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Revealed in upcoming episodes of this program are the contents of a recently

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unearthed repository classified by the secret government, the Phenomenon Archives.

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Energy. Without it, the world economy would grind to a catastrophic halt. In the 20th

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century, the world's largest planet, the Earth's largest planet, the Earth's largest

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planet, the Earth's largest planet, the Earth's largest planet, the Earth's largest planet,

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the Earth's largest planet, the Earth's largest planet, the Earth's largest planet, the Earth's

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largest planet. Over a century ago, visionary novelist Jules Verne wrote, I believe that

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water will one day be employed as a fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used

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singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light. On March 23, 1989,

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Jules Verne's prophecy of a world powered by water rose upon the landscape of popular

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Two distinguished chemists, Dr. Martin Fleischmann and Dr. Stanley Ponds announced to the amazement

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of the world that they had detected a nuclear-like reaction that could turn water into a powerful

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new fuel.

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Their discovery became known as cold fusion because they said it delivered fusion energy

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like that produced in the sun without emitting deadly radiation.

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We didn't call it cold fusion at all.

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That was a term which was wished on us, but we never called it that.

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We felt the processes had to be nuclear to account for the high levels of the energy.

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In answer to their claim, the Department of Energy quickly assembled a review panel headed

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up by Dr. John Hezenga.

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We wrote a very negative report and concluded that the results that were being presented

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to us were contrary to everything we had found out about nuclear physics over the last 50

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years.

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The sword of this panel's condemnation struck with speed and brutality, ignoring the facts

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in a blind rush to judgment.

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Hot fusion physics people have been very vigorous in their denunciation of this being called

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Right away, reports came in of excess heat, much too large to be from any chemical reaction.

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Laboratories from Texas to India confirmed the presence of Tritium, a vital determining

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feature of a nuclear reaction.

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Within two or three weeks, we got the first results and several groups started saying,

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yes, we are seeing excess heat, but the most important and unbelievable phenomenon at that

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time was the observation of Tritium.

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A mud-slinging frenzy followed.

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The old guard of the scientific establishment, with their powerful influence in media and

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government, did everything possible to denounce ponds, fleshmen and their unprecedented work.

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In conclusion, we have no evidence in our laboratory with any of our samples for fusion.

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I'm very sorry that Professor Lewis has no information on the Tritium levels.

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This is available and is available in the correction list to the paper.

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We know the foreground, we don't know the background.

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I would like to specifically...

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I beg your pardon, the background is available in the corrections to the paper.

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That might be.

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I would like to specifically hear whether or not helium...

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Please don't, don't, don't laugh it off.

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...peer reviewed publications like Nature divisively shamed the discoverers with allegations

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of incompetence, touching off one of the greatest tragedies in the history of science.

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I think that, broadly speaking, it's dead and it will remain dead for a long, long time.

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This was a discovery perhaps as significant as the Wright Brothers' first flight at Kitty

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Hawke. But instead of embracing it, the governors of official science declared war on cold fusion.

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Was the promise of cold fusion too good to be true, or was it trampled on by clothed-minded,

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greedy power brokers whose special interests outweighed the public good?

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Fusion and oxygen, the components of water, are two of the most reactive elements on Earth.

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Electrolysis, the process of extracting them from water as gas, has been known to science

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for nearly 200 years. This knowledge has enabled us to develop fuels, some of which are used

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to propel manned rockets into space. Though powerful, these chemical fuels don't hold

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a candle to the energy release of a nuclear reaction.

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The fire of this miracle was at the heart of what Ponds and Fleischmann offered to the

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world with their groundbreaking cold fusion process.

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When positively charged deuterons are attracted to the Platium cathode, they cram together

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and there are millions and millions of them inside the cathode, getting closer and closer

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and then they fuse, and they create energy in the form of helium. There's more energy

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in one cubic mile of sea water than in all the known oil reserves on Earth. You could

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drive your car 55 million miles on a gallon of heavy water. Maybe the end of pollution.

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Hollywood's starry eyed version of energy from water seems the stuff of fantasy, and

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while it is true that a definitive theory describing the effect has eluded scientists.

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Former chief science writer for MIT, engineer Dr. Eugene Maloff has assembled the evidence

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that takes the illusion out of cold fusion.

