NI Corroborates Rossi Statements

Posted on February 21, 2012 by

There has been some concern recently in e-Cat Nation regarding the news that Leonardo Corp is no longer working with National Instruments and is not currently a customer of that company.  Some in fact have been quite crestfallen over this news, as National Instruments has been one of the few well-known companies or institutions that has been willing (or been allowed) to admit an association with Rossi.  Others of course have been quite elated, using this news as proof positive that Rossi is a fraud and that he has been lying about or misrepresenting his relationship with National Instruments all along.  Admittedly, I have been disappointed by the recent news myself.  However, I had a sense that there was more to this story than was perhaps apparent and, as usual, that sense was correct.

In order to get more clarity on the matter, I contacted Julia Betts, Corporate Communications and Investor Relations Manager for National Instruments, regarding NI’s relationship with Leonardo Corp.  She in fact was very friendly and helpful, and did in fact provide a very important clarification that many of us missed and others perhaps intentionally obscured.

While Ms. Betts reiterated once again that Leonardo Corp was not currently a customer of National Instruments, there have been ongoing discussions between the two parties.  Discussion is the key word here.  Many, including myself, have taken this to mean there have been merely some preliminary discussions regarding a business relationship between the two parties.  After my conversation with Ms. Betts, it would seem that the word “discussion” as used in this context has a meaning with somewhat more depth, with that meaning being ongoing technical collaboration between the parties.  This collaboration has been at the level that Rossi has frequently alluded to in his comments on JONP and, specifically, to comments he made earlier this week.  Over the past several months he has frequently stated that he was working with National Instruments on E-Cat development.  I specifically asked Ms. Betts if these statements were exaggerations or outright lies on Mr. Rossi’s part and she informed me that THEY WERE NOT, and that indeed Mr. Rossi has been portraying Leonardo Corp’s work with National Instruments accurately. She e-mailed me this link specifically as an accurate accounting of the relationship that has existed between the two parties.  It of course is Rossi’s accounting that he posted on his blog earlier this week, as it appeared in article on Independent eCat News (it would appear that Ms. Betts is aware as anyone who has followed this story how bloody difficult it is to read JONP).

I did also ask Ms. Betts about NI’s official position on the whole field of LENR, to which she reiterated the sentiments expressed in previously released statements, namely that LENR is intriguing and has potential.  I find that view a breath of fresh air in comparison to two decades old (and continuing) calls of fraud and “junk science.”  I think it represents an evolution of thought about the technology from even a couple of months ago when official statements from National Instruments seemed to be somewhat more equivocal.  One could surmise that after working with the technology for even a couple of months they have seen the stated potential and feel comfortable enough to publicly include it in the technologies with which they feel their systems are appropriate.  Again, here is an official statement released by National Instruments recently and forwarded to me again today by Ms. Betts:

“NI platforms can be used for LENR applications, particularly the National Instruments Reconfigurable I/O (RIO) platform that is based on FPGA (field programmable gate array) technology for the control and monitoring needs. The FPGAs are programmable integrated circuits that offer true parallelism, high-speed analysis of data and a high level of reliability needed for control and monitoring applications. We do think the field of LENR is an intriguing research area that has potential to impact the energy crisis that is facing the world. NI believes in providing the right tools and platforms to enable engineers and scientists to focus on innovation and solving the grand engineering challenges such as energy from fusion, cancer therapy in the field of medicine and smart grids for better urban infrastructure, to name a few. National Instruments is working with Universities and Research Centers around the world to empower researchers and scientists who are working on magnetic confined fusion, inertial confined fusion and Low Energy Nuclear Reaction.”

No other company of this size and pedigree has ever made anything close to such a statement in support of LENR.  Bravo NI.  It is regrettable that any collaboration between NI and Leonardo Corp has ended, but at least now other researchers know they have a supporter in the corporate world.  I think that this can be seen as a huge step in terms of respectability for the technology, regardless of the setback it MAY APPEAR to be for Andrea Rossi and Leonardo, Corp.

In view of NI’s openness to LENR, I did inform Ms. Bettis, that soon on this site I will post an article and details regarding an LANR (lattice-assisted nuclear reaction) patent that has been translated into English and made available to this site by its author.  The patent was originally granted in Belgium in the 1990s but has since lapsed.  The author has requested that I publish that information here as he wishes it to be shared and widely disseminated.  I hope that all readers, laymen, scientists and those from the corporate world will find the patent of interest and I hope it will foster a better understanding of the cold fusion phenomenon.   The patent includes quite an interesting theory on LANR (the authors preferred term) and I think it will be of interest to many.

As a closing note, I would just like to add that although National instruments is the first to come out in public support of this technology, I know that that there are many more watching this unfolding saga.  Note, I said KNOW.  I am not making unfounded assumptions here.  There are Individuals from some very well-known entities, business and government, who make almost daily visits to this site.  They sometimes visit in small groups and view the same article, as if they were simultaneously studying the information contained therein.  I am not mentioning this to violate confidences, that is not my intent.  I only mention it to let the others visiting from similar entities that they are not alone in sharing in an interest in this technology.   As Tom Baccei has encouraged all readers to do as part of PLAN X, I would specifically encourage corporate and government entities to be active in pursuing cold fusion/LENR.  Some no doubt wish it would just go away, but to others it provides an incredible opportunity.  Now is not the time to be passive.  To do so will mean that you will be beaten to the punch by either those who oppose it or those who wish to beat you to the market with their version.  Now is the time for boldness, not caution.

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Update:  Julia Betts of National Instruments contacted me this morning and asked that I make two clarifications to this article.  While Ms. Betts and National Instruments are overall satisfied with the tone and accuracy of this piece, there are some things they would like clarified to avoid any misunderstanding.

