New
Energy Foundation, Inc.
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Appeal for Support
for New Energy Science and Technology by Dr. Eugene F. Mallove President, New Energy Foundation, Inc. Editor-in-Chief, Infinite Energy Magazine TO
ALL PEOPLE OF THE WORLD who have open-minded curiosity, good will,
good judgment, and imagination. To Scientists and Engineers, Philanthropists, Environmentalists,
Energy Developers, High Technology Investors, Healthcare Professionals,
Journalists, Artists, Writers, Business
People, Entertainers, and Political Leaders. Whether you are Conservative,
Liberal, Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, or Anarchist, and whether
you may be Agnostic, Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim,
Atheist, or some other category of spirituality, this message is
directed to all people of good will like you …
Dear
Friend:
Here
are some thoughts by wise thinkers—background for this urgent
appeal for your consideration and support of research and development
of radically new forms of energy. These are energy sources that have
the potential to turn the present world order upside down and bring
about a bright new day for civilization:
“The exception tests the rule.” Or, put another way. “The exception proves that the rule is wrong.” That is the principle of science. If there is an exception to any rule, and if it can be proved by observation, that rule is wrong. Richard
P. Feynman (1963), Nobel Laureate in Physics (1965) The
progress of physics is unsystematic…The result is that physics
sometimes passes on to new territory before sufficiently consolidating
territory already entered; it assumes sometimes too easily that results
are secure and bases further advance on them, thereby laying itself
open to further possible retreat. This is easy to understand in a
subject in which development of the great fundamental concepts is
often slow; a new generation appears before the concept has been
really salted down, and assumes in the uncritical enthusiasm of youth
that everything taught in school is gospel truth and forgets the
doubts and tentative gropings of the great founders in its eagerness
to make applications of the concepts and pass on to the next triumph…But
each new young physicist…is in danger of forgetting all the
past rumination and present uncertainty, and of starting with an
uncritical acceptance of the concepts in the stage of development
in which he finds them.
Percy
W. Bridgman (1961), Nobel Laureate in Physics (1946)
American
Nobel Laureate in Physics (1988) Leon M. Lederman is no proponent
of research into radical forms of new energy; one might accurately
call him a “pathological skeptic” based on at least one
opinion he has voiced (see The God Particle, 1993, p.122). Nonetheless,
he somehow senses that a physics revolution may be upon us. He said
recently, “You can smell discovery in the air…The
sense of imminent revolution is very strong.” (New York Times,
November 11, 2003, p.D12). He is much more accurate than he can imagine,
but not at all for reasons that he would readily accept! Perhaps
he may be thinking of esoteric academic physics subjects such “string
theory” or “cosmic dark energy,” but certainly
not practical technologies based on radical new physics. Having the
intellectual problems identified by physics Nobel Laureate P. W.
Bridgman in the quotation above, Lederman has not been looking at
a large body of research that will indeed revolutionize the foundations
of physics and give us command of fantastic new forms of energy.
Too bad for Lederman; and too bad for us all that he has not been
paying attention. We could use the support of people like Lederman…if
they would only come to their senses, that is, examine open-mindedly
the validity of experimental data that challenges their cherished
theories.
In
an article in Science, November 1, 2002, eighteen experts reported
that they examined all the conventionally understood alternatives
to fossil fuels and found them all to have “severe deficiencies” in
their ability to deal with environmental problems while also being
adequate to growing planetary energy needs. Physics Professor
Martin Hoffert, leader of that research group, told the press that
the United States would have to undertake an urgent energy research
crash program, like the Manhattan atomic bomb project or the Apollo
lunar missions. According to the New York Times (November 4,
2003, D1), Hoffert stated that we would need “Maybe six or
seven of them [massive projects] operating simultaneously…We
should be prepared to invest several hundred billion dollars in the
next 10 to 15 years.” Well, I have news for these experts:
The solutions to our energy problems are very close at hand, and
they do require initial research and funding, but not the billions
of dollars that such Establishment “experts” are accustomed
to from government largesse. Rather, all that is needed perhaps are
only several tens of millions of dollars to create robust prototype
electric power generators based on new energy physics discoveries
that have already been made. That is what this Appeal for Support
is all about: to raise consciousness and funding for these radical
alternative new energy sources.
