1. Invents Business Transactions
George invents business transactions, sometimes between his own corporations, to give the appearance that those corporations, which usually exist only on paper, have value. Usually, they have no assets.

2. Uses Scientists' or Institutions’ Names Without Permission or Authorization
George uses the names of recognized, qualified scientists and institutions without their permission, in association with himself, to give the appearance that his businesses have value, recognition and prestige.

3. Creates Illusions That He Has Supportive Scientific Data
George uses the allure of science to give the impression that his proposed technologies are supported by credible scientific research when, in fact, they often are not.

4. Makes False Claims to Ownership of Credible Scientific Data
Of the credible science that George claims as his own research, most of the data and research belong to someone else.

Solar had sustained losses for its entire history and had an accumulated debt of $9 million. Solar was never in a position to pay George $3.5 million. These facts did not become public until May, 10, 2006, when New Energy Times published "A Close Look at Russ George's D2Fusion Inc."

George never told his colleagues that he sold his company to Solar for worthless paper. He told them that he sold his company for $2 million, and they thought he had received $2 million cash. As a result, many of them expressed interest in working for George, and some of them purchased stock in his company with their own real cash.

The effects of these transactions were as follows: George created the appearance among his colleagues and the public that 1) D2Fusion had assets worth $2 million when it didn't, 2) a publicly traded company like Solar was seriously interested in funding LENR research when it wasn't, 3) underfunded LENR scientists had the opportunity to perform well-funded research when they didn't, and 4) LENR researchers could invest in a well-funded company when the only real cash was coming from them.

Source Reference: Solar Energy LTD. U..S. Securities and Exchange Commission 10KSB Filing, A Close Look at Russ George's D2Fusion Inc.

The prospectus for Portal Energies Inc. says that George sold the catalytic fusion technology to Saturna Technologies Inc. But Saturna was George's company. The prospectus then says that Saturna sold the technology to Portal Energies Inc., which also was owned by George. In other words, George played a shell game to give the appearance, on paper, that the company had value.

Source Reference: Portal Prospectus, A Close Look at Russ George's D2Fusion Inc.

"Russell George, president, announced the formation of Clustron Science Corporation, headquartered in Vienna, Virginia. CSC promised to introduce innovative commercial applications in the field of cold fusion. The press release stated that the corporation has made a breakthrough in nuclear science and it will capitalize on the business opportunities in the emerging field of new nuclear science.

"Clustron Science Corporation received start-up capital from a venture capital firm and a group of investors (Washington Post, Aug. 11, 1992).The addition of a for-profit motive to cold fusion has introduced a new dynamic to the equation that shifts the equilibrium away from verification toward capital, technology and related issues. The [Aug. 10, 1992,] press release contained a list of sixteen supporters (along with short r é sum é s) of the nucleon cluster model, the foundation of the new Science Corporation. Within days it became known that the names of the so-called supporters had been used without their knowledge. Upon being contacted, eleven of these scientists repudiated the model. Of the remaining five, two could not be contacted and two are non-scientists."

Source References: Clustron Science Corp. Press Release, Cold Fusion: The Scientific Fiasco of the Century, 2nd ed., by John R. Huizenga, pg. 267

Krivit fact-checked with Scott Chubb, a scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory, and got an e-mail response from Chubb on Dec. 20, 2005.

The Solar SEC filing says that D2Fusion "is a research and development company staffed by scientists and engineers." It also says, "The [D2Fusion] teams are led by Dr. Thomas Claytor at the Los Alamos facility (also of Los Alamos National Laboratory)."

Krivit fact-checked with Claytor on a phone call on Dec. 20, 2005:

Source Reference: A Close Look at Russ George's D2Fusion Inc.

"George spoke about some of his work from around 1999," Schaffer said, "primarily with his palladium-on-carbon catalyst research with his stainless-steel ultra-high-vacuum reactors."

Krivit asked Schaffer how General Atomics had contributed to D2Fusion. It didn't. According to Schaffer, General Atomics did end up teaching George a few things.

"He would ask questions, and I tried to answer as best I could," Schaffer said. "But the collaboration was very limited."

Source Reference: A Close Look at Russ George's D2Fusion Inc.

In 2005, two researchers, Thomas Passell and Thomas Benson, who were colleagues of George’s, who worked for themselves, and who performed research in a third-party lab, became affiliated with D2Fusion shortly before the 12th International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science, in Yokohama, Japan.