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When I finished my book Fire from Ice in 1991, I concluded that the evidence for cold fusion

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was overwhelmingly compelling. Today, we can no longer say that the evidence is overwhelmingly

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compelling. It is now 100% certain.

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Exmised early on by carpers and critics, the field of cold fusion is very much alive.

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Energy producing devices exist today that seem to defy the conventions of modern science.

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We're getting nuclear energy output without the nuclear radiation byproducts.

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If an atom were a huge athletic stadium, at its center would be a nucleus the size of

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a pea. In turn, an atom in the eye of this mouse would compare in size to the mouse,

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in the same way the mouse compares in size to the entire Earth. This comparison is characteristic

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of the monumental challenge faced by scientists worldwide in their effort to unravel the riddle

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of the cold fusion effect.

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Our critics would say that the problem with cold fusion is that there is no theory to

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describe it. The problem is completely different. The problem is that there are far too many

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theories which purport to describe the same set of observations. And no more than one

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of these theories can be correct.

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Fusion takes place when the nuclei of two atoms, usually hydrogen, collide and fuse

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together, releasing vast amounts of energy. Prevailing theories suggest that this can

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only happen at extreme temperatures like those found on the sun or in a nuclear blast.

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Experimental reactor facilities like the Jet Plasma Hot Fusion site in England have

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attempted to replicate the fusion process of the sun for decades.

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Because current technology demands that more energy has to be put into a reaction than

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comes out, it hasn't been economically viable. However, Stanley Ponds of the University of

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Utah and Martin Fleischman of the University of Southampton claimed that they could create

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a fusion reaction at room temperature and make fusion energy a reality with the potential

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of making uncounted billions of energy dollars.

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Scientists at Hot Fusion facilities like Princeton and MIT seeking to replicate solar fusion

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have received untold billions for the building of magnetically ringed Tokamak reactors. Although

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a great deal has been learned through experimentation in this field, the process itself has never

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produced a single watt of excess power.

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At the time of the Ponds and Fleischman announcement, Hot Fusion research was in full swing. Several

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powerful university budgets were reliant upon research dollars siphoned off government

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coffers into the development of this technology.

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Partly it was a very unfortunate time to make such an announcement for various political

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reasons really. The situation in the United States, the situation with regard to the program

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in Hot Fusion, that was against state. But also of course was the fact that we were not

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ready to make such an announcement.

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Cold Fusion violates most of what I was taught in nuclear chemistry.

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Once you see it happen in front of you and your own apparatus, it's pretty convincing

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that there's a reality and that's what I base my continued interest on.

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Since Ponds and Fleischman were both well aware of the pitfalls of premature publicity, why

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would they bypass the accepted conventions of the peer review system and announce their

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discovery through the media?

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I was thinking these guys are not full, they know what they're doing. These are good scientists.

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Prior to the 1989 announcement, Stephen E. Jones, a physics professor at nearby Brigham

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Young University, learned of Ponds and Fleischman's work through an informant at the DOE. In

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a flagrant example of shameless opportunism, Jones insisted on going public quickly with

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his comparatively much less clear results.

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Disparaging the excess heat claims of Fleischman and Ponds, Jones' announcement would have

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effectively prevented the two scientists from patenting their process, a process they had

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developed on their own over long years of research.

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On the advice of university attorneys, Ponds and Fleischman, feeling their backs to the

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wall, reluctantly delivered their work to public scrutiny.

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Though their discovery posed a very clear challenge to the energy industry, it was the

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scientific community, mostly physicists, which raised the specter of doubt and wrongdoing.

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This experiment hasn't been produced by any national laboratory or any university yet

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without a good football team.

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Our cold fusion researcher, Dr. Robert Bush.

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Our reaction was not unlike that of other physicists who thought on the one hand, gee,

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that would be marvelous if they're doing it, and then on the other hand, my God, chemists

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doing it for probably pennies compared to what physicists have taken from the public

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coffer over the last 40 years in order of $40 billion to do hot fusion.

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It was war from the outset.

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On April 14th, 1989, Dr. Glenn Seaborg, a Nobel laureate with a distinguished record

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in conventional nuclear science, told then President Bush, it is not due to nuclear fusion.

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Secretary of Energy, Admiral James Watkins nevertheless enlisted many federally funded

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laboratories to investigate the cold fusion claim.

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Admiral Watkins, who was at that time headed the Department of Energy, he had an edict.

