<http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]&q=from:%22Bob+Cook%22><http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]&q=date:20151103>Bob
Cook wrote: "It would be interesting to read your letter to DOE. Why not
include on Vortex?"
As DOE have failed to reply in about four months, here it is. This after
some years of frustration trying to get DOE to reevaluate LENR. 7/7/2015
To Dr. Ernest Moniz - Secretary of Energy
Dear Dr. Moniz,
I read that you have been closely associated with DOE and MIT for many
years. Why have both those organizations ignored LENR (aka cold fusion)?
In fact both were involved in the infanticide of that field in 1989 –
1990. May I suggest you read the few pages by Beaudette linked here to
see why that was a mistake?
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/BeaudetteCexcessheat.pdf
See also the special section on LENR in /Current Science,/ starting with
McKubre’s paper.
http://www.currentscience.ac.in/php/feat.php?feature=Special%20Section:%20Low%20Energy%20Nuclear%20Reactions&featid=10094
The game changed after Andrea Rossi contacted Prof Focardi in 2007 and
he demonstrated a reactor called the E-Cat (Energy Catalyzer) in 2011
that was capable of generating kW of heat. Developed with his own
funds, some details of the design were not released. The refusal of the
Patent Office to consider patents on cold fusion – thanks to DOE staff –
didn’t help.
In 2013-2014 ELFORSK (Swedish equivalent of EPRI) tested the later high
temperature E-Cat twice at Lugano. The second time for a month, when it
produced 1.5 MW of excess heat. Late last year and again this year Dr.
Parkhomov replicated the Lugano test in Russia. Reported at the ICCF-19
Conference.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/242284200/Observation-of-abundant-heat-production-from-a-reactor-device-and-of-isotopic-changes-in-the-fuel
Rossi sold the rights for the E-Cat to Industrial Heat LLC over a year
ago. They have built a 1 MW thermal LENR plant that has been operating
for 137 days as part of a one year trial. Norway's largest newspaper
Aftenposten has reported they have expert third party confirmation that
it is operating well Other independent reports are that it is running
well with a COP of 20 – 80(!) Photos of the plant
http://andrea-rossi.com/1mw-plant/
LENR is proven beyond reasonable doubt. Some of your people like NASA
Chief Scientist Dennis Bushnell endorse it but DOE doesn’t. From direct
experience of DOE (eg. cleaning up the radwaste at Hanford – we would
have finished by now) I don’t expect DOE to help, but you should
re-evaluate money you are spending on renewable energy, like ITER and
solar, and fire the group-think physicists who have provided such poor
advice, missing something as important as LENR.
You have been with tasked with implementing critical Department *of
*Energy missions in support of President Obama's goals of growing the
economy, enhancing security and protecting the environment. But by not
even considering cheap, safe, pollution free LENR I think you have
failed in your duty.
Sincerely,
Adrian Ashfield
