| Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 19:00:36
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Dear Hal,
Thanks for pointing
that out! Yes, the Shoulders process is quite real, and I certainly
believe it can do the job, given the funding to get it developed. It is
definitely one of those "most urgent" struggling technologies that
should be funded for rapid development and with high priority. And as
you pointed out, I am quite a bit rusty on where the Shoulders cluster
work has now progressed, as my information is dated. No intention of
slighting the importance of that technology was intended!
The whole point is
that there are some marvelous emerging technologies out there, which
with good research funding and a full research team could be developed
to accomplish the remediation of nuclear wastes. Such remediation is
sorely needed! Much of the nuclear wastes has such a long half life
that it poses a threat and a hazard to even hundreds of future
generations. Regardless of what experiments have been done in "storage"
of such materials over the last half century, we really do not have any
actual "long term" storage experience in terms of hundreds and thousands
of years.
And some of the
proposals from --- of all things --- the conventional scientific
community, do bother me considerably. A trial balloon has even been
floated to bury nuclear wastes in containers in so-called "stable mud
flats" on the ocean's floor. A stable mudflat??? As an old swamp rat
from Louisiana, I assure you that there is nothing stable about mud,
regardless of how quiet it is sitting at a given time or how long it
lies there so deceptively. It's as unstable as all getout, once
anything in its environment disturbs it. This is only a short step
removed from the disastrous former projects that just put drums of
radioactive material into the ocean so it sank to the bottom. And later
leaked and started poisoning the fish and other species, and being
introduced back into the world food chain.
I do think that, with
the new thermodynamics work that is just now weighing in, its impact on
nuclear chemistry has not been assessed as yet. Processes CAN be
developed that accomplish nuclear transmutation without high spatial
energy, and certainly the cold fusion researchers worldwide have
experimentally shown it. It does not matter that we don't have a
convenient present math theory that is fitted to the new phenomena
proven by the cold fusion researchers! The fact is that,
scientifically, the experiment is or should be the decisive factor. No
amount of theory can refute a single replicable experiment, and cold
fusion researchers have achieved a set of much-replicated experimental
results. To continue to pooh-pooh the experimental results because they
do not necessarily agree with the conventional "pet theory" presently in
vogue is directly against the entire scientific method. It is dogma, not
science when it is upheld against a set of replicable experiments that
contradict it.
That said, the
potential technologies such as the clusters work, that can be brought to
bear on the nuclear remediation problem, cannot move forward very fast
unless funding is there for the research. All science is patronized;
someone has to pay for the facilities, the salaries of the researchers,
etc. So he who controls the allocation of the funds (the patronage)
controls what shall be funded (and done) and what shall not be funded
(and not done).
It is high time to get
out of the "put it in the mudflats, store it on site at the reactor, or
put it in some mountain cave," etc. mode in the commitment of funding
for research on the remediation problem. I personally feel strongly
that the cold fusion researchers have struggled and at least shown the
way, over many years of work. The solid experiments are there, to show
that it can very probably be done. Certainly transmutation of elements
can be accomplished chemically, at "low spatial energy", in
contradiction to the present assumption of conventional science.
So it's time for the
leaders of the scientific community to get it funded and get it done.
Sadly, it appears that
most of the leaders of the scientific community are still savaging cold
fusion researchers, and the now more than 600 replicated experiments and
their results, or are just ignoring it as. Putting it bluntly, we have
a "power game" and an "Enron situation" in science and not just in
corporations.
It's time that the
leaders of the scientific community practiced scientific method with
funding for demonstrated experimental results, and not just give lip
service to it.
In this case --- where
the problem of the wastes is so great, is increasing, and will be with
us for a very large number of centuries unless the wastes themselves are
transmuted to much less harmful form --- I do not believe the
legislative branch can ignore scientific dogma which deliberately denies
funding to such critically needed new technologies.
After all, if our
children, our families, our neighbors, our nation, and our planet go
down the sink because of our continued poisoning and strangling of our
biosphere, then how many papers one gets published in the journals or
how many awards one gets will be of no importance at all.
Science is supposed to
practice scientific method, not the "Who's going to be the big monkey?"
game.
With respect to
nuclear wastes remediation, it's high time that it gets on with the use
of forefront scientific method to solve the problem.
Pun intended,
burying the problem is not
the answer! Solving the
problem by changing the wastes themselves is the answer, and the only
viable answer.
Thanks for reminding
me that the cluster techniques and results have already produced
important experimental results in remedial waste research! Absolutely
true, and that effort should be funded with very high priority.
Best wishes,
Tom
in his letter, I have two comments that might be of interest to you: similar "arcing under water" had been discovered and was being commercialized by another group. What both Santilli and his predecessor did not understand was that nearly all "arc" and "sparks" create high-density, electron charge clusters (HDCC). This new HDCC technology has been discovered by four independent investigators: Two in the U.S. (first by Shoulders and then by the late Stan Gleeson), Ilyanok in Belarus, and Mesyats in Russia. we can transmute radioactive thorium to stable elements. We have presented papers at meeting of the American Physical Society. We will soon be demonstrating our technology for the transmutation of radioactive wastes to DOE-paid scientists at INEEL (Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory). communicate periodically with his "science advisor" on his staff in Washington. We also keep Senator Bennett informed. been doing some very important work in using these HDCC that Tom has not received. Tom has been so busy writing his marvelous new book that he now needs to be brought up to speed on our developments in the areas of nuclear transmutation using these enormously interesting HDCC. I don't know where you reside but we would be pleased to have you visit our laboratory and see some of these HDCC in action. I am 1/6th of the way through Tom's new book and will be writing and publishing a review in the Journal of New Energy and also in New Energy News. his work in Washington. |