  1. NI generally concurs with the characterization of their relationship with Leonardo Corp as portrayed by Andrea Rossi, and as outlined by his statements made recently and linked to above. However, they cannot vouch for EVERY statement he has made regarding their relationship in the last couple of months as it is difficult to be aware of everything he has said.

  2. The discussions and technical collaboration that NI engaged in with Leonardo Corp included NI making preliminary suggestions on platforms that could be used for the control system.  These types of discussions are part of standard practice in order to assess and accurately meet a customers needs.

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PLAN X: The John Galt Manifold

Posted on February 14, 2012 by

The responses to “Three Scenarios” has provided a number of astute and constructive ideas. Obviously starting a thought process is like starting a painting, in that the focus is on the overall pattern and not on specific details. While the stimulus for writing these articles is the advent of the LENR age, it has become clear to me that the real issue at hand is not the technical quality of “Peter the Hermit’s” steam, nor how well grounded he is. It is based on the premise that LENR is an actual, reproducible phenomenon that it is capable, given basic science, engineering and development, of revolutionizing the energy production for virtually every aspect of human life.  Once again, to help us remember to keep ourselves better grounded than Mr. Rossi’s experiments, I must acknowledge that I have no more absolute, hands on, unassailable proof of LENR’s existence that than anyone else. While I remain skeptical in a non-pathological manner, I think it IS rational to proceed in thinking about how the birth pains of this new world will be felt, and to anticipate the struggle that is inevitable for control of the final form of the metamorphoses promising to sweep the world, or even whether such a transformation is desirable.

So, in the painting of this “world in transformation” the first icon of control I envisioned was the MFC (Military Financial Complex), but it is clear that that is too broad a brushstroke. While there is a logical grouping we can call the MFC, whose agenda would surely include the quest for control over this new energy source and for the perception of it by PlanetMind, it is by no means the only source of power in this world. Our agenda of promoting the rapid and complete development of LENR power and the rapid distribution of the technology, certainly must look for John Galt with a much more nuanced way.

The question for Ayn Rand was “Who is John Galt?” To that I propose the equally important question of “Where is John Galt?” Who and where are the powers in the world in a position to effect the evolution of the LENR revolution? When viewed from afar, it is easy enough to see the MFC as the major player. Such a logical grouping is no doubt sensible and for most of us (see the Three Scenarios poll) it is a way of grappling with the absurd lack of serious penetration of the LENR story into PlanetMind, and the sinful lack of serious investment to get this discovery past the three ring circus, Mad Hatter phase of Rossi and Defkalion. But, of course, there are others!

So, once again, a continuum! Only this time it is more of a manifold, a more than two dimensioned continuum, but of course with the added complication that one parameter can and does affect the other.

On the financial axis, on one end is the MFC, at the opposite end is a logical grouping we can call the PGFA, the “Progressive, Green, Futuristic Alliance”. This would be those who have surplus wealth and use it to fund and promote any number of progressive, green and mostly “liberal” goals. Paul Allen, Richard Branson, Bill Gates etc. Not to mention Sidney Kimmel, who has already ponied up funds to promote LENR research at U of Missouri.

In the middle of this axis is the RSA crowd (Rich, Stupid Assholes), who know nothing of how to use their wealth in any way other than as personal excess and aggrandizement .  Go to Monte Carlo and look around if you want to get an idea of what this group is about.

The other axis of the John Galt manifold is the intellectual/communication axis. It is the “MemeSpace” axis, where ideas compete. Financial control of the MemeSpace has been unraveled by the advent of the Internet, and this has changed the game! It is easy to see that the establishment (read expensive) media sources have certainly stonewalled the LENR story, and the leakage into the mainstream has been slow and mostly of a pathoskep bent. So one end of the MemeSpace axis of the John Galt manifold is the establishment media. Their allies are the pathoskeps and moles, who infiltrate and try to dominate the webscape with negativity, mockery and puerile intellectualism; character assassinations of one sort or another aimed at specific individuals by supposed “experts,” who clearly are the worst sort of “Trojan Horse” cynics. Start with Steven Krivit as an example of a supposed advocate of LENR development, who spends his idle hours attacking Rossi in ways that are sometimes valid but often quite ridiculous.

The other end of the MemeSpace axis from the establishment media on the John Galt manifold is, well, us! Bloggers and dreamers. The “paranoid” and the visionaries of a future that has been stolen from us all. I STILL want my future back!

In the middle of this axis? Fat, stoned, give a fuck patsies, pursaps (Purchasing Sapiens) who are the target of most advertising, with a rigid, unchanging world view, etc. etc. These are the dense, unchanging robots in our midst (or rather we are in THEIR midst). These are the time machine transports from the dark ages, who believe that all knowledge is contained in the ancient books and it is useless, or even evil, to attempt generating any new knowledge. If you are ever burnt at the stake, these folks will be there with their Zippos and sparklers.

So, there it is, a more nuanced view of the “power establishment”. As always this quest for PLAN X only goes somewhere if you join in, add “logical power groups” which I have not identified. Encourage, defile or dispute me. Call me insane, but STOP BEING A PASSIVE OBSERVER in this war for the future of humanity. As they say “life is like a shit sandwich: the more bread you have, the less shit you have to eat”. I say “life is like a fistfight: the longer you sit on your hands the more knuckles you have to eat!”

So, let us think this all through and not just sit on our hands and complain! And, you know, even if LENR and “Peter the Hermit” and Defkalion are all just a cruel hoax, what is there to lose? This is a great subject for use of Pascal’s wager for the existence of God. If you believe and you are right, infinite reward; if you are wrong, what did you lose? Nothing! The flip side? If you do not believe, what is gained if you are right…nothing, and what do you lose if wrong…everything! Apply it here. In the big picture of what we humans spend our wealth on, what would a few billion spent in an intense search for the LENR truth really mean? Maybe no lipstick or beer nuts for a year…or maybe one fewer B2 bomber, or nuclear missile, or gaudy yacht at St. Moritz. If it is all a scam, that’s what we would lose. But if it pans out — the future is back!

