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    "ocrText": "more variants of the cold fusion process have been discovered\n\"dwindling band of believers\" continue to gather each year \"at\nand even patented since 1989. Some of these employ the ordi-\nsome swank international resort\" in an attempt to \"resuscitate\"\nnary (light) hydrogen in water; others operate at high tempera-\ncold fusion. He asks, \"Why does this little band so fervently\ntures in the gas phase-having nothing to do with electrochem-\nbelieve in something the rest of the scientific community reject-\nstry; still others employ thin, layered metallic films that seem\ned as fantasy years earlier?\" He speculates later, \"Perhaps\ndestined to draw from the advanced materials science and man-\nmany scientists found in cold fusion relief from boredom.\" He\nufacturing infrastructure of the semiconductor industry. And,\ncomplains that no helium nuclear ash results were forthcoming\nstrange but true, there may even be significant implications for\nfrom Fleischmann and Pons by June 1989, ergo, cold fusion is\nthe biotechnology industry. It now seems that what\nfraud. Since at least 1991, Park has been informed by fellow APS\nFleischmann and Pons discovered in the early 1980s was but the\nscientists, such as Dr. Scott Chubb of the Naval Research\ntip of the iceberg of a much larger class of fantastically impor-\nLaboratory (NRL), about helium detection in cathodes and in\ntant phenomena connected with the catalysis of hydrogen and\nthe gas streams of cold fusion experiments. These independent\nits isotopes. There will likely be found multiple, interlocking\nexperiments have been published in the U.S. and Japan in peer-\nphysical mechanisms necessary to encompass it all. The impli-\nreviewed journals. There is absolutely no doubt that Park\ncations transcend energy science, but energy alone would be\nknows this, yet Voodoo contains no mention of this data, an egre-\nenough reason to make it one of the highest national priorities:\ngious fraud by Park on journalists, government leaders, and the\nAll obstacles must be removed from this science and technol-\ngeneral public. Mr. President, this is the level of inappropriate\nogy-from obstruction at the U.S. Patent Office to official\ndiscourse that you must see through.\ninterference by DOE officials. The subject must be discussed\nopenly by officials.\nThe Politics of Cold Fusion\nA small fraction of the compendious scientific findings that\nsupport the phenomena of cold fusion energy are referenced at\nthese web sites: <http://www.infinite-energy.com> and\nC\nold fusion energy offers the prospect of energy abun-\ndance over times comparable to geological ages, in con-\ntrast to the microscopic blip in human history of reliance\n<http://world.std.com/~mica/cft.html>. Anyone who pontif-\non fossil fuel. If we expect our descendants to live virtually\nicates against this science ought to perform a step-by-step cri-\nindefinitely on this planet-until perhaps our Sun, our hot\ntique of this evidence. The opinion of anyone who argues\nfusion reactor in the sky, \"dies\" some five billion years hence-\nagainst the experimental scientific evidence solely on theoretical\nwe had better plan now to possess a source of inexhaustible\ngrounds should be immediately dismissed. Science does not\npower. Cold fusion is one energy resource that is virtually infi-\nmove forward only by gauging new discoveries against past\nnite, but how to bring it about sooner rather than later? To\ntheories. This seems to have been forgotten by some of the elite\nunderstand how to move forward, we need to back up and\npurveyors of nonsense against cold fusion. Not that there are\nexamine what happened and what has been discovered this\not large numbers of theories in support of cold fusion; there\npast decade.\ne. The late Julian Schwinger (physics Nobel prize co-winner\nWhen as an MIT undergraduate I read George Gamow's\nwith Feynman) was a noted cold fusion theorist. He was so out-\nbook, Thirty Years that Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory\nraged by the treatment of cold fusion by the American Physical\n(1966) it was impossible to imagine that in less than 25 years\nSociety (APS) that he resigned from the organization.\nanother revolution, such as has been brought about by cold\nDr. Michael McKubre at SRI International, prime author of\nfusion, would shake physics in ways every bit as dramatic as\nthe 1994 Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) study,8,9\nwhat happened from 1900 to 1930.\nwhich concluded that the Fleischmann and Pons discovery had\nFor just over a decade, the Cold Fusion and Low-Energy\nbeen confirmed by their work, had this to say: \"Fortuitous or\nNuclear Reactions revolution has been underway, whether or\nnot, in the first experiment that we ran, some three or four\nnot the mainstream physics/chemistry establishment and the\nmonths after the initial announcement, we saw some evidence\ngeneral science media wish to agree. The barrier that separated\nof excess heat, which has really sustained me ever since. Having\nconventionally understood chemistry and nuclear physics has\nseen the effect with my own eyes, the claims from a few that this\ncome crashing down like the infamous Berlin Wall. The barrier\nis impossible, or inconsistent with all known laws of nuclear\ndoes not exist, at least not within special microphysical domains\nphysics, these suggestions are in fact irrelevant. There is no the-\nof palladium, nickel, and other metals in contact with hydrogen.\noretical objection to cold fusion, it's just unlikely given our\nExotic new physics is at work. The myth of the \"End of Science\"\nexperience with hot fusion.\"\nagain disproved.\nThe uninitiated might gauge the \"religious belief\" against\nThe revolution does not even have a name on which all the\ncold fusion in the almost humorous utterance by physics Nobel\nrevolutionaries can agree. \"Cold Fusion\" is likely to stick, if for\nlaureate, theorist Steven Weinberg, who in an aside attacked\nno other reason than that is where it all began. The terms LENR\ncold fusion in a recent New York Review of Books article, 10 even\n(Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions) and CANR (Chemically\nthough he gives no evidence of having considered experimen-\nAssisted Nuclear Reactions) have been tried. Dr. Randell Mills\ntal data: \"There do not seem to be any exceptions to this natur-\nof BlackLight Power, Inc., has a radically different theoretical\nal order, any miracles The evidence for all these [biblical] mir-\napproach and an apparently robust commercial activity. Recent\nacles seems to be considerably weaker than the evidence for\nreports suggest that Morgan Stanley-Dean Witter is about to\ncold fusion, and I don't believe in cold fusion.\"\ntake his company public in 2000. (In February 2000 his compa-\nTo give another example of egregious misconduct against sci-\nny belatedly received U.S. Patent 6,024,935 on its process.) This\nence by the critics, here are the foolish words of Dr. Robert L.\nmay be the first of many other private ventures in cold\nark, who claims to speak for the American Physical Society. In\nfusion/new energy. Another company, Lattice Energy, LLC, has\nS book, Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud., Park\njust been formed to further the LENR work of nuclear engi-\ndismisses cold fusion at its very first mention, referring to it as\nneering Professor George Miley at the University of Illinois.\n\"the discredited 'cold fusion' claim made several years earlier\nSeveral Fortune 100 companies are becoming involved in all\nby Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann.\" He says that a\nthis work, though they are not quite ready to declare them-\n3"
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