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 [Office of Science] is research in new technologies for a clean energy future that address competing demands on our environment,” the document states.
In FY 2012, the [SC] Department requests $5.4 billion, an increase of 9.1 percent over the FY 2010 current appropriation, to invest in basic research. The FY 2012 request supports the President’s Strategy for American Innovation, and is consistent with the goal of doubling funding at key basic research agencies, including the Office of Science. The FY 2012 Office of Science budget request supports the following objectives from the Strategy, including:
— Unleash a clean energy revolution
— Strengthen and broaden American leadership in fundamental research
— Develop an advanced information technology ecosystem
— Educate the next generation with 21st century skills and create a world-class workforce.
Program Office Highlights DoE FY2012 Budget Request page 7
The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) is one of many DoE offices that claim to be “Investing in Breakthrough Technology and a Clean Energy Future.” Their FY 2012 budget request for $3.2 billion is “aimed at accelerating innovation and change in the Nation’s energy economy.” This includes programs that with meet with the President’s goals of “investing in the next generation of clean energy technologies“, among other things.
But the bulk of these requested monies will fund traditional alternative energies that have been in development, and funded, for decades:
The FY 2012 budget request continues to work to transform the Nation’s energy infrastructure by investing over $1,164.9 million in a variety of renewable programs including solar ($457.0 million), wind ($126.9 million), water ($38.5 million), hydrogen ($100.5 million), biomass ($340.5 million), and geothermal ($101.5 million). Research, development, and deployment of these technologies will reduce the production of greenhouse gas emissions and revitalize an economy built on the next generation of domestic production.
Program Office Highlights DoE FY2012 Budget Request page 8
The DoE office “devoted exclusively to funding specific highrisk, high payoff, game-changing research and development projects to meet the nation’s long-term energy challenges” will get <more than half-a-billion dollars.
Specifically, ARPA-E‘s budget request, ‘detailed’ on page 23 of the document, totals $650 billion.
Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy: Transformational Research and Development
The FY 2012 budget request includes $550 million for the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E), a program launched in FY 2009 that sponsors specific high-risk and high-payoff transformational research and development projects that overcome the long-term technological barriers in the development of energy technologies to meet the Nation’s energy challenges, but that industry will not support at such an early stage.
An additional $100 million in mandatory funding is also proposed from the Wireless Innovation Fund for developing cutting-edge wireless technologies. An essential component of ARPA-E’s culture is an overarching focus on accelerating science to market.
Beyond simply funding transformational research creating revolutionary technologies, ARPA-E is dedicated to the market adoption of those new technologies that will fuel the economy, create new jobs, reduce energy imports, improve energy efficiency, reduce energy-related emissions, and ensure that the U.S. maintains a technological lead in developing and deploying advanced energy technologies.
Nowhere in the budget is found the words low-energy nuclear reactions LENR, lattice-assisted nuclear reactions LANR, chemically-assisted nuclear reactions CANR, condensed matter nuclear science CMNS, nickel-hydrogen exothermic reaction Ni-H, or cold fusion, despite meeting each of the Department of Energy’s Objectives.
DoE Objective – Unleash a clean energy revolution
The revolutionary energy from cold fusion comes from the Fleischmann-Pons “Excess Heat” Effect FPE.
When hydrogen, or its isotope deuterium, is absorbed by a metal like nickel or palladium, large amounts of heat can be generated. This heat can make useful steam, hot, clean water and eventually, electricity.
Hydrogen is an element abundant in water. Access to water means access to fuel, empowering local communities with their own energy sources.
Metals like nickel are plentiful on the Earth, as well as the moon and asteroids. Costs for these and other metals will be low. And this energy is powerful enough to make ecological mining practices economically viable and standard.
Large energy returns of 25 have been published, and energy returns of 400 and higher have been demonstrated. A planned commercial steam generator is the size of a cigarette pack and expected to generate 10 kilowatts of power.
DoE Objective – Strengthen and broaden American leadership in fundamental research
New technologies using the FPE have been developed largely by trial and error, without the benefit of a guiding theory. Basic research is sorely needed to define what the parameters for successful, and maximal, output of energy are.
Experiments have yielded multiple effects other than excess heat like transmutation, even in biological organisms, where current research may lead to ridding the world of the stockpile of radioactive waste.
The research possibilities are endless.
DoE Objective – Develop an advanced information technology ecosystem
Few could imagine the way personal computers developed in the 1980s would literally change the way we live as they did. New jobs and new businesses can thrive in a service environment for clean cold fusion energy.
As a decentralized power source, cold fusion energy devices do not need a grid delivery system. Units can be designed stand-alone and portable.
Scalable power sources could be built into even the smallest hand-held devices, providing power for the life of the device, with no need to recharge.
