The Future of Energy: An Emerging Science by Dr. Thomas Valone
A new 220 page softcover book discusses the latest emerging energy technologies and mankind’s history of energy and its future trends. Includes an examination of the sociopolitical aspects of man’s use of energy.
In a world of uncertainty about the future, The Future of Energy: An Emerging Science by Thomas Valone offers “…hope for solving the world’s looming energy shortage,” according to Science magazine, since it considers things we have barely imagined in search of new carbon-free technologies.
Containing a myriad of new energy technologies assembled into archetypal categories, a sociological perspective emerges along with the science. Well funded, emerging energy sources such as dense plasma focus fusion, powdered metal-burning engines, wireless transmission of electricity, space-based solar power, piezoelectric highway electricity generators and zero point energy are given simple and short summaries.
Recent Conferences on Future Energy sponsored by the author’s institute, offering the best examples of emerging future energy sources, are also listed and described.
“[I]t would be foolhardy not to assess a broad spectrum of advanced energy sources, converters, and enabling technologies.” - Martin Hoffert, et al., Science, Vol. 300, 25 April 2003, p. 581 (more…)
Possibly Related Posts:
- Widening the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
- Can a Plant Be Altruistic?
- Communicating Person to Person Through the Power of Thought Alone
- Physiological Markers for the Near Death Experience?
- Electromagnet Flux Energy Research
An Engineer’s Solution for Sustained Economic Growth
by Steve Morra
[Editors note: There is much I agree with in Steve Morra's article reposted here. And while true 21st century sustainability involves much more than simply fanning the flames of innovation or encouraging scientific and technological breakthroughs, Steve wasn't trying to address all the problems of the world here. And he does offer a number of specific measures which could play a real role in helping to bring about a new golden age of discovery and growth. And that may be exactly what's needed to achieve real global sustainability. So these ideas are well worth thinking about seriously. - Blake Harris]
Introduction
Sustained or increased economic chaos is the likely result of the public solutions offered for the worldwide macro-economic decline as of late 2009. Comparing simple historical economic data with public rhetoric, the solutions offered promise further economic decline past recession into depression and beyond for the vast majority of our micro-economic futures. It is time to publicly look at the “Golden Goose” in technical history to find a realistic solution with sustained economic growth.
A positive solution can be found by first identifying the Golden Goose that has fueled that last century’s growth, as well as throughout all history. The second step requires using modern tools to insure they are nurtured and protected for sustained economic growth, rather than being killed or haphazardly left to fend for themselves. Individuals and the now floundering crony-capitalist, credit/bank, fiat currency, corporate, political, and other systems would do well to consider and to debate this solution as part of their natural survival instinct. (more…)
Possibly Related Posts:
- World Crude Oil Production May Peak a Decade Earlier Than Some Predict
- Life and Death of Online Communities
- Social Networks: ‘Pay It Forward’ Pays Off
- Violent Video Game Play Makes More Aggressive Kids
- Terrorism’s New Target: Econo-Jihad
BlackLight Power Announces “Independent Validation” of Breakthrough New Energy Source
BlackLight Power, Inc. claims to have created a potentially commercially competitive, nonpolluting new primary source of energy that forms a prior undiscovered form of hydrogen call "hydrino." The net energy released as hydrogen forms hydrino may be two hundred times that of combustion of the hydrogen fuel with power densities comparable to those of fossil fuel combustion and nuclear power plants, according to the company.
On August 12, BlackLight Power, Inc. (BLP) issued a press statement announcing that scientists at Rowan University have for the first time independently formulated and tested fuels that on demand generated energy greater than that of combustion at power levels of kilowatts using BLP’s proprietary solid-fuel chemistry capable of continuous regeneration. Operating power systems using BLP’s chemistry, Rowan University professors have reported a net energy gain of up to 6.5 times the maximum energy potential of the materials in the system from known chemical reactions.
