Letters to Congressional Energy Sub-committees repeat hearings request

Why does the Department of Energy refuse to acknowledge LENR science and technology as part of its energy portfolio?

Why does the US Patent Office siphon cold fusion patent applications outside of the review channel?

A recent mailing sent two dozen letters to the Senate Sub-Committee on Energy and other Senators requesting hearings into these questions.

This past few days Cold Fusion Now put together letters addressed to US Congressional Representatives on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce‘s Sub-committee on Energy and Power, as well as the House Committee on Space, Science and Technology’s Sub-committee on Energy and the Environment asking these very same questions.

This massive stack of snail mail is the whole 39 letters to Congressional energy policy makers requesting hearings to find the answers.

Stack of 39 letters
Snail mail retrieves the classic art of letters for sleepy TV-body Legislative Branch.

Hand-signed and flying with the wind to the attention of US Representatives such as Roscoe Bartlett of Maryland who since at least 2004 (when I started paying attention) spent more than his share of time educating his peers on Peak Oil, to no avail.

Also included on the Sub-committee on Energy and Environment is California Representative Dana Rohrabacher, who way back in 1989 spoke out in support of Drs. Fleischmann and Pons as they endured a torrent of vitriol from a physics arena that couldn’t reproduce the results.

In an editorial for the Los Angeles Times on June 18, 1989, Representative Dana Rohrabacher chastised physicists for their vehemence, beginning with a quote:

Every great idea has three stages of reaction:
1) It won’t work.
2) Even if it works, it’s not useful.
3) I said it was a great idea all along.
Arthur C. Clarke

It has been almost three months since two obscure chemists at the University of Utah held a press conference to announce that they had found something truly incredible in their test tube. Their reported discovery of cold fusion, if accurate, would usher not only science but all aspects of modern life into an era of growth and improvement that mankind has not experienced since the Industrial Revolution.

Not everybody was happy with this news.

The vehemence with which B. Stanley Pons and Martoin Fleischmann were denounced in the scientific community, the ferocity of attack on their work, as well as on their personal styles and motivations, surprised everyone. Well, that is, everyone who hasn’t taken a look at the history of science.

Representative Rohrabacher goes on to review the experience of great scientists such as Copernicus, Galileo, Antony van Leeuwenhoek and Joseph Lister. Continuing, he wrote:

And in Europe, the powers of the day heaped scorn on the idea that a steam engine could have a practical use in transportation, which sent Robert Fulton to America with his plans for a steam-powered boat.

As recently as 1956, the Astronomer Royal of England scoffed at space travel as “utter bilge.” The very next year, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik.

So, some of us were not surprised at the recriminations, both petty and sweeping, that deluged the two poor chemists in Utah upon their claims of discovering cold fusion.

The high priests of physics were annoyed with the scientists’ method of public announcement; several universities touted their inability to reproduce in a matter of weeks results arrived at over a period of years, and physicists the world over continue to express pique at the presumption of two chemists entering their realm.

Rep. Rohrabacher was not a believer, giving Drs. Fleischmann and Pons “around a 50% chance of being vindicated someday.”

He was a voice of tolerance, of integrity, of decency.
He wanted to give this discovery “a chance.”

Our world needs such people who are willing to look where others refuse, to reject commonly held premises in the quest for new truths and to step before us with brave new ideas knowing that vilification will follow, even if history ultimately vindicates them. If cold fusion does fly, Pons and Fleischmann will be remembered as men who changed the course of human history; if cold fusion turns out to be a worktable mistake, well, let’s remember Pons and Fleischmann as two men who excited our imaginations for a while and who reminded us that we should not discourage pursuit of scientific knowledge, even if it flouts conventional wisdom–even if it is done without the benefit of a federal grant.

And for these words of reason, disdain poured upon him too.

Perhaps our message will prompt him to think back to those moments when he had the courage and fire to speak for what was right, and this time, feel the strong and worthy support behind him to do it again.

In politics, we don’t have to agree on everything.

We just need folks to do their jobs.

Join us in asking Congress to do theirs.

Why doesn’t the DOE consider LENR science and technology, and why isn’t the Patent Office prioritizing LENR patents?

Patent Office Memo

Cold Fusion Now!

Related Links

Turkey Today, Genius Tomorrow: Cold Fusion Attempt Has a Noble Lineage in Science by Representative Dana Rohrabacher for the Los Angeles Times June 17, 1989

Representative Dana Rohrabacher Congressional webpage.

Representative Roscoe Bartlett Congressional webpage.

House Sub-committee on Energy and Power from Contacting the Congress

House Sub-committee on Energy and Environment from Contacting the Congress

Patent Office Memo scanned by Jed Rothwell from LENR Library.

