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Future Energy: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Future Energy

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The COFE Proceedings that Tom Valone has published reads like a Who's Who among some of the world's top professional researchers in the exciting field of New Energy. Anyone interested in life and energy beyond the era of fossil fuels will find this material compelling and fascinating. The First International Conference on Future Energy (COFE) brought together some of the brightest minds from around the world in an effort to share their vision of the promise of cutting-edge technologies that could have profound effects on how and where our future energy is produced. The success of the industrialized world's transition from limited, polluting fossil fuels to clean and possibly unlimited energy systems is relying on research which pushes the boundaries of contemporary physics.

Among the scientists included in the COFE Proceedings presenting the latest in New Energy research, which goes well beyond more familiar renewable technologies like wind and solar power, was Ken Shoulders, famous for his work with electron charge clusters. Ken and his son Steve have obtained U.S. Patents for their innovative research with this technology that yields excess energy and produces low-energy nuclear reactions. The process appears to have significant potential as an energy source, but there are still serious engineering obstacles to be overcome. Nuclear scientist Dr. Paul Brown was at COFE to describe his company's efforts to commercialize a process that remediates radioactive nuclear waste into harmless isotopes using photofission. This technology has great potential for the United States, which utilizes 114 nuclear reactors for electricity generation and has 34,000 tons of dangerous high-level radioactive waste in temporary storage sites around the country.
One of the current drawbacks with current biomass waste-to-energy technology is that commercial facilities that generate electricity by burning municipal solid waste or landfill gas are still causing air pollution by burning fossil fuels for start-up and fuel stabilization. Researchers Wil Dammann and W. David Wallman have developed a new and unique biomass gasification process that efficiently converts organic feedstock solutions into a clean-burning hydrogen gas. Their direct current (DC) carbon-arc gasification process is a carbon-neutral system and the gas has potential applications in fuel cells as well as remote site power generation. Another father and son team whose work is featured in the COFE Proceedings is Dr. Peter and Neal Graneau who have been experimenting with the liberation of solar energy from ordinary water by means of an arc discharge. Similar to the spark that releases chemical combustion energy in an engine's air-fuel mixture, an electric discharge in water releases a large amount of stored chemical bond energy.
Although the COFE symposium ran into trouble with several federal agencies, David B. Hamilton from the U.S. Department of Energy showed up to explain that the DOE was very concerned about fossil fuel depletion and the health costs from air pollution which the agency estimates costs about $50 billion a year. Hamilton stated "if industry is going to drive the price of hydrogen fuel cell powered electric vehicles down to where consumers will buy them, then the integration of power electronics are key to the enabling of technology." Another leader in energy research at COFE is Bruce Perreault, a principal investigator into the early 20th century discoveries of radiant energy power generation by T. Henry Moray. Perreault presented his Radiant Energy Generator and explained the principles behind the technology. The device utilizes a pumping effect to siphon electrons from the earth to be stored in high voltage capacitors; a second stage converts the high voltage charge into usable power at any frequency. Perreault's innovative invention is a closed system, has zero emissions, makes no noise and emits no toxic by-products.

Pushing the boundaries of the terrestrial experience at COFE was Dr. Steven Greer, founder and International Director of the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI). Dr. Greer, an emergency physician, is widely regarded as the world's foremost authority on the subject of extraterrestrial intelligence who has consulted with senior members of the U.S. government and briefed military and intelligence operations. In his presentation, Dr. Greer reviewed recently declassified UFO documents dating as far back as the 1930s and 1940s. Tom Valone, physicist, author, and former college instructor, is an expert in the field of zero-point energy, which is the "sea of energy that pervades all of space." Valone credits T. Henry Moray for opening one of the doors to unlimited free energy in his excellent presentation entitled "Understanding Zero-Point Energy."
Cold fusion experts Dr. Edmund Storms and Dr. Eugene Mallove have contributed significantly to the subject of low energy and chemically assisted nuclear reactions. Both scientists have written extensively about the cold fusion phenomenon and testified before various government committees regarding the validity of the process. Storms argues that, "new demonstrations of the claims have appeared, reproducibility has been achieved using several methods, and a relationship between heat production and appearance of a nuclear product has been determined." Skeptics demanded these results before validation of the process could be achieved.
The Conference on Future Energy succeeded in offering a forum for innovative technologists and engineers who are working hard to improve the lives of all mankind. Tom Valone is to be commended for publishing the proceedings of this one-of-a-kind conference. (...)