ICCF-10
"Breaking Through"

By Dr. Eugene Mallove, an editorial for Infinite Energy Magazine No.51, September 2003 WWW.INFINITE-ENERGY.COM 

Here are some of the high points to be taken from ICCF10: 

Dr. Mitchell Swartz's Fleischmann/Pons-type electrolytic palladium Phusor/low electrolyte conductance heavy water/platinum cell performed flawlessly in Prof. Hagelsteinšs lab at MIT during ICCF10. Its excess power ranged from 167% to 267% as Dr. Swartz altered the experimental conditions. This excess heat, as measured by his precision calorimeter, persisted from Sunday August 24 to August 30, longer than ICCF10 itself. The excess heat was interrupted on the last day only to bring the equipment back to Wellesley, MA otherwise it would have continued much longer.

Prof. John Dash of the physics department at Portland State University in Oregon and his summer high school student interns also put on historic demonstrations of excess heat at Prof. Hagelsteinšs lab. They used simple but effective calorimetric apparatus, which allowed observers to check the level of excess heat for themselves. 

The Letts-Cravens Effect, as it is now being called , excess heat stimulated by laser light irradiation of cold fusion electrolytic cell cathodes, has now been independently observed by three outside groups: Dr. Michael McKubre of SRI International, Dr. Edmund Storms in New Mexico, and Dr. Mitchell Swartz in Wellesley, Massachusetts. This phenomenon, you may recall, was the subject of the "Fire from Water" cover story in the last issue of Infinite Energy. Low-level laser light power is input and a huge excess power excess emerges, for example: 30 milliwatts input, 1 watt output (a 30-fold multiplication of input power). This is evidently a highly repeatable effect, one that has the potential of breaking though into numerous other labs around the world. 

Dr. James Patterson and his colleagues from Sarasota, Florida revealed a stunningly simple, robust and ingenious gas-phase cold fusion reactor that has produced excess heat for months on end. Full details will be provided to the public in the near term; he is not seeking patent protection at this point. 

Helium-4 correlated with excess heat has been observed now in a solid-state LENR device by a laboratory effort sponsored by the Italian government. 

Energetics Technologies Limited, a company from Israel, which began its multi-million dollar cold fusion effort only two years ago, has already achieved excess heat in a variety of processes. Funded by investors in the United States, the fifteen-member staff of Energetics Limited is aiming directly at the commercialization of the technology. The leader of the effort Dr. Arik El-Boher made a stunning presentation at ICCF10, which caused many jaws to drop.