Question: Do you believe that it is possible that modern science has overlooked
or ignored major scientific discoveries, which—if developed
into technologies— would revolutionize almost every aspect
of civilization? It has!
I
will not catalogue the many horrors and troubles of this world that
could be reduced or eliminated with an abundant, safe, and clean,
radically new form of energy, if it were to be embodied in widely
used technologies. You know these troubles already. But I do want
to tell you about a significant path toward solving many of these
problems, which we can all begin to take now, but about which you
may have heard very little. You may have thought that no such path
could exist. Let me assure you that it does and that thousands of
researchers are already on it. They have traveled this unbeaten path
to a new era for far too long without adequate support. I should
know, I happen to be one of them. Yes, we have not reached our goals,
but thanks to meticulous scientific research, huge sacrifices, and
tireless work against great opposition, these objectives are now
much closer to being realized. The basic scientific direction
of the path forward has already been mapped out. We need your support
to go further on the path and reach our common destination: A world
of abundant, clean, and safe energy from sources that have no centralized
geopolitical control.
Please
attend to this appeal. I am most certainly not asking you to accept
my claims at face value. But you must read, consider, study
or review the compendious referenced material, investigate it, and
then, I hope, you will be moved to take action. If you still
have questions about these claims that need answering, I and my colleagues
are available to answer them with facts, not hand-waving.
Who
am I to ask anything of you on behalf of others, whether your attention
for these brief moments, or for your financial and moral support? I
am a scientist and an engineer with two engineering degrees from
MIT (1969, 1970) and a doctorate from the Harvard University School
of Public Health (1975). I have worked all my adult life as a dedicated
scientist, despite my engineer’s stripes. I have always sought
to learn how the cosmos really works, and I find this process to
be an exciting, difficult, and unending adventure, despite those
who so erroneously claim that we are approaching “The End of
Science” or a “Final Theory of Everything.” Apart
from my work in government-funded research at MIT and Harvard and
later in corporate settings, I have also broadened my horizons by
writing about science as an author and a journalist. Articles by
me and about me have appeared in such venues as MIT Technology Review,
The Washington Post Sunday “Outlook” section, the New
York Times, Popular Science, Analog, TWA Ambassador in-flight magazine,
Wired, and New Hampshire Magazine. I have appeared on many national
radio programs, and for a time in the mid-1980s I was proud to have
been a regular science and technology broadcaster for The Voice of
America.
I
am telling you something about me, not to elevate myself, but to
convey to you something of my experience, sincerity, and integrity.
I have written three acclaimed science books for the general public:
The Quickening Universe: Cosmic Evolution and Human Destiny (1987,
St. Martin’s Press), The Starflight Handbook: A Pioneer’s
Guide to Interstellar Travel (1989, John Wiley & Sons, with co-author
Dr. Gregory Matloff), and Fire from Ice: Searching for the Truth
Behind the Cold Fusion Furor (1991, John Wiley & Sons). The late
Nobel Laureate in physics (1965) Julian Schwinger endorsed my book
Fire from Ice with these words: “Eugene Mallove has produced
a sorely needed, accessible overview of the cold fusion muddle. By
sweeping away stubbornly held preconceptions, he bares the truth
implicit in a provocative variety of experiments.” (He shared
the 1965 Nobel Prize with Richard P. Feynman and Sin Itiro Tomanaga.)
I am most proud of this latter book, because it began a jarring quest
that led to finding out not only dramatic new truths about new accessible
forms of energy in nature, but more important for me and you, the
following most astonishing truth about modern “official” science:
Official science is not really intent on truly expanding scientific
knowledge, in particular when some very, very fundamental scientific
dogmas and theories are put at risk.
Here
is how one famous nuclear science professor at my alma mater MIT
reacted to my request to him in 1991 to study the summary reports
from two pioneering Ph.D. scientists, who had compiled seminal reviews
about frontier experiments in low-energy nuclear reactions (a.k.a. “cold
fusion”). One of the reviewing scientists was 34-year veteran
researcher at our Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and the other
was a leader of research at India’s Bhabha Atomic Research
Center (BARC):
“I
have had fifty years of experience in nuclear physics and I know
what’s possible and what’s not!…I will not look
at any more evidence! It’s all junk!” —MIT Prof.
