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Retired NRL LENR Expert No Longer Believes in Cold Fusion

Apr 242013
 

Retired NRL LENR Expert No Longer Believes in Cold Fusion

April 24, 2013 – By Steven B. Krivit –

Graham Hubler, an expert cited in CBS’s 2009 “60 Minutes” program “Cold Fusion Is Hot Again,” no longer believes that cold fusion is real.

Hubler now makes a key distinction between “cold fusion” and the real anomalous heat and nuclear effects seen in LENRs (low-energy nuclear reactions).

The distinction separates LENRs as legitimate science from the hypothesis of “cold fusion,” which lacks scientific support.

The lack of this distinction is one of the fundamental reasons why “cold fusion” is the most controversial subject in science in the past 100 years. It is the primary reason for the stigma in the field, the lack of funding and difficulties with the patent office.

New Energy Times first reported this crucial distinction four years ago beginning with our 2008 article “It Doesn’t Look Like Fusion.” We followed this with public conference presentations, published encyclopedia chapters, and the 2010 special report “Cold Fusion Is Neither.”

Our Web page “Distinction Between LENR and ’Cold Fusion’ – Emergence and Recognition of a New Science” provides an overview. Until 2012, researchers who believed that LENRs were “cold fusion” dismissed our distinction as “mere semantics.”

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In 2012, Hubler was head of the Materials and Sensors Branch of the Naval Research Laboratory. He was closely involved in NRL’s LENR research program for many years.

Hubler retired from NRL last year and has since accepted a position working for the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Missouri as the director of the Sidney Kimmel Institute for Nuclear Renaissance.

Hubler reports to Robert Duncan, another expert cited by CBS. Duncan is the vice chancellor of research at the University of Missouri. Hubler is part of the organizing committee of the 18th International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science, to be held at the University of Missouri this summer.

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DOE Provides Support for Basic LENR Research

Apr 172013
 

DOE Supports Basic LENR Measurements

April 17, 2013 – By Steven B. Krivit –

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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LENR Researchers Perform Experiments at DOE Lab

Apr 172013
 

LENR Researchers Perform Experiments at DOE Lab

April 17, 2013 – By Steven B. Krivit –

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.

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Canadian Environmental Authorities Seize Evidence From Russ George

Apr 102013
 
Canadian Authorities Seize Evidence From George's Offices

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.

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U.S. Businessman Takes First Nation People for $2.5 Million

Apr 082013
 

Russ George Filmed by CBC-TV

April 8, 2013 – By Steven B. Krivit –

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.

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