At 06:02 AM 9/20/2005, [Johnny C. Johnny] Coviello wrote:
It is simply amazing that Dr. Mitchell Swartz should even mention the word
"plagiarism". In his most recent issue of Cold Fusion Times he put a
story about the Cold Fusion Colloquium at MIT in May 2005 on the front
cover, written by me (John Coviello), co-authored by Steve Krivit (New
Energy Times), which is the property of New Energy Times, and appeared in
that publication first. ...
The excerpt to which Coviello refers was originally taken from an
s.p.f. posting
which is a PUBLIC posting where it appeared first.
Said s.p.f. posting was posted by Coviello on May 23, 2005,
under the pseudonym "Johnny C Johnny" who is John Coviello.
One of his actual s.p.f. posts on this is below
[complete with errors which were corrected in the excerpt].
First, attention is noted that ONLY Coviello's pseudonym was on that public
post.
Second, we would have been glad to give credit for the excerpts to whomever
posted it, but there was only one (1) name on that and the other public
postings.
Third, in this case that attribution appears to have been correct.
Most importantly, the fact remains is that we DID give Coviello credit for
his article
publicly posted on s.p.f. about a conference he attended and about which he
reported.
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From: "JohnnyCJohnny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
Subject: Here's Another Report on the MIT CF Conference
Date: 23 May 2005 08:28:52 -0700
A report on the MIT Cold Fusion Colloquium:
The moderator of this gathering was Dr. Mitchell Swartz, a veteran cold
fusion researcher. His doctoral dissertation at MIT, I was told, was in
electrochemistry. He is also a medical doctor specializing in oncology.
Here is how this one-day colloquium (5/21/05) was described over the
Internet: "Cold Fusion - Science and Technology - plus other Clean
Energy Investigations, with Special Tribute to Dr. Eugene Mallove, '69,
Cold Fusion Investigator and former Chief Science Writer at MIT. Topics
include: Science and Engineering; Discussions of Cold Fusion Materials
Science; Review of Current Literature; Experimental Results;
Understandings of Theories; Device Engineering; Discussion of Future
Developments and Commercialization Potentials. Remembrances of Gene
Mallove by family, friends and colleagues. Lunch included in conference
fees. Free for MIT Students."
The number of participants was about 60 (my own counting); 15% of them,
I was told, were students. The meeting was organized by E-club -- the
MIT Entrepreneurs Club. It is an organization sponsoring workshops
devoted to all aspects of science and technology. They meet weekly. The
event organizer, Dr. Richard Shynduroff, told me that the colloquium
had two purposes; to commemorate Eugene, killed one year ago, and to
expose interested students to the controversial field of cold fission.
The first speaker was David Nagel - the topic of his presentation was
"Evidence that cold fusion involves nuclear reactions." It was a
general review of results on production of helium, tritium, neutrons,
new elements, and x-rays. He emphasized that formation of craters and
hot spo/ts on cathode surfaces (using scanning electron microscopes)
should also be viewed as nuclear signatures. The second presenter was
Ross George; his topic was "Acoustic-induced Cold Fusion
Experiments." Ross has a company <html:/www.d2fusion.com> conducting
practically-oriented research in cold fusion. He described experiments
in which generation of excess heat was shown to be accompanied by the
accumulation of helium (up to levels exceeding natural concentration in
air). Some of his recent sonofusion experiments, generated excess heat
at the level of hundreds of watts.
The third and fourth speakers were John Dash (from the University of
Portland) and Peter Hagelstein (from MIT). Peter is a theoretical
physicist; he said that about 150 different reaction mechanisms have
been proposed, in fifteen years, to model cold fusion. In his opinion
not a single theory emerged as "much better than others." John, who
is a metallurgist, was describing results of his experimental
investigations in the area of nuclear alchemy. Using the secondary ions
mass spectroscopy method (SIMS) he was able to identify several
transmutation products. He also reported on changes in isotopic ratios
but these were results from literature, not from his own
investigations. Kim Yeoung, Tabot Chub, Scott Chub, Robert Bass and
Keith Johnson also talked about theoretical aspects of cold fusion.
Mitch Swartz talked about the electrochemical cell called Phusor. Mitch
Swartz talked about the electrochemical cell called Phusor. The
electrolyte used in this cell has a very low concentration. For that
reason the input power is only several watts then the applied voltage
is thousand volts. The highest rate of excess heat generation,
according to rapidly displayed transparencies, was 3.5 watts. During
the break I heard people saying that the device is now commercially
available; potential users are schools willing to teach cold fusion.
The most interesting part of Swartz's presentation was his discovery
(already described at ICCF10) of the optimal input power. Mitch is
convinced that high current (and thus intensive bubbling) is harmful.
In his cells the current is very small and single bubbles on the
surface of the cathode grow very slowly. But practically useful excess
heat implies large output power; how can high output power be produced
with a device of low input power?
The last presentation that I attended was that of Ken Shoulders. That
item, entitled "EOVs and Hutchinson Effect," can be downloaded, as
a pdf file, from Ken's website at <http://www.svn.net/krscfs/>. The
presentation had three parts. The first was about Hutchinson Effect
(shredding metallic structures without heat and with practically no
mechanical force), the second was about the Ukrainian project of S.V.
Adamenko (see unit # 217), and the third was about his own device --
the EV reactor and cylindrical mass spectrometer. Unfortunately, the
amount of time devoted to the third part was very limited. The speaker
before Ken was Robert Rines, the MIT patent counselor. He reminded the
audience that "in old days" a patent would not be given to an
inventor unless a working model were presented. That is no longer
required. Then he elaborated on difficulties that patent investigators
have in dealing with cold fusion claims.
This website contains other cold fusion items.
http://blake.montclair.edu/~kowalskil/cf/224mit.html