Further information from the news statement is as follows:
In a joint statement, Dr. K.V. Ramanujachary, Rowan University Meritorious Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Dr. Amos Mugweru, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, and Dr. Peter Jansson P.E., Associate Professor of Engineering said, “In independent tests conducted over the past three months involving 10 solid fuels made by us from commercially-available chemicals, our team of engineering and chemistry professors, staff, and students at Rowan University has independently and consistently generated energy in excesses ranging from 1.2 times to 6.5 times the maximum theoretical heat available through known chemical reactions.” (more…)
Possibly Related Posts:
- Princeton Scientists Say Einstein’s Theory Applies Beyond the Solar System
- New Asteroid Threat Reports Highlight Legal and Institutional Issues
- Wikipedia Quality Depends on How Authors Collaborate
- Can We Detect Quantum Behavior in Viruses?
- Scavenging Energy Waste to Turn Water Into Hydrogen Fuel
New Free Energy Claim - the Kapanadze Generator
A Georgia Republic inventor, Tariel Kapaladze, claims to have invented a 5 kilowatt free energy generator.
Recently (July 9), a new entry on PESWiki calls attention to yet another “free energy” generator claim as yet unverified by known independent investigators.
The PESWiki entry notes:
“A Georgia Republic inventor, Tariel Kapaladze, claims to have invented a 5 kilowatt free energy generator. In a demonstration video, the device appears to produce copious amounts of energy from no visible source. Though it appears to be extracting energy from the aether (, some people think it could be a matter of stealing energy from the electrical grid through inductive coupling. The necessary parameters seem to be present. (more…)
Possibly Related Posts:
- World Crude Oil Production May Peak a Decade Earlier Than Some Predict
- Widening the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
- The Future of Energy: An Emerging Science by Dr. Thomas Valone
- Can a Plant Be Altruistic?
- The VASIMR Plasma Rocket
Mylow Magnetic Motor Update
/Field Note
Update: This has now been proved to be a hoax. See “Mylow Magnetic Motor Hoax Revealed.”
Thanks to Alan Sterling’s updates and reporting on developments with the “Mylow” magnetic motor, a number of people have been working to replicate this. And while some have used the opportunity to raise even more skepticism, it turns out that building a motor that will work the way Mylow has reportedly demonstrated in his videos is a little more challenging that it first appears.
Background: An inventor from Chicago who goes by the pseudonym, “Mylow”, appears to have a knack for getting all-magnet motor designs to work that are based on the efforts of the late Howard Johnson. And he is intent on giving his design away to the planet in an open source manner.
On March 17, 2009, he posted his first video showing full rotation of the “Stonehenge model”, that Johnson worked on in the early 1980s to demonstrate to the U.S. Patent Office. (See earlier Mylow magnet motor report.) Mylow purposely kept his replication as close as possible to Johnson’s design — per the photos, not the patent. (more…)
Possibly Related Posts:
- World Crude Oil Production May Peak a Decade Earlier Than Some Predict
- Widening the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
- The Future of Energy: An Emerging Science by Dr. Thomas Valone
- Can a Plant Be Altruistic?
- The VASIMR Plasma Rocket
Cold Fusion Proven True by U.S. Navy Researchers - Will Suppression of this Science be Repeated?
by Mike Adams, NaturalNews Editor
Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons are pictured here in their lab, holding the equipment for their controversial cold fusion experiment. Fleischmann (on the right) had been one of Pons's teachers at the University of Southampton in England. This image is courtesy of the University of Utah.
The following article was originally published on NaturalNews.com. It details how cold fusion was already not just proven, but was gaining acceptance - so much so that the U.S. Navy sponsored research was even reporting “data supporting the reality of cold fusion.” - Editor
Thee world owes Fleischmann and Pons a huge apology: The cold fusion technology they announced in 1989 — which was blasted by arrogant hot fusion scientists as a fraud — has been proven true once again by U.S. Navy Researchers. In papers presented at this year’s American Chemical Society meeting, scientist Pamela Mosier-Boss presented data supporting the reality of cold fusion, declaring the report, “the first scientific report of highly energetic neutrons from low-energy nuclear reactions.” (more…)
Possibly Related Posts:
- World Crude Oil Production May Peak a Decade Earlier Than Some Predict
- Widening the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
- The Future of Energy: An Emerging Science by Dr. Thomas Valone
- Can a Plant Be Altruistic?
