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FROM: Dr. Eugene F. Mallove
Editor-in-Chief, Infinite Energy Magazine
Director, New Energy Research Laboratory
PO Box 2816
Concord, NH 03302-2816
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EDITORIAL FROM INFINITE ENERGY MAGZINE -- ISSUE #40, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2001
www.infinite-energy.com

An open letter

Dear Mr. President:

A REMARKABLE ENERGY WEAPON FOR PEACE
HAS BEEN OVERLOOKED

We bring to your attention a matter of great urgency on the path to a
lasting victory over terrorism and to achieve enduring peace. A remarkable
discovery made in the United States in the 1980s has been overlooked,
because of a serious flaw in our funding for nuclear research. This matter
is of the gravest concern, because it is a proven method to extract clean
energy from simple, abundant materials. It has yet to be reduced to
practical application, but with your help it could be.

I wrote to you earlier this year on this very topic. Indeed, you will find
my ³Memorandum to the White House² posted on our web site
(www.infinite-energy.com). Perhaps amid the intensity of your demanding
work, you were unable to respond earlier, or maybe your staff did not
believe or recognize the significance of the message. The time has now come
for you to render your judgment and assistance during this period of
national tribulation.

I write to you again in a humble and hopeful spirit, one month after the
appalling terrorist atrocity against our beloved country and the world. It
is a new day and I applaud your determination to destroy terrorism wherever
it hides or rears its fanatical, ugly head. I personally approve of using
measured and crushing military power to administer infinite justice on the
road to enduring freedom. But eliminating terrorism demands using every tool

in our possession, as you have so rightly said. Please, Mr. President, heed
our call to investigate a remarkable, overlooked weapon for peace and
lasting freedom from terrorism. Let me repeat the Executive Summary of my
earlier Memorandum, which makes the essential points:

Beginning in 1989, a class of new energy technologies has been developed
that has the potential to provide pollution-free energy of a magnitude far
greater than fossil fuel, using forms of hydrogen from water as the fuel in
novel catalytic conditions. The technologies challenge the understanding of
physics which has been used to justify continued investment in fossil fuels,
nuclear power plants, and the so-called ³hot fusion² energy research
programs. The U.S. government has spent at least $15 billion on hot fusion
without achieving the ³breakeven² point already achieved by the new energy
technologies.

Hydrogen as a fuel in engines and fuel cells has been discussed and
demonstrated for several decades. Fuel cells are emerging into the
commercial market, using hydrogen-rich chemical compounds. These systems are
based on chemical reactions whose energy density (energy per unit of fuel)
is very low. There are serious problems in making, storing, and transporting
hydrogen. The new energy technologies use hydrogen in a far different way
that extracts thousands to millions of times the ordinary chemical
combustion energy of hydrogen. Thus, water is fuel!

In 1989, after five years of work and investment of $100,000 of their own
money, Professors Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announced the release
of nuclear-scale energy from an electrochemical cell using palladium as the
cathode metal. In the cell, heavy hydrogen is forced into the palladium
until a new class of nuclear reactions occurs, in which energy of great
intensity is released without the deadly radiation or radioactive
by-products produced by other nuclear energy processes. The Pons-Fleischmann
announcement ignited a controversy that is documented in the body and
references of this memorandum.

The DOE Energy Research Advisory Board ³Cold Fusion Panel² was convened at
the direction of President Bush to review the ³cold fusion² controversy in
its early days. The panel relied heavily on misleading reports from the
California Institute of Technology, Harwell (England), and the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. Reports from all three sources were negative, and
ERAB recommended against any government investment in ³cold fusion.² This
had far-reaching consequences, which seriously impeded but did not stop
advances in the field.

