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Message 11075 DATE/TIME: 01/31/95 09:40
From : BERT POOL -- RECEIVED --
To : NORMAN WOOTAN
Subject: Griggs, C.F., motors, etc., cont.
Folder : D, "Special Associates Area Alpha"
Norm, here's the good stuff!
Message #800 - Fidonet - Science
Date: 01-23-95 23:55:14
From: Michael Fullerton
To: All
Subject: Cold Fusion Day at MIT
Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
From: [email protected] (Eugene Mallove)
Subject: Brief Report on MIT IAP Cold Fusion Day
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1995 13:50:03 GMT
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*Brief* Memo on IAP Cold Fusion Day at MIT by Eugene F. Mallove,
Sc.D., meeting organizer
[
The Cold Fusion Day IAP meeting at MIT on Saturday, January 21, which
I organized, was in my view, a spectacular success. About 150
attendees in rapt attention for about 10 hours in the main Physics
Lecture Hall (Room 6-120). Several high points came at the end of the
day:
(A) Jim Griggs of Hydrodynamics, Inc. (Rome, Georgia) gave a
magnificent presentation with new data on *massive melting* that has
occurred on the periphery of his Hydrosonic Pump aluminum rotors on
several occasions. He also described re-welding of melted material to
the rotor surface -- an even higher-temperature effect, he said. He
had one such rotor unit there and you could see and feel it.
Fantastically high temerpatures would be required to do that and this
is NOT ordinary cavitation. Among other observations, if it were
simple cavitation, why would that not occur as a regular feature of
Hydrosonic Pump operation? -- it does not. Cavitation experts at
Georgia Inst. of Technology have now become involved. They say it is
NOT cavitaiton. Griggs presented some stunning photomicrographs.
Meanwhile, the over-unity effect continues to be seen, even as Griggs
continues to sell in recent months several hundred thousand dollars
worth of Hydrosonic Pumps for standard applications up to 250 HP.
(B) Bert Werjefelt from PolyTech(USA) in Hawaii spoke about his work
on magnetic motors and the theory behind them. He reported that
experiments have seen output powers of 450 watts electric, with only
150 watts electric going in. Attempts at self-sustaining have been
successfull for periods of minutes. The company now thinks it knows
how to make a self-sustainer continue indefinitely and is building one
right now, expected to be ready in the next month or two. He showed
gorgeous CAD diagrams of the 100-200 watt self-sustainer now under
construction in Hawaii. He explained how it worked (the precise
balancing of repulsion and attraction systems to substantially reduce
torque). It was obvious that many if not most in the audience accepted
his apparently very solid experimental conclusions -- even *some* I
would have thought would have left in disgust. Werjefelt put forth his
theoretical ideas, which are based, in part, on suggestions made by
several (now) Nobel laureate physicists in the 1950s regarding nuclear
magnetic spin systems (Pound, Purcell, and Ramsey). Others in the
audience were extremely excited by this report, and put forth their
theoretical ideas. Werjefelt is a solid mechanical engineer, whose
company manufactures pioneering FAA-certified safetly equipment. He is
deeply involved in aviation safety issues and would have much
credibility to lose if he were not on absolutely solid ground with
this magnetic energy technology. He has been working quietly in this
field for about ten years. On the advice of his patent attorneys, he
published his general ideas in an article titled, "Magnetic Battery,"
in that countner-scientific culture journal, "Extraordinary Science"
(Telsa Society), May/June/July 1993, which is availbale in places like
Barnes& Nobel book stores. Don't let your prejudices about the Tesla
Society fool you, this is a very carefully crafted scientific article
with some excellent possible avenues to explain concrete experimental
results.
The 8-minute video tape of the Japanese developments in this area of
"Dream Energy" (Magnetic Energy) was shown. This had aired on FUJI TV
in Japan on October 20, 1993. There are four major coporations
involved under MITI aegis: Sumitomo, Hitachi, Mitsubishi, and
Matsushita. Werjefelt's company appears to have a very strong patent
position in his area, however. The chief engineer of the Aerospace
Division of Sumitomo has visited Werjefelt and told him that this
discovery is "the greatest discovery of the 20th century."
