21st CENTURY SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Vol. 19, No. 3-4 Fall-Winter 2006 Features News ENERGY REPORT 8 The Isotope Economy 52 The Great Fool’s Oil Swindle Dr. Jonathan Tennenbaum Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. The technologies for creating and harnessing new “natural” resources 53 Ethanol: Not a Kernel are already known today. We need the political will to mobilize them Of Science in It now, for the benefit of mankind. Laurence Hecht Creating New Raw Materials for the 21st Century 56 ‘Satanic Sugar’ in Brazil 38 Cynthia Rush Marjorie Mazel Hecht NUCLEAR REPORT The fusion torch (or its lower temperature version, the plasma torch) 58 Yucca Mountain Should Be can create new mineral resources from ordinary dirt and rock, and get A Non-Issue rid of waste by reducing it to its constituent elements. Jim Muckerheide CHINA IN SPACE SPECIAL REPORT 48 A Look at China’s Ambitious Space Program 62 WHO Brings Back DDT To Stop Malaria Marsha Freeman Marjorie Mazel Hecht China is moving forward in space exploration—with or without the United States. 64 Africa Needs DDT Fiona Kobusingye-Boynes Science & The LaRouche Youth Movement INTERVIEW: DONALD R. ROBERTS 65 To Combat Malaria, We Need DDT! 72 Seattle LYM Conduct Between the Notes ANCIENT DISCOVERY At Superconductivity Conference INTERVIEW: GLORIA FARLEY Wesley Irwin 80 Discovering America’s ‘Old Country’ Roots INTERVIEW: DR. STEPHEN GOURLAY 75 Science Today Needs a ‘Grand Vision’ SCIENCE OUTLOOK 86 Biosphere Technology INTERVIEW: DR. DON GUBSER In the Nuclear Age 78 We Have to Get Youth Excited About Science Mohd Peter Davis Books CONFERENCE REPORT 95 ESSAYS ON GEOCHEMISTRY AND THE BIOSPHERE 94 Nanotech2006 by Vladimir I. Vernadsky Cloret Ferguson 98 RETURN TO THE MOON by Harrison Schmitt Departments 100 THERMAL COMFORT HONEYCOMB HOUSING 2 EDITORIAL by Mohd Peter Davis, Mazlin Ghazali, Nor Azian Nordin 102 SWORDS AT SUNSET: LAST STAND OF NORTH AMERICA’S GRAIL KNIGHTS 3 LETTERS by Michael Bradley with Joelle Lauriol RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS 103 ETRUSCAN EXPLORERS 4 Meat and the Planet: AHuman View by Warren W. Dexter Zbigniew Jaworowski 5 C4 vs. C3 Photosynthesis: A Response to Low CO2 Levels Christine Craig On the cover: Artist's depiction of two astronauts with a drill that is boring into the top layers of the lunar surface for resource extraction. Cover design by Alan Yue. Photo 6 NEWS BRIEFS courtesy of NASA/John Frassanito & Associates. EDITORIAL EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief Laurence Hecht Managing Editor Moving Backwards Marjorie Mazel Hecht Associate Editors In Space Elijah C. Boyd David Cherry Christine Craig n a stealth mode, after Friday busi- ment of military space capabilities that Marsha Freeman ness hours preceding the three-day could be construed as “hostile to U.S. Colin M. Lowry IColumbus Day holiday weekend in national interests,” whatever that means. Gregory B. Murphy October 2006, the White House posted The reaction from China and Russia to Richard Sanders a 10-page U.S. National Space Policy this unilateral declaration of U.S. owner- Charles B. Stevens paper on an obscure government web ship of the “high ground” of space was Books site, clearly hoping that no one would swift. The policy itself was widely seen David Cherry notice it. as a response to China’s increasing The misnamed “space” policy is not, capabilities in space. Art Director as one might expect, an elaboration of In fact, it is up to the United States Alan Yue the space exploration Moon-Mars initia- whether or not there will be any actions Advertising Manager tive that President Bush had announced “hostile to U.S. interests” in space. Marsha Freeman at NASA headquarters in January 2004. In the early 1960s, and even afer the In fact, the 10-page document includes Cuban missile crisis, President Kennedy SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD just one paragraph concerning NASA’s extended an offer to the Soviet Union to Francesco Celani, Ph.D. civilian space programs. jointly go to the Moon, to lower ten- Hugh W. Ellsaesser, Ph.D. Rather, the primary goal of space sions, and as a war-avoidance initiative. James Frazer, Ph.D. policy