequately funded.
Technical details about cold fusion, including hundreds of
peer-reviewed scientific papers from mainstream journals, can be
found at this website:
http://lenr-canr.org/