In their conference presentation, Passell and Benson and displayed their best results: a single experiment that produced 300 milliwatts of excess heat for a few hours. At the same time, George was telling people and advertising that, within a few months, D2Fusion Inc. would be selling 1,000-Watt home heaters. When Krivit asked George on what scientific data he based such a drastic improvement, the only data he offered was the research performed by Passell and Benson.

The difference between 300 milliwatts and 1,000 Watts is a factor of 3,000. For comparison, consider an automobile manufacturer selling a car that gets 40 miles to the gallon. Imagine now that it claims that, in a few months, it will start selling a car that gets 120,000 miles to the gallon.

But the public did not understand the state of the art in the field. It had no idea that George, Passell and Benson had seen 300 milliwatts only in the lab (which was typical), and therefore people did not know how ludicrous George's promotion was. The details didn't become public until New Energy Times published "A Close Look at Russ George's D2Fusion Inc."

Source References: Passell-Benson Slide, D2Fusion Web site, A Close Look at Russ George's D2Fusion Inc.

The Solar SEC filing says, "Mr. George’s successful experimental prototypes have been tested at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Stanford Research Institute."

New Energy Times fact-checked this with the Los Alamos National Laboratory public affairs office.

"It may be more of a matter of semantics,” Todd A. Hanson, senior adviser for science communications, said, "because Mr. George did test at least one prototype in the city of Los Alamos, just not at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

"According to Dale Tuggle, a Los Alamos scientist who has indeed worked as a consultant for Mr. George, they did test a prototype of George's at a private laboratory in Los Alamos. The tests were done by current or retired Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists and, I gather, were inconclusive. I am quite certain our laboratory, as a public entity, would not and could not officially endorse Mr. George's work and/or prototype, irregardless of its merit or functionality."

Had the SEC investigated, it probably would have concluded that the difference between "tested at the Los Alamos National Laboratory" and "tested in the city of Los Alamos" was not mere semantics.

 New Energy Times fact-checked this with the SRI International public affairs office.

"The information in this SEC 10K filing is not accurate," Ellie Javadi, SRI corporate and marketing communications director, wrote. "The filing incorrectly implies that SRI International has endorsed Mr. George's work and/or prototype. SRI has not endorsed Mr. George's work or his prototype."

Had the SEC investigated, it probably would have concluded that the incorrect filing was fraudulent.

In the mid-1990s, LENR researchers Roger Stringham and Francis Tanzella performed research at SRI International on a cavitation system invented and developed by Stringham. All the intellectual property was and remains owned by Stringham. George joined Stringham's company and focused most of his attention on marketing, and he occasionally performed some hands-on research. One of their projects was funded by EPRI.

Years later, after Stringham and George parted ways, George fabricated an image of what appeared to be the cover page of an EPRI report on the cavitation work and posted it on his Web site at D2Fusion. George's image of the cover page made it look like the work was developed and owned by D2Fusion. D2Fusion did not exist at the time the work took place, and Stringham, through E-Quest Sciences, never transferred any intellectual property to D2Fusion.

Source Reference: George's fabricated cover page image, Real EPRI report and cover image, A Close Look at Russ George's D2Fusion Inc.

As mentioned in 1b above, George tried to sell (and may have succeeded in selling) stock in a private company called Portal Energies Inc. The prospectus for the company says, "The Catalytic Fusion Technology and a device demonstrating this phenomenon are both the inventions of Russ George." Neither of them was. The only catalytic fusion device George worked on was that invented by Les Case. It was replicated at SRI International, and George was a volunteer technician who worked on that project. Portal Energies Inc. had no intellectual property.

George was not on staff at SRI and was not paid by SRI. He came to SRI as free labor to SRI, paid for by the Electric Power Research Institute, thanks to his friend and colleague there, Thomas Passell. George had worked on a project for EPRI in 1989 and produced a documentary environmental film. An e-mail from George in July 2005 to Krivit displays his attitude about theft and plagiarism. "In the field of cold fusion, there seems to be a pervasive and absurd desire to define various modalities in terms of single individuals, when in fact the work is highly distributed and collaborative by nature. It is a disservice to all and to the field to continue to try to single out individuals for priority. Woody Guthrie once explained the real roots of creativity best. He said, 'They say stealing ideas from one person is called plagiarism. I steal from everyone. They call that research.'"