Aug. 17, 2012 – By Steven B. Krivit –

New Energy Times has obtained additional papers from authors attending the 17th International Conference on Cold Fusion in Daejeon, Korea. New Energy Times had obtained and posted one batch of papers on Aug. 10. Today’s batch includes papers from Robert Godes (Brouillion), John Hadjichristos (Defkalion), Tatsumi Hioki (Toyota Central R&D Laboratories), Yeong Kim (Purdue University), Melvin Miles (University of LaVerne), Roger Stringham (First Gate Energies) and Vladimir Vysotskii (Kiev National Shevchenko University). New Energy Times has requested conference papers from the other authors as well as from the conference organizers.

The Toyota replication (the Hioki paper) of the Arata/Zhang experiment is encouraging both for the fact that Toyota measured anomalous heat generation and for the fact that a major industrial corporation is active in LENR research. Continue reading »

Aug. 10, 2012 – By Steven B. Krivit –

The 17th International Conference on “Cold Fusion” takes place next week in Seoul, Korea.

A few dozen researchers — mostly the people who have been active in the field for the last 23 years — will give presentations. The conference schedule is here. The presenters include researchers from the U.K., U.S., Italy, Russia, Ukraine, Japan, India and China.

I spoke with Frank Gordon, the co-chair of the ICCF-17 conference, earlier this week and asked him about forthcoming highlights. Continue reading »

Aug. 6, 2012 – By Steven B. Krivit –

In response to the death of Martin Fleischmann three days ago, I have had a lot of requests for background information on him. I have just uploaded a copy of the original University Of Utah press release. The last two pages of that document contain the curriculum vitas of both Martin Fleischmann and B. Stanley Pons.

Click here for the document

The Salt Lake Tribune published a story today at 1pm.