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He said, this must be verified in two weeks.

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I'm going to put the whole of the DOE labs on it, as I had put the whole of my team on

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And of course, it turned out that you couldn't get any results under four weeks.

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So he demanded the impossible, you see.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology was one of the testing facilities selected by the

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Department of Energy.

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MIT's hot fusion director, Professor Ronald R. Parker, fired the next salvo.

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On the front page of the Boston Herald, Parker accused Fleischmann and Ponds of possible fraud

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and of engaging in scientific schlock.

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It was a well-timed directive to the American Physical Society to go on the attack against

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cold fusion.

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For instance, Professor William Happer, a hot fusion veteran and advisor to Secretary

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Watkins, was quoted as saying, just by looking at Fleischmann and Ponds on television, you

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could tell they were incompetent boobs.

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Credibility for a scientist is the coin of the realm.

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And if you lose that coin, then you can't get grant funding.

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Your work becomes regarded as inferior.

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And you slip down notches in the eyes of your peers.

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And this is a real disaster.

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For five years prior to their announcement, Fleischmann and Ponds had used their own money

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to conduct experiments, passing a current through an electrochemical cell containing

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deuterium oxide, heavy water.

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One of the electrodes in the cell was made of the precious metal palladium.

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The electrical current separated out individual deuterium atoms and forced them to pack tightly

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into the palladium cathode.

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What happened next remains a mystery.

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Whether it was nuclear fusion or something else, the heat energy that came out of that

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little jar was thousands to millions of times what could be explained by any known chemical

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reaction.

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To most classically trained physicists, the idea that low level nuclear reactions could

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produce significant heat energy was unthinkable.

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The nuclei of atoms are all positively charged.

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They repel each other.

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They don't want to come together or fuse, except at millions of degrees.

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And when they do, deadly radiation can be the result.

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The U.S. Department of Energy, or DOE, convened a review panel in April of 1989.

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Dr. John Hezinga, an early cold fusion critic, was assigned to a chair position, though his

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bias against cold fusion was well known.

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Hezinga claimed cold fusion was nonsense and advised authorities against a formal investigation.

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By mid-July, the DOE panel had completed their damning report.

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Earlier in this century, a very distinguished chemist by the name of Irving Langmer defined

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pathological science as the science of things that aren't true.

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And I have labeled my book, Cold Fusion, the Scientific Fiasco of the Century, simply because

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there's no experimental evidence at this point that any nuclear reaction products have been

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formed.

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Therefore, the claim that cold fusion is a nuclear reaction process without a commensurate

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amount of nuclear reaction products is simply pathological science.

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But ten years of results from successful experiments support another conclusion.

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There are thousands of papers that have already been published on cold fusion showing the

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evidence for the excess heat, the nuclear products including helium, tritium, low-level

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neutrons, but at the same time we have the establishment of physics and the establishment

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of science for that matter totally ignoring this and in fact mocking it.

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Very quickly I realized that cold fusion was going to be the world's best example of

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pathological science.

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The criticism of pathological science is one which has quite frequently been leveled

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at unusual investigations which admittedly sometimes are at fault.

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However, there is also the situation that people will criticize a field long after they

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should really have given up and that is pathological criticism.

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They just get trapped in a situation, they have made a criticism, they have to maintain

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that criticism against all the evidence.

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After decades of painstaking observation through his own homemade ground glass lenses, the

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Dutch janitor Antony Luwenhoek opened our eyes to the realm of microbiology in the year

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1675.

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The world of science, however, continued to thumb its nose at the field for nearly 200

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years, ridiculing the work of men like the great Louis Pasteur.

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Inventor Thomas Edison's vision of a world powered by direct current had its roots in

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his own pocketbook.

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His public criticisms of the work of rival Nikola Tesla almost cost civilization the

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miracle of AC current.

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When the Wright brothers first flew in 1903, no papers covered as tall because everybody

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was convinced, certainly the American press, that heavy-than-air flight was totally impossible.

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All the top scientists said this is nonsense.

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And editors wouldn't even bother to send journalists or photographers to interview the Wrights

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or even to take pictures of them flying in full public view.

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And it wasn't for about five years that eventually they realized, my goodness, this is real.

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Heavy-than-air flight is possible.

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And I think a similar thing is going to happen with so-called cold fusion.

