I suggest the following wording of the letter:
Ed
The Honorable Senator Obama,
In view of your interest in developing new, nonpolluting energy
sources, the undersigned would like to call your attention to a source
that has been largely ignored, but has huge potential.
Over the last 20 years, a way to causes a fusion reaction between
deuterium atoms in solid materials has been explored in laboratories
world-wide and found to be much more efficient and cheaper than the
usual hot fusion (ITER) method.
This method is still not sufficiently understood to be applied, but
the potential is so great that we are asking for your support in
encouraging government funding to help achieve this understanding.
You or your staff can obtain more information at the site www.LENR.org
and from many books about the subject that are listed on the site.
Your staff may also contact any of the signers of this letter.
Respectfully yours,
signed
On Nov 4, 2008, at 1:07 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
[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