After over a decade of work, hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific papers
from laboratories around the world confirm the Pons-Fleischmann discovery.
It was just the tip of an iceberg of a whole class of nuclear reactions<and
other new hydrogen reactions<which occur in metals that are heavily loaded
with heavy or normal hydrogen by any of several means. These are often
called Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR), or Chemically-Assisted Nuclear
Reactions (CANR). There is also a process, pioneered by BlackLight Power,
Inc., that produces catalytically altered hydrogen atoms. What these
processes have in common is the release of intense, nuclear-scale energies
without damaging radiation or radioactive by-products. Reactors are small
scale, requiring simple apparatus and common materials with hydrogen as the
fuel. Transmutations of the metal cathode materials are commonly produced.
In some cases, where radioactive materials such as uranium and thorium are
used in the cells, these are rapidly transmuted into harmless by-products
without production of harmful radiation or explosions. In principle,
radioactive waste from nuclear reactors can similarly be deactivated without
the political and economic costs of burial.

Collectively, these emerging technologies point to a much brighter future
for mankind. They do not require resources controlled by any small group of
countries. They are concentrated, portable, and democratic. Low cost
realization and distribution of devices and systems based on these
technologies will require the resources of a market economy and the removal
of internal opposition from vested interests in the U.S. government and
industries, including arbitrary blocking of ³cold fusion² patent
applications by the U.S. Patent Office. Originators of these technologies
may make fortunes, but in the end mankind will be the beneficiary. Mr.
President, you need do only one thing now: Publicly state that you are going
to investigate this matter and then do it.

Matters have changed for the better since I wrote that Memorandum to you.
Most important, through extensive research at our New Energy Research
Laboratory here in Bow, New Hampshire, in collaboration with other
scientists across the United States, we are now prepared to show you and
your scientific advisors a conclusive demonstration of an important
manifestation of this energy source, which comes apparently from the heavy
hydrogen component in ordinary water. This ³sonofusion² process, developed
by Silicon Valley scientist Roger Stringham of First Gate Energies, has now
been tamed by our group in the form of a small demonstration reactor. It
has recently output over eight watts of astonishing cold fusion power for a
prolonged period< far longer than required to determine that the ³excess
power² is of nuclear origin. The possible error in the measured excess
power is a tiny 0.2 watt, far smaller than the 8-watt enduring output power.
(See additional description on page 36 of IE issue #40.)

Let that demonstration to you and your advisors be the beginning of a
joyful turn-around in a tragedy of errors by official science and the
Department of Energy over the past decade. Thereafter, your science and
security advisors as well as newly enlightened members of the Department of
Energy will be able to do the right things, we hope. It is essential that
research on and patenting of this new technology no longer be obstructed by
bureaucracy and people who were too quick to reject new ideas before careful
evaluation.

Perhaps you did not know that there is an incontrovertible fact, well known
to scientists working to control thermonuclear fusion energy for peaceful
power production: Within only one cubic kilometer of water, there exists
enough heavy hydrogen isotope, deuterium (heavy hydrogen), such that if it
is fused to the element helium at multi-million-degree temperatures, enough
energy is released to equal the combustion energy of all the worldıs known
oil. This planet has at least one billion cubic kilometers of water; there
is no danger of running out of this fuel.

Or, look at it this way: In only one gallon of ordinary water, there is
enough heavy hydrogen to produce the energy equivalent of 300 gallons of
gasoline. Heavy hydrogen or deuterium, by the way, is simply hydrogen that
bears an extra neutron in its nucleus. It is non-radioactive and easy to
extract from water very cheaply.

