Hope this works Jed, or at least makes people aware.
Ed
On Sep 25, 2008, at 2:00 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
See:
http://www.project10tothe100.com/index.html
I submitted an application to this project. Not expecting a
response, but anyway, I have covered this.
In the application form field #11, "Describe your idea in more
depth. (maximum 300 words)" I wrote the following:
Cold fusion (the Fleischmann-Pons effect) is a nuclear effect that
was replicated by Los Alamos, BARC and hundreds of other major
laboratories worldwide. These replications were published in
hundreds of mainstream, peer-reviewed journal papers. Cold fusion
has produced temperatures and power density equivalent to a fission
reactor core. It has produced hundreds of watts of heat from a
device the same SIZE of a coin, and 10,000 times more energy than
any possible chemical fuel. It has to potential to produce energy
thousands of times cheaper than fossil fuel, with no carbon dioxide
emissions, virtually no pollution, and unlimited supplies of fuel.
Unfortunately, the research cannot be funded in the U.S. because of
academic politics, opposition by funding agencies, and ridicule by a
few major magazines and newspapers. Department of Energy (DoE)
advisory panels have twice recommended that a modicum of research be
funded, but the DoE has ignored this advice. It is time for the
public to demand that scientists who wish to investigate this
phenomenon be funded and allowed to do so.
We advocate budgeting a few million dollars per year in basic
research at National Laboratories and universities. If promising
devices emerge, budgets should be increased to allow rapid
development. Experts at the Naval Research Laboratory estimate that
cold fusion can be fully developed and commercialized for roughly
$300 million to $600 million, which is what it cost to develop
similar surface effect, solid-state devices such as the Aegis radar.
Our web site features a bibliography of 3,500 research papers on
cold fusion (including more than 1,000 peer-reviewed ones) and the
full text from 500 papers. Our purpose is to provide accurate,
original source information to the scientific community, and to
educate the public about the vital need for this research. See lenr-
canr.org
