The human race uses ‘mob rule’ to dictate what is fact and fiction. Environments that facilitate mob rule are characterized by barking dogma, or worse…
New Paris Accord commits the world to reducing CO2 emissions by ~30% in coming decades, a seemingly impossible task We need at least a couple…
Taxonomy in all fields has always been an argument between the ‘lumpers’ and the latecomers to the field, ‘splitters.’ Neither is singularly correct but the…
OK Halloween is nearly upon us so it’s fair to blog about spooky things. Some of the more mysterious parts of science are the topic…
So you thought you knew what a proton was. Or at least the mass and charge and all of the other characteristics of protons (and…
The legendary scientist Max Planck once quipped, “science progresses one funeral at a time.” Planck was spot on in this observation and for years I…
Michel Boudart, who passed in 2012, was a chemist of extraordinary character. (Boudart obit) His special area of interest was in catalysis and behaviours of…
The black heart of science is revealed by the history of cold fusion denialism. Such denialism is surely a crime against the planet and humanity….
Japanese industry, government, and academia announce the opening of a new cold fusion lenr R&D facility at the prestigious Tokohu University. Program promises practical Japanese…
Cold fusion has since its inception some 26 years ago always been identified as a potential Black Swan for the world of energy. Now Saudi…
One can only hope that the brave Russian leader Mr. Putin might just pop over to Alexander’s Parkhomov’s Moscow laboratory for a few minutes and…
Randy Mills, an early cold fusioneer has not been idle for the past 25+ years of the cold fusion saga. He’s one of the very…
Names make so much difference for some. The original work of Fleischmann and Pons was called “cold fusion” which was a very appropriate choice of…
This week discoveries of the two most important things in the Universe have been announced. First a Black Hole so large it may not be…
Canadian Tar Pit oil is proving to be a sticky mire drowning investors of public and private funds. Canada bet the farm on the world’s…
US Oil reserves in storage at the highest level in 80 years readied for spring clearance sale before it’s value deflates to a fraction of…
If renewables won’t save us – What will? Goggle which is one of the world’s best known corporations and a leader in environmentally friendly design…
Sonofusion occurs when one makes use of the concentrating power of a collapsing microscopic bubble(s) to attain uncommon states of matter. Hydrogen in the bubble…
Time to sell fossils short before they become stranded assets Trillions of dollars worth of fossil fuels in the ground are likely to become largely…
The spooky distant actions of quantum physics have been in troubled waters ever since Einstein brought God into the equation. Quantum physics in its most…
Hidetsuga Ikegami, one of Japan’s great physicists describes cold fusion as being pycnonuclear (star-like) in nature Ikegami’s paper (October 2012) on what he calls chemonuclear…
Sometimes one is lucky enough to see more than one miracle moments in a lifetime. Arthur C. Clarke, rest his soul, and I used to…
Oh my that’s odd! Back in the summer of 1989 a remarkable scientific observation was made at the University in Sienna Italy, one of the…
Cold Fusion & LENR recipes deconstructed It’s been fun reading and watching the machinations of cold fusion and it’s skittish cousin lenr. In the absence…