Gene Mallove, who has been working with others who are getting
similar, related results with smaller units, will co-author a paper
with Bert Werjefelt that will be presented at the Fifth International
Conference on Cold Fusion (ICCF5) in Monte Carlo, Monaco (April 9-13,
1995). This paper will present both experimental evidence and a
suggested theoretical framework. It is expected that several working
self-sustaining units will be brought to ICCF5. There is a possible
(likely!) connection with cold fusion thermal effects that have been
seen.
The MIT IAP proceedings of 1/21/95 were professionally videotaped. A
sligthly edited full-version of the day-long program ( 8-10 hours)
will be distributed by Cold Fusion Technology. Also, a shorter version
summary (less than two hours) will be be prepared by Mallove, working
with a video production corporation in Manchester, NH. Due to schedule
overload, it may be another 4 weeks before the tapes are available.
Every effort will be made to accelerate the process. A transcribed
version of some of the talks is also being planned by Cold Fusion
Technology.
This is only the "tip of the iceberg" of the incredible events at MIT
Cold Fusion Day. In retrospect, this was an extremely historic
meeting. It was the first time that present and imminent
commercial-level power production from cold fusion/free energy was
discussed in a completely scientific manner at a major university. The
message was apparently very well received. Mallove received numerous
compliments on the decorum and solidity of the sessions.
The former editors of "Cold Fusion" Magazine have joined forces and
put out an interim "Cold Fusion/New Energy Technology" (CFNET) Update,
a 36 page compendium -- mostly on cold fusion. This was distributed
free of charge to attendees at the MIT IAP meeting. Others wanting
this document should send a nominal $5.00 to Cold Fusion Technology to
obtain a copy for themselves:
Cold Fusion Technology, Box 2816, Concord, NH 03302-2816 USA
Fax: 603-224-5975, Phone: 603-228-4516
This CFNET Update is a precursor to the continuation of a **reliable**
Cold Fusion/New Energy Technology magazine (title yet to be
finalized).
****A recent posting by Victor Lapuszynski of "Cold Fusion" at WGI
contained an egregious error: Piantelli has NOT seen "50 *MeV*
gammas"! He has observed 50 KeV gammas, and will be publishing a paper
soon. And so there is absolutely NO CONFUSION here: There is no longer
any connection whatsoever between Wayne Green's "Cold Fusion"
newsletter and Cold Fusion Technology in Concord, New Hampshire. An
indication of the "quality" of the present editorial direction at
"Cold Fusion" at WGI: Mr. Lapuszynski left the sessions after repeated
announcements that two extremely important presentations on
experiments were to be made.]****
National Public Radio aired a one-hour cold fusion program (1/20/95)
the day before the MIT IAP program, as part of the Ira Flatow "Science
Friday" show. Featued for the "pro" side were Dr. Edmund Storms,
formerly of Los Alamos National Laboratory and Dr. Eugene Mallove of
Cold Fusion Technology, who gave a brief overview of what the next
day's MIT Cold Fusion program would be about. Also on air were two
members of the "Flat Earth Society" -- Gary Taubes, author of "Bad
Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion" and Professor
David Goodstein of Caltech, neither of whom obviously knew what they
were talking about in the matter of cold fusion. Neither have been
seen at any cold fusion conferences in recent years, but that did not
stop them from calling cold fusion research "lousy science." Both
managed to record themselves for posterity as the pontificating,
ignorant naysayers that they are -- at this, the 11th hour and 59th
minute of the Fossil Fuel Era, at the dawn of the New Energy Age. A
copy of this tape can be obtained from National Public Radio in
Washington.
Sincerely, Eugene F. Mallove, Sc.D., Cold Fusion Technology,
P.O. Box 2816, Concord, NH 03302-2816, Fax: 603-224-5975,
Phone: 603-228-4516
>> Good stuff, no? Bert
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