NRL Will Host Colloquium on “Cold Fusion”
March 28, 2013 – By Steven B. Krivit –
The Plasma Physics Division of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., will host a colloquium on “cold fusion” on April 10, according to an e-mail and announcement distributed by Beverly Barnhart, an analyst with the Defense Intelligence Agency, and obtained by New Energy Times. The e-mail was written by Barnhart, and the announcement was written by Mary Austin at NRL.
Robert Duncan, vice chancellor for research and professor of physics at the University of Missouri, is the featured speaker. In 2009, Duncan endorsed “cold fusion” on CBS’s “60 Minutes” program “Cold Fusion Is Hot Again.” He is the chairman of the 18th International Conference on Cold Fusion, to be held at the University of Missouri this summer.
“Cold fusion is still alive … in the academic world, and hopefully Dr. Duncan will provide an update on what Missouri is doing,” Barnhart wrote. “University of Missouri, along with Purdue University and the University of Illinois as partners, is reportedly hosting this summer’s international conference on cold fusion.”
Last week, New Energy Times asked Nicholas Giordano, the head of the Purdue University Physics Department, in what capacity Purdue was involved in ICCF-18.
“The listing of Purdue University as a Partner of that conference was an error,” Giordano wrote. “Purdue University is not a sponsor or partner of the conference, and that should now be clear on the conference Web site, which I believe was corrected [on March 21]. One of the physics faculty at Purdue [, cold fusion theorist Yeong Kim,] is a co-chair of the conference, but neither the university nor the Physics Department itself is connected.”
Instead, the ICCF-18 Web site now says that Missouri is partnering with the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment and National Instruments Corp. for the conference.
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