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		<title>HAWAI‘I TO HOST 3rd ANNUAL ASIA PACIFIC CLEAN ENERGY SUMMIT</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[HAWAI‘I is again to host the 3rd ANNUAL ASIA PACIFIC CLEAN ENERGY SUMMIT ( APCE), which was announced today in a press release from the Hawaii DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT &#38; TOURISM &#160; Leaders and experts at the forefront of the global clean energy movement will be convening at the Hawai‘i Convention Center for [...]]]></description>
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<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size: medium">HAWAI‘I is again to host the 3rd ANNUAL ASIA PACIFIC CLEAN ENERGY SUMMIT (<br />
APCE), which was announced today in a press release from the Hawaii</span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small"><strong>DEPARTMENT<br />
OF BUSINESS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT &amp; TOURISM</strong></span></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-size: medium"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif">Leaders and experts at the forefront of the global clean energy movement will<br />
be convening at the Hawai‘i Convention Center for the 3</span><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif">rd</span></sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif"><br />
Annual Asia Pacific Clean Energy Summit and Expo, </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif">to be hosted by the State<br />
of Hawai‘i on September 12-15 in Honolulu. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif">An estimated 1,200 industry and government participants from more than 20<br />
countries will attend the conference, which aims to enable<br />
exchanges of ideas and partnership opportunities with global<br />
corporations, start-ups, investors, policy makers, and utilities<br />
involved in clean energy transformation.</span></span></p>
<p>“<span style="font-size: medium"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif">Hawai‘i is hosting this international symposium because, as an island state<br />
that must import most of our fuel, energy independence is among our<br />
most important economic enterprises,” said Estrella Seese, acting<br />
energy program administrator of the DBEDT’s Energy Office,<br />
organizer of the Summit and Expo. “Hawai‘i‘s goal to achieve<br />
70% clean energy by 2030 is ambitious, and we are making strides<br />
toward that goal by expanding economic activity, entrepreneurship,<br />
and public/private participation. We look forward to sharing<br />
experiences, discovering solutions and collaborating with experts and<br />
policy makers from around the world.” </span></span></p>
<p>“<span style="font-size: medium"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif">Hawai‘i is an ideal location to test and demonstrate clean energy and<br />
efficiency initiatives. As one of the world’s leading incubators of<br />
clean technology development, it is the perfect place for the Asia<br />
Pacific Clean Energy Summit,” said Patricia Glaza, executive<br />
director of Clean Technology and Sustainable Industries Organization<br />
(CTSI), a national organization established to advance the<br />
commercialization and adoption of clean technologies and sustainable<br />
industry practices. CTSI is co-sponsoring the Summit.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium">To showcase global best practices and new business opportunities, the<br />
Summit program will open with a plenary address from Governor Neil<br />
Abercrombie and venture capitalist and energy and security expert </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium">R. James Woolsey. Woolsey, former director of the Central Intelligence<br />
Agency, is now chair of a <a href="http://localhost/tag/washington-d-c/" class="broken_link">Washington D.C</a>. based private equity fund<br />
specializing in energy and security issues. He serves on the National<br />
Commission on Energy Policy. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Panel discussions will focus on accelerating the use of various renewable<br />
energy resources such as biomass, wind, solar, cold fusion, hydroelectric,<br />
ocean thermal, geothermal, and waste-to-energy; financing and<br />
incentivizing energy efficiency; and developing public policies,<br />
resources, and workforce training programs to build a clean energy<br />
industry. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium">This year’s program is offering a full conference track on the U.S.<br />
Department of Defense’s clean energy programs. Representatives from<br />
the Army, <a href="http://localhost/tag/navy/" class="broken_link">Navy</a>, Air Force and Marines will be presenting key military<br />
initiatives, technology priorities, and practical guidance on<br />
developing partnerships and contracts. CTSI is also coordinating a<br />
new technology identification program focused on bringing<br />
innovative military-targeted clean energy solutions.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif">The Summit’s Expo will offer exhibits, services and the latest energy<br />
technologies. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Gotham Std, Andale Mono">Summit co-sponsors include the University of Hawai’i, Hawaiian<br />
Electric Company, Lockheed Martin, AECOM, Phycal, Sempra Generation,<br />
Aerovironment, General Atomics, SAIC, ALSTOM, FirstWind, GM, The Gas<br />
Company, Pacific Biodiesel, etc. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium">The State of Hawaii’s most important economic enterprise is to build a<br />
clean energy economy and reach 70 percent clean energy by 2030. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif">The DBEDT State Energy Office’s mission is to act as a catalyst for<br />
creating efficiency measures, renewable energy resources,<br />
transportation initiatives, and progressive policies that lead to<br />
green jobs and investments in Hawaii’s economy.<br />
</span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif">While we are saving energy and dollars through energy efficiency<br />
measures, we are also contributing to protecting our environment<br />
and moving towards a clean energy future.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium">For more information,<br />
visit </span></span><a href="http://www.hawaii.gov/dbedt/energy"><span style="color: #0000ff"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium"><span style="text-decoration: underline">www.hawaii.gov/dbedt/energy</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium">.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Or for registration and program information, go to <a href="http://www.asiapacificcleanenergy.com/">www.asiapacificcleanenergy.com</a>.</span></span></p>
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		<title>APEC launches ASPIRE prize for innovative scientists</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 06:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Issued by APEC Industrial Science and Technology Working Group Singapore,  – To encourage innovation in the Asia-Pacific region, the APEC Science Prize for Innovation, Research and Education (ASPIRE Prize) will be awarded in September 2011 to recognize young scientists who have demonstrated a commitment to both excellence in scientific research, as evidenced by scholarly publication, and cooperation [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Issued by APEC Industrial Science and Technology Working Group<strong></strong></p>
<p><em>Singapore, </em> – To encourage innovation in the Asia-Pacific region, the APEC Science Prize for Innovation, Research and Education (ASPIRE Prize) will be awarded in September 2011 to recognize young scientists who have demonstrated a commitment to both excellence in scientific research, as evidenced by scholarly publication, and cooperation with scientists from other APEC economies.  This year’s theme is “green growth,” one of the priorities for APEC USA 2011.</p>
<p>Ambassador Muhamad Noor said that the ASPIRE Prize builds upon APEC economies’ efforts to actively promote environmentally sustainable economic growth and their desires to help member economies successfully transition to a clean energy future.</p>
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<p>“APEC is an important facilitator for the best scientific minds from both sides of the Pacific Ocean to work on the region’s most pressing issues including climate change, energy efficiency  as well as sustainable forest management,” said Noor.</p>
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<p>“Science and technology is a field with infinite possibilities. More often than not, the best innovations and solutions come about when people from diverse backgrounds are brought together.”</p>
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<p>APEC encourages the development and application of industrial science and technology that improves the quality of life, while safeguarding the natural environment and achieving sustainable development.</p>
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<p>APEC Industrial Science and Technology Working Group (ISTWG) Lead Shepherd, Wan Zaharah Wan Mohamad, said that the ASPIRE prize is a symbol of APEC’s commitment to promote innovative research and development, knowledge sharing, and scientific collaboration in the region, which hosts some of the world’s largest rainforests and marine resources.</p>
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<p>“The ASPIRE prize will provide much needed recognition to the best scientists while continuing to nurture young scientists in the APEC region,” said Wan Zaharah Wan Mohamad. “We hope that the ASPIRE Prize will help raise the visibility of world-class research now being conducted by scientists in the developing APEC member economies,” she said.</p>
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<p>Each APEC member economy is invited to submit one nominee under the age of 40 for the ASPIRE Prize.  The winner will receive prize money in the amount of $25,000 and is expected to be honoured at the Joint Ministerial Meeting on Energy and Transportation to be held September 12-13, 2011, in San Francisco, California.  U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu is expected to award the ASPIRE Prize. The ASPIRE Prize is sponsored by John Wiley &amp; Sons, Inc. and Elsevier.</p>