- Communicating Person to Person Through the Power of Thought Alone
Free Energy Technology Could Destroy the Natural World (But It Doesn’t Have To)
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Stanley Pons, left, and Martin Fleischmann describe their cold-fusion experiments during a press conference in 1989. Their work was later discredited in what later appeared to have been a deliberate misinformation campaign. (Photo credit: Paul Barker, Deseret Morning News)
Originally published April 24, 2009 NaturalNews.com
(While I don’t necessarily agree with everything Mike Adams says here, he raises issues that few others are talking about. As with any major technological development, there is a dark side - the potential for destructive use - which is rarely given the serious thought it deserves. As well, the connection between energy and population growth is an issue that we can’t completely ignore. — Editor)
As the editor of NaturalNews, I’ve long been a proponent of free energy technologies and research. I’ve written about the reality of cold fusion for more than ten years, braving the incessant whining of ignorant scientists who said it was all a hoax, year after year, right up until the U.S. Navy recently announced its own cold fusion breakthroughs.
But in the world of free energy, cold fusion is where things are just warming up. The really interesting stuff is more in the realm of zero point energy — tapping the vast stores of pure energy woven into the fabric of reality, even absent any physical matter whatsoever. (more…)
Possibly Related Posts:
- World Crude Oil Production May Peak a Decade Earlier Than Some Predict
- Kapanadze’s Third-Party Testing of Their 100 kW Free Energy Device
- New Free Energy Claim - the Kapanadze Generator
- Mylow Magnetic Motor Hoax Revealed
- Mylow Magnetic Motor Update
Cold Fusion Verification Experiment
In the CBS 60 Munites Cold Fusion story, mention was made that the research by Fleischmann and Pons has now been replicated by a number of labs the world over. For those of us for whom this story is new news, it is perhaps useful to actually see an example of some of this work. The following is from a web site detailing cold fusion experiments done by one such lab. It is reproduced here for private and non-commercial use (with some images reduced) courtesy of JLN Labs, (http://jlnlabs.online.fr/cfr/html/hpcfr2.htm) the copyright holder. The author, Jean-Louis Naudin notes: “The Cold Fusion Reactor ( CFR ) is fully based on the work of the researchers Tadahiko MIZUNO and Tadayoshi OHMORI from the Hokkaido University in Japan. On May 7th, 2003, I have replicated successfully the Mizuno-Ohmori’s Cold Fusion experiment. I have used the experimental protocol fully described by Eugene F. Mallove at : http://www.amasci.com/weird/anode.txt.” - Editor
Test of the Cold Fusion Reactor v2.0 at High Power
created on May 8, 2003 - JLN Labs - Last update May 22, 2003 (more…)
Possibly Related Posts:
- World Crude Oil Production May Peak a Decade Earlier Than Some Predict
- Widening the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
- The Future of Energy: An Emerging Science by Dr. Thomas Valone
- Can a Plant Be Altruistic?
- Communicating Person to Person Through the Power of Thought Alone
More ‘60 Minutes’ Cold Fusion Follow Up
Comments and insights courtesy Craig Stangland & Sterling D. Allan
A report by CBS News' 60 Minutes on Cold Fusion, which aired April 19, 2009, was on the following day listed as their #1 "Most Viewed Videos" online.
The following is excepted from a news item on Sterling D. Allan’s PESWiki concerning the 60 Minutes Cold Fusion program.
First, on April 19, 2009, Craig Stangland <craig {at} sparkprintsolutions.com> wrote the following review of the program:
It was VERY encouraging from several points.
1. 60 Minutes did a great job covering the story that CF (cold fusion) is real.
2. They reviewed the history of CF, even going so far as going to England’s countryside to meet with Martin Fleischman, one of the two renounced electro-chemist scientists that were disgraced by their ever so smart peers. Even today, their names remain as a joke, even though 20 years later the proof to validate their work exists. There are numerous labs throughout the world trying to solve the unreliability of being able to repeatably make it work so as to commercialize it, even though the public still doesn’t know or believe it works. (more…)
Possibly Related Posts:
- World Crude Oil Production May Peak a Decade Earlier Than Some Predict
- Widening the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
- The Future of Energy: An Emerging Science by Dr. Thomas Valone
- Can a Plant Be Altruistic?