In coming days it is my intention to write an “open letter” to each of these groups, and maybe a few more. I will simply be firing off memes! Some may even hit their mark.  This is the only way I know to have even a small bit of effect on this glorious, hideous and always entertaining emergence of the LENR world. Join PLAN X: Publish, Disseminate, Translate and Finance!

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PLAN X: Three Scenarios

Posted on February 10, 2012 by

OK! There are a lot of very intelligent people out there who find the idea of active conspiracies, whose aim is to control and “own” LENR energy generation – delay its rollout until such time as they have devised an implemented a plan for control, and assure a military advantage for their side – as “Paranoid!” It’s too late to stop it. They would never do that to us! My response is “Bah, Humbug!”

Consider these three possible realities.

1. YOU know about the advent of the LENR age, because of the many successful efforts to replicate the phenomenon, the many recent patents applied for in the field, and the side show now being presented to us by Defkalion and Andrea Rossi. But THEY do NOT know about it – the president or his highest level staff, the ultra rich, the most highly placed military, CEOs etc. at the largest energy, financial and related industries.

2. They DO know about LENR breakthroughs, but will let nature and capitalism run it’s course for the good of humanity. After all, they stand to make even more money because they have the capital to take advantage of the opportunities the fledgling industry presents.

3. They DO know about the LENR breakthroughs, and are making every effort to control and eventually own the entire LENR industry for their own good and long term security.

First, I do not like debates with the “missing middle,” so I actively invite anyone to add to this little list. I could, of course, create a good bit more of a continuum between the three. You know,  like between one and two, something like “They’ve heard of this crap but don’t believe it for a heartbeat”, or between two and three “They can’t control Rossi and Defkalion, but they’ll get their people going on this ASAP, and try to catch up and own at least a part of it”. But, I think the list does accurately define a continuum of possible states regarding the current knowledge and intent of the Military/Financial Complex, which for all intents and purposes runs the world.

It seems faintly possible that scenario one is in play. Mid-level sycophants might be very reluctant to stick their neck out too far in convincing those above them that this whole crazy impending transformation of society is in fact REAL. It IS possible that the rigidity of the hierarchy will provide the seeds of its own eventual extinction. I’m afraid that I might be guilty of overestimating the intelligence of at least some of the MFC (Military/Financial Complex).  I cannot imagine being in their position and NOT having specialists watching for exactly the kind of scenarios which now presents itself. But, considering the absolute doltishness of various empires in their later stages, who knows? Would Nero have listened? What about King George III and the American Revolution? How about Hitler or Stalin? So, I guess this end of the spectrum might possibly be how it will go, much to my delight (“delight” is much too weak a word! Something like “giddy, orgasmic ecstasy” might be better, but, it IS a figure of speech!)

My belief is that the reality is somewhere much closer to scenario three. I just cannot imagine anyone at the top of the MFC passively watching this all evolve because,  at some point, it will have developed to the point that it IS past their control. Maybe that is already the case, but I don’t think so. If I were in their position, I would, beyond any shadow of a doubt, be up to my elbows in trying to get a handle on the whole ball of nickel. How could they not? They should! It would be beyond any defense if they were simply “ambushed” by all this. If the military lost the opportunity to develop and secure an advantage as huge as this they would be rounded up, lined up and strung up in short order. The electorate would never forgive elected officials for not having this power source, largely developed and verified at NASA and SPAWAR, used as a club for American hegemony. Don’t you think?

Question is, what do the few hundred thousand of us, who ARE aware of the vast potential of this for the future of the human race, do in the face of such powerful, secretive and ruthless authority? The spectrum of possibilities is actually sitting close to the scenario three end, in my opinion, and the only recourse is PLAN X! Publish, Disseminate, Translate and Finance. For once the REST of us are in a position to compete in the meme-space and for the awareness of PlanetMind. Keep spreading the word, and wait for the chance to actually take part in a world-wide, people financed and controlled effort to let LENR knowledge and technology truly enter the public domain.

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Cold Fusion, Oil and the US Dollar

Posted on February 7, 2012 by

In the last few articles, an attempt has been made on this site to explore some real world scenarios that may be taking place behind the scenes in regards to cold fusion and how government and otherwise influential entities, like corporations and the military, may be responding to the increasing body of evidence that cold fusion/LENR has not been debunked and in fact its existence is supported by an ever growing amount of evidence, and being confirmed by a wider and wider group of scientists and researchers.  If you have not read Tom Baccei’s previous articles that explore such scenarios, they can be found here and here.  These have been attempts to explain why in spite of the growing evidence (actually undeniable if one takes the time to review the evidence contained on this site and elsewhere, especially lenr-canr.org), the defining moment where the reality of this technology becomes apparent to the masses continues to be elusive.  NASA’s January 12 LENR video was very nearly the push that was needed to take this subject out of the shadows.  It actually succeeded but only for a very brief time.  Below are two charts related to LENR searches on Google.  The first chart plots Google searches for the term LENR from 2004 to the present.  The second chart plots Google searches for the term NASA LENR from 2004 to the present.

Google Searches for “LENR”

Google Searches for “NASA LENR”

As one can see, searches for both terms spiked around the time of the NASA video, then subsequently plummeted after a statement released by NASA’s Joseph Zawodny the following day in which he feverishly backpedaled in attempt to distance both himself and NASA from years of research and public statements, the bulk of which can be found here.  Yet, as disappointing as this backpedaling from NASA was, it is not the first time that this has happened.  It is not the first time some great announcement or event surrounding cold fusion has been made or expected, only to ultimately disappear in a cloud of WTF.  The first of course was the now infamous announcement of Pons and Fleischmann in 1989, but in the past year alone there have been several such events.  These included Andrea Rossi’s anti-climatic October 28 e-Cat “test”, which was made private at the proverbial “last minute,” the actual last minute cancellation of Dr. Brian Ahern’s public LENR presentation in December, and the public proclamations of Dr. George Miley in October that his LENR device was approaching commercialization, followed by the disbanding of his research group just two months later.  There was also the revelation that the LENR research of the US Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) was being discontinued right around this same time.