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<p>For more information on submitting nominees, please contact Mr. Luis Enrique Vertiz, APEC Industrial Science and Technology Working Group Program Director, APEC Secretariat, at <a href="http://us.mc658.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=lev@apec.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="broken_link">lev@apec.org</a>. Nominations will continue to be accepted until 1 August 2011.</p>
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<p align="center"># # #</p>
<p><strong>For more information, contact: Ai Ghee Ong at +65 6891 9671 or </strong><a href="http://us.mc658.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=oag@apec.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="broken_link"><strong>oag@apec.org</strong></a><strong> or Michael Chapnick + 65 6891 9670 or</strong></p>
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		<title>Two Days of Excess Energy, progress, ideas and research at MIT</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2011 14:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[article from the issue 9 8 • J U LY / A U G U S T  2 0 1 1  of Infinite Energy &#160; This year’s event proved again successful, so said the 70+ attendees who gathered for the two-day conference. At the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) conference rooms where the event took [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><strong><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium"><a href="http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/MIT-Cold-Fusion-LANR-274.jpg" class="broken_link"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-29886" src="http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/MIT-Cold-Fusion-LANR-274-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a>article from the issue 9 8 •</span></span></span></strong></em></p>
<p><em><strong><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium"> J U LY / A U G U S T  2 0 1 1 </span></span></span></strong></em></p>
<p><em><strong><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium"> of Infinite Energy</span></span></span></strong></em></p>
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<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">This year’s event proved again successful, so said the 70+</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">attendees who gathered for the two-day conference. At the</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) conference rooms</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">where the event took place were filled to capacity to hear the</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">science and engineering of cold fusion <a href="http://sanebull.com/m?symbol=CF">(CF)</a> </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">through presentations about CF and related processes,</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">technology and business,a science that has</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">received a bad rap for its 22 year existence. </span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">The participants enjoyed the format, workshops and</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">material. </span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">At 7:30a.m. On Saturday, June 11,the doors opened to the</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Hermann Haus conference room (in RLE) at MIT. This was</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">fitting since the late Prof. Haus had been interested in cold</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">(and other forms of) fusion. Eager participants arrived early,</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">catching up with old friends, fellow researchers, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">new co-presenters, scientists, business execs, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">venture capitalists, enthusiastic students and </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">colleagues from the DC-Virginia area, Hawaii,</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">the West coast, and as far away as China. Four to five dozen</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">early-rising cold fusioneers began sharing ideas and recent</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">experiences before the two full days of lectures and</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">work-shops over beverages, such as Sumatra coffee, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">and a continental breakfast with other refreshments continuing</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">through lunch. The jam-packed meeting actually began at</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">8:00 a.m. with the introduction and the first half dozen </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">plenary LANR/CF papers.</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">In this and the next issue of Infinite Energy follow</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">the scientific highlights from the event. The first group of</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">LANR/CF presentations were on Aqueous and Gaseous</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">LANR Systems. Dr. Mitchell Swartz welcomed the attendees and</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">began the introduction to CF/LANR. </span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">He thanked the presenters for coming so early, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">the staff for preparing the food to support the group,</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">and MIT, RLE and Prof. Peter Hagelstein</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">for their help.</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">In the first lecture, Dr. Swartz (JET Energy, Inc.) </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">summarized some of the more important facts about cold fusion</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">and reasons that CF research is needed. He explained that</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">although, in 1989, the physics community did not believe</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">the initial LANR/CF experiments, many things </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">have happened since. Then, fusion was not known to occur at low</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">temperatures and was not known to occur in solids. Today,</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">the facts show otherwise. The initial failures of CF resulted</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">from bad experiments, bad paradigm, questionable </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">materials, poor loadings and a poor appreciation of the requisite</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">metal lurgy and engineering. Today,those issues are resolved,</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">and particle emission, excess energy, excess power gain,</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">commensurate linked helium-4 production with excess heat,</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">are undeniable, along with increasing power gains and total</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">energies achieved since 1989. Together, these herald an</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">important new, clean form of energy production, also called</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">cold fusion, that is, fusion assisted by highly loaded metal</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">hydrides in lattice assisted nuclear reactions [LANR].</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">In particular, Dr. Swartz noted that CF enables a much</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">more efficient energy production, quite useful economically</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">in an increasing energy demand. The incredible </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">environ-mental importance is that </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">LANR/CF reactions are “ultra-clean.” </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">He illustrated this using an energy flow diagram</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">of the U.S. and then focused on a typical city, like Boston. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">He demonstrated that of a multi-giga-watt metropolitan city,</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">each giga-watt per day today consumes 54,000 tons of coal</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">burning into the air a new 180,000 tons of CO2, 3600 tons</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">of SO2 and 480 tons of NO2 each and every day. He emphasized</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">that CF might be a potentially revolutionary, clean</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">energy source capable of dramatically reducing pollution as</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">well as the future expensive consumption of fossil fuel.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Dr. Swartz demonstrated that the utilization of successful</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">cold fusion would change the hundred of thousands of tons</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">of pollutants to a mere 24 garbage-size bags of an entirely</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">pollution-free product: ordinary helium gas. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">And the mate-rial cost? </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Substituted for the 54,000 tons of coal is 6 pounds</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">(three quarters of a gallon) of heavy water.