Herman Feshbach, May 1991, on the telephone to Dr. Mallove.
I
hope you recognize that the late Professor Feshbach’s most
unfortunate and ill-considered reaction was fundamentally unscientific.
It reminds me of the Church leaders at the time of Galileo, who refused
to look through Galileo’s telescope at the Moon or at Jupiter,
because they “knew” that nothing new could be seen! Yes,
many modern scientists are filled with catastrophic hubris; they
have become in many ways mere “technicians of science,” and
guardians of what amounts to a pernicious “Holy Writ.” Don’t
bother me with the experimental evidence, my theory can tell me what
is possible and what is not!
If
by chance you are one of those who believe that “all is well
in the house of science” and that “official science” can
be counted on to behave itself and always seek the truth—even
in matters of central, overarching importance to the well-being of
humankind—you are sorely mistaken, and I could prove that to
you with compendious documentation. (If you want to read what happened
at just one institution, MIT, when a paradigm shift threatened established
hot fusion research programs and “vested intellectual interests” such
as those Prof. Feshbach so vehemently defended, read my 55-page report
about this monumental tragedy at www.infinite-energy.com.) But as
a first step, you should reflect on the broader history of science,
which is so fraught with revolutionary leaps and paradigm shifts.
These have often been made against great opposition—with revolutionary
data staring an older, unaccepting generation of scientists right
in the face! Read this Appeal carefully and then reconsider your
opinion about who is telling the truth and who is defending falsehood
about revolutionary new prospects for science and civilization.
For
almost nine years I have been the editor of Infinite Energy, the
magazine of new energy science and technology. Though it is now small
in circulation, Infinite Energy is received worldwide in some forty
countries. And, Infinite Energy is distributed to newsstands across
the United States and Canada. My friend and colleague, Sir Arthur
C. Clarke, has supported with words and resources some of our efforts
on behalf of new energy. The research that Infinite Energy covers
suggests that there are at least three major categories of radically
new sources of energy that civilization is on the verge of being
able to tap and reduce to practical technologies. These are the completely
new forms of energy for which this Appeal for Support is being issued.
New Energy is the term that we apply to new sources of energy that
are currently not recognized as feasible by the “scientific
establishment,” but for which overwhelming and compelling evidence
exists, we suggest, in at least these major categories:
Category
1. New hydrogen physics (a.k.a. “cold fusion,” more generally
Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions or LENR, “hydrino” physics,
and other water-based energy sources. Copious technical and other
information about this research may be found on these two diverse
websites: www.lenr-canr.org and www.blacklightpower.com as well as
our own site, www.infinite-energy.com. The upshot of this energy-from-water
field is that within ordinary water there is a heretofore unimaginably
large energy reservoir that may be as great as 300 gallons of gasoline
energy equivalent within each gallon of plain water! This energy
would be non-polluting, would have no hazardous radiation, and would,
in effect, have a zero fuel cost. Only one cubic kilometer
of ocean water would provide energy equivalent to all the known oil
reserves on Earth. In responding to a special plea by Sir Arthur
C. Clarke, the White House requested from me a technically-based
Memorandum on this topic in February 2000. This 8,500-word Memorandum, “The
Strange Birth of the Water Fuel Age,” was submitted to the
Clinton Administration and later to the Bush Administration. It is
now posted on www.infinite-energy.com. It asks for a review of the
substantial evidence—in particular the copious evidence developed
over the past 14 years in U.S. Federal laboratories—for this
category of anomalous new physics energy. Unfortunately, apart from
polite “Thank You” notes, no discernable action has been
taken by either administration. The 10th International Conference
on Cold Fusion (ICCF10) was held near and at MIT in August 2003.
