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Brian Josephson safeguards historic contribution of Martin Fleischmann

U.K. University of Cambridge Professor Dr. Brian Josephson, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1973 for the Josephson Effect, wrote the fine obituary published in The Guardian honoring Dr. Martin Fleischmann, co-discoverer of cold fusion who passed away earlier this year.

Focusing on Fleischmann’s life’s work, the essay was not a defense of cold fusion, though Josephson wrote, “However, progress seems to be occurring towards the application of cold fusion as a practical energy source. It may well transpire that, in the words of one cold fusion entrepreneur: “The market will decide.” (Including Josephson’s links).

Josephson then went to work dismantling some of the blundering misconceptions that reared up in the print landscape through the many unresearched and cliche obituaries scrawled by witless writers “walking backwards into the future”.

He responded to one of the more egregious pieces (and there were many) printed in Nature, the scientific journal with a long-standing policy of refusing to publish cold fusion research.

John Maddox, editor of Nature back in 1989, had decided within months that cold fusion was through.

“I think it will turn out, after two, three years more investigation, that this is just spurious and just unconnected with anything that you would call nuclear fusion. I think that broadly speaking it is dead and it will remain dead for a very long time” Maddox said in the 1994 BBC Horizon documentary Too Close To The Sun. [watch]

Fortunately, only subscribers of Nature were subjected to the current dreadful fiction by Fleischmann-obit author Philip Ball, and we are not privy to Professor Josephson‘s Letter to the Editor in reply due to copyright (unless you’ve got $16), but he has posted a narrative containing the major points of his response on his website which we reproduce below.

Ball’s obituary of Martin Fleischmann in Nature found wanting
by Brian Josephson [original here]

A letter published in Nature addressed itself to an obituary of Martin Fleischmann written by Philip Ball, the flavour of which can be judged from the following extracts:
“the blot that cold fusion left on Martin Fleischmann’s reputation is hard to expunge”

“cold fusion is now regarded as one of the most notorious cases of what chemist Irving Langmuir called pathological science; it was a lack of reproducibility that finally put paid to the cold fusion idea”

“once you have been proved right against the odds, it becomes harder to accept the possibility of error. To make a mistake or a premature claim, even to fall prey to self-deception, is a risk any scientist runs”

When I challenged Ball on this he replied naively that “those few that claimed success have never been able to demonstrate this sufficiently reliably and convincingly to persuade the majority. That is simply the situation as it stands”. Factually that may indeed be the case but the fact that the majority are not convinced hardly suffices to justify the dogmatic presumptions implicit in the extracts cited above.

In any event, a response was clearly called for and I was glad that Nature accepted the letter that I submitted to their Correspondence section. In that letter I noted first of all that

Ball’s obituary, in common with many others, ignored the large amount of experimental evidence contradicting the view that cold fusion is ‘pathological science’,

citing the library at www.lenr.org as providing a comprehensive listing of this research, including many downloadable papers. I also referred readers to my Guardian obituary.

I also noted that the situation at the time of the original announcement of cold fusion was confused because of errors in the nuclear measurements (this was not Pons and Fleischmann’s area of expertise), plus the difficulty others had with replication; however, problems with replication are not unusual in the context of materials science so this is not a strong objection and, further, in time

others were able to get the experiment to work and confirm both excess heat and nuclear products.

Ball included reference to ‘a Utah physicist who reported in Nature (see M.H. Salamon et al. Nature 344, 401–405; 1990) that he was unable to replicate the work’. Those who took the trouble to read this reference will note that the authors of that paper were much taken by the fact that there was a mismatch between the amount of excess heat claimed (which they did not measure) and the amount of radiation they measured. In case any readers were to draw the erroneous conclusion (which perhaps Ball hoped they would draw) that this refuted the possibility of nuclear reaction, I noted in my letter:

“experiment never excluded the possibility that the energy liberated might be taken up directly by the lattice”

I concluded by saying:

Had [this scenario] not happened, Fleischmann would have gained the credit due to him, rather than becoming a tragic figure in the manner of your correspondent’s account.

The above is provided as a service to those unable to access the complete obituary and comment in the journal itself.

Cold Fusion Now posted a series remembering Martin Fleischmann and turned one sorry obituary into art within ten minutes.