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Cold fusion offers incredibly efficient energy production,</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">clean and free of pollution, all toxic emissions, all carbon</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">footprints, all greenhouse gases and radioactivity, while</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">obviating fossil fuel. Dr. Swartz noted the medical and timely </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">environmental matters which show exactly why cold</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">fusion may just be the cleanest, and most efficient, energy</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">source of the future.</span></span></span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">The fuel substrate is deuterium, plentiful from the oceans,</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">and the product is de novo, commensurate helium-4. The</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">evanescent problem is that, although Benjamin Franklin</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">first coined the term “cold fusion” for lightning-produced</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">sand fulgurites, that phrase next appeared in 1989 involving</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">metal hydrides (PdD and NiH)when the science was as widely, but not deeply, investigated. Since then, two decades of LANR R&amp;D, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">sub rosa, have confirmed that excess heat production</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">(far above the input) accompanied by very low level,</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">but measurable, emissions can be driven by electric field and</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">gas loading techniques.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Today, there are several types of LANR: conventional, two</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">types of codeposition, as well as dual cathode, dual anode</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">and a variety of other loading systems. On one hand, high</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">electrical resistance LANR systems have yielded </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">meta materials and control of deuteron flux. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">On the other hand, code-position, where fresh</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Pd and D plate out together on the</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">cathode, point the way to speedy onset for</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">some of the reactions. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">The excess heat has been monitored by </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">up to five corroboratory diagnostics, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">including heat flow measurements, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">electricity production and LANR coupled Stirling motors.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Success requires control of vacancies, adequate incubation</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">time,high loading, concomit antiflux, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">the absence of quenching conditions and</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">critical control of input power. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">He also emphasized that to create excess heat it is necessary to have</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">sufficiently high loading (the value of x in PdDx) and that</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">this has to occur before additional flux of deuterium through</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">the loaded material is introduced. In particular, he cited work</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">by SRI (Dr.&#8217;s McKubre and Tanzella) that shows that to</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">achieve excess heat, values of x must be greater than 0.85.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Newer diagnostics include near- and far-IR imaging</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">which reveal hot spots. Calibrated imaging has</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">revealed non-thermal near -IR emissions </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">correlated with excess heat. Dr. Swartz showed</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">various electrodes loaded with hydrogen, which is</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">necessary for successful CF/LANR. </span></span></span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">He then demonstrated CF/LANR near-IR emission</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">appears in successful runs. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">These images were made from calibrated electrodes</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">in high Z and codeposition LANR experiments.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">He said they have observed near -IR radiation emissions</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">when excess heat is present. This near-IR emission</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">is “non-thermal” in origin because it is cor-related </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">with excess heat production and not with the physical</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">temperature. None of the control experiments (in which heat is introduced in the electrodes resistively) produce a</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">comparable effect even at higher temperature.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Dr. Swartzpointed out that these emissions</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">may confirm the hypothesis that Bremsstrahlung emission,</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">under increasingly lower temperatures, shifts from penetrating</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">ionizing radiation onward skin-depth-locked infra-red radiation.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Given the prevalence of the fuel, and the incredible efficiency, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">LANR could play a critical role in all future technologies </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">with potential revolutionary applications to transportation, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">electricity production, medicine and space travel.</span></span></span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Dr. Swartz explained that besides creating heat, LANR/CF</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">processes can possibly be used to develop new materials, and</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">have been used in array of LANR devices. America now has</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">these resources and LANR is an energy multiplier. But, the</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">question remains, do we (America and the world) have the</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">resourcefulness to get to the light at the end of the tunnel?</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Following an overview of the field, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">and survey of the positive results, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Dr. Swartz explained why </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">the term “low energy nuclear reactions” (LENR) is a misnomer,</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">since they are not “low energy,” based on emissions</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">of high-energy MeV states.</span></span></span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">The field of cold fusion (LANR) is so</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">extensive that readers should see </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">the peer-reviewed published survey of the field </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">[Swartz, M.R. 2009. “Survey of the Observed Excess</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Energy and Emissions in Lattice Assisted Nuclear Reactions,”</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">J o u r n a l o f S c i e n t i f i c E x p l o r a t i o n , 23, 4, 419-436,</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium"><a href="http://world.std.com/~mica/Swartz-SurveyJSE2009.pdf">http://world.std.com/~mica/Swartz-SurveyJSE2009.pdf</a>].</span></span></span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">MIT Prof. Peter Hagelstein gave three presentations. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">His</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">first presentation analyzed in detail </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">the Piantelli experi-ments using nickel hydrides</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">in the 1990s, and discussed the</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">relationships between the PdD experiments of the</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Fleischmann-Pons type done at SRI with the </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">NiH experiments described by Piantelli’s group. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">In the SRI experiments, high D/Pd loading has</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">been found to be a requirement, and</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">deuterium flux inside the PdD has been</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">found to be correlated with excess power production.