- Communicating Person to Person Through the Power of Thought Alone
APS Takes Exception to Its Role as Portrayed in the 60 Minutes Cold Fusion Story
The American Physical Society issued a press statement today (April 22) refuting its role as described in the 60 Minutes report on cold fusion.
In full, their press statement reads as follows:
On April 19, CBS aired a “60 Minutes” segment on “cold fusion,” a process that proponents claim could solve the world’s energy problems. The script stated that “… [‘60 Minutes’] asked the American Physical Society, the top physics organization in America, to recommend an independent scientist. They gave us Rob Duncan, vice chancellor of research at the University of Missouri and an expert in measuring energy.” That statement is false. (more…)
Possibly Related Posts:
- World Crude Oil Production May Peak a Decade Earlier Than Some Predict
- Widening the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
- The Future of Energy: An Emerging Science by Dr. Thomas Valone
- Can a Plant Be Altruistic?
- Communicating Person to Person Through the Power of Thought Alone
Insiders Expose Reasons for Secrecy /Disclosure Project Background
/Field Note
Originally released by the Disclosure Project November 13, 2007, this offers a perspective on UFOs, government secrecy and new energy technologies that steers clear of the typical, over-simplified “conspiracy theory” rhetoric. It is followed with a video presentation which further illuminates why a reportedly highly classified program related to UFOs continues to this day while disinformation and ridicule is used year after year to keep elected leaders and the general public uncertain, misinformed or confused.
Possibly Related Posts:
- World Crude Oil Production May Peak a Decade Earlier Than Some Predict
- The VASIMR Plasma Rocket
- Nate Lewis: Powering the Planet
- Students Develop New Surveillance Technology Solving 60-Year-Old Design Dilemma
- On the Road to Fusion Energy, an Accelerator to Study Warm Dense Matter
CBS 60 Minutes on Cold Fusion: More Than Junk Science
When first presented in 1989 cold fusion was quickly dismissed as junk science [or rather subjected to a campaign to discredit. - Editor].
But, as CBS’s 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelle reported on a program first aired Sunday Night (April 19), there`s renewed buzz among scientists that cold fusion could lead to monumental breakthroughs in energy production.
60 Minutes: Twenty years ago it appeared, for a moment, that all our energy problems could be solved. It was the announcement of cold fusion - nuclear energy like that which powers the sun - but at room temperature on a table top. It promised to be cheap, limitless and clean. Cold fusion would end our dependence on the Middle East and stop those greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. It would change everything.
But then, just as quickly as it was announced, it was discredited. So thoroughly, that cold fusion became a catch phrase for junk science. Well, a funny thing happened on the way to oblivion - for many scientists today, cold fusion is hot again.
For a complete copy of the transcript, visit: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/17/60minutes/main4952167.shtml
Possibly Related Posts:
- World Crude Oil Production May Peak a Decade Earlier Than Some Predict
- Widening the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
- The Future of Energy: An Emerging Science by Dr. Thomas Valone
- Can a Plant Be Altruistic?
- The VASIMR Plasma Rocket
Gary McKinnon’s Search for UFO, Free Energy and Anti-Gravity Secrets
/Field Note
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Statements Concerning What He Found
McKinnon has admitted in many public statements to unauthorised access of computer systems in the United States including those mentioned in the United States indictment. He claims his motivation, drawn from a statement made before the Washington Press Club on May 9, 2001 by the “The Disclosure Project”, was to find evidence of UFOs, antigravity technology, and the suppression of “Free Energy”, all of which he claims to have proven through his actions.
He said he investigated a NASA photographic expert’s claim that at the Johnson Space Center’s Building 8 images were regularly cleaned of evidence of UFO craft, and confirmed this comparing the raw originals with the “processed” images. He claimed to have viewed a detailed image of “something not man-made” and “cigar shaped” floating above the northern hemisphere, and assuming his viewing would be undisrupted owing to the hour, he did not think of capturing the image because he was “bedazzled”, and therefore did not think of securing it with the screen capture function in the software RemotelyAnywhere at the point when his connection was interrupted. McKinnon stated the image was approximately 256 megabytes in size, yet that the craft’s details were still distinct in the greatly inferior 4-bit color and low resolution he had to reduce the viewing image to to appear across his mere 56k modem connection (approximate transfer rate 5 minutes/megabyte).