Mr. Baccei has outlined possible reasons and scenarios for these apparent cold fusion mirages. He has explored the idea that advent of cold fusion may well produce a level of instability that the ultra-rich and powerful find uncomfortable, to say the least.  He has also touched on the possible role the military may reasonably play in keeping this technology “quiet,”  at least in the short term.

I would now like to touch on another possible reason for the cold fusion disappearing act.  This reason involves the relationship of the US dollar to oil.  It has often be speculated that cold fusion, or any technology that competes to supply the world’s energy needs, would be opposed by Big Oil.  I really don’t think that is speculation; on the contrary, I think that is fairly obvious that Big Oil would not welcome cold fusion with open arms.  I think one would have to be extraordinarily naïve to think otherwise.  However, that is not particular issue I have in mind.  The relationship of the US dollar and oil goes way beyond what is obvious.

To explain, let me provide an historical background.  Up until the early 1970s the currency of the United States was backed by gold, accordingly to the Bretton Woods  agreement of the 1940s.  The system created by this agreement was an attempt to standardize and stabilize currencies around the world for the sake of international trade, rebuilding of nations following World War II and to prevent some of the circumstances that had resulted in the Great Depression.  Under this international agreement, the value of the US dollar was linked to the value of gold.  In turn, the value of other international currencies were linked to the dollar accordingly to agreed upon exchange rates.  While this system had its critics even at its inception, it did prove to be of great utility to help stabilize the world economy after the calamity of The Great Depression and the Second War War.

In the early 1970s, this arrangement began to become problematic for the United States.   It was mired in a long and costly war in Vietnam, the national debt was increasing at an alarming rate, and unemployment and inflation were on the rise.  Other nations that were part of the Bretton Woods agreement began to become concerned about the health of the US economy and many began to ask that loaned monies be repaid in the form gold, which the US was obligated to accommodate according to the agreement.  As a result, US gold reserves were rapidly diminishing.  In response to this, in August of 1971 President Richard Nixon and his advisors  decided to implement a variety of economic policies that would subsequently become known as the Nixon Shock.  It was so named because the plan was devised and implemented by a small number of men in the executive branch of the US government without the knowledge of the US Congress, business leaders, the American people or any of its allies, and included a decree that the US would no longer honor its obligation to repay its debts in gold accordingly to terms of the Bretton Woods. Obviously, this radical plan came as a shock to the rest of the world when it was actually announced.  Some familiar with the proceedings of the inner circle of the Nixon White House reported that it actually took longer to decide when to announce this new plan to the world than it did to devise the plan itself, as it architects knew that it would be unsettling to the world at large.  While other nations had already broken the Bretton Woods agreement out of concern for the US’s ability to repay its debts, the sudden withdrawal of the US from this agreement as the principal party basically made the agreement null and void.

As a result of the abandonment of Bretton Woods, all currencies became fiat currencies, based in essence on nothing more than the written promises of the issuing government.  The value of many international currencies remained intertwined through a complex system of exchange rates, as before, but now the base of these exchange rates was based on something much less definite then the price of gold.  It needs to be pointed out that the price of gold at that time was not as volatile as it is today and had remained relatively stable over a long period of time. A rise in the price of gold from $35/ounce to $40/ounce (roughly 15%) had caused some in the Nixon Administration to panic but this rise had come after a long period of stability in the price of gold and a rise of 15% is small in comparison the volatility of today’s gold market.

It was shortly after the Nixon Shock that the value of the US dollar became intimately linked with oil.  With the US currency no longer fixed to something tangible, like the price of gold, and the Bretton Woods agreement now in shambles, the dollar needed something of value to make it competitive with the currencies of other nations who had much better economic fundamentals in terms of inflation, employment, debt, etc., and with which the dollar now had to compete with on the open market.  As a result, in 1973 President Nixon reached an agreement with Saudi Arabia whereby that nation would only accept US dollars as payment for oil.  The Saudis also agreed to invest any excess profits in US Treasury bonds, notes, and bills, the instruments by which the US Government finances its debt.  In exchange, the US agreed to protect the Saudi oil fields from hostile entities including the then Soviet Union.  By 1975 all of the members of OPEC had agreed to sell their oil only in US dollars.  So in essence, by the mid-1970s the US had gone from backing the dollar with gold to backing it with “black gold“ or oil. This agreement with the Saudis and subsequently with all of OPEC made the dollar the reserve currency for oil.  As a result every oil-importing nation now had to have US dollars in order to buy oil.  This made the dollar a valuable commodity in and of itself.

This arrangement remains in effect to this day, despite the fact that US not only continues to carry a large debt load but now that debt is the highest it has been in history.  How big is the US debt load?  I really cannot explain it adequately in detail in the confines of this blog but the illustration below explains it in the simplest terms possible.

In other words, if the US Government were a person or family, it would seriously be looking at claiming bankruptcy about now.  In fact, it would have no choice…save for the role of its currency in the trade of the world’s most valuable commodity, oil.  By the same token, if oil were to suddenly lose its importance in the scheme of world trade, then its value would drop precipitously and the value of the US dollar would follow. Almost all value the US dollar holds would be lost and, like Cinderella at midnight, it would turn into a pumpkin.