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">He has postulated a new conjecture that we need</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">molecular D2 to form inside the PdD, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">which does not normally occur in bulk metal since the</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">electron density and the spatial density are too high.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Hagelstein’s calculations examined how the electron density</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">is lower near a vacancy and how it may enable D2 to form.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Vacancies can be present at a low concentration in bulk</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Pd, and they appear after loading because they are stabilized</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">as more H or D go into the metal. </span></span></span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">In fact, once the concentration reaches </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">0.95 in PdD near room temperature, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">the vacancies become thermodynamically favored. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">The problem is that thermodynamics does not indicate rate;</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">and unfortunately the vacancies diffuse very slowly (less than 1</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Angstrom in a month). So one suggestion for successful</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">CF/LANR is to arrange for vacancies to appear in the bulk.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">As a second suggestion, Dr. Swartz and Prof. Hagelstein</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">began investigating vacancies in Ni and Pd in the late 1990s</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">made de novo by electron beam irradiation and examined</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">their creation and disappearance with time. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">This demonstrated that they can both form </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">and “heal,” and thus disap-pear. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Hagelstein proposed that much of the old</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">SRI experiments can be understood if one thinks</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">of the problem of vacancy formation. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Since vacancies don’t diffuse, the only</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">way to form them is through codeposition at a D/Pd loading</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">greater than 0.95, where the vacancies become</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">thermodynamically favored. The conjecture is that if one waits long</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">enough, some of the Pd will dissolve (during anodic cycling,</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">for example), and then subsequently be codeposited. If the</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">codeposition occurs at sufficiently high loading, then the</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">codeposited layer will have massive vacancies. Analysis of</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">the surface in some experiments indicates that the outer</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">1000-3000 Angstroms of the cathode contains elements that</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">could only have become part of the surface layer through</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">codeposition. As he noted, this conjecture is consistent with</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">the observation of He-4 in the gas phase associated with</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">excess heat. The helium would not be able to diffuse if made</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">further inside the cathode. </span></span></span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">If the NiH experiments “work like” the PdD experiments, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">then we need to understand if (and how) vacancies</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">are made in the NiH experiments.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">The first issue he noted was the question of how much</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">hydrogen can load into nickel. The pressure isotherms of</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Ni/H are known, and the H/Ni loading ratio should be only</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">on the order of 0.02% in bulk even near the 1 atmosphere of</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">pressure used to load in the Piantelli experiment. Yet, the</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">amount of H in the Ni is observed to load much more. Prof.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Hagelstein’s first question is: “Why?” He said he suspects</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">that the higher loading could be caused by impurities and/or</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">defects. As he noted, in the Cammarota replication, the</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">impurity concentration seems too low to have produced the</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">observed Ni/H loading ratio of 0.2 which was measured. So</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">the question is whether this high loading might be due to</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">vacancies.</span></span></span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Prof. Hagelstein’s analysis demonstrated that vacancies</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">form much more easily in NiH than in PdD, and that in NiH</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">a loading of only 0.7 is needed near room temperature </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">to stabilize the vacancies. He presented p-T isotherms measured</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">by Baranowski at much higher H pressures than in the</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Piantelli experiment. At about 6000 atm, NiH can form near</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">room temperature. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">He then discussed interesting electrochemical</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">experiments in NiH where X-ray diffraction measurements</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">were done,and revealed that in the miscibility gap</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">alloyed islands of 0.7 NiH loading appear, increasing with</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">the loading (a behavior very different than in PdD). In</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">essence, this means that even when NiH</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">has a modest loading, there can be great inhomogeneities</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">with the local loading able to reach NiH ~0.7.</span></span></span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Hagelstein’s hypothesis intuits that this results from local</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">vacancies which are generated. He suggests this because in</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">the early Piantelli group papers, a protocol is described in</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">which the temperature is lowered and then raised, following</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">which excess heat is observed. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">This protocol must necessarily be accompanied by</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">an influx and outflux of H, which seems very similar</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">to the stimulation of excess power in PdD</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">experiments associated with influx or outflux </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">of D in aqueous systems that also appear to produce such vacancies.</span></span></span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Prof. Xing Zhong Li gave the third talk and discussed</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666">“<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Nuclear Physics and Green Nuclear Energy,” including</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">background to his extensive work in both hot and cold</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">fusion (see Part 2, which will appear in the next issue).</span></span></span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Dr. Mitchell Swartz gave the fourth plenary talk on</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666">“<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Excess Heat in LANR/CF Systems” and summarized updates</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">to two decades of LANR R&amp;D. He began by demonstrating</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">excess power in LANR through paired runs (one with an</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">ohmic joule control) of both simple thermometry and calibrated thermal power spectroscopy. </span></span></span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Dr. Swartz demonstrated that present CF/LANR systems</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">get megajoules of excess energy over days. As he (and later</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Prof. Hagelstein) noted, even if the entire cathode was</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">replaced with TNT, an explosion would release on ignition</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">only 1.2 Kilojoules. This clearly, absolutely demonstrates that</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">chemistry is not the source of LANR’s energy.