First commissioned Cold Fusion Now art created on the curb

Tony B. Conscious
Tony B. Conscious makes and sells original art on the street.
Family is finding their way back home after the holiday, and I’m on the beach.

A sunny day in Venice and I come across Tony B. Conscious, a street artist who uses spray paint and magic marker to spread his message of love.

If you don’t find what you like, he’ll make art for you on demand. He had a crowd of passersby purchasing his under $25 creations.

I asked him to make one for me.

He did.

Tony B. Conscious
Tony B. Conscious shows his Cold Fusion Now artwork.
Cold Fusion Now
Cold Fusion Now by Tony B. Conscious, Venice, California street artist

Thanks Tony.  And Happy New Year. MMXI

Tony B. Concscious at www.flydyeart.com

Funding “the future” means funding cold fusion

Investor Peter Thiel co-founded PayPal with Elon Musk, and when they sold it in 2002, they took their millions and moved on.

Peter Thiel
Elon Musk

Elon Musk boldy started his own rocket company SpaceX, as well as Tesla Motors, an electric car company. I used to read Space News, the trade paper of the satellite, launch, and space industry, and I followed the ups and downs of the Falcon rocket for several years, always rooting for the private company that could make space travel accessible in my lifetime.

It was a giant leap from IT to rockets, but Mr. Musk has big ideas, and though his Musk Foundation doesn’t have much online presence, it purports to provide grants in support of “Renewable energy research and advocacy” among other philanthropic concerns.

After PayPal, Mr. Thiel seems to have stuck with Internet related investments using his Clarium Capital, investments including Friendster and Facebook. He’s been wildly successful, but compared to rockets and futuristic electric cars, it’s been …. can I say …more conventional?

But in 2005, he co-founded and became a partner in the Founders Fund, which invests in “ground-breaking idea” companies. SpaceX was a recipient of some $20 million in funding from them. [The Founders Fund takes submissions here].

And on December 2 of this year, the Founders Fund and New Enterprise Associates announced the winners of the second annual TechFellow Awards. These awards are pretty much chip body/IT related, even for the category of Disruptive Technology, a title more deserving for cold fusion than anything else I know of.

But now, it appears that Mr. Thiel is getting the bug for even bolder projects. 

An article entitled Internet guru embraces sci-fi future by Marcus Wohlsen of the Associated Press reports that the hedge fund entrepreneur is looking to “fund breakthrough technology”. From the article:

As venture capital in Silicon Valley chases the next big mobile app or group discount service, Thiel was asking for them to fund technological breakthroughs that some believe in fervently and others see as sheer fantasy.

He even has a name for it: Breakthrough philanthropy.

Instead of just giving to help the less fortunate here and now, Thiel encouraged his fellow moguls to put their money toward seemingly far-fetched ventures that he believes could improve the lives of everyone for good.

A controversial figure for sure, but one who wants to do something big, and has the capacity to follow through.

These are the people we need on the side of cold fusion energy research.

There is no bigger break-through technology than cold fusion.
Cold fusion is the technology that will redefine the human race on Earth AND space.

In the words of Mr. Thiel: “Do we try to pursue ideas that are weird and have optimism about the future, or do we give up on all new things and compromise?”

I’m wondering if he’s up to the cold fusion challenge.. Let’s find out!

I don’t have a phone number, but I’m sending this guy some stickers!

Skate park gets 90% saturation

Cold Fusion Now is away from the office on holiday break, but the message never stops.  Visiting Venice Beach, California skate park, the kids were rolling through some curves.

Between rounds, I gave out a couple of stickers. The reaction?

“Cold Fusion Now? Cool.”

“It’s nuclear power out of sea-water.  No radioactive waste.  No CO2.  If you have access to water, you got fuel”, I say.

“Awesome.”

They slapped ’em right on their boards.

That’s what I call awesome!

This pint-sized flyer wowed the crowd, and everybody saw her Cold Fusion Now sticker when her board floated!

Short bit genius on wheels.

We walked the beach and gave out stickers to a few select artists, some of whom knew what cold fusion was, and were pleasantly surprised to find out it’s for real.

A couple of good conversations about energy on a beautiful sunny day.

Merry “Cold Fusion” Christmas from the beach!

Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year to All!

“On the Relation of Hydrogen to Palladium”

Thomas Graham describes some of his first results investigating the properties of hydrogen-infused palladium in a paper published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London in 1869.

The link below opens the Proceedings book scanned to a .pdf by Google books in a new tab.

What’s really cool is the guy was a numismatist as well as a researching chemist – and Master of the Mint!

Is this a scientific debate?

Twenty-two years, and counting:

From the Wikipedia article on Cold Fusion:

The neutrality of this article is disputed. Please see the discussion on the talk page. Please do not remove this message until the dispute is resolved. (November 2010)

Go to the talk page and see the dedicated patience that answers the “queries”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cold_fusion

I’m all for scientific debate. The minority has a right to be heard. But the cold fusion scientists ARE the minority, and the black-out of information on this science has continued for two decades.

So, hundreds of scientists and labs around the world are wrong?

It’s possible.

And research universities and energy agencies around the world are wrong?

It’s possible.

And the Naval Research Lab did not find positive results?

It’s possible.

And the Army Research Lab isn’t interested?

It’s possible.

And Energetics Technologies has not been producing results?

It’s possible.

And SRI is measuring the input power wrong for 22 years?

I’m sorry, but that’s NOT possible.

And the likelihood that all these people and institutions together, over the last twenty-two years of research, are all wrong is minuscule.

It’s unconscionable that in this day, when our energy crisis is in full-tilt, that we wouldn’t investigate this one solution that has the potential to solve all our energy problems, for the entire world, over the entire planet.

Ultra-clean nuclear power from water. No dangerous radioactive materials involved. No CO2 emissions like hydrocarbons. A scalable power source independent of large corporate energy utilities that would allow communities control over their own energy. An energy source that can take humanity through another evolution.

And who stands to lose when the people win?

When the public finds out about what’s been kept from them, well, let’s just say that the apathy that exists today may not continue.

But don’t get mad.

Get even.

For visual-space die-hards, incrementalism is the standard for scientific dogma.

Clearly, they don’t understand that over the last two decades, researchers at Energetics Technologies have upped the reproducibility of the cold fusion effect to 73%, and it is more likely that we will have cold fusion before any hot fusion facility is able to provide enough power to microwave a pizza.

Listen to Dr. Michael McKubre and Dr. Irving Dardik on the Groks Science Show from May 6, 2009.
http://www.archive.org/details/groks374

Learn everything you can about low-energy nuclear reactions! (Funny, I never even conceived saying that sentence!)

Share it with your friends, your family, and everyone you meet!

Support the scientists who have labored in isolation, with none but each other to share their results with.

And when cold fusion bursts on the scene, WE’LL be ready!

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