Actual public demonstrations of excess energy production in electrolytic
cells occurred at MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science. Wall Street Journal science journalist Sharon
Begley attended ICCF10 and wrote a fine column in the September 5,
2003 issue of WSJ, “Cold Fusion Isn’t Dead, It’s
Withering From Scientific Neglect.” Among other surprising
technical developments at ICCF10 was the presentation by a well-funded
Israeli corporation, Energetics Technologies, which appears to have
made enormous strides in overcoming some of the problems with the
low-energy nuclear reactions phenomenon. Isn’t it time
that the experimental data from this significant field of scientific
work is reviewed by an unbiased panel, unlike the rush-to-judgment
hostile group in 1989, which inexcusably botched that investigation? Why
aren’t the many politicians who have been informed about this
taking action? Are they perhaps fearful of the all-to-common “sneer
review” from the Scientific Establishment?
Category
2. Vacuum energy, Zero Point Energy or “ZPE” for short,
aether energy, or space energy. These are descriptions of vast energy
sources from the vacuum state. Information about this most radical
and paradigm-shattering physics and technology research can be found
on websites: www.aetherometry.com, www.energyscience.co.uk, and www.aethera.org.
In the mid-1990s, Dr. Paulo and Alexandra Correa in the Toronto area
obtained three US patents on an astonishing technological device,
the so-called Pulsed Abnormal Glow Discharge (PAGDTM) reactor. In
its several embodiments, it already produces kilowatt-level electrical,
thermal, and mechanical output power. A Quicktime video of
one such device, working in 2003, may be viewed at www.aetherometry.com/cat-abrimedia.html.
Successful testing of the PAGD by outside parties, including Israel
Aircraft Industries (IAI) and Ontario Hydro, regrettably did not
lead to commercial arrangements to further the development of this
scientific wonder, which has been meticulously documented in the
three United States-granted Correa patents. (Uri Soudak, former Chief
Technology Officer of IAI, is still involved with the project here
in the U.S.) The Correas and Dr. Harold Aspden, IBM’s former
chief of patent operations in Europe (from 1963 to 1983), have provided
convincing theoretical explanations, based on concrete experiments
with a variety of fundamental phenomena, all of which illuminate
how this unsuspected vacuum state energy can be extracted by the
PAGD reactor. The advent (possibly in only 2-3 years) of self-sustaining
electrical power-generating units in the multi-kilowatt power range
appears to be only a matter of gathering a relatively small amount
of engineering/scientific development funding, in the low several
tens of million dollars range.
Category
3. Environmental energy, i.e. energy from sensible thermal energy
(in particular, energy of molecular motion), through significant
extensions to the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The Proceedings of
an important scientific conference dealing with this subject gives
great insight into this work: Quantum Limits to the Second Law: First
International Conference on Quantum Limits to the Second Law (San
Diego, CA, July 28-31, 2002), Professor Daniel P. Sheehan, Editor,
American Institute of Physics, Conference Proceedings, #643, 2002. A
strong consensus of a significant number of the scientist attendees,
as reported by the author, is that it will be possible to make utilitarian
machines that convert the thermal energy in the environment to useful
work, without a lower temperature reservoir to dump waste heat. This
would be in direct contravention of the supposedly sacrosanct Second
Law of Thermodynamics. These devices would be nearly perfect “free
energy” machines. Accurate simulations of such devices
have been carried out and the results published in peer-reviewed
journals. Some of the authors predict that such prototype devices
could be reduced to small prototype units within five years.
The
foregoing brief descriptions of the three categories of New Energy
identified so far is only the tip of the iceberg of the verifiable
and testable information that is available on these energy sources.
It is amenable to critical and precise scientific review. Of course,
if the Scientific Establishment trusts only in its textbook theories
and if disbelieving people of good will who have the means to move
this work forward choose “not to look through the telescope,” the
consequences will be that these wondrous technologies will not be
developed as rapidly as they could have been otherwise—or they
may not be developed at all! This has been and will be a monumental
tragedy for virtually every category of human experience, all of
which would be transformed by these now apparently “unwanted” discoveries.
I
could write much more in this memorandum about the corrupt machinations
within the supposedly well-ordered and ethical house of science,
actions that have kept the information that Infinite Energy publishes
from where it should be: prominently considered in such publications
as Science and Nature. Don’t worry, many, many peer-reviewed
technical publications have indeed courageously published pioneering
technical papers about new energy, but the prominent mainstream publications
that set the boundaries of the public scientific discourse—journals
such as Science and Nature—reject without review any and all
papers that challenge the foundational paradigms of physics, chemistry,
and biology. You may find that difficult to believe, as I would have
a mere fifteen years ago when I wrote Fire from Ice, but it is a
sad and demonstrable truth. Let us not dwell on that, however, but
rather move forward together with an end-run around this grotesque,
anti-scientific obstruction.