</span></span></span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">He showed several types of JET Energy high electrical</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">impedance and code-positional LANR devices. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Several of these were shown with data as they were used </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">for electricity production, and paired </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">He showed data demonstrating excess powers</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">between 0.5 W to 19 W in carefully</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">calibrated systems and higher in less well calibrated systems.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Thesecorrespondtoexcesspowergainsfrom200%to800%.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">One dual anode PHUSOR® (DAP) had a peak of 8,000%</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">power gain for a short time using the DAP</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">[Pd/D2O,Pd(OD)2/Pt,Au] arrangement.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">He showed data from several runs of LANR devices using</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">paired LANR-powered Stirling motors, with electrical inputs</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">in the 1-19+ watt level. One run clearly demonstrated that</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">removal of the energy to the Stirling motor leads to </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">under-unity performance at the core, which is consistent </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">with the Second Law of Thermodynamics and further</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">indicates that this is not an error.</span></span></span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Swartz uses different materials, coatings and a different</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">approach than most of the other experimenters in the LANR</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">field. Dr. Swartz explained some “tips” for understanding</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">and controlling LANR in these PHUSOR®-type and high</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">impedance systems. Swartz has maximized the excess heat</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">effect by using ultra-pure D2O, low-paramagnetic D2O,</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">which has high purity, and anodes that have 99.99% purity,</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">along with cathodes that are constructed systematically</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">using low-contamination materials. He pointed out that</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">other experimenters in the field rely on lower purity </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">materials and electrolytes; while by adopting an approach, in</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">which purer materials are used, they have made discoveries</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">that have had significant consequences. In particular, by</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">using a pure electrolysis solution, empirically, they have</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">found that an extremely high electrical impedance of the</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">solution in LANR is good for producing excess heat. An</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">explanation for this is that solutions that have higher conductivity</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">induce significantly higher rates of gas evolution,</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">and this results in low (usually zero) excess power.</span></span></span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">At JET Energy, Inc., he said they have emphasized the</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">need for in situ calibration controls, during experimental</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">runs, and have found conclusive evidence for substantial</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">excess power. Impedance matching and high electrolyte</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">impedance are needed to avoid deuterium loss from bubble</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">formation. Bubble formation severely reduces excess power.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">There is an optimal operating point (OOP) in applied power</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">that maximizes excess power that can be identified from</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">plots of output power as a function of input power. He also</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">pointed out the importance of coatings of Au or B, which</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">can change the hydrogen/deuterium admittance, leading to</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">enhancements (increases) in loading and excess </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">heat production and reproducibility. The activation energy of the</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">LANR Pd Phusor® system is ~60.7 kilojoules/mole.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Importantly, Dr. Swartz pointed out that during ICCF10, he</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">demonstrated to an audience that it is possible to produce</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">reproducible excess heat if the open circuit voltage exceeds</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">0.7 volts at the end of a particular run.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Heal so reported results from some of his extensive “light”</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">water nickel experiments. Swartz has investigated the effect</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">of adding small amounts of D2O to ordinary H2O in Ni</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">LANR experiments. He has found that these additions</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">increase the excess power. He reported this fact during</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">ICCF9. He also demonstrated that when excess deuterium is</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">added to light water experiments involving Ni, when </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">sufficiently high current densities are applied or excessively high</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">D2O concentrations are used, changes in the metal’s color</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">and in its electrical properties take place, and the associated</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">changes “flatten” the OOP manifold, irreversibly destroying</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">the excess heat process. These destructive effects do not</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">occur in Pd, where LANR involve more reversible processes.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Drs. Fleischmann and Pons observed a strange </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">phenomenon in the early 1990s, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">which they referred to as “Heat After Death” (HAD). </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">This occurs when excess energy is observed</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">after the CF/LANR cell is turned off—or in the case of</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Fleischmann and Pons when the cell had run out of</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">elec-trolyte solution. Dr. Swartz has analyzed experiments that</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">produce this effect closely. He refers to the excess power that</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">is generated in this kind of situation as Tardive Thermal</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Power (TTP). TTP is a more precise term than HAD and the</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">integral of the TTP with respect to time, over an interval of</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">time, is the HAD associated with that time interval. He has</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">reported that this quantity decays initially with a shorter</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">time constant, then, it decays with a longer time constant.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Swartz suggests that this may be the result of the presence of</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">shallow traps in the electrodes (where he speculates that</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">excess heat is produced) which gradually turn into deeper</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">traps.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">TTP occurs when the open circuit voltage at the end of a</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">run is above a threshold value. Dr. Swartz has also reported</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">that the TTP is proportional to the square of the voltage that</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">initiates the effect, followed by a decay in its value until the</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">open circuit voltage drops to 0.7 volts. This produced in the</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">early LANR systems power gains of 170-220% (with energy</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">gains of 152%). He said that JET Energy, Inc. has used TTP to</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">run Stirling engines and that they have also run Stirling</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">engines using excess power from high-Z PHUSOR®-type</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">LANR systems. [PHUSOR® is a registered trademark of JET</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Energy, Inc.; protected by US Patents, including D596,724;</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">D413,659. All rights reserved.]</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Part 2, which will continue with more science and</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">engineering from the 2011 LANR/CF Colloquium, will</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">appear in Issue 99 but will be posted on Infinite</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: medium">Energy’s website at: (www.infinite-energy.com)</span></span></span></p>