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The scientific groundwork for cold fusion has been accomplished with great difficulty

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by underfunded scientists toiling over experiments in laboratories and basements around the world.

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Whether their efforts remain eclipsed by hot fusion and other cash cow programs or win

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the support of science and the public will be revealed over time.

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Despite the nasty accusations made against cold fusion, accomplished scientists like

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Dr. Bob Bush and Dr. Edmund Storms of the Los Alamos Laboratory continued their leading

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edge work, often producing extraordinary results.

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We were seeing this marvelous effect of excess power and integrate over time, excess heat,

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in our own laboratory.

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So it wasn't as if we had to take somebody else's word for it.

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We had proved it.

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The conclusion was that the amount of palladium that you could fit on your thumb would be

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enough to produce a reactor that would supply the city of Los Angeles with all their power

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need.

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Supporting evidence mounted throughout the 90s, yet revered experts like Hezinga, Happer

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and Morrison clung to their original conclusions, flying the one prevailing negative DOE report

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as their standard.

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There is something new coming up.

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You know, professors who teach physics hate to change their courses.

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And generally, they don't appreciate monsters which crop up and which cannot be explained.

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It was in the frame of the present knowledge.

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Sociologists of science have said that if you get four big names in a field of science

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to stand up and say that something isn't so, that unfortunately all of the other people

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tend to fall into a line kind of herd like.

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When science becomes a part of the belief structure of society, you have the danger

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that people aren't going to go beyond the boundaries of that science.

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In every year we are discovering things that we didn't know last year.

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So science must always keep pace with discovery and discovery is a real time process.

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It is not about dogma.

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Professor George Miley, director of the Fusion Studies Laboratory at the University of Illinois,

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was one of the few editors of a peer-reviewed journal to accept papers on cold fusion.

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Let's take a tritium as an example which has worked that Tom Clater has done at Los

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Alamos.

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I was asked him, have you convinced your management at Los Alamos that tritium is real?

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And he said, no I haven't.

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Problem is that I only get a positive result three times out of ten.

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Now think about that.

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If it happens once, the inquisitive scientists should say, well how did it happen?

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Let's find out how we can ultimately make it happen consistently.

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At SRI International, Dr. Michael McCubert was one of the first scientists to replicate

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the cold fusion effect.

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There is clearly evidence of anomalous excess heat which occur in these experiments.

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There are also in similar experiments evidence of an anomalous nuclear process.

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It's my suspicion, my bias if you like, that the two anomalies are in fact connected.

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In the free-for-all that followed the cold fusion announcement, hot fusion proponents

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drew this specious conclusion that cold fusion must work like hot fusion.

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If ponds and Fleischmann are alive, they contended, then their results must be faulty since the

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neutron radiation from the fusion reaction would surely have killed them.

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They refused to consider that another form of the same process might be at work.

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In the years that have followed, the cold fusion process has repeatedly produced not

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only heat energy, but also nuclear byproducts such as tritium and the ash from a nuclear

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reaction, that all-important indicator of nuclear fusion, helium.

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It's clearly not possible to produce helium from a chemical process.

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The only possibility that remains is that the helium is produced by a nuclear process.

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If the helium is produced by a nuclear process, then necessarily there will be an associated

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release of heat.

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Basically, we were just trying to find out when we had excess heat, would there be helium

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present in the sample, and when there was no excess heat, we would find no helium present.

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Eight times when we had excess heat, we found helium.

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We ran controls six times when there was no excess heat, there was no helium.

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Were the alleged negative findings of MIT and Caltech what soured science and the public

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to the cold fusion claim?

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Ponds and Fleischman had after all breached scientific etiquette by going public first,

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instead of through the accepted channels of the peer-reviewed system.

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Data should be published in the most reputable of scientific journals.

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It should not be published first in the newspapers.

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It should not be disseminated through the popular media until in fact the information

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can be replicated.

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Officials at the University of Utah were chastised for their haste in publicizing the

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discovery through the media.

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There's a hypothesis, an idea.

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The idea is tested in the laboratory.

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It's written up in a journal.

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It undergoes peer-review, which means people, experts in the field, look at that information.

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They test its validity, they ask questions about its validity, then it's published in

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the journal, then of course the scientific community reads it, then the scientific community

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tries to test it.

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Can they repeat this experiment?