One of the Better Interviews with Gary McKinnon:
U.S. Hacking Charges
Gary McKinnon, also known as SOLO (born February 10, 1966), is a Scottish hacker facing extradition to the United States to face charges of perpetrating what has been described by one prosecutor as the “biggest military computer hack of all time.” Following legal hearings in the UK it was decided in July 2006 that he should be extradited to the US. In February 2007 his lawyers argued against the ruling in an appeal to the High Court in London, which was turned down on April 3.
On July 30, 2007 the House of Lords agreed to hear the appeal[4] and on June 17, 2008 the Law Lords began hearing the case. This Judgment was delivered on July 30, 2008 with the Law Lords judging that Gary McKinnon could be extradited to the United States. He was given two weeks to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights before extradition, but the Court halted the extradition for an additional two weeks to allow time to hear his appeal on August 28, which was subsequently rejected. His legal team subsequently decided to lodge another appeal, which was granted, based on the fact that McKinnon has recently been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome. His diagnosis was made in August 2008 by the eminent psychologist Prof Simon Baron-Cohen, and has attracted criticism.
According to http://freegary.org.uk/
The Judicial Review of Gary McKinnon’s extradition case, is provisionally set to be heard on Tuesday 9th June and Wednesday 10th June 2009.
Only the Aspergers’s Syndrome aspects of the handling of the case by the UK Home Office etc. will be heard, none of the alleged evidence against Gary will be allowed to be heard or challenged. No other Human Rights aspects of the case will be heard either.
Lead photo and Wikipedia text published under the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2
Possibly Related Posts:
- World Crude Oil Production May Peak a Decade Earlier Than Some Predict
- Widening the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
- The Future of Energy: An Emerging Science by Dr. Thomas Valone
- Can a Plant Be Altruistic?
- The VASIMR Plasma Rocket
Cold Fusion - CBS TV’s “60 Minutes” Turns Up the Heat
by Steven B. Krivit
Editor, New Energy Times
April 16, 2009
[This article is Copyleft 2009 New Energy Times. Permission is granted to reproduce this article as long as the article, this notice and the publication information shown above are included in their entirety and no changes are made to this article.]
Low-energy nuclear reactions, historically known as “cold fusion,” will get their 12 minutes of fame on CBS TV’s “60 Minutes” Sunday at 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time in a program titled “Cold Fusion Is Hot Again.”
This is the second TV program on “cold fusion” to run within the last few weeks. “Brink,” a show on Discovery’s Science Channel, ran an episode called “Cold Fusion Cracked?” that aired March 27.
According to “Brink” guest Dwight Williams - introduced as a senior science adviser with the U.S. Department of Energy - there might, in fact, be something real about all of this - that is, real science, real hope and, quite possibly, a real source of energy. (more…)
Possibly Related Posts:
- Princeton Scientists Say Einstein’s Theory Applies Beyond the Solar System
- New Asteroid Threat Reports Highlight Legal and Institutional Issues
- Wikipedia Quality Depends on How Authors Collaborate
- Can We Detect Quantum Behavior in Viruses?
- Scavenging Energy Waste to Turn Water Into Hydrogen Fuel
Scenarios of Suppression
/Field Note
“Coincidences are a true paradox… on the one hand they seem to be the source of our greatest irrationalities–seeing causal connections when science tells us they aren’t there. On the other hand, some of our greatest feats of scientific discovery depend on coincidences.” - Josh Tenenbaum, quoted in The Power of Coincidence.
When seeking to determine the extent of suppression of scientific research and technological development, there is a considerable range in the scenarios presented.
At one end of the spectrum, we have what might easily be classified as “conspiracy theories.” Here we have the claims that workable technologies and discoveries have already been made and that these have somehow been withheld or buried, often as the result of threats and even the suspicious deaths of researchers.