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		<title>&#8220;Fossil fuels are a finite resource&#8221; – this much we know</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 21:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr Bruno Pollet who is the head of the PEM Fuel Cell Research Group, shared his views on Fossil fuels as a finite resource. Dr. Pollet stated, this much we know. Vehicles relying on petrol or diesel powered internal combustion engines (ICEs), which have been our primary mode of transport for more than 100 years therefore [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h4><a href="http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Hydrogen-Fuel-Cell-Hybrid-Vehicle-Dr.-Bruno-Pollet.jpg" class="broken_link"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-29872" src="http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Hydrogen-Fuel-Cell-Hybrid-Vehicle-Dr.-Bruno-Pollet.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="375" /></a>Dr Bruno Pollet who is the head of the PEM Fuel Cell Research Group, shared his views on F<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal">ossil fuels as a finite resource. Dr. Pollet stated, this much we know. Vehicles relying on petrol or diesel powered internal combustion engines (ICEs), which have been our primary mode of transport for more than 100 years therefore also have a limited lifespan. </span></h4>
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<p>In December 2008, the Climate Change Committee and DECC recommended a minimum 34% cut in GHG emissions by 2020, with a 42% cut in the UK. In the UK, indigenous primary energy resources are diminishing while demand is increasing. North Sea oil and gas have peaked and are in decline.</p>
<p>Our desire to use vehicles will not suddenly evaporate when oil and gas reserves are exhausted, so we need to urgently develop the next generation of sustainable fuels.</p>
<p>This move towards greener fuels is also an increasingly significant part of government policy with the committed to a substantial increase in renewable energy over the next decade as a major part of its programme to reduce carbon emissions. Currently 1.8% of energy used in the UK comes from renewable sources. The UK Government aims to increase this to 15% by 2020 in line with EC proposals.</p>
<p>Hydrogen fuel cell technology meets the requirements of a new generation fuel in almost every respect. Firstly and most importantly the application of fuel cell technology is emission free (in fact the only emission from a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle is water).</p>
<p>Secondly hydrogen fuel cell technology can already be used effectively in a wide range of vehicles as well as domestic applications (Combined Heat and Power – CHP). There is more work to be a done at a scientific level in refining the technologies to make them more efficient and more cost-effective, but putting hydrogen powered fuel cell vehicles onto the road.</p>
<p>Finally hydrogen is an immensely abundant natural fuel source that can be captured from a number of sources including domestic waste using modern methods.</p>
<p>There have been remarkable advances in developing more efficient diesel and petrol engines that produce fewer emissions. Nevertheless this technology can never be emission free and has a finite lifespan tied to the availability of fossil fuels.</p>
<p>Despite the progress that has been made in hydrogen fuel cell technology we still face challenges in developing effective methods for generation and delivery. For hydrogen to be a green fuel it needs to be produced in a sustainable way. There is little value in producing hydrogen from fossil fuels, which although feasible, would be ecologically unfriendly. There are methods for green hydrogen capture from fuel waste and using solar panels but these are largely being used on a very small scale.</p>
<p>The second obvious challenge is that of developing a distribution network. The range of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles is already impressive (300-400 miles) but the technological developments in vehicles needs to go hand in hand with the development of a refuelling infrastructure. This is an area where investment and direction from central government could make a significant difference and would bring the UK in line with Germany and Scandinavia who are already investing in this technology.</p>
<p>The current focus is on the development of Hydrogen and Fuel Cell technologies and their associated supply chains that offer significant quantitative improvements in: a) lowering costs (by a factor of 10-100) and significantly improving reliability, durability and performance for the stationary, transport and portable markets; b) addressing the challenges related to hydrogen generation, storage and utilisation; and c) the acceleration of Hydrogen and Fuel Cell technologies deployment to various markets such as cars and buildings.</p>
<p>Those working in the field recognise the challenges to the widespread adoption of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles as a standard method of transport, nevertheless hydrogen fuel cells represent the greenest and most practical solution to the fuel crisis we are currently facing.&#8221;</p>
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<p>To find out more contact <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold">Dr Bruno Pollet at <a href="mailto:b.g.pollet@bham.ac.uk">b.g.pollet@bham.ac.uk</a></span></p>
<p>School of Chemical Engineering</p>
<p>The University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK</p>
<p>Also find out more at his <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold">PEM Fuel Cell Research Group at: </span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.brunopolletresearch.com/index.htm">http://www.brunopolletresearch.com/index.htm</a></p>
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		<title>&#8220;Declaration Of Energy Independence &#8221; vision of Nikola Tesla</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 16:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Declaration Of Energy Independence When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for the People of Earth to dissolve the relationships, habits, and thought patterns that have bound us to a unsustainable energy paradigm, our conscience compels us to state our grievances with these outmoded systems, and to unanimously declare our intentions for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Declaration Of Energy Independence</strong></p>
<div>When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for the People of Earth to dissolve the relationships, habits, and thought patterns that have bound us to a unsustainable energy paradigm, our conscience compels us to state our grievances with these outmoded systems, and to unanimously declare our intentions for the future of free energy.</div>
<div>We hold these Truths to be self-evident: that in our modern age, all means of energy production are not equal, some being polluting, limited, non-renewable and controlled by corporate-driven profit motives, while others are clean, abundant, sustainable, and able to be made freely available for the betterment of all people; that human innovation and creativity and has excelled beyond our current methodologies of energy production; that the current energy paradigm is ecologically unsound, economically unfeasible, socially divisive and morally bankrupt; that dependency on our current energy production methods has led to the increasing environmental degradation of our living planet, and to a growing systemic mentality of scarcity, lack, fear, aggression and imperialism; that free energy technology has been developed and suppressed for over a century and we need not be dependent on non-renewable energy for a moment longer; that the time is Now for us to develop means of energy production and distribution that utilizes the inherent abundance of Nature itself; that, as stated by the great scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla, science is but a perversion of itself unless it has, as its ultimate goal, the betterment of humanity; that whenever any energy model has been perpetuated toward a system of control, limitation, and the stagnation of humanity&#8217;s collective evolutionary progress, it is the right and duty of the peoples of all nations to abandon the outmoded technologies upon which such systems are built, and transition toward those which are clean, renewable, sustainable, and free.</div>
<div>We, therefore, the Free People of Earth, in Good Conscience, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Order Of Nature for the manifestation of our intentions, do solemnly declare, that, in our lifetimes, through our continued dedication, ingenuity and inspiration, we will bring to fruition a New and Free energy paradigm, one in which empowering advancements in technologies are made widely and freely available to all peoples, in the service of human potential.  And for the support of this Declaration of Energy Independence, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our Sacred Honor.</div>
