Mel gave me permission to copy this here.
For those thinking of submitting cold fusion concepts to ARPA-E, please read this exchange. Mel Miles ________________________________________ From: Melvin H Miles [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 10:53 AM To: Iraj Parchamazad Cc: [email protected]; Mel Miles Subject: Fw: Re: ARPA-E Open Ideas Well, here is the answer. ARPA-E is not interested in cold fusion type concepts. Dr. Melvin H. Miles 807 W. Mamie Ridgecrest, CA 93555 [email protected] --------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Boysen, Dane" <[email protected]> To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 13:39:29 -0500 Subject: Re: ARPA-E Open Ideas Message-ID: <[email protected]> We are not really interested in cold fusion type concepts--this was included to capture ideas that might be more akin to muon-fusion. ----- Original Message ----- From: Melvin H Miles [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, January 27, 2014 11:37 PM Eastern Standard Time To: Boysen, Dane Subject: ARPA-E Open Ideas Dr. Boysen: I have looked over the ARPA-E "Open Innovative Development In Energy-Related Applied Science (Open Ideas) issued September 27, 2013. On page 7, Section 3.6 it states "low-energy nuclear reactions". Does this statement include cold fusion proposals? The statement, "LENR" is often used by people in the cold fusion field. However, I have also heard that this refers to a certain type of nuclear studies but not cold fusion. Could you clarify this for me? >From 1990 to 1995 I carried out cold fusion research at the Navy laboratory at China Lake, and I was the first to show a correlation between the excess heat and the production of helium-4. I am now retired from China Lake, but I am affiliated with the University of La Verne. I have a possible concept, but I do not want to waste my time on a proposal if there is no real interest by ARPA-E in anything related to cold fusion. Incidently, I was asked to write a chapter on cold fusion for a book that will honor Martin Fleischmann's many major contributions to electrochemistry and science. This book will be published by Wiley around August of this year. I hope this chapter will prove useful in providing Martin the credit he deserves for his efforts in cold fusion and perhaps help to change the misunderstanding about this topic. Mel Miles Dr. Melvin H. Miles 807 W. Mamie Ridgecrest, CA 93555 [email protected]