Here’s a trailer I found on YouTube this gives an example of this type of extreme scenario: (more…)
Possibly Related Posts:
- World Crude Oil Production May Peak a Decade Earlier Than Some Predict
- Widening the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
- The Future of Energy: An Emerging Science by Dr. Thomas Valone
- Can a Plant Be Altruistic?
- The VASIMR Plasma Rocket
Definite Proof for the Conversion of Vacuum-Energy
In the following paper, two physicists describe an experiment they have done which they say proves not only the existence of the dark energy of the universe, also known as vacuum-energy or zero point energy, but also that it is possible to convert this energy into mechanical energy within the laboratory. - Editor
Definite Proof for the Conversion of vacuum-energy into mechanical energy based on the Measurement of Machine Power
Claus W. Turtur
(Fachbereich Elektrotechnik, University of Applied Sciences Braunschweig-Wolfenbuettel)
Wolfram Knapp (Institut for Experimental Physics, Otto von Guericke Universitat, Magdeburg)
Originally published in physic.philica.com
Abstract
In some recent work the existence of the dark energy of the universe, also known as vacuum-energy, was investigated theoretically [1,2] and experimentally [3,4], resulting in the possibility to convert this energy into mechanical energy within the laboratory. A rotor within an electrical field was propelled by vacuum-energy, whereby ideally no electrical energy from the field-source should be used. (more…)
Possibly Related Posts:
- Princeton Scientists Say Einstein’s Theory Applies Beyond the Solar System
- New Asteroid Threat Reports Highlight Legal and Institutional Issues
- Wikipedia Quality Depends on How Authors Collaborate
- Can We Detect Quantum Behavior in Viruses?
- Scavenging Energy Waste to Turn Water Into Hydrogen Fuel
Scientific Suppression: Stamping out dissent
By Brian Martin
Too often, unconventional or unpopular scientific views are simply suppressed.
Brian Martin is Professor of Social Sciences in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication at the University of Wollongong.
Textbooks present science as a noble search for truth, in which progress depends on questioning established ideas. But for many scientists, this is a cruel myth. They know from bitter experience that disagreeing with the dominant view is dangerous — especially when that view is backed by powerful interest groups. Call it suppression of intellectual dissent. The usual pattern is that someone does research or speaks out in a way that threatens a powerful interest group, typically a government, industry or professional body. As a result, representatives of that group attack the critic’s ideas or the critic personally–by censoring writing, blocking publications, denying appointments or promotions, withdrawing research grants, taking legal actions, harassing, blacklisting, spreading rumors. (more…)
Possibly Related Posts:
- World Crude Oil Production May Peak a Decade Earlier Than Some Predict
- Widening the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
- The Future of Energy: An Emerging Science by Dr. Thomas Valone
- Can a Plant Be Altruistic?
- Communicating Person to Person Through the Power of Thought Alone
Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Skepticism
/Field Note
by Rochus Boerner
The following article was inspired by an article by Dr. Robert L.Park, a spokesman for the American Physical Society, titled Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science.
The progress of science depends on a finely tuned balance between open-mindedness and skepticism. Be too open minded, and you’ll accept wrong claims. Be too skeptical, and you’ll reject genuine new discoveries. Proper skepticism must be careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Unfortunately, much of what comes out of the “skeptical” community these days is not proper skepticism, but all-out, fundamentalist disbelief. Such skepticism can be called pseudo-skepticism, pathological skepticism or bogus skepticism.
Here are seven major warning signs of bogus skepticism.
1. The Skeptic has reached her skeptical opinion not after careful research and examination of the claim, but simply based on media reports and other forms of second-hand knowledge.
Example: Pathological cold fusion skeptic Robert L. Park revealed in his March 1st 2002 What’s New column that Science was going to publish an article on Sonofusion, and that even though he had not seen the paper, talked to the researchers or conducted any personal research in the area, he already knew that the Sonofusion discovery would turn out to be “a repeat of the cold fusion fiasco”. Park used every bit of influence he had in a behind-the-scenes attempt to kill the paper. Luckily, the Science editor didn’t cave and decided to publish. (more…)
Possibly Related Posts:
- World Crude Oil Production May Peak a Decade Earlier Than Some Predict
- Widening the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
- The Future of Energy: An Emerging Science by Dr. Thomas Valone
- Can a Plant Be Altruistic?