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<div>From the <a href="http://teslasciencefoundation.org/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=frontpage&amp;Itemid=88">The Tesla Science Foundation</a></div>
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<p><strong>Declaration Of Energy Independence</strong></p>
<div><strong>In CONSCIENCE, July 10, 2009.</strong></div>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;</p></div>
<div>Nikola Tesla was honored in a proclamation by Mayor Michael Nutter and Tesla&#8217;s genius was discussed this week in the heart of the city of Philadelphia the Tesla Science Conference. Held on the 32nd floor of  the Law offices of Buchanan Ingersoll &amp; Rooney, the conference brought together citizens from around the globe, scientist, entrepreneurs and inspire like-minded innovators and enthusiasts to continue dialog&#8217;s, share innovations and to advance Tesla’s legacy as the father of free energy and communications with the hopes of sharing their vision of Energy Independence.</div>
<div> <a href="http://teslasciencefoundation.org/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=frontpage&amp;Itemid=88">The Tesla Science Foundation</a> in association with the the Nikola Tesla Club creates opportunities and events to bring together others in their mission to bring awareness of Nikola Tesla’s innovations to the greater public. At this critical juncture of transition in human history, we recognize a moral imperative to initiate the development of new energy technologies that Tesla envisioned for the world. Through this event, we will bring together and inspire like-minded innovators and enthusiasts to advance Tesla’s legacy as the father of free energy and communications, and help bring his vision for these technologies to fruition for the betterment of humanity.</div>
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		<title>Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant ongoing Flood Challenges</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>With the floodwaters around the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant and other Nuclear plants along the flood areas still threatening the security of operations and creating a risk of a breach in the ability to maintain systems should the waters inundate the plant. </p>
<p>In footage taken by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the nation&#8217;s top nuclear power regulator says both of Nebraska&#8217;s nuclear power plants have so far remained safe as they continue to battle floodwaters. There is more concern about the Fort Calhoun plant because of the continued floodwaters.</p>
<p>And for many across America and the globe the continued threat of any similar accidents perhaps even worse the Fukushima in Japan remains on the mind of many.</p>
<p>Here is the latest (UPDATE) from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for Fort Calhoun Station:</p>
<p> Declaration of a Notification of Unusual Event Due to High River Level </p>
<p>DESCRIPTION: This Preliminary Notification updates information discussed in PNO-IV-003,<br />
PNO-IV-003A, and PNO-IV-003B. On June 26, 2011, at 1:25 a.m. CDT), <strong>a water berm, that had been installed as a supplemental floodwater protection measure, failed</strong>. </p>
<p>The station’s safety systems were not affected because other flood protection measures were in place. As a precautionary measure, the station’s electrical loads were transferred to the onsite emergency diesel generators (EDGs). Later that day, at approximately 1:05 p.m. (CDT), site loads were transferred back to offsite power and the onsite EDGs were shut down.</p>
<p>NRC inspectors have verified that no safety functions were adversely affected by the collapse of the water berm.</p>
<p>The vendor of the water berm determined that the berm could not be repaired. The licensee for Fort Calhoun Station plans to install a new berm next week.</p>
<p>The NRC remains in the Monitoring mode of Incident Response and the Region IV Incident Response Center continues to be staffed.</p>
<p>Fort Calhoun Station remains in the Notification of Unusual Event that was declared on June 6, 2011. The Missouri river level is at an elevation of 1006 feet 4 inches mean sea level (MSL). By design, the plant is protected to a river level elevation of 1014 feet MSL.</p>
<p>The information presented herein has been discussed with the licensee and is current as of 8:00 a.m., June 27, 2011.</p>
<p>ADAMS ACCESSION NUMBER: ML111780547<br />
CONTACTS: Ray Azua at (817) 319-4376</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 22:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Torsion fields, Toroidal configurations and Scalar waves in Cold Fusion may be a few of the missing pieces that bring forward the technology and viability of Cold Fusion to the Alternative Energy Markets according to many global experts in the field of Alternative Energy. And according to one brilliant young researcher Keith Owens of Cambridge, [...]]]></description>
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<p>Torsion fields, Toroidal configurations and Scalar waves in Cold Fusion may be a few of the missing pieces that bring forward the technology and viability of Cold Fusion to the Alternative Energy Markets according to many global experts in the field of Alternative Energy.</p>
<p>And according to one brilliant young researcher Keith Owens of Cambridge, Massachusetts, who spoke about an area many have overlooked for C/F innovation and generation at the MIT Cold Fusion Colloquium. He shared about how looking at and understanding torsion fields would be of great benefit in the advancement of C/F. </p>
<p>Dr. Sandra Rose Michael who was also in attendance at the MIT Cold Fusion Colloquium and is also an expert on Scalar Waves shared that Keith&#8217;s research along with looking at Scalar Waves has to be incorporated into the new Cold Fusion models.  </p>
<p>Here is some of the information that Keith Owens presented at MIT:</p>
<p>  <strong>Proposing a Solution on Cold Fusion by Keith Owens</strong></p>
<p>The Problem with Cold Fusion:</p>
<p>	The announcement of “cold fusion” in March of 1989, sent a shock wave through the scientific community (Fox).  Cold Fusion is the ability to induce nuclear reaction at room temperatures which back then was unthinkable.  Because Fleischmann and Pons only explain what they have studied but could not reproduce and have different results.  Cold fusion is incredibly clean and free of pollution, toxic emissions, carbon footprints, green house gasses, and radioactivity, while still obviating fossil fuel.  </p>
<p>	Most effort failed because of flawed paradigms, cracked inactive palladium cathodes, contamination (including from ordinary water), and most often, improper cell configurations, inadequate or questionable loadings, and incubation times (Swartz).  The binding energy of a nucleus is the energy holding a nucleus together.  This energy varies from nucleus to nucleus.  The energy may be released as a packet of electromagnetic radiation known as gamma rays.  The cell structure is due to the quantum nature electrons.  One of the most significant developments in physics is the states that the material makes up the nucleus falls into two categories of particles, quarks and leptons, together with their antiparticle counterparts (CPEP).       </p>
<p>The Solution to Cold Fusion:</p>
<p>	Systematic failure describes the nuclear potential both fusion and reaction in cold fusion.  Possible need for a new dynamical approach to cold fusion.  Understand torsion field, subatomic particles, nuclear structure and how cold fusion overcomes Coulomb barrier.  The torsion field considerations are local so that the four-dimensional space-time is assumed to be smooth manifold diffeomorphic (Trautman).  Cold fusion has changed the physics on subatomic particles.  The reactions of the subatomic particles that make up the nuclear structure.  Nuclear magnetic resonance is the frequency of the magnetic fields.  Cold fusion applies resonance which affects the Coulomb barrier in a way that modern physics cannot explain; because physics is based on force and the reaction of force. </p>
<p>	How cold fusion applies a resonance that disrupts the Coulomb barrier that allows the subatomic particles of a nuclear structure flow freely without the reaction to force.  The E-Cat developed by Andre Rossi is the first nickel-hydrogen fusion reactor generates steam 33:1 (Rossi).</p>
<p>The Proposed solution on Cold Fusion:</p>
<p>	With 94 E-Cat in operations cold fusion is a viable energy source.  The E-cat only generates steam what still needs to be converted to electricity.  The fuel for cold fusion is the deuteron. It is driven into the metal by applied nuclear magnetic field.  The important point is that from those high energy levels of He4 made in cold fusion come the observed excess energies (Swartz).  The reactions are complex, and under some conditions of the variety of regions involved both within and upon the metallic lattice.  There have been a variety of anomalies claimed to have been observed in metal deuterides and in metal hydrides.  The effects are excess temperature, energy, heat within quantitative state, slow tritium production, gamma emission and fast ion emission (Hagelstein).  By modern physics would not expect that the exchange of a few phonons would have much impact on fusion reaction in the lattice.  The most promising route to demonstrate directly the existence of a phonon effect for very low energy fusion reactions in a solid with a very strong uniform optical phonon field.</p>
<p>Zeolites are hydrated framework that incorporates molecular H2O in structural pores.  The interaction of water with cations and with the framework in a zeolite cage is important in a variety of applications, abatement, catalysis, and cations exchange and gas separation (Shim).  Thermodynamic data are essential to evaluate zeolite stability and characterize the hydration process.  Newton’s Second Law of Thermodynamics is the Universal Principle of Entropy.  Which states equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value. In Newton’s equation to explain thermodynamics he state d[T1 + T2]/dt.  In Einstein-Cartan Theory explain there is a correction to Newton’s equation is d[(T1-T2)/2 ]/dt.  Account in the calculation was taken of the specific heat and mass of all barriers (Trautman).  </p>
