The Department of Energy’s Office of Basic Energy Sciences provided support to a team of researchers to perform basic LENR measurements. The work was reported in 2012 in the Journal of Applied Physics. (See New Energy Times article “LENR Researchers Perform Experiments at DOE Lab.”)
The project was a collaboration among researchers at the Naval Research Laboratory, in Washington, D.C., and the National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment (ENEA) in Frascati, Italy.
Researchers from Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York and from Nova Research Inc., in Alexandria, Virginia, also participated.
The research was organized by Graham Hubler, then the head of the Materials and Sensors Branch of the Naval Research Laboratory. Hubler retired from NRL on Aug. 3, 2012.
Hubler and his NRL colleagues, along with Vittorio Violante of ENEA, performed experiments and made measurements at Brookhaven for nine days and nights. They used its National Synchrotron Light Source to measure the degree of hydrogen and deuterium loading in palladium.
The work was funded through DOE contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886, which is a multiyear contract covering broad-based research.
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A team of LENR researchers performed experiments at the Department of Energy Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York several years ago.
The researchers recently published their results in the Journal of Applied Physics, a publication of the American Institute of Physics.[1]
The project was a collaboration among four organizations: the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, in Washington, D.C.; the National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment (ENEA) in Frascati, Italy; Brookhaven National Laboratory, in Brookhaven, New York; and Nova Research Inc., in Alexandria, Virginia.
The researchers were able to analyze, for the first time, high loadings of deuterium or hydrogen into a palladium lattice, in situ, during electrolysis. They tested specific cathodes that were able to achieve very high loading ratios, a prerequisite to the anomalous heat effect observed in LENRs. The researchers did not report calorimetry; the paper focused only on loading.
Canadian Authorities Seize Evidence From George’s Offices
April 10, 2013 – By Steven B. Krivit –
On March 27, two days before the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.’s “Fifth Estate” program about former LENR researcher Russ George aired (See New Energy Times article: “U.S. Businessman Takes First Nation People for $2.5 Million.”), officers from Environment Canada entered George’s Haida Salmon Restoration Corp. offices with a search warrant and seized evidence, according to George.
CBC-TV reported that George had violated international treaties and may have violated Canadian law. The broadcast said that Canadian authorities had issued a search warrant.
At the time the program aired two days later, according to one of the producers, CBC-TV did not know that the authorities had been to George’s office.
On March 27, according to a dramatic written account (archive copy) on Russ George’s latest Web site, officers from Environment Canada, which is the country’s equivalent of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, entered the Haida Salmon Restoration Corp. building and took evidence.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corp.’s “Fifth Estate” program about former LENR researcher Russ George aired on March 29. (See New Energy Times article: “CBC-TV Investigates Former LENR Researcher Russ George.”) Here are some of the highlights of the show.
Last year, George used his knowledge of science and his salesmanship to convince an indigenous community off the coast of Canada to part with its $2.5 million trust fund to fund George’s untested — at the time — and still unproven ocean-seeding concept.
Several years ago, George had tried to perform a similar large-scale ocean-seeding experiment to test whether plankton blooms, artificially enriched by iron dust, would capture and permanently sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
However, Paul Watson, founder and president of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and founding director of Greenpeace, chased George around the world and notified local environmental groups and governments wherever George went.
Those governments issued orders to George forbidding performance of his experiments. Environmental organizations issued new conventions to prevent such experiments.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency warned George that he would be violating U.S. laws if he went through with his iron dumping plan. Eventually, George ran out of options and money and abandoned his plan and ship, the Weatherbird II.
Soon after, he found a First Nations community, the Old Massett Haida Gwaii village, and learned that its members were desperate for new economic development and a solution to return salmon levels to normal. George also learned that they had a $2.5 million trust fund.
This morning, Beverly Barnhart, an analyst with the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, contacted New Energy Times with demands to remove portions of a news article in which she was quoted. Barnhart threatened to use the government’s public relations and legal departments against New Energy Times.
On March 28, we quoted an e-mail from Barnhart in our article about the forthcoming Naval Research Laboratory colloquium on “cold fusion,” featuring Robert Duncan, vice chancellor for research and professor of physics at the University of Missouri. (NRL Will Host Colloquium on “Cold Fusion”)
NRL did not announce the colloquium; nor did Duncan. According to sources who contacted New Energy Times, news of the colloquium spread by personal e-mails and telephone calls from the organizers and their supporters, including Barnhart.
This morning, New Energy Times received the following statements from Barnhart in an e-mail:
“Please take my name off your Web site immediately, or I will ask our public affairs organization to remove it.
“We are not allowed to release information to publications without internal review. My personal emails to my colleagues are not for publication. I have nothing to do with this seminar and only forwarded the notice to colleagues.”
Minutes later, we received a telephone call from Barnhart. After we advised her that the call was being recorded, and after we declined her request to reveal our sources, she repeated and escalated her threat to include potential legal action.
“Take my name off your Web site,” Barnhart said, “or I will have my public affairs people contact you and ask you to remove it.
“If it is on your Web site this afternoon, I’ll go to our general counsel and ask them to contact you. Or we can be nice, and you can take it off voluntarily.”
Tom Mehlhorn, Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory
A few minutes later, we received an e-mail from Tom Mehlhorn, superintendent of the Plasma Physics Division at NRL.
“Please remove this article from your Web site,” Mehlhorn wrote. “This is an internal seminar that is NOT open to the public, and your posting based on a forwarded ‘e-mail chain,’ including attributions of people on the list, is inappropriate.”
Three years ago, in August 2009, Barnhart organized a workshop on “cold fusion” and later published a report based on that workshop. New Energy Times reported that in our 2010 article “Two Decades of ‘Cold Fusion.’ ”
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