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Indeed, data affirming vital aspects of the discovery was published in reputable journals.

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But the presiding agenda of official science, the science of money and politics, drowned

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the truth in accusations of impropriety and outright fraud.

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When it was first said by flashmen and ponds at Colfshuson Existed, this went all the way

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up to the president, and the president appointed special committee of 22 excellent scientists

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to investigate it.

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And these scientists announced that they were going to Utah and to other laboratories to

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try and see what was happening.

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But every time they went to this laboratory, by some miracle none of the cells worked at

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this time.

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So when the ERAB panel came through with Heisinga as a chairman on July the 6th, 1989, to visit,

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they were looking very lightly at the heat measurements and very strongly at the absence

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of neutrons and tritium.

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Once they saw no neutrons and tritium, they could use that to denounce the field and protect

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their budgets.

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And fascinatingly, many of the people on that panel, a couple of them I should say, came

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to me looking for research funds on this field, even though publicly they were speaking

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with our Congress against having Congress put any money in it.

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Early on they were able to show that ponds and flashmen essentially made some serious

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mistakes in their interpretation of the nuclear physics.

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Eventually, I think because of this bad nuclear physics, the physicists threw out the good

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baby, which was the excess heat effect, along with the bad nuclear interpretation bathwater.

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Also working in the field of cold fusion were esteemed scientists with personal knowledge

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of and confidence in the work of ponds and flashmen.

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Scientists whose careers were likewise untarnished.

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Texas A&M professor John Bacchris, regarded as a world-class electrochemist, led a research

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group at Texas A&M that produced essential evidence of the fusion phenomenon.

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The first thing was this thing called tritium, which was a sub-form of hydrogen, which should

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not exist except in extremely tiny quantities.

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And we found that by working these cells of flashmen and ponds that we could produce this

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tritium in great abundance.

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That was the first clear proof of the phenomenon.

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For two or two or so or not, in the first experiment that we ran some three or four months after

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the initial announcement, we saw some evidence of excess heat.

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And what we see in our laboratory is no evidence for any unusual nuclear or chemical reactions.

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Having seen the effect with my own eyes that claims from a few that this is impossible,

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inconsistently with all known laws of nuclear physics, these suggestions are in fact irrelevant.

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At Texas A&M, the Bacchris group came under attack.

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Science journalist Gary Taubes wrote an inflammatory article in Science Magazine alleging that someone

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in the group had spiked the experiment with tritium.

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Although proven false, the accusation was enough to smear the work of the group and

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place Dr. Bacchris in the line of fire.

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Well I was 69 years old at that time and I took the attitude.

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I suppose they're farming, right?

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It doesn't really matter.

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I had my career.

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The worst they could do would be to say go.

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But finally the university revolted against this.

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They set up an inquiry.

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Normally we'd say someone's innocent until proven guilty and you'd be given the opportunity

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to have a trial rather than having an article written about what you've done wrong and identifies

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being guilty in the press rather than due process.

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Finally they came out okay.

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I mean they gave me another letter.

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I'd had the letter of complete exoneration.

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But I think the main part was that I had done work which was against the paradigm.

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You know people said that they'd been to other universities and people had laughed at it and

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said what the heck are you doing trying to disprove the laws of nuclear physics.

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And of course that's exactly what we were doing and succeeding.

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With government labs like Los Alamos and universities around the world confirming the presence of

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excess heat and nuclear products why the continued debate?

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Why do influential skeptics still insist that nothing unusual is going on?

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What would motivate such blatant distortion of the facts?

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Today scientists must live in a world run by finances and not only to maintain the good life for themselves

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but also to stock their labs.

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Getting more money has become more vital to scientists or as vital to scientists as the research itself.

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MIT's Hot Fusion Center, a federally funded facility was among the loudest voices to disparage

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the work of Ponds and Fleischmann.

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Ironically upon re-examination of their results disturbing inconsistencies appeared.

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MIT's raw data provided clear evidence of excess heat but in MIT's official report the graph was altered

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to reflect no excess heat.

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Engineer Dr. Eugene Malov, chief science journalist in MIT, resigned in protest.

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That's what I thought, original.

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In the case of MIT it was a disaster.

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These people before even analyzing their calorimetry data held a party for the death of coal fusion

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and then they manipulated the data to make a positive result look negative.