<p>Dilithium crystal is designed to allow the fusion reaction to flow thought the material.  The macular structure of metal is condensed thus on a nano scale the metal becomes pitted and makes the metal expand beyond the limits.  By using synthetic diamond as spacer between the zeolite to allow the expansion of the zeolite.  The optical density of the diamond will allow the cantons and phonons focus at a point to be extracted by a low intensity laser.  </p>
<p>The Conclusion to Cold Fusion:</p>
<p>	The water surface tension is the only part of all the research into cold fusion has not been considered as a problem.  This is why Rossi has made cold fusion work is by using a gas in small quantities.  There is more ways to applied nuclear magnetic fields in cold fusion by introducing methane into the catalysis to disrupt the water surface tension.  They can generate a release of energy that has not been seen since the invention of the nuclear boom.  The key is implosion to make the atom collapse on itself but in a controlled state.  The next generation of energy is not the movement of electrons; but ions and photons called light energy.  Developing a new type of fiber optic as a transmission line.  Gorilla Glass was invented by Corning in 1962 as an ultra-strong glass will be the foundation for the fiber optic, due to how the world runs on electricity a converter from light energy to electricity need to be developed.  GE has a photon light bulb what means they are able to convert electricity to photons.  Now reverse the application to allow photons and ions to be converted into electricity.</p>
<p>	Light energy and the process to make this happen have never been fully looked in this context and is often put off as being.  Now it is time to get to really research this potential area for which the process will be one hell of a trip from beyond and back.  </p>
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<p>For more information on his research, Keith Owens can be contacted by email at keith@cfesi.com</p>
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		<title>HP settles case over Hurd job</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 06:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Computer maker Hewlett Packard has settled a law suit brought against its former chief Mark Hurd intended to stop him joining with Oracle. As per the deal, Mr. Hurd will give up $30m in HP shares that he was given in his severance package. The firm told that Mr. Hurd would, besides, keep his obligations [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Computer maker Hewlett Packard has settled a law suit brought against its former chief Mark Hurd intended to stop him joining with Oracle.</p>
<p><a href="http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/hurd.jpg" class="broken_link"><img class="alignleft" src="http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/hurd-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a>As per the deal, Mr. Hurd will give up $30m in HP shares that he was given in his severance package. The firm told that Mr. Hurd would, besides, keep his obligations to protect HP’s confidential information while fulfilling his duties at Oracle.</p>
<p>Oracle announced its decision to appoint Mr. Hurd as co-president earlier this month. Mr. Hurd is a friend of Oracle chief executive office Larry Ellison.</p>
<p>Mr. Hurd was forced to quit HP following a sexual harassment investigation. Though the probe found that he had not broken harassment rules, it accused him with breach of HP’s “standards of business conduct.” He joined Oracle a month after leaving HP.</p>
<p>HP earlier told that the hiring of Hurd would give Oracle “a strategic advantage as to where to allocate or not allocate resources and exploit the knowledge of HP&#8217;s strengths and weaknesses.”</p>
<p>But now it changed its stance and says it is confident that Mr. Hurd can perform all his duties without revealing HP’s trade secret.</p>
<p>Oracle and HP are closely linked as they have worked together for 25 years to ensure their products were compatible. Last few years saw these technology giants trying to straddle software, hardware and data storage in their bids to remain relevant in the changing market.</p>
<p>Oracle took over rival Sun Micro systems while HP fought off Dell to take over 3Par, a data storage company.<a href="http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/hurd.jpg" class="broken_link"><br />
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		<title>&#8220;White House&#8221; latest target of HACKERS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 23:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In allegations brought to the attention of the global community, Google announced on Wednesday that China had been successful in compromising the US Government and White House information and communication networks. In a statement made on Thursday by White House Press Secretary Jay Carney “None of the official U.S. government official&#8217;s email account has been [...]]]></description>
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<p>In allegations brought to the attention of the global community, Google announced on Wednesday that China had been successful in compromising the US Government and White House information and communication networks.</p>
<p>In a statement made on Thursday by White House Press Secretary Jay Carney “None of the official U.S. government official&#8217;s email account has been hacked.” </p>
<p>Doubts are escalating that the alleged compromise is untrue, with the confirmations of Lockheed Martin, RSA, more Sony events and other cloud storage and information systems being hacked, that the White House would be exempt from any breach.   </p>
<p>&#8220;We have no reason to believe at this point that any official U.S. government email accounts were accessed,&#8221; The White House Press Secretary Jay Carney added that FBI is investigating in to the alleged matters.</p>
<p>Carney tried to rest assure others that all the U.S. government officials work is conducted on work email accounts and &#8220;we have no evidence to suggest that any of those accounts were accessed or compromised.&#8221;</p>
<p>Carney clarified that though government officials are permitted to have personal email accounts, but are reframed from use in any official capacities.</p>
<p>“Threats to information and communications infrastructure pose a serious economic and national security challenge for the United States and our partners, which is why the President has made cyber security one of his top priorities,&#8221; Carney said.</p>
<p>Concerns continue with Google announcement on Wednesday that Chinese hackers were successful and had hacked several Gmail accounts, including senior U.S. government officials.</p>
<p> China is rejecting Google&#8217;s allegations and told reporters that efforts to put all of the blame on China were deplorable and unacceptable.</p>
<p>But the fact remains that to assume all information, communications and technologies are un-scalable is unsettling. </p>
<p>As our ability to create, innovate, send and receive Data and technologies advance; almost as fast as the time on our atomic clocks, so does the prospect of flaws, errors, omissions and backdoors remains a reality. </p>
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		<title>New Cloud Service Owned By Apple To Be Unveiled Sooner</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is known to everybody that Apple CEO Steve Jobs remained aloof from media glare soon after a long medical leave in last few months. He has though announced many new products launch especially the one which had been widely anticipated – cloud service which is the unique developer conference tool. &#160; Launching is scheduled [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/will-the-iphone-5-be-the-first-device-to-use-icloud-likely.jpg" class="broken_link"><img class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-29477" src="http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/will-the-iphone-5-be-the-first-device-to-use-icloud-likely-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a>It is known to everybody that Apple CEO Steve Jobs remained aloof from media glare soon after a long medical leave in last few months. He has though announced many new products launch especially the one which had been widely anticipated – cloud service which is the unique developer conference tool.</p>
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<p>Launching is scheduled for the upcoming week, said the sources. The iCloud service would be in the position to offer many unique services best suited to rival Google and Amazon that also remains in the notice due to present market order expected to develop after this launch.</p>
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<p>Planned attempt includes the launch of latest version of Apple&#8217;s Macintosh operating system Lion besides the most updated and upgraded mobile system iOS which definitely goes to make a big difference in the technology firms and application too.</p>
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<p>A press release from the Apple group defined the complete information about the above products to be launched in the market prior to the organizing of Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). The conference is considered an unusual attempt by the company that has most often remained reticent in its flagship event plans previously.</p>
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<p>There is cutthroat competition in the market which speculated more since rumors about iCloud started circulating once it came into notice that Apple launches iCloud.com the sooner.</p>
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<p>It is confirmed now that upcoming conference goes to see the unveiling of next generation Mac OSX alongside Apple&#8217;s upcoming cloud services offering, iCloud which would have bigger impact in the market today.</p>
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