as stated in this document is to During the Cold War, the United States Emmanuel Grenier “further U.S. national security, home- and the Soviet Union sent astronauts Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. land security, and foreign policy objec- and cosmonauts into Earth orbit to Wolfgang Lillge, M.D. tives.” The second goal, is to “enable “shake hands” in space, through the Ramtanu Maitra unhindered U.S. operations in and Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. Thomas E. Phipps, Jr., Ph.D. through space to defend our interests China has made clear its plans for the B.A. Soldano, Ph.D. there.” long-term exploration of space. Its lead- Jonathan Tennenbaum, Ph.D. The document states that the United ers have continually expressed their 21st Century Science & Technology States is committed to the exploration of nation’s interest in cooperating with the (ISSN 0895-6820) is published 4 times a space “for peaceful purposes,” to “allow United States. year by 21st Century Science Associates, 60 Sycolin Road, Suite 203, Leesburg, Va. U.S. defense and intelligence-related The exploration of the universe, and 20175. Tel. 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Payments must be in U.S. currency. ence; and deny, if necessary, adver- Humanity stands at the threshold of a saries the use of space capabilities hos- new era of breakthroughs in science and Copyright © 2006 tile to U.S. national interests” (emphasis applications in new technologies. The 21st Century Science Associates added). two greatest achievements of the 20th ISSN 0895-682 There was no question in anyone’s Century—the discoveries in nuclear sci- www.21stcenturysciencetech.com mind as to which countries were the tar- ence and the possibilities of space trav- get of this policy to prevent the develop- el—are now poised for quantum leaps 2 Fall-Winter 2006 21st CENTURY EDITORIAL that can, and must, revolutionize How can that explain the millions mankind’s mastery of his world, and the of young children who are infected universe. with HIV and those dying every day? As Jonathan Tennenbaum describes in Are they all on recreational drugs, his feature article on “The Isotope even as infants? This should be Economy,” our ability to overcome the mocked as a farce, except that the intent near-term exhaustion of this planet’s of such lies is to confuse and derail any minerals and raw materials depends serious attempt at stopping the AIDS upon the deployment of an increasingly epidemic. energy-dense array of energy technolo- On Duesberg and AIDS Another of Duesberg’s claims is that gies. AIDS patients have HIV antibodies, but A fission-based “nuclear renaissance” We continue to receive letters and they don’t have the virus. This too, is not is now in progress around the world, comments asking about the Peter true. The routine tests used for HIV do and the decision in 2006 to begin con- Duesberg theory on AIDS, citing his detect antibodies, but the reason we struction of the International 2003 article, “The Chemical Bases of the don’t see HIV in the blood at all times is Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor Various AIDS Epidemics: Recreational because it is a retrovirus: It can integrate (ITER), have finally placed the world on Drugs, Anti-viral Chemotherapy and into the genome of a cell, and lie dor- the proper path for developing both fis- Malnutrition,” authored by P. Duesberg, mant for periods of time, before repro- sion and thermonuclear fusion. C. Koehnlein, and D. Rasnick, and pub- ducing and infecting other cells. When Just as dozens of nations that had lished in the Journal of Bioscience, Vol. someone is infectious, they certainly been excluded from using nuclear tech- 28. Letters have also mentioned the have HIV in their immune cells circulat- nology, for political and economic rea- chapter on AIDS in Tom Bethell’s book, ing in the blood. sons, are now planning to enter the The Politically Incorrect Guide to Duesberg also attacks the use of nuclear age, dozens of developing Science, and Liam Scheff’s March 12, the anti-retroviral drugs that have nations are likewise entering the space 2005 article published by Accuracy in increased the survival time of millions age.