A Special Selection from Infinite Energy Magazine Selected articles from Issues 1 - 45 March/April 1995 - September/October 2002 Index of Special Selection Articles Introductory Note from the Editor (Eugene Mallove) 3 Breaking Through Editorial: Ten Years That Shook Physics (Eugene Mallove, IE #24) 5 Arthur C. Clarke: The Man Who “Predicted” Cold Fusion and Modern Alchemy (Eugene Mallove, IE #22) 7 2001: The Coming Age of Hydrogen Power (Arthur C. Clarke, IE #22) 8 Transcript of ABC’s “Good Morning America” Program, February 7, 1996 (IE #5/6) 10 ABC News “Nightline” Program Features Patterson Cold Fusion Device (Jed Rothwell, IE #5/6) 11 Julian Schwinger: A Fond Remembrance (Eugene Mallove, IE #1) 13 Cold Fusion Theory: A Brief History of Mine (Julian Schwinger, IE #1) 14 My Life with Cold Fusion as a Reluctant Mistress (Edmund Storms, IE #24) 18 Tritium Production from a Low Voltage Deuterium Discharge on Palladium and Other Metals (T.N. Claytor, D.D. Jackson, and D.G. Tuggle, IE #7) 25 The Wright Brothers and Cold Fusion (Jed Rothwell, IE #9) 30 Zen. .and the Art of Debunkery: How to Debunk Just About Everything (Daniel Drasin, IE #22) 36 An Interview with Prof. Martin Fleischmann (Conducted by Christopher Tinsley, IE #11) 40 Progress in Catalytic Fusion: Birth of a Revolution in Cold Fusion? (Reports by Les Case and Michael McKubre, IE #23) 51 Emerging BlackLight Power: Synopsis and Commentary (Mike Carrell, IE #24) 58 The Correa Invention: An Overview and an Investigation in Progress (Mike Carrell, IE #8) 62 The Correa PAGD Reactor: Errata and Supplement (Mike Carrell, IE #9) 66 The Reality of Perpetual Motion (Harold Aspden, IE #8) 70 Why Does Lightning Explode and Generate MHD Power? (Peter Graneau, IE #25) 76 Nuclear Transmutation Reaction Caused by Light Water Electrolysis on Tungsten Cathode Under Incandescent Conditions (Tadayoshi Ohmori and Tadahiko Mizuno, IE #27) 79 The Perennial Challenge of Anomalies at the Frontiers of Science (Beverly Rubik, IE #26) 85 Earth Day! Not Again? (Remy Chevalier, IE #31) 93 Table-Top Antigravity? (Chris Tinsley, IE #9) 94 The Mysteries and Myths of Heat: A Brief History of Hot and Cold (Eugene Mallove, IE #37) 96 Commentary on Maxwell’s Equations and Special Relativity Theory (William Cantrell, IE #38) 99 Breaking Through Editorial: Aether Science and Technology (Eugene Mallove, IE #39) 105 Ninth International Conference on Cold Fusion (ICCF9) Meets in Beijing, China (Eugene Mallove, IE #44) 111 The “Lifter” Phenomenon: Electrogravitics, Antigravity, and More (Eugene Mallove, IE #45) 115 Infinite Energy Magazine Special Selection. 2 Introductory Note from the Editor We are pleased that you have received this free selection of also heard that such claims are all bogus, “pathological sci- representative articles from past issues of Infinite Energy—the ence,” or worse. (Of course there are some unsupported claims world’s leading magazine of new energy science and technolo- that are in that category, from deluded people or con-men.) gy. 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Is it possible that by subscribing to Infinite Energy, or simply checking our web a New Energy Revolution is really in the works and you don’t site (www.infinite-energy.com): know about it? • Substantial technical information from experiments I am happy to inform you that, indeed, a Copernican-like around the world on cold fusion energy (more generically, revolution is in the making. You are thinking, perhaps, “That’s “low-energy nuclear reactions” or LENR) confirms that at least too good to be true—that can’t be right! How could such a 300 gallons of gasoline energy equivalent can be obtained from major development have escaped my notice in newspapers, on just one gallon of ordinary river, lake, or ocean water—with no television, or on the internet? Why would any responsible nuclear radiation hazard, and zero pollution. The product of news organization not report such good news?” Sad to say, the the reaction is a tiny amount of non-toxic helium gas. answer is an emphatic, “Yes—the media have generally ignored • In just one cubic kilometer of ocean—the world has bil- this gigantic revolution-in-the-making, although there have lions of cubic kilometers of water—there is enough hydrogen been exceptions—stories have appeared in Wired, Popular fuel for these LENR processes to equal all the known oil Science, Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, The New York reserves on Earth. Times, and on ABC Television (“Good Morning America” and • There exist patented electric discharge tube plasma devices “Nightline”). These media have not always gotten the story (PAGDTM reactors) whose electric power output greatly exceeds right, and they sometimes have gotten it all wrong! And they electric input. Several scientists have developed a spectacular certainly have not followed through even when they got it experimental and theoretical framework that explains how this right. But even this bizarre media situation is nothing new. anomalous energy can come from the “vacuum state.” Did you know that a century ago, the major media (only And that’s not all—far from it. Infinite Energy has been newspapers and magazines then) were almost completely reporting on developments on the frontiers of the New Energy silent about the discovery of heavier-than-air-flight by the revolution since March of 1995. Regrettably, there are no com- Wright Brothers—until 1908, five years after these geniuses mercially available cold fusion/LENR devices—yet—due to the flew at Kitty Hawk on December 17, 1903? Yes, it’s true! So difficult nature of the LENR phenomena and to the mostly amazing and “impossible” was human travel with flying unrecognized work of, and the tragic under funding of LENR machines—the best scientists for decades had been saying it scientists and technologists. was a preposterous idea—that major newspapers failed for five In the last few years irrefutable new evidence has emerged years to report the Wright brothers’ activities, even though for New Energy sources other than LENR. 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