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Economics of Cold Fusion LENR Power US Department of Energy

The long cold fusion summer is winding down and the race to LENR engineering is heating up. With mainstream news and science entering the fray (US News) and (European Union-Directorate-General for Research and Innovation) the likely-hood of an October Surprise becomes imminent. Hundreds of political, energy industry, and environmental organizations have been contacted by Cold Fusion Now activists in the past months. The subject of cold fusion LENR power may enter the presidential debate through Peace and Freedom Party presidential candidate Rosanne Barr. (article)

Presidential candidates are advised to be prepared.

Here we provide a framework for future analysis of how the worlds’ economics will be affected by the advent of cold fusion. In this article we explore the Department of Energy 2013 budget looking to possible changes that will take place, by 2040, due to the engineered technology of cold fusion/LENR power. Other budgets will be analyzed in upcoming articles.

Economy

 

Economy can be experienced as the words’ Ancient Greek roots imply:

Oἰκονομία (oikonomia, “management of a household, administration”) from οἶκος (oikos, “house”)

+ νόμος (nomos, “custom” or “law”), hence “rules of the house(hold)”

Economy experienced as care and management of a home; money, energy, and love are essential.

The home of humanity is the Earth. A healthy home is what we all need. We now know that healthy habitats for the diversity of all life are required for our home to be healthy. Our heritage and our destiny may be the same in this regard… a healthy vibrant earth, teeming with life.

This encompasses the hopes and dreams of millions of people today.

Not so far in the near distant future…
     
       “The world has completed converting to the clean, nearly free and unlimited, energy of the nuclear reactive environment of cold fusion. The race to conversion occurred at a breakneck speed never before seen in the adoption of a new technology. Fueled by both environmental and economic imperatives, this rapid conversion has changed the landscape of national and international economics.
       The Department of Energy reflects this change. The 2040 DOE budget has increased funding for what was once a small part of their budget. Now among the highest priorities of the DOE are; reducing nuclear dangers, ensuring the environmental cleanup of  national nuclear weapons complexes and power generating sites, and abandoned oil wells, refineries, and pipelines, and coal mine clean up.
      The funding in the DOE 2040 budget ($9 billion) for these programs comes from monies made available within the DOE budget from programs cut as we exited the carbon and uranium energy era. ” -US News 2040

 

Now

 

The world economic scenario that we face today is full of monetary surplus when energy costs are replaced by energy that has little monetary value. This monetary surplus, unleashed and redirected, will be used to meet needs that are presently left unfulfilled.

Monies made available from budgets adjusted by cold fusion LENR power are staggering. To categorize these monies begins the process of imagining and creating the new economic landscape of cold fusion LENR power. To use even a portion of these monies wisely holds the potential of empowering a new renaissance of humanity and stewardship of Earth.

 

Energy and the DOE

 

Here is the history of the DOE and EIA. These organizations help us take a look at the economics of energy in the US of A today.

The 1973 oil crisis called attention to the need to consolidate energy policy. On August 4, 1977, President Jimmy Carter signed into law The Department of Energy Organization Act of 1977 (Pub.L. 95-91, 91 Stat. 565, enacted August 4, 1977), which created the Department of Energy.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) is the statistical and analytical agency within the U.S. Department of Energy. The Department of Energy Organization Act of 1977 established EIA as the primary federal government authority on energy statistics and analysis. EIA programs cover data on coal, petroleum, natural gas, electric, renewable and nuclear energy.

EIA’s Fiscal Year 2013 budget is $116,365,000 and is an example of an office of the DOE that will be discontinued with the advent of LENR power.

Using these EIA tables (and a cost for subsidies) we estimate the amount paid for energy annually in the US.

Annual Energy Review 2010 – October 2011 (link)

  • Table 1.5 Energy Consumption, Expenditures, and Emissions (page 13) Expenditures for energy (by end user sector) in the U.S. for 2010 are estimated by the DOE to be…

 

$1,204,827,000,000

  • Table 3.4 Consumer Price Estimates for Energy by End-Use Sector (page 75) Lists 2010 end use sector energy costs an estimated average of $22 per million Btu.
  • Table 1.11 U.S. Government Energy Consumption by Agency (page 25) All federal government energy consumption for 2010 is around – 1,112,000,000 million Btu.” The U.S federal government probably pays less for energy than the end use sector. No data is available, we place the price at a low cost average of $15 per million Btu.