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Their results don't prove coal fusion but they certainly had a positive result.

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It's complete nonsense, utterly ridiculous and without foundation and the any allegations

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along those lines I believe are made by people that don't understand how measurements are made.

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An official investigation of the fraud was requested.

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MIT President Charles Vest, concurrently a member of the White House advisory panel for the funding of hot fusion

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conducted an investigation that was a sham.

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MIT's Hot Fusion Lab, the very facility which concocted the damning evidence that helped kill

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government funding for coal fusion in the U.S. went on to receive massive federal funding for its own hot fusion research.

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To this day MIT's false no is cited as evidence against federal funding and the issuance of U.S. patents in the field.

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But MIT did not act alone.

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I had a man, he was an employee of one of the national labs and he said that on the plane over he had to Santa Fe

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he had shown his boss some positive results, verifying phenomenon and his boss had told him that if he presented those results he'd be fired.

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The boss I was working with, at one point I said I should do that kind of experiment, that kind of experiment.

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I said look I said I'm more interested by doing something in coal fusion.

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I said coal fusion, I mean don't do that.

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He said why should I not do that?

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He said because it doesn't work.

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I said yes it works.

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I've done experiments, I know people who have done experiments, I know ponds and flyschman and look, if you decide to do it you cannot work with me anymore

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because I don't want my name to be attached to your name.

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With congressional funding dead, flyschman and ponds moved to France to carry on their research.

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By 1992 we had video recordings of intense energy release.

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By the summer of 1994 we had demonstrated sustained energy release.

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If you say you want, you wish to make this into a device by about the year 2000.

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If the resources had been available we would have got to the year, to that particular point, probably before the year 2000.

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But this did not happen.

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Coal fusion pioneers carried on despite continued attacks on their reputations and careers.

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By 1999 eight international conferences had been held with several thousand technical papers published in peer-reviewed journals worldwide.

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In the U.S. the Electric Power Research Institute or EPRI, a private consortium including dozens of utility companies,

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had $10 million to investigate coal fusion claims.

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In its final report EPRI concluded, quote, definite evidence of nuclear reactions were detected.

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But with the federal funding out of the picture, proponents of coal fusion had to look elsewhere to continue their revolutionary science.

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In the mid-90s the government of Japan funded a coal fusion program called New Hydrogen Energy.

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Though short-lived, it inspired many Japanese scientists to break new ground in this area.

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The governments of Italy and France funded research and many private startups in the U.S.

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convinced of the commercial potential of the process began securing related patents while carefully avoiding the stigma of being tagged coal fusion.

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Over the last decade independent inventors have developed coal fusion devices that have at first glance seen promising,

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only to fall short when examined by qualified scientists.

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But what if a coal fusion device did exist that produced excess heat consistently before trained independent eyes?

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Clean energy technologies of Sarasota, Florida has already brought scientific demonstration cells to market.

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Using ordinary water and tiny metal coated beads, they claim their Patterson power cell is produced up to 1,000 times the input power.

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Motorola sponsored a test of this cell wherein 20 watts of heat were produced for 11 hours.

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This heat continued even after the tiny input electricity was turned off.

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They start producing excess heat almost right away, you know.

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By the time we do the measurements, there's already excess heat.

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While carefully avoiding being called coal fusion, Dr. Randall Mills of Blacklight Power in New Jersey has attracted substantial funding,

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creating a company positioned to be a leading manufacturer in the new energy age.

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Some of our better experiments with the electrolytic cell have generated as much as 1,000% excess heat.

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For example, if we put one watt into the cell, we will get 10 watts out.

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This vessel is sitting here making, as we watch, helium 4 and the temperature is 215 degrees centigrade.

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This is the key. You change this just a little bit and it doesn't work at all.

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Now this is a very novel concept that you can have a nuclear fusion occur at 215 centigrade and 1 atmosphere pressure.

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The temperature record quite clearly indicates in these experiments, as it does in less cases experiments,

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that there is an unexplained source of heat and the magnitude of that source of heat is approximately the right value to account for the observed helium.

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So inside this vessel now for six, seven weeks, we have had deuterium fusing to helium 4

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and given this excess temperature of about 35 degrees centigrade, which is big, a really big effect.

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The technology of catalytic fusion developed by Dr. Les Case is one of the most extraordinary developments we have in the coal fusion field.