So, in light of the above, one can see that if cold fusion were ever proven to be true beyond all doubt to the masses, it may have serious consequences for the financial system of the United States, and perhaps much of the industrialized world.  The US by virtue of its monetary policy may have well painted itself into a corner.  Given the dollars intimate relationship with oil, they may not be able to widely implement cold fusion technology, or any revolutionary energy technology, even if were desirous to do so on a variety of other levels.

Yet, there are some important factors to point here.  Oil is not the only commodity in the world for which the US dollar is held as the reserve currency.  The US serves this purpose for a wide range of products and commodities; however, oil is still the most important commodity for which the dollar holds this status and it holds this status largely because it remains the exclusive currency for oil trade.  So,  if oil were to become less important in view of the advent of a new energy technology like cold fusion, a drop in the value of  US dollar may not be immediate, although it may ultimately be inevitable.

There has been increasing dissatisfaction from many corners of the globe over recent years over the dollars status as a reserve currency, especially amongst the so-called BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India and China), with these emerging economic powers feeling increasingly uneasy about the dollars lofty status, especially in view of  its enormous public debt.  This means that the undercurrent to move away from the US dollar has already begun and the United States already had to start considering the prospect that the dollar may eventually lose its value as a reserve currency.  There have been low-level meetings amongst the BRIC powers to discuss alternatives to the dollar in regards to world trade generally and the trade in oil specifically.  However, so far the United States has been able to keep this attempt to move away from the dollar largely at bay through a combination of diplomacy and its more unpleasant cousin, i.e. threats of retaliation in the form of economic trade, etc.  How long the US will be able to keep the dollar’s detractors at bay remains to be seen and, as a US citizen, HOPEFULLY US leaders have begun to devise a strategy to meet this challenge…preferably a plan that does not involve a unilateral economic “shock.”

So far only two oil exporting nations have openly defied the “dollars only for oil system,” those being Iraq and Iran.  The US invaded Iraq in 2003 and is rattling the sword against Iran as this article is being written.  It has long been argued that the Iraq War and the impending war with Iran are about oil and the “weapons of mass destruction pretense” is an overblown one.  This may well be true and, if it is, the real issue regarding oil is more about its value in propping up the US dollar and the real “weapon of mass destruction” is attempting to lead the world away from the dollar as the oil reserve currency.  Iraq certainly had no trouble exchanging its oil directly for food, medical supplies and other commodities with a variety of nations, including those of the EU, in the years prior to the US invasion.  Right now Iran is negotiating similar arrangements with two of the BRIC nations, India and China, the two most populous nations on the planet and two nations whose economies and energy demands are expanding rapidly.

I think that it is also important to point here that both India and China have an interest in cold fusion research.  India has long been actively researching cold fusion since its first announcement in 1989.  Dr. George Miley, who I mentioned at the beginning of this article, is associated with a prominent Chinese university and holds a similar position at that institution  as he does at the University of Illinois.  One has to wonder that if he cannot finding funding and support for his cold fusion cell in the United States, if the Chinese might be willing to step in.  Perhaps that already has occurred. Professor Xing Zhong Li of China’s Tsinghua University is a member of the Cold Fusion Energy, Inc. consortium with  Dr. Miley and is reportedly building a prototype cold fusion reaction at that institution.  I wonder if he and Dr. Miley have at least had the opportunity to compare notes?

The bottom line here is that in view of the US dollar’s relationship with oil, it may be matter of practical economic policy to not let the e-Cat (or any other LENR device) out of the bag, at least just yet.  If this allowed to happen, it may just wipe away the value of the sole source of stability that remains for US currency, oil.  The Obama Administration’s recently announced push for clean and renewable energy technologies may be a signal that at least some in the US are seriously considering moving away from oil both as an energy source and a commodity on which it bases its currency, although the latter may prove more problematic than the former considering the debt load the US carries.  Without oil the US has very little to pin the value of its currency to.

It will be interesting in the coming days to see how the US, and the world, responds to the continuing and developing cold fusion saga.  I wonder if the results of Defkalion independent testing will indeed make it to public view, or if indeed such independent testing will even ever take place.  I am also curious to see how the story plays out in regards to the NANOR cold fusion device recently demonstrated at MIT by Dr. Mitchell Swartz, and the reaction to the cold fusion paper just published by MIT professor Dr. Peter Hagelstein (click here to view).  And, as always, it will be interesting to see what twists and turns lie ahead for commercialization of the e-Cat.

Although I have attempted to sound a cautionary tone with this article, it is still hard  to  imagine how the opposition to this technology can ultimately prevail, short of a natural disaster of Biblical proportions or the advent of World War III, in view of the number of people who are working to bring cold fusion to the world.  However, I am beginning to come to the sobering realization that if and when this technology is finally able to break through, it very well not be in the United States.  The US is at the epicenter of the old paradigm and rarely in human history has a new one emerged in the midst of the old. There are simply too many established powers and entrenched interests, too may obstacles to overcome.  Of course I hope I am wrong but hundreds of centuries of recorded human history tell me that I likely will not be.  This technology will probably take hold first in one of the BRIC nations or somewhere in the Third World.

Stay tuned…

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Update 02/09/2012:  Below are links to a couple of videos that explain the Petrodollar system in more detail.  Please remember, rarely is a singular source 100% accurate, so do your own independent research to verify pertinent information.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Enm0CBx52g4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN5q_0H41VE

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Plan X: The Energy Super Bowl

Posted on January 31, 2012 by

It’s the Energy Super Bowl and the stakes are fantastic. For anyone who has been following the LENR circus at all it is gut check time. If you really, honestly believe that this new source of unlimited, cheap and clean energy is actually there, and NOT “maybe there” or “hopefully there” then there is no way to deny that the Military/Financial complex will stop at nothing to scoop it up, dress it in Red, White and Blue, or a Chinese flag, and march it off to serve in our endless war.