 

$16,668,000,000 

  • It is estimated the US spends up to $52 billion annually helping the oil industry with $10 billion in subsidies and $42 billion in security to protect access. True costs of aid and subsidies may be much higher.
  • Annual Oil Subsidies and Support by U.S. are estimated to be… “$10 to $52 Billion” (Price of Oil .org)
  • History of U.S. Oil Subsidies Go Back Nearly a Century (Yahoo News) “When the study adjusted for inflation to 2009 dollars, the oil and gas industry received subsidies amounting to $1.8 billion per year in the first 15 years of the fledgling industry. The American Coalition for Ethanol estimates that when combined with state and local government aid to large oil companies, subsidies amount to anywhere from $133.8 billion to $280.8 billion annually from all sources of taxpayer aid that goes to the oil and gas industry.”

 

$52,000,000,000

$1,273,495,000,000 total – Estimated annual US energy expenditures


Department of Energy 2013 Budget

 

Energy Programs (Appropriation Summary – pdf) Programs cut are in green.

  • Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy…………$ 2,337,000,000
  • Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability………….. $143,015,000
  • Nuclear Energy………………………………………………$770,445,000
  • Fossil Energy Programs:
  • Clean Coal Technology……………………………………….$16,500,000
  • Fossil Energy Research and Development………………$420,575,000
  • Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves…………………$14,909,000
  • Elk Hills School Lands Fund……………………..…………..$15,580,000
  • Strategic Petroleum Reserve…………………..…………..$195,609,000
  • Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve…………………..……$4,119,000
  • Subtotal, Fossil Energy Programs………………….……..$650,792,000
  • Uranium Enrichment D&D Fund……………………..…..$442,493,000
  • Energy Information Administration…………….………..$116,365,000
  • Non-Defense Environmental Cleanup…………………..…$198,506,000
  • Science…………………..…………………………………….$4,992,052,000
  • Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy…………….$350,000,000
  • Nuclear Waste Disposal………………………………………..$2,800,000
  • Departmental Administration…………….…………………$122,595,000
  • Inspector General…………………..…………………………….$43,468,000
  • Innovative Technology Loan Guarantee Program……….$169,660,000
  • Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan………$9,000,000
  • Total, Energy Programs………………….………….$10,175,731,000,000

 

Atomic Energy Defense Activities National Nuclear Security Administration

  • Weapons Activities………………..………………………….$7,577,341,000
  • Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation…………..…………….$2,458,631,000
  • Naval Reactors………………….……………………………..$1,088,635,000
  • Office of the Administrator……………..……………………..$411,279,000
  • Total, National Nuclear Security Administration…….$11,535,886,000

 

Environmental and Other Defense Activities

  • Defense Environmental Cleanup…………………..………$5,472,001,000
  • Other Defense Activities………………..……………………..$735,702,000
  • Total, Environmental & Other Defense Activities……..$6,207,703,000
  • Total, Atomic Energy Defense Activities………………$17,743,589,000
  • Southwestern Power Administration…………….…………..$11,892,000
  • Western Area Power Administration…………….…………..$96,130,000
  • Falcon & Amistad Operating & Maintenance Fund …………..$220,000
  • Colorado River Basins…………………………………………………..n/a
  • Total, Power Marketing Administrations……………………..$85,242,000
  • Subtotal, Energy, Water Development and Related Agencies…$28,004,562,000
  • Uranium Enrichment D&D Fund Discretionary Payments….$463,000,000
  • Excess Fees and Recoveries, FERC ……………………………………n/a
  • Rescission of Balances………………………………………………………..n/a

 

Total, Discretionary Funding by Appropriation………………….$27,155,072,000

Monies from programs discontinued with the

advent of cold fusion LENR power

$9,396,234,000

33% of the 2013 Department of Energy budget

 

Government Revenue and Taxes

 

Every energy transaction is taxed, every step of a fuel extraction process is licensed and permitted, and untold thousands of retailers barter in energy.

Every government depends on income from taxes on energy and revenue from the licensing and permitting of energy purveyors.

