The US Senate received a briefing info on new-energy technologies by a
number of experts in October 2000, a briefing whose intro is below and full
text posted at:

http://www.senate.gov/~epw/loder.htm



"Outside-the-Box" Technologies, Their Critical Role Concerning Environmental
Trends, and the Unnecessary Energy Crisis



A Compilation of



Briefing Papers Prepared For:



The U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee



Background:



The briefing was requested by Senator Smith (R-NH and Chair of the EPW) and
Mr. David Conover (Chief of Staff-EPW) because of the need to look at energy
and technology issues over times scales of 5-20 years. The briefing was
organized by Dr. Theodore Loder and was held on Oct. 18, 2000 in the Senate
Dirksen Building, Washington, DC.


Further information may be obtained from:



Dr. Theodore C. Loder III

Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space

University of new Hampshire

Durham, NH 03824

ted.loder@...

603-862-3151



Background to the Briefing



The Issues:



Our present methods for solving current environmental problems are only
partially working, because they attempt to solve the result of a problem and
not get to the root causes of why a particular problem has occurred. Most
of our problems stem from energy issues and our tremendous dependence upon
fossil fuels, especially in the transportation and power generation sectors.
In addition, increasing populations worldwide and the desires of second and
third world countries to obtain what we in the US take for granted spells
increasing worldwide environmental problems coupled with significantly
increased oil/gas prices. In summary, the risks associated with our present
course are ever-increased environmental degradation coupled with a
significant long lasting economic downturn, recession or depression.



As a world community, we must realize that we will need the last remaining
decades of fossil fuels to create and integrate new energy sources without
losing the momentum of our developing world society. In 10-20 years from
now, we have to be at a point in our global development where we are no
longer dependant on fossil fuels for our energy generation and we want to
arrive there by a route that does not create global environmental and
economic chaos.





The purpose of this briefing was to show that:



1. We have growing environmental problems that will have major economic
impacts.

2. There are technologies, presently being repressed, that are real and
could replace the present fossil fuel usage with the appropriate investment
in research necessary to bring them on line.

3. There are scientists ready to testify at a Senate hearing on the
realities of these issues.

4. The need to move ahead is very urgent because the time necessary to
implement the use of these technologies may take the better part of this
decade and neither the environment nor the economics of fossil fuels can
wait any longer.



The goal is not to push any specific type of technology that will "save the
world", but to convince those attending that there is a whole set of new
technologies that are waiting in the wings which will change the way we live
on this planet for the better.





The Briefing presenters and topics covered included the following:



Dr. Theodore Loder, Convener and overview of the issues and urgency

Dr. Steven Greer, Implications of the implementation of non-polluting
free-energy devices

Mr. Thomas Valone, Present energy issues, energy devices and patent office
issues

Dr. Paul LaViolette, Physics reassessment and anti-gravity research

Dr. Scott Chubb, Cold fusion, scientific responsibility

Dr. Eugene Mallove, Cold fusion, scientific response and patent office
issues

Dr. Thomas Bearden, Physics reassessment, the world energy crisis, and "free
energy device" technology



Table of Contents



The Briefing Papers:



"Comparative Risk Issues" Regarding Present and Future Environmental
Trends -

Why We Need to be Looking Ahead Now! by Dr. T. Loder * ........ 3



New Energy Solutions and Implications for the National Security and the
Environment:

A Brief Overview for the US Senate by Dr. S. Greer........... 8



The Right Time to Develop Future Energy Technologies

by Dr. T. Valone ............................. 12



Future Energy Technologies

by Dr. T. Valone .......................... 17



Moving Beyond the First Law and Advanced Field Propulsion Technologies

by P. LaViolette ......................... 24



Accountability and Risk in the Information Era: Lessons Drawn from the

"Cold Fusion" "Furor" by Dr. S. Chubb ................. 29



The Strange Birth of the Water Fuel Age: the Cold Fusion "miracle" was no
Mistake

By Dr. E. Mallove ...................... 31



The Unnecessary Energy Crisis: How to Solve It Quickly

by Dr. T. Bearden, LTC, U.S. Army (Retired)............... 32





* A short biography for each author follows each paper.



"Comparative Risk Issues" Regarding Present and Future

Environmental Trends -



Why We Need to be Looking Ahead Now!



Prepared for: Senator Bob Smith and Aby Mohseni, Senate Committee on the
Environment and Public Works, revised 10/6/00



Prepared by: Dr. Theodore Loder, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans,
and Space, UNH, Durham, NH 03824 ted.loder@... 603-862-3151



Introduction:

Fundamentally, our present methods for solving current environmental
problems are only partially working, because for the most part they attempt
to solve the result of a problem and not get to the root causes of why we
have a particular problem in the first place.

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