Steve,
In regard to #9 on your list of subjects 2008 DARPA Document: LENR Research Budgeted You say "Hidden deep inside a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency budget justification document is a notice <http://newenergytimes.com/v2/news/2009/Darpa2008.pdf> for LENR funding. It's on page 18 in the pdf or page 216 in the original document: "determine the correlation between excess heat observations and production of nuclear by-products." You just need to know where to look -- or know an insider at DARPA to help you out." My reading of this is slightly different from yours. Actually it is very different, if you throw in the bit about General Atomic, and let you imagination run rampant with JASON involvement .. OTOH if you had the help of a DARPA insider, then you are probably correct (let's hope not being played?) Anyway, I think this paragraph you site relates solely to a process called MISER, and that the LENR situation might have been an inadvertent finding, such as possibly from a prior report in that program, where maybe there was an energy anomaly - which they are now trying to understand using LENR as a hypothesis/ Of course, I could be reading too much into this ;-) It can be noted that the contractor for MISER is General Atomic. In 2008 they were to demonstrate a pilot-scale Mobile Integrated Sustainable Energy Recovery (MISER) process for converting waste to 5 kilowatts electric power, and then to scale up to 60 kW. I looks to me like - somewhere during the course of this work, the contractor found an excursion into an excess heat regime. Since they are located not far from SPAWAR - this might be the "how and why" they were inclined to link it to LENR. Probably a coincidence, but it could be a situation calling for more investigative journalism . if you can dodge the spooks, and if not - hey, work on your tan. Not a bad place to visit. According to Wiki: General Atomics was conceived in 1955 at San Diego, California for the purpose of harnessing the power of nuclear technologies for the benefit of the United States of America. It was founded as the General Atomic division of General Dynamics. It was sold to Gulf Oil and renamed Gulf General Atomic. In 1973, it was renamed General Atomic Company when Shell was a partner. Shell left the venture in 1982 and Gulf named it GA Technologies Inc. Chevron purchased Gulf in 1984. Then: In 1986, it was sold to a company owned by Neal Blue and Linden Blue when it assumed its current name. http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2001/jul/12/general-atomics-color-it-blue / This is where the spooks, JASON and all that, may have entered the picture. If you believe in that kind of stuff. Hey, maybe Morgan Freeman got his start down there. It would make a clever sequel to "Chain Reaction". The initial projects at GA were the TRIGA nuclear reactor and Project Orion. In 1978, it published a pamphlet for new employees that stated, in part, that "we expect to have several commercial fusion reactors online and producing electricity by the year 2000." In 2007, General Atomics was developing a next generation nuclear power plant design, the Gas Turbine Modular Helium Reactor (GT-MHR). They also make the Predator. Well this tale of chain-reactions could get curiouser and curiouser .. Jones