The tools they are using now are covert, and subtle. They are “PSYOPS“. That is why the Mary Yugo/George Hody pathoskep and mole crowd is so effective, even while we all know that their inane, repetitive and pointless debate tricks as just pure noise. You see, they don’t have to convince you they are RIGHT, they just have to plant small seeds that cut into your conviction. If you read their posts at all, they have succeeded! This whole LENR is simply another chapter in the never ending conflict between liberty and control. We all sit in the stands and cheer, and jeer and go for a beer, while the game plays out without us, because most humans are passive, and the Military/Financial complex is NOT PASSIVE in the slightest.

If you REALLY believe that it is log-in time for the LENR age, then you cannot escape the fact that Bilderberg and the Pentagon cannot possibly sit idly by and let this astounding discovery escape into the public domain. If you doubt, in the slightest, if your skepticism allows room for it, the imminence of this Super Bowl fight for control seems silly and distant.

Picture this scenario:

You work for NASA and have, in your lab, achieved incontrovertible proof that LENR is a real and incredibly powerful energy source. You go to your bosses, the guys who sign your paychecks, and tell them all about it in a tense meeting. They, of course, cannot grasp the reality of what you tell them. They require, as each of us do, exceptional proof, but seem unwilling to even stop by to watch the device at work. So, you ambush them at a public seminar and a few of you put together slide shows promoting your discoveries. Even now you are pretty much ignored, until the slides make it into the public arena,. Each step of the way up the ladder of control the resistance to the LENR story is nearly insurmountable, even up to the meeting where some poor second level guy has to tell the president about the “cold fusion” breakthrough, risking ridicule and humiliation. But, in the end, after several layers of denial and proof, the reality of LENR takes hold. This occurs at about the same time the slides are beginning to circulate in the public arena. Too late? No! You have a talk with these boys, and using things like “national security” and “homeland security” and PSYOPS, you diffuse the impact. Remember they are ON THE TEAM. No need to make a big splash denying anything, you just need to trivialize it, plant seeds of doubt, and for goodness sake, don’t let them defend or further their arguments! But give them recognition, like you do any good CIA agent, behind closed doors!

In some areas money dries up (ho ho). Other researchers are talked to by “agencies in the government” appealing on the one side to their patriotism, and the other to fear of the dangers of ignoring the various “national security” laws. And “Thank God for Peter the Hermit” (Rossi). He is such a clown that making him the public face of the LENR breakthrough is perfect. Easy for the pathoskeps to debate in absentia, and when his lone tent pole is chopped down, the laughter at the believers will be heard the world around! To a great degree control of the press is easy since it is all owned by the Money end of the Military/Financial complex. No penetration of the reality of the LENR revolution creeps into PlanetMind, merely a passing whiff, which will be useful to deny any conspiracy in the future.

End scenario.

Plan X is a call to those of us on the 50 yard line at this “Energy Super Bowl” to break through the passivity which is the greatest threat to actually launching a world wide revolution of unimaginable proportions, fueled by LENR; independence from “Big Energy”, “Big Money” and “Big Government,” which right now control the game like a great defensive line. A transformation of PlanetMind is within our grasp and it is inevitable that those at the top of the pile right now would lose that dominance after the LENR revolution.

Sure. It sounds paranoid, and far too sensational…but, think about it for a while from the point of view of actually, truly believing, in a hands on way, that the power of LENR is beyond any doubt. What would YOU do if YOU ran the country, or the biggest energy company or bank? Would you just sit by and watch it play out, or are you in the game? In fact one of the most amazing things about this whole crazy LENR free-for-all, is the degree to which belief is at the heart of it. Win the Meme War and you win the Energy Super Bowl!

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NASA and LENR

Posted on January 27, 2012 by

NASA has been involved in the cold fusion/LENR story since 1989.  The purpose of this page is to document NASA’s involvement, at least in part, over the years, starting in the year of Pons and Fleishmann and continuing to the present.  I have come across no reports of NASA being involved in LENR research between 1989 and 2006 but of course that does not mean that there was no ongoing research within that organization during that time.  Few  know that NASA is currently involved in this research, much less that they had done LENR research in 1989.  Knowledge of NASA’s interest in this technology has surfaced just over the last couple of years, and the last year specifically.

The information that has become public has been  in a piecemeal fashion, and this is post is an attempt to bring some of the information together in one place.  As this post is replaced on the front page of this site over the coming weeks by new articles, I will continue to provide it as a reference and a link will be placed in the menu bar at the top of the page.  I will add information to this page as it becomes available.

1989

“Tests conducted at NASA Glenn Research Center in 1989 and elsewhere consistently showed evidence of anomalous heat during loading and unloading deuterium into bulk palladium. At one time called “cold fusion,” now called “low-energy nuclear reactions” (LENR), such effects are now published in peer-reviewed journals and are gaining attention and mainstream respectability.” 
NASA Glenn Research Center Website – link (at the bottom of page)

As the above quote indicates, NASA conducted limited LENR research at Glenn Research Center in 1989 following the announcement of Dr. Martin Fleishmann and Dr. Stanley Pons.  According to the report, anomalous heat was observed but no discernible discernible neutrons were detected above background levels. The experiment apparently was conducted to look for neutrons as evidence of fusion, and the anomalous heat was a secondary finding.

The issue of whether “cold fusion” is actually fusion has long been at the center of the debate over this technology and the fact that cold fusion experiments produce either no discernible or miniscule amounts of the byproducts, which theoretical physicists predict must be present in fusion, has been widely used as evidence that the cold fusion is a hoax.  This is often done at the expense of ignoring reports of the anomalous heat  reported from the experiments. Two decades of research has not resolved the “is it fusion or not” question but the experimental evidence now has repeatedly verified heat production in “cold fusion” cells, which is now either approaching commercially viable levels or already has reached that point.

