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Jul 172013
 
Oak Ridge Nuclear Cavitation Confirmation

Oak Ridge Nuclear Cavitation Confirmation

July 17, 2013 – By Steven B. Krivit –

Tomorrow, New Energy Times begins publishing the first of a 12-part series of articles that compose the New Energy Times special report “2001 Oak Ridge Nuclear Cavitation Confirmation Uncovered.”

Our report turns part of the history of nuclear cavitation on its head. What has been reported — until now — as a failure by Dan Shapira and Michael Saltmarsh to confirm the nuclear cavitation work of Rusi Taleyarkhan and his group at Oak Ridge National Laboratories was actually a confirmation.

In 2012, New Energy Times obtained the full set of internal ORNL technical reports that reveal the events that took place behind the scenes. We also obtained live video footage of nuclear cavitation experiments performed at Oak Ridge in 2003. (A previously released video is shown below.) Together with a brief telephone interview we conducted with Shapira, the facts shed new light on one of the most heated science controversies in the past decade.

We will publish each part over the next 12 days. Part 1 will be viewable for free; the remaining parts will be for subscribers only.

 


“Sound of Neutrons” – 2001 Video of Nuclear Cavitation Experiment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. 

Jul 102013
 

John O'Mara Bockris

John O’Mara Bockris


July 10, 2013 – By Steven B. Krivit –

John O’Mara Bockris died July 7 of a heart attack after a 20-year battle with cancer. He was 90. Bockris was a giant in low-energy nuclear reaction research and even more so in the general field of electrochemistry.

The tritium discovered by the Bockris group, along with tritium discovered at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in India, was the first nuclear evidence that established LENR as a de facto nuclear process.

His friend and longtime assistant Trish Schulz wrote to New Energy Times on July 7.

"Dr. B. has had an impact on all of our lives, and he will be missed by many," Schulz wrote. "He was loved and cared for greatly by my family, and we shall miss him."

A memorial service is tentatively planned for September. Schulz updated the Wikipedia page for Bockris on July 8, and it is an excellent reference for him and his life’s work. New Energy Times has preserved a PDF copy of that page; it is accessible from our own Bockris Web page.

New Energy Times also has a detailed collection of reference material that chronicles Bockris’ courageous stance and fight for academic freedom at this Web page.

Jul 102013
 

Sergio Focardi

Sergio Focardi


July 10, 2013 – By Steven B. Krivit –

Sergio Focardi died June 22. He was 81 and had been in declining health for many years. Focardi was a professor emeritus of physics at the University of Bologna. He was a key associate and friend of Francesco Piantelli, who discovered the nickel-hydrogen-gas LENR method. New Energy Times wrote two feature articles about their work in 2008. Piantelli and Focardi were never able to achieve high rates of repeatability for their work, nor did they ever achieve widespread recognition for their significant contribution to the field.

Jul 102013
 

Ken Shoulders

July 10, 2013 – By Steven B. Krivit –

Ken Shoulders died June 7 from a subarachnoid hemorrhage, a complication of metastatic prostate cancer. He was 86.

Shoulders is survived by his wife, Claire, daughters Diane Meade and Lee Shoulders, son Steven Shoulders and granddaughters Madeline and Hannah. New Energy Times spoke with his daughter, Diane Meade, on July 9 and confirmed the death. She provided the following statement:

“Ken’s brilliance will be missed in the scientific community as a visionary in the field of new-energy exotic vacuum objects (EVOs). He was a leader in this new frontier but perhaps best-known to the scientific community as the father of vacuum microelectronics.

“Ken was also greatly admired for his earlier work for SRI International, resulting in many patents. Other inventions that were based on Ken’s designs were the first commercially available quadrupole mass spectrometers he built, which were developed by Finnigan Instruments. Ken built the first quadrupole mass spectrometers in 1958 while working at SRI.

“Other areas of devotion to science included vertical flight technology, which remained an unfinished passion at his death. Ken will be greatly missed, but his ground-breaking work in new energy will be built on and come to pass when the rest of the world catches up to his vision. Memorial services will be held privately.”

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Jun 282013
 
Andrea Rossi: Fairy Godfather of Cold Fusion

Fairy Godfather of Cold Fusion: Drawing by adw, photo by dubross


June 28, 2013 – By Steven B. Krivit –

Two professors at Uppsala University, in Sweden, have published critical comments about their colleagues’ endorsement of Andrea Rossi’s E-Cat device.

Göran Ericsson and Stephan Pomp, professors in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Uppsala, uploaded their critique on Wednesday to the arXiv preprint server. Their paper reports serious deficiencies in a May 20 paper written by seven researchers, including three professors at Uppsala.

“Wishful thinking seems to have replaced scientific rigor,” Ericsson and Pomp wrote.

The authors of the May 20 paper say they made an independent test of Rossi’s device. They also say, “By the most conservative assumptions as to the errors in the measurements, the result is still one order of magnitude greater than conventional energy sources.”

The authors of that paper are Giuseppe Levi (University of Bologna), Evelyn Foschi (Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics), Torbjörn Hartman (senior research engineer at the Svedberg Laboratory, Uppsala University), Bo Höistad (professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Uppsala University), Roland Pettersson (senior lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at Uppsala University), Lars Tegnér (professor in the Department of Engineering Sciences at Uppsala University) and Hanno Essén (Royal Institute of Technology).

 

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