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Federal Investigations Reveal Academic Backstabbing at Purdue University (Part 9)

Jan 202014
 

Going to Court
Taleyarkhan waited until the day the statute of limitations expired, March 7, 2008, and filed a civil complaint against Tsoukalas, Jevremovic, and Does 1-5 in Tippecanoe County Court for defamation. On March 13, 2009, Jevremovic settled with Taleyarkhan. However, the attorney who took his case pro bono eventually stopped pursuing the case, and the judge dismissed it before the matters with the remaining defendants were resolved.

On May 4, 2010, Taleyarkhan filed an employment discrimination complaint with the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana against Purdue University. Among other things in the complaint, he claimed that Tsoukalas engaged in discriminatory workplace practices.

Purdue offered Taleyarkhan a settlement, but it did not include any steps to publicly repair his reputation, so he declined the offer. Purdue has made numerous attempts to get the complaint dismissed. Taleyarkhan is waiting for his day in court. Continue reading »

Federal Investigations Reveal Academic Backstabbing at Purdue University (Part 10)

Jan 202014
 

More Accusations
Tsoukalas contacted Adams on Sept. 1, 2008, according to additional FOIA-obtained e-mails, and requested that she visit Purdue. He told her that the faculty of the school thought the sanctions against Taleyarkhan were too light and that professors in the school wanted to talk to her.

“I know that retaliations are not within the IG’s area,” Tsoukalas wrote, “and hence do not know if this is appropriate, or even possible, but maybe something to discuss, no?”

Adams replied the next day.

“Let me have a day to catch up here, and let’s talk,” Adams wrote. “There may be some strategies available that we haven’t explored.” Continue reading »

U.S. Department of Energy Invites Submission of LENR Proposals

Jan 032014
 
DoE Offers to Fund LENRS

DoE Offers to Fund LENRS

Jan. 3, 2014 – By Steven B. Krivit –

New Energy Times has just learned that, on Sept. 27, 2013, the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) quietly announced a funding opportunity for low-energy nuclear reaction (LENR) research, among other areas.

This first-ever direct invitation from the Department of Energy for submission of proposals to fund this research marks a significant point in the field’s history. This is one of three recent shifts in the scientific establishment’s attitude toward this new field of science.

ARPA-E made its announcement in its “Funding Opportunity No. DE-FOA-0001002, CFDA Number 81.135,” at this Web site. The title of the funding opportunity is “Open Innovative Development in Energy-Related Applied Science (Open Ideas).”  Here is a direct link to a PDF of the invitation. LENRs are listed in item 3.6 in Figure 3 on page 11 of 27 in the PDF.

ARPA-E’s Web site says that the agency “advances high-potential, high-impact energy technologies that are too early for private-sector investment.”

“ARPA-E awardees are unique,” the Web site says, “because they are developing entirely new ways to generate, store, and use energy.”

According to the announcement, ARPA-E will make a total of $10 million available for research through 20 awards of up to $500,000 each. Continue reading »

Massive 1962 Dept. of Defense Bibliography on Exploding Wires Found

Dec 172013
 

Exploding Wire in the Sky
Dec. 17, 2013 – By Steven B. Krivit –

New Energy Times has just found a massive 1962 Department of Defense bibliography on exploding wires. It is the third such edition by these authors.

The document is “A Bibliography of the Electrically Exploded Conductor Phenomenon,” by William G. Chace and Eleanor M. Watson, published by the Armed Services Technical Information Agency.

Exploding wire phenomena in low-energy nuclear reactions (LENRs) have been reported for nearly a century:  Wendt, Gerald L. and Irion, Clarence E, “The Decomposition of Tungsten to Helium,” Journal of the American Chemical Society, 44(9), pg. 1887-1894 (September 1922)

(Excerpt from Preface of the Third Edition of the Chace and Watson bibliography)
The accelerating interest in exploding wires, foils, and films and the resultant appearance of many publications, has made a third edition of the E. W. P. [exploding wire phenomena] bibliography highly desirable. The field has broadened to include exploding foils and films as well as wires, hence the new title.

(Excerpt from Preface of the First Edition of the Chace and Watson bibliography)
In connection with a fundamental study of the Exploding Wire Phenomenon (E. W. P. ) being conducted by this laboratory, a search of the literature was undertaken. It was originally intended purely as background for our work. However, conversations with others working on E. W. P. and related problems indicated so much interest, that arrangements were made for this informal publication of the bibliography before the research paper to which it would normally be an appendix.

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Steven B. Krivit LENR Review Published by Elsevier

Nov 042013
 

Steven B. Krivit LENR Review Published by Elsevier
Nov. 5, 2013 – By Steven B. Krivit –

I am pleased to report that Elsevier has just published my most current and comprehensive technical review of LENRs in its Reference Database of Chemistry, Molecular Sciences and Engineering.

The 56-page, 94-image report, “Review of Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions,” provides a broad tutorial on all the primary aspects of the field. This review supersedes all of my previous technical reviews and encyclopedia chapters, including the previous Elsevier and Wiley and Sons chapters. It is available for sale here for $31.50.

Cite as: Krivit, Steven. B., “ENERGY: Review of Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions,” Reference Module in Chemistry, Molecular Sciences and Chemical Engineering, Reedijk, Jan (Ed.), Elsevier, Waltham, MA, ISBN: 978-0-12-409547-2, doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-409547-2.01193-8. (Sept. 23, 2013)

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