Economies will adapt and fund lost government income using money left over when we pay a fraction of the money for the energy that now costs us one trillion two hundred seventy-three billion four hundred ninety-five million dollars a year.

This letter was sent to the DOE and ARPA – E

 

To whom it concerns,

Please contact the DIA, Navy, and NASA for information regarding LENR power technology that is (quote NASA) “being engineered in real time” (end quote).

 As mandated you are to develop, protect, and secure our energy resources. From the 2013 DOE budget, “The Budget includes funding to maintain and expand the deployment of new models of energy research pioneered in the last several years, including $350 million for the Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E), a program that seeks to fund transformative energy research.”

Your Agency is charged with transformative energy research, technological commercialization/industrialization, and “outside the box” energetic breakthroughs.

What I do not understanding is… Why is there no mention of LENR science on your website? Leaders in this art are within your sister agencies. Thousands of people are informed, reading the following articles each week; yet it seems you aren’t aware of LENR power technology within the U.S. administration.

These two series will bring you up to date.

Thank you,

Cold Fusion Now .org

The LENR NASA Series (link)

The LENR Obama Series (link)

 

FURTHER READING

 

America’s Future in Space:
Aligning the Civil Space Program with National Need

by the ‘Committee on the Rationale and Goals of the U.S. Civil Space Program’

of the ‘National Research Council’ (book) Free on-line book.

“The national priorities that informed the committee’s thinking include ensuring national security, providing clean and affordable energy, protecting the environment now and for future generations, educating an engaged citizenry and a capable workforce for the 21st century, sustaining global economic competitiveness, and working internationally to build a safer, more sustainable world.”

Apply Space Research and Technology to Stewardship of Earth

“Earth has a dynamic and fragile ecosphere. And it is home to life as we know it now and in the foreseeable future. However, humankind, by virtue of its numbers and its use of energy, now threatens the planet that supports its very existence: for example, by affecting climate and exhausting resources. Proper stewardship of Earth is thus an urgent responsibility of all people.”

“While everyone, from individuals to countries, must be better stewards of planet Earth, the committee believes that the United States, as a global leader, bears a special responsibility to share its expertise and the knowledge and understanding it develops on how best to care for the planet. Americans must accept a global responsibility, or risk abandoning this important moral high ground to others.”

Innovation for America’s Economy, America’s Energy, and American Skills

The FY 2013 Science and Technology R&D Budget (link)

“Reflecting the Obama Administration’s continued recognition that science, technology, education, and innovation are central to America’s ongoing economic recovery and essential to the Nation’s future prosperity, the President’s Fiscal year (FY) 2013 Budget calls for strategic increases in the U.S. research and development (R&D) enterprise and a strong focus on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. The President’s 2013 Budget achieves these important investments by identifying comparable offsets in other areas, resulting in a deficit-reducing discretionary budget that is frozen at 2011 levels for the second year in a row in compliance with the spending caps imposed by the Budget Control Act of 2011. The President’s 2013 Budget sustains the Administration’s commitment to building and fueling America’s engines of discovery in order to expand the frontiers of human knowledge; promote sustainable economic growth with a focus on advancing American manufacturing; cultivate a home-grown, clean-energy future; improve healthcare outcomes for all Americans at lower cost; address the mounting challenges of global climate change; manage competing demands on environmental resources; and reinforce national and homeland security.”

Other R&D highlights in the President’s 2013 Budget (compared to FY 2012 enacted) include:

  • $11.9 billion (up 8%) for DOE R&D, with $5 billion for its Office of Science (up 2.6%)
  • $9.6 billion (up 2.2%) for National Aeronautics and Space Administration R&D
  • $7.4 billion (up 4.8%) for NSF
  • $2.6 billion (up 5.6%) for the U.S. Global Change Research Program
  • $1.8 billion (up 4.1%) for the National Nanotechnology Initiative
  • $729 million (up 26.3%) for Department of Homeland Security R&D
  • $718 million (up 6.4%) for U.S. Geological Survey R&D
  • $708 million (up 13.8%) for NIST’s intramural laboratories
  • $580 million (up 2.1%) for Environmental Protection Agency R&D
  •   $35,740,000,000 total 

 $1,273,495,000,000  U.S. 2010 energy expenditures are almost 40 times the science budget.

 

THANKS!