18 Replies to “Letters to Congressional Energy Sub-committees repeat hearings request”

  1. This bureaucratic inertia is easily explained: our “system” is not dedicated to truth, but to sophism and money. To go to the extreme: in the book “Collapse” (how societies choose to fail or succeed) Jared Diamond lists all these great societies that entered the dust bin of history. “Even the richest, most technologically advanced societies today face growing environmental and economic problems…”

    Now for the kicker: “Few seem to realise that the present IPCC models predict almost unanimously that by 2040 the average summer in Europe will be as hot as the summer of 2003 when over 30,000 died from heat. By then we may cool ourselves with air conditioning and learn to live in a climate no worse than that of Baghdad now. But without extensive irrigation the plants will die and both farming and natural ecosystems will be replaced by scrub and desert. What will there be to eat? The same dire changes will affect the rest of the world and I can envisage Americans migrating into Canada and the Chinese into Siberia but there may be little food for any of them.” –Dr James Lovelock’s lecture to the Royal Society, 29 Oct. ’07

    The only reason it isn’t obvious already is that those new coal-fired power plants in China are putting so much sun dimming aerosol into the air. “Why did some past societies fail to see the mess they were getting themselves into and that (in retrospect) must have been obvious?”

    Beware of false gifts and broken promises.
    There is much pain but still hope.
    The solution is to believe the truth.
    The conduit is closing…

    We are in the beginning stage of the Sixth Great Extinction. Unfortunately, change is exponential, while most people only think linearly. Furthermore, there is a very strong Normalcy Bias, where people simply can’t imagine the future being much different than the past (amazing really considering the rate of technological progress just in our lifetimes).

    1. The after-image of an object that has already dissappeared keeps people haunted, and holding on to the last.

      Diehards die hard.

      All the people who are actually imagining something different, and actually building something different, are the heroes for tomorrow’s children.

      1. This was posted on ecatnews.com

        “There are now e-petitions on official web sites in both the UK and US to bring formal attention to Rossi’s technology. So far some brave 64 UK citizens have been willing to step forward and go on record as believing their government should step up and take notice of this technology. In the US at the moment some 230 concerned citizens out of a needed 25000 are willing to step up and be counted.

        Given all the time consuming useless chatter on the various websites about “why doesn’t somebody do something” I find this a rather shameful situation.

        The websites are
        http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/21590
        http://wh.gov/j3P

        1. You know it Maryg, it’s a “elite” group. But it’s getting bigger all the time, exponentially. Last year there was a petition, and I don’t think they broke a hundred, and I am not kidding. So now we work towards a thousand.

          It’s all good. It’s all a process. And only a matter of time….

          Thanks for the update, too.
          Ruby

  2. We have governments, we have science organisations, we have academia, we have the press and media, we have industry, we have energy watchdog quangos, we have millions of people paid to make life better and look after the population, and at the end of the day we are left with a few private, dedicated websites to campaign for something that the above organisations should grasp with both hands and scream for action.
    If the Cold Fusion saga does not show everybody that there is something wrong with Capitalism and most of the people running our lives, then nothing will.
    Time for a change in science and everything else, as usual it is left to the people to change things.
    It is the responsibility of everyone of us to change the system, away from a few rich and powerful people looking after themselves and saying bugger everyone else.

    1. It’s the end of an era. Like the end of the Roman empire, we’re moving into a new paradigm. This time however, we don’t have a mere two billion people and a planet full of resources.

      If we don’t have cold fusion, the gloomiest of Peak Oil scenarios will be our New Millenium.

      Enjoy your moments George!

      This is our life!

  3. That Mr. Cage couldn’t even spell “diminished” properly in the first line of his 1989 letter (he spelled it “dimished”) is rather telling. (There is no such word as “dimished”.)

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  5. I have started a flash crowd education campaign with the following E- mail.

    Hi,

    I have been pondering sound, or sonic harmonic phenomenon (like cavitation), as being the catalyst in the Rossi – E Cat reaction chamber. Knowing your interest I am sending you this. You will find enlightening leads in this piece I have been doing flash crowd education with.

    As one realizes that the energy to heat air and liquids consumes more fossil fuels than transportation, the Rossi – E Cat heat plant takes on new significance. However, Eric Lerner – LPP Focus Fusion is poised to revolutionize electrical generation through direct capture of freed electrons. In these regards we will truly be leaving the “Fire Era” (of wood, coal, and oil) and entering the “Fusion Era”; finally backing out of the “Nuclear Age – Dead End Fission” (of uranium and radioactivity). Heat and electricity from fusion.
    The Fusion Era.
    It’s time for everyone to become aware of products from the new sciences that are emerging. I highly recommend the link following Few new energy devices will find a clear path to a patent. Reeducating and busting science myths is important. Supporting the cutting edge is imperative as it is bearing fruit. I hope you use your resources and join this venture into flash crowd education
    (please pass forward). Send this to everyone you know and ask them to do the same.

    Keep up the good works!!

