New Energy Times Issue 36: Letters

To the Editor,

In the last issue (issue 36) of New Energy Times, you give in article 24 (Rossi and Focardi LENR device: probably real, with credit to Piantelli) a completely wrong and biased interpretation of an article I published in the Journal of nuclear physics.

This article was entitled : “Nuclear signature to be expected from Rossi energy amplifier-published May 6th 2010”. I never said that neutron or proton capture explained the phenomena. I just demonstrated that, if this hypopthesis is taken for true, then the consequences are not verified experimentally (high intensity gamma emissions are missing).

Another explanation is then to be examined: I quoted Widom Larsen theory as a possibility. This is normal honnest and scientific approach, which does not mean that I support this theory. In a second article published in the Journal of nuclear physiscs: “is the Rossi energy amplifier, the first pico-chemical reactor-published July 18th 2010” I gave another possible explanation (pico-chemistry).

I ask you to correct your article and publish this letter in “New Energy times”.

Yours sincerely,
Jacques Dufour

[Ed: New Energy Times appreciates this clarification. Our text should have said that Dufour “discussed” neutron or proton capture as part of a possible explanation of the Rossi device rather than that Dufour “speculated … on a mechanism.” We apologize for the error.]

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To the Editor,

Warmest congratulation to your sobering Editorial!!!
You mention correctly that LENR began with Jim Paterson’s ingeniously fabricated beads which he sent to George Miley at UIllinois – with legal agreement – to use for his following most sophisticated and detailed measurements in the world class Frederic Seitz laboratory. There the wider range of heavy LENR element generation was discovered including the fact of the later recognized Maruhn Greiner local maximum. This is the most convincing and impressive proof of LENR.

Kind regards,
Heinz Hora

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To the Editor:

Your new issue states:

“Infinite Energy, although performing a valuable service by publishing esoteric and exploratory science, is not always reliable when reporting facts. Managing editor Christy Frazier, who took over after founding editor Gene Mallove was murdered, does not follow conventional journalistic standards. When I advised her in January 2010 of multiple inaccuracies in Nagel’s ICCF-15 report, she said she takes what people give her at face value and does not do her own fact-checking.”

It is an issue of semantics, as far as I am concerned. In fact, the inaccuracies you pointed out were ALL about whether a person attended the event or not; Dave Nagel apparently used language like “presented” when a person was not, in fact, in attendance. He did not mean it in that way, I suppose, but I’m sure that is how it would be read.

Christy Frazier