Infinite
Energy Magazine has been published bi-monthly since March 1995 and
I have been its Editor-in-Chief and Publisher since that time. It
is a technical magazine with editorial outreach to the general public
as well. Many of its articles are very accessible to laypeople and
non-specialists. You may download for free some 117 pages of representative
sample articles, which we have gathered together for you at www.infinite-energy.com.
Other key articles are posted for free downloading on our website
on a continuing basis. To maintain the highest editorial standards,
Infinite Energy is written and edited by scientists, engineers, and
expert journalists. It is aimed at pioneering scientists, engineers,
business people, environmentalists, philanthropists, and investors
who are concerned about an exciting R&D area that we believe
will change the world dramatically.
New
Energy Foundation, Inc. (NEF) is an IRS-approved 501(c)(3) public
charity corporation, based in New Hampshire; it has a five-member
board of respected citizens. (Prior to July 2003, Infinite Energy
had operated under a for-profit corporation.) NEF also has a research
grant-awarding function, which was initiated in 2003. NEF dispenses
to outside researchers and developers carefully targeted research
and development funding grants from its reserves of charitable contributions.
These funds are beginning to grow, but are nowhere near the level
they need to be.
The
current subscription price and newsstand price of Infinite Energy
provides less than 30% of what it costs to carry on a publication
of this quality at the frontiers of knowledge—and for which
no significant advertising base yet exists. And this frontier knowledge
is neglected (and not infrequently mocked) by most of the scientific
and media establishments. Therefore, charitable contributions are
needed to carry on this important information networking function.
Here is the other basic motivation for NEF: It has been far too difficult
(so far) to persuade venture capital to invest in new energy technology
that is not quite ready yet for “prime time,” so the
vicious Catch 22 (“We won't invest because it is not successful
already.”) must be broken. We appeal to the humanitarian and
charitable instincts of those in a position to invest charitably
in and/or to spread the word about the most fundamental aspect of
our future: The triumph of truth over falsehood on the frontiers
of science—in which the new energy field, in our view, will
be the first paradigm-shattering example.
What
we have today in the fiery menace of hydrocarbon fuels and its associated
geopolitical nightmare is very ugly indeed. There is almost no area
of human activity that would not be dramatically affected by the
advent of new energy technology—especially matters of war or
peace and health and the environment. Therefore, if your review of
the referenced material convinces you that this is a reality and
not “pathological science,” as the unrepentant critics—who
have not studied the scientific findings objectively or at all—would
have you believe, we hope that you will view your tax-deductible
support of the New Energy Foundation as a significant investment
in your future, for your loved ones and for civilization at large.
Just try to imagine our world twenty or fifty years hence without
the advent of a dramatic source of new energy such as low-energy
nuclear reactions, aether energy (or Zero Point Energy/space energy/vacuum
energy, if you prefer), or some other very powerful new physics energy
source. It is not a pleasant picture.
What
about solar power, wind power, or hydrogen fuel cells, you ask? Those
are fine, and Infinite Energy devotes some smaller space to writing
about these. But a future of abundant, clean energy has almost no
chance of emerging from the well-intentioned, beneficial, but extremely
limited world of wind-power, photovoltaics, hydropower, and other
conventional renewables. And the so-called controlled hot fusion
tokamak reactor program, which is lavishly funded with billions of
dollars by governments to the exclusion of workable new energy science
and technology, will never bring about an era of clean abundant energy
from the heavy hydrogen in water. Conventional hydrogen fuel
cells, which are widely discussed by the news media today, rely on
the conventionally understood energy from hydrogen when it combines
with oxygen to form water. This is thousands to millions of times
less powerful per gram of hydrogen than already demonstrated new
energy sources! Furthermore, the hydrogen for conventional
fuel cells must come from some other energy source that must be used
to break down abundant water to get hydrogen fuel (if we reject the
other hydrogen source: hydrocarbon fuel). But in all conventional
hydrogen fuel processes using water as the starting material, this
requires more energy than one gets back when the hydrogen is consumed.