The photo at the head of this article was gleaned off the web from an article by…
“The Kennesaw Watch: Creating Accountability and Transparency in City Government”

Titled – “Where is the Youth Money Tree?” April 25, 2012 (article)

I love the picture and the meaning it imparts. Viewing it you get the impression the money coming off that tree will be put to good use… the care of a home.  – gbgoble

 

Problems Problems Problems

 

Enjoy!

Problems Problems Problems

Oy Vey!

Go ahead…

Take the plunge!

Dive deep beyond

The surface of the

Problem

and

Find yourself suspended

In a sea of solutions

Infinite

In their…

Manifestation

Variety

and

Form

Enjoy!

Problems Problems Problems

Oy Vey!

Go Ahead…

 

 





 

	


	





		

		
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – Cold Fusion Now Online Art Contest and Curation
	


	
	

		
Cold Fusion by Artomatic


CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS : COLD FUSION NOW ONLINE ART Contest and Curation 


Submit a digital photo of your art to Eli (at symbol) ColdFusionNow (dot) org by December 1.


We are looking to build up our ART GALLERY page, so starting October 1st through December 1st Cold Fusion Now will throw down a call for submissions for original Art Work to be displayed on the site. 


On December 22 (the day after the world is supposed to end), if we are still here then we will celebrate with an online showing of all submitted art works.


And we will have juried awards for 1st, 2nd, 3rd place. We’re saving some money this month and next with hosting costs and we’ve decided to put it towards some Cold Fusion artistic efforts to keep the meme alive and expressed in as many ways possible.


1st place : $100 cash money!

2nd place : New Cold Fusion Now T-shirt!

3rd place : New CFN Stickers!


Mainly it’s about the art though. Creating, participating, expressing. 


THEME: The theme is any interpretation of Cold Fusion you want to express; i.e. what a world with CF would look like, free energy inspired pieces, portraits, sketches of CF scientists, or whatever you come up with.  (And it does NOT have to have Cold Fusion Now anywhere in the piece, only if you think it somehow fits in.)


If new to CF, visit our what is cold fusion page to learn more about the science.

“Cold fusion offers a new energy economy based on green power from hydrogen. The development of this technology is just beginning to emerge as a handful of independent labs from around the world bring two decades of research to fruition with commercial products.”


MEDIUM: Any medium, painting, sculpture, video art, etc. Submissions will be sent electronically (i.e. emailed photo, or link embedding) since it will be curated online and not physically shown (and we can then link it to your site, for showing or sales of your own).


PARTICIPANTS: Anyone, any age, and you don’t have to call yourself an “artist”. You can be a fine artist, an abstract creator or a non serious “doodler”. You can ask your child to create a work around his or her interpretation of “free energy” and submit that (highly encouraged actually).  Or again, you can submit a “museum worthy” piece of your own creation.


We’ll rotate the works on the front page of the site for the first few months of 2013. 


SUBMISSIONS: Send a good quality photo, file or scan of the work, and a brief description/statement of the work to:

Eli (at symbol) ColdFusionNow (dot) org


So if you’ve been looking for a creative outlet and/or reason to throw down with some artistic release based around Cold Fusion, then hopefully this will encourage some to create for the sake of creating…and a potential 100 buck bill for the wallet. 


Thanks so much for contributing and helping to add creativity to the site.


Man’s need for art is absolutely primordial, as strong as, and perhaps stronger than, our need for bread. Without bread, we die of hunger, but without art we die of boredom.—Jean DuBuffet




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Iraj Parchamazad: LENR with Zeolites
	


	
	

		
In June 2012, I went to interview Dr. Melvin Miles on his career investigating cold fusion electrolytic cells as both a Professor and a Navy researcher, now retired.


I didn’t know I’d get two interviews that day.


We met in the office of Dr. Iraj Parchamazad, Chairman of the Chemistry Department at the University of LaVerne, in LaVerne, California, who is also studying low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR) using an unusual environment on the nano-scale: zeolites.


I was prepared for Dr. Miles‘ interview, and made two movies about him; one, discussing the early years of cold fusion and Why Cold Fusion Was Rejected and two, Dr. Miles  talking about how his cell is put together and showing his calorimeter that measures highly-accurate temperature changes in How to Make a Calorimeter, both of which you can view here.


