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.
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.
This morning, Beverly Barnhart, an analyst with the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, contacted New Energy Times with demands to remove portions of a news article in which she was quoted. Barnhart threatened to use the government’s public relations and legal departments against New Energy Times.
On March 28, we quoted an e-mail from Barnhart in our article about the forthcoming Naval Research Laboratory colloquium on “cold fusion,” featuring Robert Duncan, vice chancellor for research and professor of physics at the University of Missouri. (NRL Will Host Colloquium on “Cold Fusion”)
NRL did not announce the colloquium; nor did Duncan. According to sources who contacted New Energy Times, news of the colloquium spread by personal e-mails and telephone calls from the organizers and their supporters, including Barnhart.
This morning, New Energy Times received the following statements from Barnhart in an e-mail:
“Please take my name off your Web site immediately, or I will ask our public affairs organization to remove it.
“We are not allowed to release information to publications without internal review. My personal emails to my colleagues are not for publication. I have nothing to do with this seminar and only forwarded the notice to colleagues.”
Minutes later, we received a telephone call from Barnhart. After we advised her that the call was being recorded, and after we declined her request to reveal our sources, she repeated and escalated her threat to include potential legal action.
“Take my name off your Web site,” Barnhart said, “or I will have my public affairs people contact you and ask you to remove it.
“If it is on your Web site this afternoon, I’ll go to our general counsel and ask them to contact you. Or we can be nice, and you can take it off voluntarily.”
Tom Mehlhorn, Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory
A few minutes later, we received an e-mail from Tom Mehlhorn, superintendent of the Plasma Physics Division at NRL.
“Please remove this article from your Web site,” Mehlhorn wrote. “This is an internal seminar that is NOT open to the public, and your posting based on a forwarded ‘e-mail chain,’ including attributions of people on the list, is inappropriate.”
Three years ago, in August 2009, Barnhart organized a workshop on “cold fusion” and later published a report based on that workshop. New Energy Times reported that in our 2010 article “Two Decades of ‘Cold Fusion.’ ”
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The possibility of a new source of radiation-free nuclear energy has just become stronger.
Lewis G. Larsen, the co-developer of the Widom-Larsen theory of LENRs, released a new slide presentation on March 22 that answers significant questions about why deadly gamma radiation is not emitted in low-energy nuclear reactions. New Energy Times spoke with Larsen about the examples of experimental evidence for the gamma suppression he shows in his slides.
Any kind of fusion or neutron-capture reaction that produces significant heat should emit enough gamma radiation to kill anyone in its vicinity. Throughout the history of this field, critics have wondered, If it’s really nuclear, then where are the gammas?
Going back to 1989, one of the most well-known physicists in the world, Richard Garwin, a senior scientist with IBM, was the first prominent critic to bet against what some people thought was “cold fusion.”
Garwin is an IBM Fellow Emeritus, was director of the IBM Watson Laboratory, director of applied research at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and a member of the IBM corporate technical committee. He is also a consultant to the federal government on nuclear technology.
Six years ago, at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in San Francisco, New Energy Times asked Garwin whether he had seen the Widom-Larsen theory papers. He had. But Garwin seemed frustrated because Larsen had not disclosed details of the gamma-shielding process when Garwin asked a question about it.
Larsen told New Energy Times on March 26, 2013, why he delayed responding to Garwin’s question.
“I have the highest regard for Garwin’s reputation as a brilliant physicist, but IBM files more patents than any other company in the world,” Larsen said. “Our patent application hadn’t even published yet. Why would a tiny company in Chicago like mine want to take that kind of risk when they have the financial resources to quickly file hundreds of patents on LENRs? That would’ve been foolish on our part.”
Larsen later disclosed the key details in his U.S. patent #7,893,414 B2, which issued on Feb. 22, 2011. Over the years, other people asked more questions about the gamma-shielding mechanism, and Larsen gave those answers last week in his slides.
Two paragraphs in his slides contain the key text that explains the gamma suppression for prompt gammas. It is excerpted below and slightly edited for clarity.
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.
April 2, 2013 – By Steven B. Krivit –