Of note, the author of the 1989 report regarding NASA’s cold fusion research, found here,  Gustav Fralick, also gave a presentation at the 2009 LENR workshop at NASA Glenn Research Center referenced below.  Apparently Mr. Fralick and NASA are now convinced there is something to the anomalous heat production, first observed over 20 years ago and in fact it may be of significance.

2003-Present

Reference to NASA involvement in LENR research beginning in 2003 is referenced in the links below.

A NASA document from 2003 entitled, “Advanced Energetics for Aeronautical Applications” contains a discussion on LENR (see pages 44-51).  Here is an except that acknowledges a nuclear process is in play and offers an explanation for low level of gamma rays and neutrons associated with cold fusion experiments.

“The first-discovered form of solid-state fusion was that achieved by electrochemically splitting heavy water in order to cause the deuterium to absorb into pieces of palladium metal. When this experiment is conducted according to procedures that have resulted from the work of many researchers since 1989, it is reproducible.  The evidence that a nuclear process is occurring is that excess energy in the form of heat (greater than what could be produced by any possible chemical reaction in the system) and helium 4 (He4) (in quantities exceeding any possible contamination) occur. The primary nuclear reaction is:

1D2 + 1D2 → 2He4 + heat

Unlike plasma-phase fusion reactions, the very low production of neutrons and gamma rays (for the amount of excess energy produced) is very noteworthy. Even though the heat originates in palladium metal, the process produces warm liquid electrolyte at temperatures significantly less than the normal boiling point of water. Because the fraction of heat that can be converted into electrical or mechanical energy at this relatively low temperature is small, aircraft propulsion using such an aqueous-phase system is probably not practical.  (Pressurization, to achieve a “steam” cycle with the associated steam condenser, would be heavy).”

Below is a blog entry by Dr. Joseph Zawodny from January of 2009 untitled “Capture the moment”:

“I’ve been working on a special project at work. I can’t talk about the subject just yet, but hopefully soon. Let’s just say that it has the potential to change everything for just about everyone on the planet. I had the opportunity to present my work to management and it went exceptionally well. I have complete support for the next phase of the project.  The events of the day are still soaking in and I wanted to capture the moment – here. This is really great news for everyone. Wish me well and I’ll do my best for you” link

Dr. Joseph Zawodny made a presentation at NASA in August of 2009 entitled “Low Energy Nuclear Reactions, An Energetics Revolution for ALL of NASA’s Missions And A Solution to Climate Change and the Economic Meltdown.” link

In March of 2011, Dr. Zawodny filed a patent application entitled “Method for Producing Heavy Electrons.”  The application is here.   NASA was listed as the assignee for this patent.

One month later, in April of 2011, NASA chief scientist Dennis Bushnell gave an interview to EV World that touched on a number of issues related to LENR, including NASA’s active involvement in LENR research.  The interview also covered issues such as Mr. Bushnell’s scientific credentials, which include his role as a consultant to the U.S. “intelligence apparatus.” Aside from a discussion of LENR, the interview also touched on other promising and emerging, clean, renewable energy technologies, of which LENR was deemed the most promising.  The audio interview can be downloaded here as an MP3.  A transcript of the interview as it relates to LENR can be found here. The LENR discussion is from 4:37 to 5:25 and from 7:30 to 13:50.  The discussion includes confirmation of replications of the work of Pons and Fleishmann, the work of Andrea Rossi and Sergio Focardi (mentioning that prior to working with Rossi, Focardi had been doing some of the best work worldwide), Widom-Larsen Theory, LENR’s relation to quantum mechanics, use of quantum theory to optimize surface morphology and NASA’s renewed interest in this field beginning in 2006-2007.

The most notable quote from the interview by Bushnell begins at the 11:34 mark when Bushnell states:

“I think were almost over the “we don’t understand it” problem. I think we’re almost over the “this doesn’t produce anything useful” problem. So I think this will go forward fairly rapidly now and, if it does, this is capable of, by itself, completely changing geo-economics, geo-politics and solving climate and energy.” 

On September 22, 2011 NASA held an LENR workshop at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio.  A number of NASA personnel gave presentations in reference to this technology.  Below are links to the slide show shows that accompanied these presentations, which were only released to the general public as a result of the Freedom of Information Act requests filed to release them.  The information provided below gives an outline of the information presented but, unfortunately, they do lack the lectures that accompanied them.  Still, they provide an excellent source of information regarding both LENR and NASA’s interest in the technology.

Dennis M. Bushnell, chief scientist PDF  slide show  You Tube

Dr. Joseph Zawodny, senior scientist PDF  slide show  You Tube
(from a previously posted article, in the middle of the page)

Michael A. Nelson PDF  slide show  You Tube

Gustave C. Fralick, John D. Wrbanek, Susan Y. Wrbanek, Janis Niedra (ASRC)  PDF  slide show  You Tube

The video’s original source on a NASA web site is here.

Here is a blog entry made by Dr. Zawodny the day following the release of the video in which he attempts to minimize NASA’s interest and involvement in LENR.

Note:  This article has been updated to reflect additional information that has come to light since it was originally posted.

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LENR: Sympathy for the Commander in Chief

Posted on January 23, 2012 by

The fact that not only news media in general, but also various elected officials and government agencies are deafeningly silent on the subject of LENR, is the very loud elephant in the room.

Consider the following little scenario:

In daily national security briefings along with high-level and quite secret meetings held at both the White House, and Pentagon, the growing reality of LENR breakthroughs has become an issue of extreme concern and debate.  This new energy source, now a well-documented and verifiable fact, is a vastly complex issue for the President to direct and manage.  The first, and obvious, perception of the LENR breakthrough is that in one massive transformation the US dependence on foreign oil supplies is solved, the unstoppable release of CO2 and other gasses into the atmosphere is brought well within safe limits, the financial doldrums affecting the US and world markets is alleviated by the many new manufacturing and social possibilities made viable by cheap, safe and abundant energy. That’s the good news.

