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JOURNAL OF NEW ENERGY

Volume 3, Number 1

Spring 1998

ISSN 1086-8259

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Hal Fox, Editor

Some journals are formed to print articles to provide a forum for some new technology so that there will be a source for collected papers exploring such new technology. The Journal of New Energy had a similar reason for being. This Journal was begun because of a reluctance on the part of existing American journals to print papers on low-energy nuclear reactions. This article cites the need for publishing papers about new technologies by quoting from Arthur C. Clarke, one of the world's renowned communications specialists. Torsion fields are used as an example of the need to challenge current, well-established, and thoroughly-imbedded scientific beliefs that sometimes discourage articles having contrary views. This Journal's policy on publishing articles that promote new scientific ideas is explained.

Respectfully, Hal Fox, Editor

NEW COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY NEEDED

Hal Fox, Editor

This editorial is for my friend, Arthur C. Clarke. In his book, The Songs of Distant Earth, Clarke invents the water planet Thalassa, which is all water except for two volcanic islands. Communication antennas adorn Mount Krakan and Clarke writes: And it's the key to the inter-island communications system. The summit is six kilometers above sea level -- the highest point on the planet, of course. So it's the ideal site for an antenna park; all long-distance services are routed here and beamed back to the two other islands.

"It's always seemed a little odd to me," Kaldor said mildly, "that after two thousand years we've not found anything better than radio waves."

This issue of the Journal of New Energy provides articles that suggest the following new ideas:

Superluminal transmission of information may be possible (Arthur Clarke, please note). The Hutchison Effect (destruction and intermingling of some solids, levitation, and other strange physical behavior) may have an explanation. Neutrons induced by low-energy electrical discharge. The "Big Bang" is in trouble. The vacuum of space has a crystalline structure. Transmutation can be accomplished at low energies and even in biological systems. The "kinetobaric effect" may lead to new propulsion technologies.

Ideas, such as the above, that challenge existing scientific dogma could meet barriers to publication in some American scientific journals. The Journal of New Energy, although primarily devoted to expanding our understanding of various sources of new-energy technologies, is also devoted to peer-reviewed articles about other new discoveries. The papers must meet certain criteria: They must be subject to peer-review. They must be professional articles buttressed with experimental and/or analytical information. The author's knowledge of the literature should be apparent and sources cited. The author's writings should show competency in the subject discussed.

One of the examples of a new field of inquiry is the torsion field or torsion fields. Here there is a rich literature to cite but very little has been published in English. There are few peers among American scientists as most of the experimental work has been accomplished in the former U.S.S.R. and most of that work has been kept secret until recently. The concept that torsion fields may be able to carry information at many times the speed of light would be unacceptable to some scientists who are limited by the currently-accepted belief that neither energy nor matter can travel faster than the speed of light.

Another example of scientific dogma is the notion that nuclear reactions can only occur at high energies. While this notion has merit, there appear to be ways in which local energy gradients are able to produce nuclear reactions even in biological systems. In this latter case (biological transmutation) it is difficult to find peer reviewers. The number of persons or groups, known to the editor to be investigating biological transmutation at present, number only three: One in Japan (Komaki), one in India (and not ready to publish), and one in Greece (Pappas). This issue reports on the extensive decade of work by the Greek scientist, Panos T. Pappas. Pappas is a personal friend of the editor and his paper has not been peer reviewed but is published as "Editor's Choice".

Papers published by "Editor's Choice" are meant to challenge the readers with new ideas, new experimental results, or new anomalies that challenge existing hypotheses or theories. The paper by Panos T. Pappas challenges the currently accepted but unexplained concept of the sodium-potassium pump in human cells. Hopefully, there will be readers who will even respond to the challenges presented and send their professional responses to the editor.

The editor accepts full responsibility for any mistakes made by publishing articles that are not suitably substantiated by experimental facts. Critical examination of all papers are encouraged and professional letters to the editor will be published and shared with the authors. Readers may express a difference of opinion (unsupported by factual evidence), however, experimental evidence is preferred. For example, you may have a strong belief that nothing can travel faster than light. However, one replicable experiment of superluminal velocity is sufficient to change the long-held theory that information transfer is limited to the speed of light.

Writers of letters to the editor, please do more than cite standard scientific belief. This journal especially welcomes experimental data, even if preliminary. Inadequate theories are, and should be, challenged by new experimental facts. Remember that a good definition of a scientific fact is "the close agreement of a series of observations of the same phenomenon."

JOURNAL OF NEW ENERGY
Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 1998

Contents:

Page

1    ELECTRICALLY INDUCED NUCLEAR FUSION IN THE LIVING CELL
     Panos T. Pappas

10   THERMAL CONDUCTION AND NON-DIFFERENTIAL TEMPERATURE CORRECTIONS TO
     THE ENTHALPIC FLOW EQUATION
     Mitchell R. Swartz

14   THE IMPORTANCE OF CONTROLLING ZERO-INPUT ELECTRICAL POWER OFFSET
     Mitchell Swartz, Gayle Verner

20   NUCLEAR PRODUCTS AND TRANSMUTATION  IN A GAS-LOADING D/PD AND H/PD SYSTEM
     X.Z. Li, L.C. Kong, X.L. Han, S.X. Zheng, H.F. Huang, Y.J. Yan, Q.L. Wu,
     Y. Deng, S.L. Lei, C.X. Li

24   A MODEL-BASED ANALYSIS OF HFS-INDUCED HEAT TRANSPORT IN CERTAIN METALS
     Thomas Z. Fahidy  and Roman E. Sioda

30   A NOTE ON LOW ENERGY NUCLEAR REACTIONS IN CONDENSED MATTER
     Dan Chicea

33   NEUTRON AND HEAT GENERATION INDUCED BY ELECTRIC DISCHARGE
     Tadahiko Mizuno, Tadashi Akimoto, Tadayoshi Ohmori

46   THE CRYSTALLINE VACUUM
     Harold Aspden

54   COMMENTS  ON THE  ZINSSER-DEVICE AND TORSION FIELDS
     Don Reed

59   COMPLEXIFIED EM, GRAVITY, AND ENERGY
     Shiuji Inomata

68   A POSSIBLE EXPLANATION FOR CROP CIRCLES WITH SOME COMMENTS ON ANIMAL
     MUTILATIONS AND FLYING SAUCERS
     Roy Stewart

71   NEW MODEL OF MOLECULAR VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION
     Igor V. Pomerantsev

77   KINETOBARIC EFFECT AS POSSIBLE BASIS FOR A NEW PROPULSION PRINCIPLE
     W. Peschka

86   NEW ASTRONOMICAL DATA FINDS SUPPORT IN THE NUCLEON CLUSTER MODEL
     Willard D. Nelson

93   Fusion Facts

95   LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

     Harvey Morgan:  ELECTRICAL 1/F NOISE

     Tom Bearden:   PURPORTED OVERUNITY RESULTS BY HEWLETT PACKARD

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