But, I wasn’t prepared for the discussion on how zeolite crystals host tiny particles of palladium in their unusual geometry, and make anomalous heat when exposed to deuterium gas.


Well, after over five hours of discussion, I knew a whole lot more about this new style of room-temperature, gas-loaded, zero input energy heat production from an expert in that particular application.


In this video, you too can see how LENR research is conducted in one U.S. university lab, complete with all the financial struggles that have characterized the study of new energy for two decades, and learn how scientists are finding new ways to generate useful heat energy that reveals yet another path to ultra-clean, energy-dense, and abundant power for the world.



	


	





		

		
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Several months ago, I posted an article asking the question Can Defkalion Survive the Greek Crisis?  To summarize, I explored the obstacles that Defkalion Green Technologies faced starting a commercial enterprise in a country in the midst of economic turmoil and rising social unrest.  This would certainly be problematic for any new enterprise, but especially so for a company seeking to commercialize an entirely new technology.  Aside from the technical and logistical challenges, I also raised the question of whether Defkalion would be able to attract sufficient investment in a chaotic economic, social and political environment.  If investors are fond anything, aside from making a profit, it is stability.  Investment involves enough risk in and of itself, and this risk need not be exacerbated by economic and social turmoil.


Apparently this line of thought was also contemplated by Defkalion management, as on July 18, 2012 company representative George Xanthoula sent out an e-mail outlining Defkalion’s plans to leave Greece and set up operations elsewhere.  The reasons given for this move were very similar to those mentioned above.  Australia, Canada and Switzerland were mentioned as possible sites of relocation.


At the National Instruments-sponsored NIWeek in August, Defkalion CEO Alexander Xanthoulis announced that there would be offices in both Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and Zurich, Switzerland, with the Vancouver office serving as the primary base of operations.  It was not made clear why Canada was chosen as Defkalion’s new base of operations, but Mr. Xanthoulis is described in company literature as being a Greek-Canadian, so his roots in that country may have been a factor.  In August, a company representative stated the Vancouver office would be open this month, although no specific date was given.




While waiting for official commencement of operations in Canada, Defkalion has continued to do testing in Greece on their Hyperion cold fusion reactor.  In a message on the Defkalion discussion forum, the company announced it had conducted two official test runs on its reactor from September 5th to September 14th.  These tests were reportedly conducted in Greece on its R5 prototype, and testing is scheduled to begin soon on its R6 pre-industrial reactor at the Vancouver facility.  In that same message, a Defkalion represented wrote:  “An official announcement from our company within the next weeks will inform you of the peer-reviewed journals where the results of all these tests so far will be published by the independent testers.”


Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada


If indeed Defkalion testing has been submitted for peer-review, and these results will soon appear in peer-reviewed journals, this would be a very positive development.  Failure to release independent testing results, after public announcements in February of this year raised expectation of such, led many to question the validity of Defkalion claims about its Hyperion reactor.  However, reports that have filtered out about the testing results have served to buoy confidence in the Hyperion in some quarters.  Those who are privy to information that most of us are not, have much less doubt about the Hyperion and Defkalion’s claims regarding it. Although, even among this group, there remain some questions regarding the device’s stability.  The company gave presentations at both NIWeek and ICCF-17 but they did not provide any new information, save for the location where their base of operations was being moved.   Hopefully, the coming weeks and publication of independent testing results in peer-reviewed literature will answer many lingering questions.


Yet, as Defkalion settles into its new surroundings, they have more to be concerned about than providing definitive proof to the faithful and silencing critics and detractors. Certainly they have escaped the chaos in Greece but Canada has its own native dangers with witch company officials need to contend.  First of all, Western Canada is home to one of the fiercest predators in the wild, the grizzly bear.  Company employees would be advised to keep trash can lids firmly secured and their facilities locked at night. Vancouver may be a bustling metropolis, but it is an oasis in the midst of a vast wilderness.  Grizzly bears do not respect no trespassing signs or city limits.  There is a reason the city named its NBA basketball team after them.


Grizzly Bear


The second resident of Western Canada that Defkalion must concern itself with is the powerful and influential Canadian oil industry.  Canada is the sixth largest oil producing country in the world, and is the primary source of oil imports into the United States.  The bulk of Canadian oil exploration and production is in the Western Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia.