Quickly Think Tanks and other experts in various fields come forth with dire predictions of financial and social instabilities unleashed by the rollout of this life changing technology.  The wealthiest 0.1% of Americans have an unshakable commitment to stability.  They have no place to go but down in the massive financial shakeups which would be inevitable should LENR be developed and distributed in the most rapid possible scenario.  The President is acutely aware that our political system is directly controlled by this established and conservative wealth, or at least marches in lockstep with it.  Until ownership and control of this technology can be firmly established by these ultra rich individuals, the President is put under immense pressure to slow down or stop the advent of the LENR age in any manner possible.

Worse still, the military industrial complex sees immediately that regardless of whether the new energy source can be used directly as a game changing weapon or not, it’s use as a power supply for anything from tanks to aerial drones, to aircraft carriers and submarines would produce an unimaginable superiority for the nation deploying it first.  Water supply for troops in the desert, air conditioning, no fuel convoys, self-sufficient small units, and even individual special forces and new surveillance techniques, the possibilities are endless. And here to, with the American hegemony in military affairs being its single largest global asset, the drive for stability and an unshifting balance is relentless.  The military industrial complex will require several years to develop and deploy the first generation of a military so equipped.  Whereas it would seem unlikely to stuff this particular genie back into the bottle, it is clear that delaying the development of LENR capability in the public eye could and should be delayed for as long as possible to preserve the US preeminent military position.  Of course, it is clear that other governments and militaries will be highly likely to embark on similar programs once the reality of LENR and its consequences are perceived, so it must be treated as a new “arms race.”

The President asks for an action plan, the intent of which is to impede the development of LENR technology long enough to allow time for the US military establishment to achieve a significant generational lead in the development and deployment of LENR systems, and the establishment of a legal and financial scenario under which social order is protected and preserved.  In the end, the President is convinced that by delaying the true extent of the LENR breakthrough from becoming public, the situation can be tidied up and managed in such a way as to achieve those goals while at the same time gradual and controlled development of the public’s perception of LENR can lead to a safe and orderly deployment into the public sector, thus achieving the desirable results of the breakthrough, albeit somewhat delayed.  Calculations of the costs/benefits of various scenarios are considered.  Immediate rollout, a one to three year delay, a ten year delay etc.  The president, being a political man, sees the middle ground of a one to three year delay as prudent, but also would ensures that he and his party can take full credit for this “boon to all mankind”.

End scenario.

I have great sympathy for the quandary presented by the above scenario.  I do believe that something like it is in fact what has been going on.  Imagine the difficulty of deciding to allow the rapid deployment of LENR devices, with all the benefits, yet with all the drawbacks, at least as seen by you and your constituents.  Not an easy set of decisions to make!

I, however, believe there is a great need for developing LENR technology as rapidly as possible.  Further, I think that it is of great importance that the established, rigid hierarchy running this country, and much of the world, be shaken up not only for our good but for their own good.  This static, stratified social and financial milieu is exactly the environment which led to the collapse of every empire before now.  It simply must be broken up, without destroying the vessel in which it resides!

How do they go about slowing the rollout down?  Damage has already been done by semi-maverick groups at SPAWAR and NASA, but you use standard disinformation and public relations techniques to drift them out of the public eye.  Use moles to discredit and marginalize their results.  Isolate Rossi, and either buy him off, scare him off or discredit him.  Same goes for Defkalion; just make it so they peter out and drift away or crash and burn loudly and publicly. Dr. Ahern was making presentations in Washington last month.  I never heard to who or why?  Was there any public awareness of such talks?  Where is Dr. Miley?  In October at the World Green Symposium he was talking about nearing commercialization with his device.  By December there was word that his research group was breaking up due to lack of funding and graduate assistants moving on with their lives. In the NASA video of January 12, Dr. Zawodny, states NASA’s involvement in developing this technology and sounds quite optimistic about its future.  A day or two later he writes a blog post that pretty much contradicts the tone of the video of just a few days previous.  Rossi spent nearly a year touting his 1MW plant and gives every indication that testing began in October of 2010.  Within weeks of the test, he announces the testing will be private for all intents and purposes and there are indications that the customer is a military entity.  LENR research at the U.S. Navy’s SPAWAR is apparently discontinued shortly after a 3-year-old, but relatively obscure, video of its researchers espousing this technology is unearthed and publicized across the Internet.

One thing that is clear to me at this point is that large pieces are moving on the LENR chessboard.  This is only one of many possible scenarios which could possibly tie together a number of baffling events (at least to me) in the unfolding LENR story.  In my thinking about the LENR games now entering the “mid-game.”  I have come to realize that I now pretty much discount Andrea Rossi and Defkalion.  If they “pop” tomorrow with a home toaster that can brown your bread using a power cell the size of a toothpick, all my concerns and agony in all this would come to an abrupt end.  But counting on them, putting all our eggs in that one (well, two) basket(s) is just too fragile.  The strong, and to me, convincing evidence of the reality of LENR heat generation just makes it too foolish to follow them into glory or oblivion.  They remind me of “Peter the Hermit” who lead the first Crusade, consisting of peasants and drifters, off to conquer the Holy Land in the name of God and, not surprisingly, in the end, to their complete annihilation.  I’m sorry Mr. Rossi (in the odd possibility that you read any of this,) but you are marching ahead too far, too fast and with too little substance to long keep the LENR community entranced.  And to others who will read this, please share your concept of what might be a unifying theme which explains this whole insanity, with the hermit blasting ahead on what seems more and more like fumes, and the rest, the credible community of researchers, drifting away like the leaves of late autumn.

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