- Communicating Person to Person Through the Power of Thought Alone
The Suppression of Inconvenient Facts in Physics
This is one of the better articles covering the subject of the suppression of physics. It’s long, but very well researched and so is republished here in its entirety. - Blake Harris
by Rochus Boerner
“Textbooks present science as a noble search for truth, in which progress depends on questioning established ideas. But for many scientists, this is a cruel myth. They know from bitter experience that disagreeing with the dominant view is dangerous - especially when that view is backed by powerful interest groups. Call it suppression of intellectual dissent. The usual pattern is that someone does research or speaks out in a way that threatens a powerful interest group, typically a government, industry or professional body. As a result, representatives of that group attack the critic’s ideas or the critic personally-by censoring writing, blocking publications, denying appointments or promotions, withdrawing research grants, taking legal actions, harassing, blacklisting, spreading rumors.” (1)
Introduction
Science is in a state of crisis. Where free inquiry, natural curiosity and open-minded discussion and consideration of new ideas should reign, a new orthodoxy has emerged. This ‘new inquisition’, as it has been called by Robert Anton Wilson (2) consists not of cardinals and popes, but of the editors and reviewers of scientific journals, of leading authorities and self-appointed “skeptics”, and last but not least of corporations and governments that have a vested interest in preserving the status quo, and it is just as effective in suppressing unorthodox ideas as the original. The scientists in the editorial boards of journals who decide which research is fit to be published, and which is not, the science bureaucrats at the patent office who decide what feats nature allows human technology to perform, and which ones it does not, and the scientists in governmental agencies who decide what proposals to fund, and not to fund, either truly believe that they are in complete knowledge of all the fundamental laws of nature, or they purposely suppress certain discoveries that threaten the scientific prestige of individuals or institutions, or economic interests. Research that indicates that an accepted theory is incomplete, severely flawed, or completely mistaken, is frequently rejected on the grounds that it “contradicts the laws of nature”, and therefore has to be the result of sloppiness or fraud. At the heart of this argument is the incorrect notion that theory overrides evidence. (more…)
Possibly Related Posts:
- World Crude Oil Production May Peak a Decade Earlier Than Some Predict
- Widening the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
- The Future of Energy: An Emerging Science by Dr. Thomas Valone
- Can a Plant Be Altruistic?
- Communicating Person to Person Through the Power of Thought Alone
Is Our Culture Stopping Disruptive, Revolutionary Science?
How do we support today's Einsteins?
Is today’s academic and corporate culture stifling science’s risk-takers and stopping disruptive, revolutionary science from coming to the fore? In April’s Physics World the science writer Mark Buchanan looks at those who have shifted scientific paradigms and asks what we can do to make sure that those who have the potential to change our outlook on the world also have the opportunity to do so.
When Max Planck accidentally discovered quantum theory, he kick-started the most significant scientific revolution of the 20th century; his colleague, Wilhelm Röntgen’s experiments with cathode rays led inadvertently to the discovery of X-rays, which ultimately revolutionised modern medical practice; and US physicists at Bell Labs, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, detected cosmic wave background radiation — the echo of the Big Bang — when trying to get rid of the annoying noise being picked up by their microwave receiver.
Would today’s physicists, plagued by the publish-or-perish ethic, have the same freedom to explore their findings? (more…)
Possibly Related Posts:
- World Crude Oil Production May Peak a Decade Earlier Than Some Predict
- Widening the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
- The Future of Energy: An Emerging Science by Dr. Thomas Valone
- Can a Plant Be Altruistic?
- Communicating Person to Person Through the Power of Thought Alone
Scientists to Texas Board of Education: Teach Evolution Right!
Over 50 scientific societies representing hundreds of thousands of American scientists today publicly urged the Texas Board of Education to support accurate science education. The board–dominated by creationists–has been embroiled in a debate over changes to the Texas science standards that could compromise the teaching of evolution.
