The Magazine of New Energy Technology TABLE OF CONTENTS - ISSUE 33, SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2000 FEATURES 10 Earth-Generated Water: A Potential Solution for the Middle East Morad Eghbal 19 The Hydro Quebec Controversy: A Firsthand Report Ken Rauen TECHNICAL ARTICLES 29 "Water Buckyballs"—Chemical, Catalytic, and Cosmic Implications Keith Johnson 33 Solar-Energy Liberation from Water by Electric Arcs George Hathaway, Peter Graneau, and Neal Graneau 62 Deep Sea Reverse Osmosis: The Final Quantum Jump Donald C, Bullock and William T. Andrews COMMENTARY 26 Water and Health Robert Yukes Earth-Generated Water 43 Tidal Power Jeane Manning p. 10 53 Heavy Water 61 Free Energy, More Fish, and Weather Control J. Gridelin 65 Review of the Lafree Electric Bicycle Jed Rothwell DEPARTMENTS 4 Breaking Through - Editorial Eugene Mallove 7 Letters to the Editor 38 Renewable and Conventional Energy Zinc: Precious Metal? Bennett Davis? Energy focus Should Fall on Russia Jed Rothwell View from the Green Isle Soo Seddon Volkswagen in Midst of Record-Setting Drive Around the World Renewables in the News Christy Frazier Fust Add Water Bennett Daviss "Water Buckyballs" 44 A Piece of History: A Look Back at Harnessing Tidal Power p. 29 Barbara DelloRusso 48 Calendar 49 Briefs Sheihk Yamani Predicts End of Age of Oi1 and an Oil Price Gash • President Clinton on New Energy • Water: To Blame for Earth's Wobble • Dr. Randell Mills Responds to Attacks, Outlines BlackLight Progress 52 NERL Device And Process Testing Update 55 Book Reviews The Memory of Water: Homeopathy and the Battle of Ideas in the New Science (Michel Schiff) Eugene Mallove Living Water: Viktor Schauberger and the Secrets of Natural Energy (Olof Alexandersson) Soo Seddon Book Review The Memory of Water Polywater (Felix Franks) Jed Rothwell p. 55 Life's Matrix: A Biography of Water (Philip Ball) Soo Seddon, Jed Rothwell, and Peter Graneau 71 Classifieds 72 Infinite Energy Subscription and Order Form 2 ISSUE 33, 2000 • I NFINITE E N E R G Y B REAKING T H R O U G H Water: The Omnipresent Enigma by Eugene F. Mallove, Sc.D. world's life-giving oceans and bodies of fresh water have not Water, water, everywhere, frozen solid—as most certainly would have happened had the Nor any drop to drink. more dense ice been able to sink to depths. It is amazing that the Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "universal solvent" has this life-critical flotation property, while The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 1798 at the same time its tiny Mickey Mouse head-shaped molecule can cluster around large molecules in living organisms to trans- Water is all around port and position them in the intricate dance of biochemistry. us and in us, yet Unlike comparable molecules, such as H 2S, H 2Se, and H 2Te, we may be very water remains liquid up to a very high temperature, 100°C. 2 The far from understanding—or Earth is thus able to be a clement world, protected as it is by the even recognizing—all its mysteries. It is an omnipresent enig- most dominating "greenhouse gas" of all, namely water vapor. ma. We are water beings living on a water world, but we do not Earth is not the only planet of the solar system that has understand this substance, once considered by ancient Greek water—Mars may have had much more than it has today as part thinkers and those who followed to be one of four basic "ele- of its frozen polar caps or locked underground. Recent close-up ments"—air, earth, fire, and water. In chemist Paul Caro's paean images of Mars suggest that water may have produced some 1 to water, he writes, "As a source of life and a means of purifi- erosion features in the comparatively recent geologic past. cation, water is undoubtedly the prototype for spiritualized Jupiter's moon Europa has gained notoriety for its presumed matter; the irrepressible attraction of water for human thinking very deep water ocean below its cracked ice shroud. These cer- was first expressed in religious or poetic form." tainly are not the only places harboring water in and around the In the Judeo-Christian heritage, the Book of Genesis tells that solar system. Literally trillions of icy comets are said to extend before the "first day" of creation, all was water: the world was in a gigantic halo cloud far bevond the realm of the well-known "without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the planets. Much further out, water has been detected in interstel- deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." lar space in unusual "Buckvball" clusters, as MIT Professor In many eastern religious traditions water was also the origin of Keith Johnson reports (see his article, p. 29). all things. Whatever one's faith or non-faith, water stirs the soul. Noted space scientist Dr. Louis Frank has made his mark Who cannot find joy in contemplation at water's edge near an claiming that "small comets" are constantly bombarding Earth ocean, lake, pond, or babbling brook? and other planets, virtually unnoticed except for the still contro- Our particular interest in water began with cold fusion and versial evidence for them from satellite images of Earth. He over- other claims of energy extraction from water—and these cer- turns geochemical dogma in claiming that these are the source of tainly are candidates for the most astonishing of water's "mira- most of Earth's water; water does not come primarily from cles." We could not help but notice other important claims and upwellings from the planet's primordial stores. 3 Because of this controversies surrounding water. We decided to gather them heresy, he's in as much hot water with mainstream geology as together and write about some of them in this issue of Infinite cold fusion people are with mainstream physics and chemistry. Energy—our special "water issue." Apparently we have just Another water heresy that has caught our attention is the pos- scratched the surface. It would be easy to dedicate a bimonthly sibility that deep underground water not part of the hydrologic magazine to nothing else but the many faces of water. cycle, may be abundant worldwide. If only geologists who are Water is omnipresent, as the "ancient mariner" of Coleridge's expert in the hydrologic cycle could shift their paradigm a bit, poem well knew, though he dared not drink the salty concoction they might see that water might be almost everywhere for the tak- that surrounded his boat and which covers 70% of his little planet. ing. From springs atop the driest mounts in the Middle East to National Geographic's special edition on North America's water mysterious inflows discovered and rejected by tunnelers below (November 1993) noted that 97% of Earth's water supply is salt New York City, fresh, possibly virgin, Earth-generated, or "pri- water and only 3% is fresh, two-thirds of that being ice. The New mary" water seems to be available in lots of strange places. Read York Times (December 8, 1998, p. E1) put these figures at 97.5 and the account of Morad Eghbal of the Riess Institute (p. 10), and you 2.5% respectively. Its focus on water noted that only 0.008 of all ter- will understand how little we really know about water—we can't restrial water is the renewable fraction that supports land-based even agree on its sourcing! Virtually no articles written about the life. We protoplasmic beings are about 60% (by weight) water. crisis in fresh water scarcity mention this stream of thought. 4'5 Since most other molecules in the human body are of greater mass Just as pundits debating energy today never refer to cold fusion than water molecules, one infers that water molecules must be by and other water energies, those who promote the fresh water cri- far the most abundant molecule, number-wise, in any organism. sis say nothing about Riess et al. and their findings. As many readers may know, but it must be mentioned in tab- When we are able to command the essentially infinite energies ulating water's "miracles," water is an extremely peculiar sub- within water to generate clean power without pollution, the stance: its maximum density occurs at 4°C, above its freezing freshwater crisis will be handled by cheap ocean water desalina- point 0°C, the inverse of the normal situation of maximum den- tion and transport. The Sahara Desert and other barren areas will sity at or below the freezing point. Thus, ice floats, and the be no more. Clean, fresh water will be anywhere and everywhere 4 ISSUE 33, 2000 • I N F I N I T E E N E R G Y we want it to be—with or without Earth- generated water a la Riess. Furthermore, better technologies for desalination already exist, but are little-known—see Don Bullock's article, p. 62. Cold fusion New Cold Fusion Book and the BlackLight catalytic process are in the vanguard of candidates to provide Now Available energies for desalination and transport, but we must also note the emergence of parallel technologies that extract energies From Distributor Infinite Energy Press from water that may be unfamiliar to many cold fusion and BlackLight Power advocates. A good example: the water-arc process described by Drs. Graneau, p. 33. Our colleague Ken Rauen's review of a major hydroelectric power project in Quebec, Canada, with which he has had direct experience (see p. 19), illustrates the intimate relationship of water, energy, and the environment.