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He has excess heat, massive excess heat, and also helium 4 production.

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The very nuclear ash that the opponents of coal fusion demanded in the early days.

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It appears as though he is very close to having a self-sustaining device that will keep hot by itself, generate steam, hot water, perhaps electricity, before much longer.

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Alchemy, the idea that lead can be turned into gold, was always considered a medieval myth.

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While modern science has proved the transmutation of elements as possible, the process is far too costly to be practical.

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Yet as early as 1992, scientists experimenting with coal fusion observed in their spent cells small amounts of metals like copper, silver, and zinc that simply shouldn't be there.

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Kevin Wolf, a nuclear physicist incidentally, made many measurements to treat him.

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Then he got some even more astonishing results as early as 1992, which were these transmutational results, the metal forming another metal inside the electrode, which was super, super anti-paradigm.

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You know, there's that dreadful word alchemy, which we mustn't use, but it was a form of that in a way, that was creating new metals, you see.

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Tareyoshi Omori and Tarehiko Mizuno of the Hokkaido University in Japan produced volumes of data documenting the production of metals from iron to platinum.

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Along with these consistently came the production of excess heat energy.

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The potential environmental benefits of this technology are awesome.

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Companies like SETI, Trenergy, and the Cincinnati Group are developing ways to solve the world's radioactive waste problem, changing radioactive materials into some other form of harmless metal.

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In 1999, developments in this area prompted the DOE to award a research grant to Professor George Miley of the University of Illinois.

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However, within days of the grant announcement, the ever-vigilant critics of cold fusion science attacked Miley's work and killed his funding.

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On the secret panel set up to repeal the grant was the ardent enemy of cold fusion science himself, Dr. John Hizinga.

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Nuclear energy was once a laboratory curiosity.

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So let's assume that these devices can be developed.

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The future is then almost unlimited.

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It could be the end of the fossil fuel age, the end of oil and coal, and the end incidentally of many of our worries about global pollution and global warming.

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While the environmental challenges faced by the U.S. often make front-page news, the pollution problems encountered by third-world nations and countries relying exclusively on fossil fuels fare much worse.

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Two-third of the cities has problems in pollution, and one-third of the land of my country is damaged by the acid rain.

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The 80% of the power energy source is from coal.

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We have 1.2 billion population, and we anticipate it will be one-half or more billion in the middle of next century.

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We consume one ton of the coal per capita.

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So if we increase our power consumption by a factor of three, then we will burn about five billion tons of coal in the middle of next century.

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What is the ultimate potential of cold fusion technology?

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It has been estimated that 250 miles of coal cars could be replaced with as little as one pickup truck full of heavy water.

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The daily waste from a 1000 megawatt cold fusion plant would be approximately 150 grams of helium, which is harmless.

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Compared to some 30,000 tons of carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and other wastes produced by a comparable fossil fuel plant.

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What I like about cold fusion is it is different from thermal power, hydroelectric power or nuclear-efficient power because it is potentially small.

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And the investments required are much smaller, and hopefully it can be mass produced by industry.

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And this completely changes the whole concept of power generation distribution consumption.

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I think the electric power grid will absolutely wither away.

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I think automobiles, trucks, trains, planes, all forms of transportation will use this new powerful energy source.

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The writing is on the wall. The fossil fuel age is about to end.

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Every day the burning of fossil fuels contributes to the destruction of our environment, while the breakthrough discovery of a totally clean, virtually unlimited energy source languishes in obscurity.

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It's history in the making, what we are living here. I mean, I couldn't dream of a situation like that.

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Despite a decade of experimentation and a body of indisputable evidence, the gatekeepers of official science continue to deprive us of a technology we so desperately need to be proper stewards of our world.

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Without some morals or something to believe in on this planet, be it God or science or whatever you truly believe in, what do you have?

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What do you have? What do you have? What reason do you have to survive? What reason do you have to go on?

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We did nothing wrong. We made no mistakes in our observations. We made no mistakes.

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In a world where corruption, greed and political maneuvering often win out over the virtues of the human spirit, we believed, perhaps naively, that an exception might exist in the experimental sciences.

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The history of science is littered with individual incidents of fraud, patent stealing and flagrant misrepresentation, but here we found a contemporary conspiracy that overshadows most of what we've discovered in the phenomenon archives.