“Evolution is the foundation of modern biology, and is crucial in fields as diverse as agriculture, computer science, engineering, geology, and medicine,” says the signed statement. “We oppose any efforts to undermine the teaching of biological evolution…whether by misrepresenting those subjects or by inaccurately describing them as controversial and in need of special scrutiny.” (more…)
Possibly Related Posts:
- World Crude Oil Production May Peak a Decade Earlier Than Some Predict
- Life and Death of Online Communities
- Social Networks: ‘Pay It Forward’ Pays Off
- Violent Video Game Play Makes More Aggressive Kids
- Terrorism’s New Target: Econo-Jihad
‘Cold Fusion’ Rebirth? Fresh Evidence for Existence of New Energy Source
![An experimental "cold fusion" device produced this pattern of "triple tracks" which scientists say is caused by high-energy nuclear particles resulting from a nuclear reaction. (Credit: Pam Boss, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center [SPAWAR])](http://x-journals.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/cold-fusion-rebirth.jpg "cold-fusion-rebirth")
An experimental "cold fusion" device produced this pattern of "triple tracks" which scientists say is caused by high-energy nuclear particles resulting from a nuclear reaction. (Credit: Pam Boss, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center /SPAWAR
Low-energy nuclear reactions could potentially provide 21st Century society a limitless and environmentally-clean energy source for generating electricity, researchers say. The report, which injects new life into this controversial field, will be presented here today at the American Chemical Society’s 237th National Meeting. It is among 30 papers on the topic that will be presented during a four-day symposium, “New Energy Technology,” March 22-25, in conjunction with the 20th anniversary of the first description of cold fusion.
“Our finding is very significant,” says study co-author and analytical chemist Pamela Mosier-Boss, Ph.D., of the U.S. Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR) in San Diego, Calif. “To our knowledge, this is the first scientific report of the production of highly energetic neutrons from an LENR device.” (more…)
Possibly Related Posts:
- Princeton Scientists Say Einstein’s Theory Applies Beyond the Solar System
- New Asteroid Threat Reports Highlight Legal and Institutional Issues
- Wikipedia Quality Depends on How Authors Collaborate
- Can We Detect Quantum Behavior in Viruses?
- Scavenging Energy Waste to Turn Water Into Hydrogen Fuel
Jane Jacobs - A Dark Age Ahead?
/Field Note
Jane Jacobs on her front porch in Toronto Canada. Photo taken by Blake Harris during one of several interviews.
I just spent the last few days in San Francisco, meeting with CIOs from some of the of larger cities and counties in the US – all related to my day job as an editor at Government Technology magazine.
Of a little relevance here given the focus of this site, I heard about some of the political wrangling related to distribution of the US stimulus money for broadband and other IT related activities. And for all the talk of change, it is still very much politics as usual in Washington, DC when it comes to meeting America’s economic challenges and addressing America’s continued lagging behind in broadband deployment and usage.
This prompted me, on the plane back, to think a little more about some of the intellectual territory I had previously covered before launching The X-Journals in the first place.
Specifically, I began thinking about conversations I had previously had with the late Jane Jacobs as well as her last book, Dark Age Ahead. (more…)
Possibly Related Posts:
- Aquatic ‘Dead Zones’ Contributing to Climate Change
- New Study Debunks Myths About Amazon Rain Forests
- ARS Sends Third Seed Shipment to Norway Seed Vault
- Carbon Emissions ‘Outsourced’ to Developing Countries
- Environmental Engineers Receive Award for Investigation of Lead Poisoning of Washington D.C. Children
First Impressions of the “Free Energy” Movement
/Field Note
Over recent weeks, I have begun to make some initial forays to establish contacts within the “free energy” movement. I call it that because the more I research, the more it does seem like a sub-culture at this point, albeit composed of many loosely associated groups and individuals.
What I mean when I describe it as a sub-culture is that it appears that it has its personalities, its stars or big names, its factions and alliances, not to mention its personality clashes and disputes. Many of the key players, of course, virtually all know one another, or at least know of one another. (more…)
Possibly Related Posts:
- World Crude Oil Production May Peak a Decade Earlier Than Some Predict
- GEET( Global Environmental Energy Technology) Fuel Processor
- Kapanadze’s Third-Party Testing of Their 100 kW Free Energy Device
- New Free Energy Claim - the Kapanadze Generator
- Arctic Images Derived From Classified Data Should Be Made Public
Loading... 