So ordinary “hydrogen power” is a misnomer at best—it
is no solution at all to the world’s real energy needs. Hydrogen,
conventionally employed, is an energy storage medium period. New
Energy Foundation supports radically new forms of energy, not the
relatively weak examples of alternative energy within conventional
renewables. We acknowledge, of course, that there are now no robust
new energy devices on the market—not yet. But when adequate,
well-targeted research funding is applied, a revolution in energy
technology will occur that will dwarf the personal computer revolution
in intensity. It will have much in common with that revolution
too, since power sources will be highly distributed. The very troublesome
and erratic power grid is doomed to obsolescence.
At
this time, New Energy Foundation is in need of financial support
from a broader community than heretofore. NEF disseminates information
about potentially world-changing technologies—about the science,
technology, patents, investment, and politics thereof; we measure
and investigate new claims about new energy devices to determine
whether they are sound. This latter can be tough, because there is
no question that there is much bogus “free energy noise” that
obscures the good research. Most important, we are now processing
grant applications by scientists and inventors from around the world,
so that the most promising work—now highly under-funded, due
to the very heretical nature of this work—gets the financial
support that it so much deserves. We are very demanding about these
grants; we insist that the research must be headed in the direction
of developing publishable scientific results and/or actual commercially
useful technologies that operate on new scientific energy principles
Please
help us today, either with your financial contribution—of any
size—or by passing along this letter and our message to those
who may be better able to help NEF. Whatever you or they can afford,
no matter how small an amount, will be deeply appreciated—and
will be acknowledged in the pages of Infinite Energy (unless you
or others tell us that anonymity is requested). Some day we will
live in a world in which the discoveries of New Energy science will
be taken for granted. No one will be able to deny the devices, processes,
and science, whose validation we are struggling so hard to achieve.
In some sense, we will then have succeeded in our mission and thus
will have “put ourselves out of business.” Those scientific
publications and general media, which should have been dealing fairly
with this topic all along, will then be forced to write about it
and recant past inexcusable excessive skepticism. Billions of dollars
in R&D money will then flow from corporations and individuals,
as should have been happening already based on what scientists have
already discovered! The huge funding for infrastructure conversion
to New Energy will flow naturally from private sources, as it has
in the rise of the personal computer and Internet industry. Nothing
would make me happier than to have that day come. But until then,
we very much need increased financial support.
We
would like to reach soon our target of at least $500,000 per year
in approved research funding for New Energy. That may not seem
like a lot of money to do significant research, but let me assure
you that even this amount—wisely distributed to the best researchers—could
soon begin to have a dramatic catalytic effect. New energy researchers
are accustomed to low budgets and are fantastically creative, unlike
the wasteful government energy research programs that have demonstrably
failed already. It will not be easy to obtain even this level of
modest research funding—and, of course, several millions of
dollars per year would accomplish much more, but the sooner well-targeted
funding reaches under-funded researchers, the more likely we are
to accelerate the inevitable New Energy Revolution. Yes, we understand
that there is room in parallel for corporate start-ups, and we definitely
encourage that to take place. But some of the charitable grant money
can help the struggling inventors and scientists to do sufficient
research, so that their work can be of greater interest to corporate
start-up models.
I
think you would agree with me that in these often very dark times
the world would benefit immensely from a realistic hope—followed
by on-market technology—that a new era of abundant, clean energy
resources will be dawning. Please do your best to help us make that
happen. Study the hard-won information that we have brought
to your attention, if you do not yet accept what I have tried to
convey to you. When you have become convinced, if you are not
already, please act! You may donate charitably to the efforts
of New Energy researchers at www.infinite-energy.com. Please also
help us to bring this critical issue to others who may be able to
help. Why not satisfy your curiosity and also help New Energy Foundation
by subscribing to Infinite Energy. Thank you in advance for joining
with us now or in the very near future.
Sincerely,
Dr.
Eugene F. Mallove
President, New Energy Foundation, Inc. Editor-in-Chief, Infinite Energy Magazine |