If we had a way to tap this fusion energy safely and cheaply, the worldıs
energy problems would be over; most if not all environmental problems would
be well on their way to solution. If we could find a way to release this
fusion energy benignly without deadly radiation, and on a small scale,
rather than in the stadium-like tokamak thermonuclear fusion
reactors<smaller, dysfunctional prototypes of which are being tested at
fantastic cost at Princeton, MIT, and elsewhere<a millennial revolution in
energy technology would break out. Millions of new high-technology jobs
would be created almost overnight< just as at the birth of aviation at the
beginning of the last century. The economy would prosper and expand, not
collapse! Best of all, it would mean true, blessed Energy Independence for
our nation and the world! It would mean an age in which the recurring cost
of energy production would approach zero, since the heavy hydrogen is
virtually free. The scope of that revolution would dwarf todayıs
Internet-World Wide Web upheaval. The age of ³free information² would have
a partner: the age of virtually free energy. It may surprise you to learn
that the energy discovery described above has been confirmed by solid
published scientific research<some of that by Federal laboratories.
Unfortunately, the message of that research was overlooked, like
intelligence gathering that is occasionally ignored, to the detriment of our
health and safety.

For just over a decade, the Cold Fusion and Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions
revolution has been underway, whether or not the mainstream
physics/chemistry establishment and the general science media wish to agree.
The barrier that separated conventionally understood chemistry and nuclear
physics has come crashing down like the infamous Berlin Wall. The barrier
does not exist, at least not within special microphysical domains of
palladium, nickel, and other metals in contact with hydrogen. Exotic new
physics is at work. The myth of the ³End of Science² again disproved.

Mr. President, the rest may be up to you. You have heard the story. It is
true. Every word. Nothing will hold back the cold fusion/new energy
revolution from happening in due course, but with the stroke of your pen, a
few taps on your computer, or perhaps a few telephone calls, you have it in
your power to help accelerate the Cold Fusion/New Energy Age. Just as
Secretary of War William Howard Taft in the Roosevelt Administration cut
through bureaucratic opposition and forced the Army to call the Wright
brothers in 1908 to demonstrate their ³flyer² to a crowd of thousands at Ft.
Meyer, Virginia<and thereby ended years of doubt about their 1903
accomplishment, launching the Aerospace Age<you can break the opposition of
the perpetrators of the ³HeavyWatergate² scandal.

That act of courage and imagination will never be forgotten. Now more than
ever, our country and the world needs an act of courage to break through.
We pray that you will render this modest assistance. You may think it
politically risky to become involved in a controversial matter. But think of
this: What is the risk of not becoming involved in a controversial matter
that happens to be right? And is this not a time that demands high courage?
Let me end with a few remarks made by Sir Arthur C. Clark in 1999, who
recommended in early 2000 that the White House staff request this essay from
me:

³Like everyone else, I was very excited when the so-called Ocold fusionı
announcement was made. And then, again like everybody else, I became
disappointed and forgot about the whole thing when it seemed to be a
mistake, though I was rather puzzled why two world-class scientists could
have made such fools of themselves. Well, during the years that followed,
slowly, from time to time, there came news of other laboratories repeating
the experiment and getting positive results. And there has been a sort of
groundswell, all over the whole world, of new information. And during the
course of the last five years or so, Iıve slowly become convinced, from my
original skepticism, to 99% certainty that it is for real. The evidence now
is really overwhelming...

³If these new sources of energy do turn out to be real<and as I say there
are several totally different varieties ­ the question is: What effect will
this have on our society? On the future? Well, itıs just possible they may
be no more than laboratory curiosities, and canıt be scaled up to commercial
levels. I think thatıs rather unlikely. Nuclear energy was once a laboratory
curiosity. So letıs assume that these devices can be developed. The future
is then almost unlimited. 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.²

Let me end this letter with a statement of the spirit which I think you will
agree led to so many great discoveries and technologies: ³Anything that is
theoretically possible will be achieved in practice, no matter what the
technical difficulties, if it is desired greatly enough.² (Arthur C. Clarke,
Profiles of the Future, 1963). I hope that you will receive this letter in
that spirit. Let me thank you, in advance, on behalf of hundreds of
researchers in this field who would deeply appreciate your concern and
action.

Sincerely,
Dr. Eugene F. Mallove
Editor-in-Chief, Infinite Energy

COPYRIGHT 2001, Cold Fusion Technology, Inc.
(But please distribute this at will.)