    With warm regards and electrifying anticipation,

    G.B.Goble
    Two Types of Fusion on the Horizon (please pass forward)

    Nickel Hydrogen Fusion – Heat and Copper

    The E Cat / Andre Rossi PRODUCTS: http://www.leonardo-ecat.com/fp/index.html

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Catalyzer
    http://ecatnews.com/
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfQIHNSiu24&feature=player_embedded

    A bit of research and I come across this item. Rossi is associated with these folks who are experts in the cavitation phenomenon.
    http://pesn.com/2011/11/05/9501947_Cavitation_as_a_Purification_Panacea/

    Different frequencies of sound may cause cavitation and focus heat within the nickel and hydrogen lattice, specific frequencies oscillating through a harmonic may create standing waves weakening the lines of resistance between subatomic particles. Is sound the catalyst in the Rossi E Cat reaction chamber?
    Related information see Sonofusion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonofusion

    Are the radio frequencies creating a micro-cavitation within the nickel hydrogen lattice? This is the first post I found where Rossi mentions sonic frequency generation as part of the reaction process.
    “In the self sustained mode, a one megawatt plant can operate at full power, while consuming a miniscule amount of electricity to operate fans, pumps and radio frequency generators.” http://www.leonardo-ecat.com/fp/Products/1MW_Plant/index.html

    Further sonic speculation in a recent CBS News article “Cold Fusion Debate Heats Up After Latest Demo” ByNatalie Wolchover
    “Peter Hagelstein, an MIT professor of electrical engineering and computer science and one of the most mainstream proponents of cold fusion research, thinks the process may involve vibrational energy in the metal’s lattice driving nuclear transitions that lead to fusion.”
    http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57318762/cold-fusion-debate-heats-up-after-latest-demo
    From Wikipedia – Energy Catalyzer
    ‘The international patent application received an unfavorable international preliminary report on patentability as it seemed to “offend against the generally accepted laws of physics and established theories” and to overcome this problem the application should have contained either experimental evidence or a firm theoretical basis in current scientific theories.’

    Few new energy devices will find a clear path to a patent. Not surprising considering the fact they defy physics, or should I say known “non-reality” physics. This article will clarify:
    http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2011/05/14/nuclear-catastrophe-how-the-lack-of-fundamental-research-on-alternative-energy-led-to-a-wrong-energy-policy/

    Hydrogen Boron Fusion – Free Electrons/X-Ray Radiation and Helium

    FOCUS FUSION / Eric Lerner and Lawrenceville Plasma Physics

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd-tWGWtYwU

    http://www.lawrencevilleplasmaphysics.com/

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrenceville_Plasma_Physics

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dense_plasma_focus

    Enjoy,

    Gregory Byron Goble

    Check this out from… COLD FUSION NOW MAGAZINE
    NOV.13, 2011 by Ruby Carat
    “Letters to Congressional Energy Sub-committees Repeat Hearings Request”
    Why does the Department of Energy refuse to acknowledge LENR science and technology as part of its energy portfolio?
    http://coldfusionnow.wordpress.com/2011/11/13/letters-to-congressional-energy-sub-committees-repeat-hearings-request/

    1. I also have had similar thoughts. There was some sort of transmitter attached to the device from what i recall. We have seen how sound waves affect materials, even if it is something simpler like just exposing the entire nickel surface by bouncing them with sound.

    2. Thanks, Feel free to join in the flash crowd education project…. pass it forward… sign the petition.

  6. Fellow Bioneers –

    We’re doing it. No fear, no doubt.

    LENR “Cold Fusion” nano-magnetism phenomenon details to be revealed December 7th in NYC

    Source: Citi5 http://citi5.org/launch/?p=1826

    Ahern discovered the effect in 1995 during his time in the Air Force as resident nanotechnology expert. It has to do with nano-magnetic properties of matter between the 3-12nm range – all matter has different magnetic properties at this scale. Chaos Theory and Oscillons were misidentified – it has more to do with order. It is why the amino acids bonded and formed the first DNA. Its why the universe isn’t just a bunch of hydrogen and deuterium atoms after the big bang.

    Some background on me – Founded Citi5 NPO, and recently started MindStep Energy Inc. and am working with NASA to deploy the first scaled OMEGA platform in the South Bronx / Hunts Point area of NYC. OMEGA turns wastewater into drop in fuel for existing energy infrastructure, while remaining carbon negative. Review here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6oekxl0JAs

    This implications are tremendous. Please help us bring our community together – this is too important for the world not to know. OMEGA +LENR could be the model for a sustainable city – we have to succeed in raising awareness. The time is now – evolution or extinction.

    -Chris Houts

  7. Thank all of you for taking the time to support the clean safe and abundant energy issue by urging our leaders to act now. We urgently need new and better energy systems. I will add my voice to this petition everywhere on the web. Please visit my articles in support of the Rossi E-Cats, comment or ask questions about cold fusion:

    http://rossifocardifusion.com/open-letter-to-president-of-the-united-states
    http://rossifocardifusion.com/dr-rossi-the-italian-wizard
    John De Herrera

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