Defkalion may also soon have to contend with Chinese oil interests.  CNNOC, a state-owned Chinese oil company, is currently in negotiations with the Canadian government to buy the Canadian oil company Nexen for a reported price of $15.1 billion.  If approved by the government, this purchase would be the largest purchase of a Canadian energy asset by a Chinese company, and the largest single purchase by a Chinese company of a foreign asset.  This deal is expected to be approved by the Canadian government, despite concerns amongst some Canadians in regard to allowing a state-owned Chinese enterprise to own such a large stake in their domestic oil industry.




A cold fusion optimist might conclude that some in the Canadian government are aware of the arrival of Defkalion on their soil and the promise the Hyperion offers for the future of energy.  As a result, officials may be obliged to allow the Chinese to spend billions of dollars on an asset whose value may be greatly diminished in the not too distant future.  Many others may simply conclude that this deal is about oil, cold hard cash and maybe even political influence, but not related to cold fusion or Defkalion in any way.


Defkalion may have flown into Canada under the radar because the results of independent testing of the Hyperion have not yet been made public.  Perhaps that was part of the rationale for delaying publication.  Jed Rothwell, cold fusion historian and administrator of the lenr-canr.org cold fusion library, wrote several months ago that the results of independent testing were being kept under wraps “for good reason.”  I think avoiding the scrutiny of the oil industry in Canada, at least for a time, would qualify as a good reason.




If the independent verification of Defkalion claims are soon published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, Defkalion’s warm Vancouver welcome may turn as cold as a Canadian winter.  By the same token, if Defkalion continues to make bold claims without the appropriate corroborating evidence, the Canadian government may scrutinize Defkalion a little more closely then the Greek government did while the company was in Greece.


When Defkalion broke with Andrea Rossi in August of last year, they publicly warned Rossi about the perils of “going it alone.”  Ironically, a year later, they may be seen as doing just that.  They are in a new country, with new laws, sharing a province with a powerful and prosperous industry that could be made irrelevant by their technology.  Yet, Defkalion management has already proven adept at navigating difficult waters in the last year.  They managed to engineer their own cold fusion cell after their abrupt break with Andrea Rossi left them without the core technology, the loss of their chief scientist as a result of that break, and escape from an imploding nation…and those are just the difficulties that have been made public.  If one adds to the above that the Hyperion is reportedly the most robust cold fusion reactor currently being developed, this company has a lot working in its favor…I mean our favor.


I look forward to independent confirmation of Hyperion performance being made available to the public.


 



	


	





		

		
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“Once again, our Grandmother the Earth has offered us, her children, the elements we need to survive.  Will we listen?”

—Russell Means


I’m very proud to announce that this is my first public statement on ColdFusionNow.org The time has come after many years to rise from behind the scenes and begin to take a more public platform in regards to the media ecological ramifications of Cold Fusion and it’s liberation for the human race. 


As many people know already, I’ve been speaking on the radio about Cold Fusion for years and knew of it’s potential and existence far before most of the world. The human race is at a special point. We now have the choice to change the world for the better by preparing individually to bring forth man’s greatest invention since fire. However, it should be known that this breakthrough is for everyone. Not just the so called elite. And I’m going to make sure it stays that way…


I’m very proud to announce to the public for the first time officially that the world now has the public support by Russell Means http://www.RussellMeans.com. One of humanity’s greatest Leaders and who the Los Angeles Times called “the most famous American Indian since Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.” He’s been a supporter of Cold Fusion for a long time and I thank him for taking a stand. The world appreciates you.


On November 9th 10th and 11th I’ll be attending The International Conference on the Breakthrough Energy Movement http://www.globalbem.com where I’ll be releasing for the first time to the world the truth behind the Cold Fusion movement. As many of you know, I initiated the ColdFusionNow.org meme for many reasons. All of this will be revealed and much more. The world will learn of the latest developments as well as a world exclusive.


Furthermore, I’d like to announce the premiere of http://www.TheBelieversMovie.com directed by Clayton Brown. This Cold Fusion documentary will be premiering at the Chicago Film Festival October 16th as well as the upcoming conference.  I thank you all for your continued support.


James Martinez -Director of Media Affairs-ColdFusionNow.org

	


	



	
		

	

	





		


		
	




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