That sure is a hell of a lot of money and time to do calorimetry. Either the effect is extremely small, or the apparatus to produce it is extremely complex, or there may be some misrepresentation going on (to put it very politely).
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 02:29:40PM +0000, Taylor J. Smith wrote: > >Hi All, 12-1-08 > >What are your thoughts on "The Quantum Fusion Hypothesis" >by Robert E. Godes in ISSUE 82, November/December 2008, >of "Infinite Energy"? > >http://www.infinite-energy.com/ > >The article is not online, where all I could find is the >enclosed below. > >Jack Smith > >-------------- > >http://electronicdesign.com/Articles/Index.cfm'AD=1&ArticleID=15870 > >Robert Godes of http://profusionenergy.com/ wrote: > >``Here is some food for thought. The DOE has established a >huge feeding trough full of Other Peoples Money, (OPM) >pronounced opium, to which they are fully addicted. >There are more promising alternative paths to hot fusion >than ITER. See work involving Boron 11 +H and there is >even more progress being made in LENR reactors. > >Try as they did, they did not completely kill the misnamed >'Cold Fusion' technology. I say misnamed because the >physics underlying it is fully described in a patent >application publishing on September 6th 2007, U.S. Patent >Application No. 11/617,632. > >I quit my day job in 2005 to start Profusion Energy, which >will license the IP to build and produce products that >will use what Profusion Energy calls 'Quantum Fusion'. We >already have devices; yes multiple repeatable devices, >that work reliably in an open container. We are currently >looking for someone who can work out the math involved >with the molecular Hamiltonian, for a white paper on >the subject. > >We are also looking for an angel ... investor, as family >and friends ... have taken it about as far as it can be >taken in an open container. An investment of $2M will get >my team in to an adequately equipped lab and allow us to >collect hard calorimeter data on energy production in 12 >to 18 months. An investment of $500K would allow me to >rent lab space and get the equipment necessary to start >collecting data by myself. At this level of funding it will >take two to three years to collect the required data.'' > >Robert Godes, August 30, 2007 >