DoE Objective – Educate the next generation with 21st century skills and create a world-class workforce.
A cold fusion economy means opportunities for training in new energy. Basic research means jobs for young scientists, with the meaningful and exciting work of building a future based on clean and plentiful energy.
Cold fusion meets the objectives, and then some.
What kind of funding would make a difference?
In an earlier interview with James Martinez, longtime researcher based in Washington D.C. David J. Nagel described a 5-year program starting at $20 million a year, ramping up to $40 million annually, an average $30 million a year for five years to bring this research to the next phase, and more importantly, as Dr. Nagel describes, bring a young group of scientists into this field of research to continue to innovate and drive the next-generation energy for our planet.
$150 million for cold fusion, half-of-one percent of DoE requested budget for 2012.
The document is filled with phrases like “energy security” and “American leadership in innovation”, visual-space divisions that are relevant no more to an alliance of peoples across this planet who live in an invisible spacetime of digital-satellite-wireless electromagnetic resonance, and who realize the need for a new arrangement for living on Earth.
Creating a new economy cannot be done by the US, or any one nation, alone. There is a new world to create, one that requires participation and cooperation from people united on every continent.
How will this move forward?
Within the context of maplines, this scenario was posited by Kiva Labs cold fusion researcher Dr. Edmund Storms, way back in 2010:
“Sooner or later scientists in some country will discover how to make cold fusion work on a commercial scale. When this happens, the countries that develop this technology will rapidly become richer and more powerful. The cost of energy for manufacturing will go down and processes that are not yet practical under most conditions, such as obtaining fresh water from the sea, will become widely used.
These benefits will cause a rapid expansion in the power and influence of the countries using this inexpensive energy source. What about the countries that do not know how to make the effect work?
Their scientists will attempt to reverse engineer the power generator, but in this field, such efforts will be difficult without an understanding of how the process works, an understanding that will not be shared by the discovers.
Also, highly developed countries will have difficulty removing their present energy infrastructure and substituting this much simpler source. So, the race is on and the potential winners are not obvious.
Nevertheless, it is obvious the winner will not be a country that ignores and rejects the reality of cold fusion.”
Edmund Storms Why is cold fusion rejected?
Perusing the DoE budget request is like forensics on a phantom limb, gone but not forgotten: there will be no federal funding for this field of new energy anytime soon.
But thank you Mr. Sidney Kimmel!
News like “Billionaire helps fund MU energy research” from the Columbia Daily Tribune is welcome, and desperately needed.
Cold Fusion Now!
Related Links
Billionaire helps fund MU energy research by Janese Silvey Columbia Daily Tribune
Department of Energy Budget and Performance
ARPA-E answers questions about fulfilling mission by Ruby Carat February 9, 2012
Letters to Congressional Energy Sub-committees repeat hearings request by Ruby Carat November 13, 2011
David J. Nagel on Ca$h Flow: A Reasoned Approach to Funding with James Martinez by Ruby Carat August 24, 2010
Why is cold fusion rejected? by Edmund Storms July 20, 2010
Robert Duncan interview on Cash-Flow: “Public investment means public ownership.” with James Martinez by Ruby Carat February 6, 2011
It is hard for me to believe the DOE is ignoring LENR. It is more plausible for me to believe they will try to slow down LENR research. They cannot disrupt the current power/money/oil structure. This is, of course, very cynical if not evil. This strategy is cynical if not evil, given all the lives LENR could save and improve if brought into use as fast as possible.
“The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.”
Benjamin Disraeli
Alan: Who do you think is pulling the strings?
I don’t know but I wonder if the people who really run the world have characters similar to those of Leopold and Leob. I wish they’d just stop being so clever.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/7162820/compulsion/
Alan: Thanks for movie, you might be right about L&L, scary thought.
Wind energy is just one of saevrel options for what is known as alternative energy alternative to fossil fuels.Wind can never become dominant as there are too many places where wind energy can’t be produced (because there is no steady wind).Other options are solar power, biomass energy, water energy (but not hydro-electric).It’s never the technology that shapes us, but rather what we allow technology to do to us. So will wind dominate. No.Will alternative renewable energy dominate. I sure hope so.
Obviously, private business is going to make the vast majority of DoE funding obsolete soon. I think it is hilarious that the Democrats, who champion the government’s role in clean energy development, will be on the wrong side of clean energy and governmental competence. Again, obviously, LENR will make all other forms of energy production obsolete, despite what Rossi claims. When the cat is out of the bag, and LENR is the talk of the town due to sucessful commercialization, a lot of people will have to switch gears and stop promoting wind, solar (and fossil fuels plus nuclear). That is what our main stream media does best – not investigative reporting, but obsessive analysis and rereporting of issues of the day – and LENR will definately make the front pages (man, this thing is BIG).
