Letters to the Editor
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The Approach is Linked to the Results wrt Energy Policy
Even though the author appears to be well-intentioned, I believe that he has made a blunder with regards to Clinton's gas tax holiday.
The problem with our energy policy is that it's so far off-track right now that the gas tax holiday debate can only serve to deflect our attention away from the conversations that we badly need to be having. But, even more than that, the very problem of energy policy is the pandering that's been going on for so long now. If Hillary is so willing to placate the public on this issue, then it calls into question her ability and willingness to deal with the much harder issues related to the oil corporations and government-sponsored energy programs.
But let's not be vague about it. What we badly need right now is a smart president who's willing to completely re-evaluate our energy options. We badly need a leader who's willing to create his own investigative panel on our country's energy policy. This panel must be created with the specific purpose of investigating and representing *ALL* claims regarding energy devices. That means actually consulting with critics of the scientific establishment -- the "fringe". Roger Mallove's MIT Cold Fusion Report, for instance, should be admitted as evidence to the panel and investigators should be sent out to visit the thousands of scientific researchers across the world who are claiming that cold fusion is real and only requires another $100 million of investment funds to productize ...
From http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.11/coldfusion.html ...
# George Miley, who received the Edward Teller medal for innovative research in hot fusion and has edited Fusion Technology magazine for the American Nuclear Society for more than 15 years: "There's very strong evidence that low-energy nuclear reactions do occur. Numerous experiments have shown definitive results - as do my own."
# John Bockris, formerly a distinguished professor in physical chemistry at Texas A&M University and a cofounder of the International Society for Electrochemistry: "Nuclear reactions can occur without high temperatures. Low-energy nuclear transformations can - and do - exist."
# Michael McKubre, director of the Energy Research Center at SRI International: "I am absolutely certain there is unexplained heat, and the most likely explanation is that its origin is nuclear."
# Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction writer, futurist, and funder of Infinite Energy magazine: "It seems very promising to me that nuclear reactions may occur at room temperatures. I'm quite convinced there's something in this."
Despite Roger Mallove being nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his investigations of the subject, claims that MIT's hot fusion group asymmetrically skewed their data sets to suggest that cold fusion was a farce remain to this day uninvestigated. We need a president that has the courage to investigate Mallove's allegations that a federal crime was committed by the MIT hot fusion group ...
http://www.infinite-energy.com/images/pdfs/mitcfreport.pdf
Discussions of a gas tax holiday completely divert us away from such real, substantive solutions. Hot fusion is always described as the energy of the future, but it will release horrendous radiation and only a fraction of the power of fission reactors. To date, no hot fusion reactor has ever generated more than 60% input power. Dismantle that program and shift all of the funds to people who claim to be seeing actual results right now -- the thousands of cold fusion researchers across the globe. Any panel formed on the subject will discover all of these facts on their own, as they are highly corroborated; and if intentionally built to include critics of our scientific institutions, the panel will make many very remarkable discoveries about energy policy.