Monthly Archives: February 2012

Monica Long Ross and Clayton Brown on Ca$h Flow: “We appreciate the mavericks.”

James Martinez continued the Cold Fusion Radio series by hosting the creator’s of the new cold fusion documentary “The Believers” on his Achieve Radio Ca$h Flow show this past week.

Monica Long Ross and Clayton Brown of 137Films have spent three years on the film, interviewing some of the heavyweights in […]

By |Sunday, February 26, 2012|Uncategorized|3 Comments

Why ColdFusion/LENR has not been seized upon by private industry

The following is a further posting in a series of articles by David French, a patent attorney with 35 years experience, which will review patents of interest touching on the field of Cold Fusion.

In my last posting I started Part 1 of what was to be a two-part reference to the initiatives […]

The Emergence of LENR and it’s Predictable Effect on the Economy

To estimate how the emergence of LENR in the market place will predictable impact the US economy, it is best to study the known effects higher oil prices have.

US demand for oil arises from demand for the products that are made from it. When the price of petroleum products increases, consumers […]

Types of ignorance

I am going to talk about ignorance, so that in the process of doing so, we will all become a little less ignorant of ignorance;)

One might say that there are three types of ignorance. Ordinary ignorace which is the ignorance of not knowing something.  Ordinary ignorance can be answered with ordinary […]

By |Friday, February 17, 2012|History, Philosophy|19 Comments

$29.5 Billion requested by DoE; $0 for cold fusion

The Department of Energy DoE released their FY2012 Congressional Budget Request Budget Highlights. download .pdf

“The Department’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 budget request is $29.5 billion, an 11.8 percent or $3.1 billion increase from FY 2010 current appropriation levels.”

“The central theme of this year’s budget in SC is research […]

By |Sunday, February 12, 2012|Funding, Politics|20 Comments

ARPA-E answers questions about fullfilling mission

The House Committee on Space, Science, and Technology’s Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight held a hearing on January 24, 2012 to review the efforts of the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E), a Department of Energy (DOE) agency tasked with ‘funding cutting-edge energy research “in areas that industry by itself […]

By |Thursday, February 9, 2012|Funding, Politics|4 Comments

Big Bang Theory AND Cold Fusion

System crashing, nuclear threat,
riots in streets, fiat paper debt,
mass extinctions, despot measures-
I’m changing the channel for TV pleasures.

I am not familiar with most current TV offerings – and this is old news for you hipsters – but while visiting family, I learned about The Big Bang Theory, one of the biggest […]

By |Tuesday, February 7, 2012|Art|4 Comments

The Graph that Changed the World

In 1989, Drs. Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons announced results of their largely self-financed research into palladium-deuterium electrolytic systems. In one of the early patent applications, they included a graph documenting the surprising increase in temperature of a cell over time.

This graph is taken from Dr. Michael McKubre’s public talk What […]