I agree, upcoming LENR appliances will be the energy game changers of the world…
Brad: I agree with you. I am trying to figure out the winners and losers in the stock market and most important the time frame we are looking at. As you probably know when investing timing is all important. The way I look at it by December 2014 LENR should be hitting its peak of acceptance. What do you think?
Where do you think National Instruments fits into this picture. If they are somehow partnered with Rossi to receive something from the sales, then their stock will quickly go crazy exceeding Apple and Exxon (Exxon will of course take a precipitous hit)…
Ni is a possibility, I have not invested in them yet. I don’t think they are an equity investor in the Rossi venture, they would only gain based on sales increases attributed to E-Cat which I think will be small in comparison to their overall sales. But…….if Rossi venture is very successful, Ni will be right there with him.
One feels in this day and age of our wonderful scientists that if an UFO landed on the White House lawn, that would still be expertly debunked and explained away as beyond known science and not in accord with Dogma so cannot possibly have happened.
Our expert establishment is so informed by their gods of, we know everything, don’t disturb our important denials with FACTs that they can only be described as a laughing stock.
They and their army of deniers, debunkers and experts are costing the World millions of lives and yet still, not knowing what 96% of the World consists of, knowing that the World is Quantum and not classical, meaning they do not have a clue about anything beyond the wonderful work handed to them on a plate from previous generations of wonderful scientists, non of whom believed in crazy reductionist and no immaterial forces, they still cling on desperately to, the World is a machine, Dogma that was wrong when introduced centuries ago and has been proven wrong a thousand times since.
The World is QUANTUM and unknown not Bloody classical.
Almost all people go through life in a semi-trance state, worrying about mundane matters, and spending all their resources either on hedonistic pleasures or family obligations. Scientists are not exempt from this, and much of the original and valuable research and thinking being done never escapes to a wider audience, nor would it matter since that wider audience is too wrapped up in selfish matters or routine duties to pay it any attention.
Furthermore, the high technology that does get developed and marketed is used but not understand by most people. On the other hand, there is great freedom and power for those few who pursue a different path of self-awareness and other-awareness (if you can escape the dogma that passes for wisdom and knowledge).
Sorry to wax metaphysically and philosophically, but to know that you are rare and have the power to control your destiny is very liberatinig. I would suggest not waiting for another to recognize your wisdom/knowledge – the definition of insanity is failing again and again with the same results – but instead use the tools at your disposal to create something good (like the above comment?). Again, I am sorry, because I know that truths given to a person are not very worth while (maybe I should have said the same thing with a parable?).
God-I reread the above, and it is so corny…
Brad, I would agree but feel that people are not aware of the Truth because science, for instance, refuses to inform the population that the World is Quantum.
The reason appears to be that they do not like to admit they know nothing of the World and Nature beyond crude reductionism.
Every child has a birthright to be informed at age 10/11 that almost nothing is known of reality and the wonderful mysteries and knowledge is theirs to find out.
wind energy is the ulmtiate form of planet suicide wind is used by the planet for reasons we do not understand.. so in our ulmtiate simplicity we have decided it is the perfect energy source.. we should suck as much of it up as we can without any understanding of what it is.. or how it is used .the bad part is usually when we do this we only figureres out what it was used for to late.
If they were smart they would had given LENR a token amount of money to placate the public. By giving nothing they have really stirred up the hive. This is great news for Rossi.
Why would Barack Obama rather drill the human food supply for energy than Alaska?
Biofuels = high food prices, loss of topsoil, water pollution, increased greenhouse gas release, mass starvation of the poor.
Why is Barack Obama such a murderous hypocrite?
The renewable energy fad = ecological devastation, economic collapse, and mass starvation.
THE RENEWABLE ENERGY DISASTER
http://renewable.50webs.com/
THE KING OF STARVATION – BARACK OBAMA
http://renewable.50webs.com/obama-starvation.html
THE STARVATION HALL OF SHAME
http://renewable.50webs.com/Starvation-Hall-of-Shame.html
DR. STEVEN CHU – MAD SCIENTIST
http://renewable.50webs.com/Steven_Chu.html
THE FUSION REVOLUTION
http://renewable.50webs.com/fusion.html
Christopher Calder – nonprofit food security advocate
typical federal govt bureaucracy. the guys who are doing the most to invent a new technology work with paltry sums of money to develop it and the feds want billions to investigate the same thing. stupidity gone to seed. most of the money goes to the fat chiefs and mindless paper pushers and little to help the public. the proof of the federal efforts is solendra, great work guys!!!! how we would like to see you go!