Police eye robbery in killing of scientist

[UpInArms]

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/05/17/police_eye_robbery_in_killing_of_scientist/

A scientist who was educated at Harvard and MIT and known for his passionate promotion of cold fusion was slain in a possible robbery Friday night, police in Norwich, Conn., said.

Eugene Mallove, 56, of Pembroke, N.H., was unresponsive when police found him in a Norwich house owned by his parents, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.

<snip>

Mallove worked in Concord, N.H., as editor-in-chief and publisher of Infinite Energy magazine and president of the New Energy Foundation, both of which explore alternative forms of energy not generally recognized by mainstream scientists.

<snip>

From a professional standpoint, the loss is particularly difficult, said Frazier, because the US Department of Energy had recently announced it had ordered a review of cold fusion for the first time since 1989, which Mallove had called a "breakthrough" in a New Hampshire newspaper interview. Cold fusion, a theoretical way of creating energy, has been largely discounted by the scientific establishment. Proponents hope it could produce cheaper, safer electricity, among other things.Mallove wrote several books and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his 1991 work "Fire and Ice: Searching for the Truth Behind the Cold Fusion Furor." Frazier, who worked alongside Mallove for six years, recalled him as caring and generous.

...more...

[Algorem]

1. Cheney didn't like him?

[soothsayer]

2. I guess he was making progress.

Pretty scary. I remember thinking when I heard him on Art Bell, "if this guy's for real, he'll end up murdered."

Sure nuff.

[struggle4progress]

5. Probably not. Scientists like new stuff, if it's real, ...

so if cold fusion wasn't passing peer review tests, then cold fusion was very probably just BS.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

6. I don't guess you've been keeping up...

U.S. Department of Energy Will Review 15 Years of
"Cold Fusion" Excess Heat and Nuclear Evidence
<http://www.infinite-energy.com/resources/pressreleasedoe.html>

Cold Fusion Heating Up -- Pending Review by U.S. Department of Energy
<http://www.pureenergysystems.com/news/exclusive/2004/ColdFusion_DOE/index.html>

11th International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science
<http://www.iccf11.org/index2.htm>

Could Cold Fusion Be For Real?
An Interview with Dr. Eugene Mallove - Part 1
<http://www.evworld.com/archives/interviews2/mallove1.html>

[struggle4progress]

7. No, I haven't been keeping up.

Thanks for the links.

I've been skeptical since the original PF experiments and was not surprised in following years to hear that folks hadn't duplicated their results. I change my mind about such things only slowly. Abstractly, I have no intrinsic prejudice against the idea of cold fusion but expect the mechanisms to support only minimal energy production (if cold fusion even exists): the only place where hydrogen nuclei naturally fuse in any numbers is in stars, at tremendous pressures and temperatures; if much of this happened anywhere else, we would notice it, because it releases a LOT of heat.

It's of course interesting that a top-notch theoretician like Schwinger could imagine possible mechanisms for cold fusion, but that's not decisive in itself, and Schwinger's best days may have been forty year passed when he made the suggestion. Your sites speak of "thousands" of experiments, but if these were conclusion I would have expected to see more mention of this in my readings.

The DOE review would be more persuasive to me if the * crowd didn't have an established history of using the federal institutions to support boondoggle give-aways to companies run by folks that support *.

I'm not very impressed, either, by Infinite Energy's suggestions to use "vacuum point energy" or "extensions of the Second Law of Thermodynamics." Come to think of it, I consider it irresponsible to suggest (through a name like "Infinite Energy") that a solution to all our energy woes is just around the corner: breakthroughs may indeed be ahead, but since nobody really knows, it's irresponsible to assume that such breakthroughs are inevitable.

[leftyandproud]

3. The Freepers say...

he was one of theirs...

[Hotler]

4. Corporations will kill if

someone threatens their greed.

[Judi Lynn]

8. Very sad news. He really seemed interesting, and decent. n/t

[Just Me]

9. Was he threatening to expose the truth?

Or was he simply killed in a robbery? I wonder what was robbed.