Excess Heat

 Dear Dr. Mills, Congratulations with the remarkable progress you have made with the SunCell.  You have obviously been working very hard and the rug-pull of getting evicted from NJ (the move alone was bad enough) months prior to lease termination had to be really tough, but you pulled through it well. This is being written a few days after the 2025 Shareholder Meeting .  From some conversation with others and comments during the meeting, it seems that there is frustration with the lack of recent quantitative data from the SunCell, which I share.  This is likely caused by the fact that your lab work has been halted by the grinding labor of relocating.   I am a degreed electrical engineer.  I worked for Dr. Eugene Mallove, who held a strong interest in your work.  The focus of my work was laboratory investigation of anomalous energy claims, so my experience may offer direct suggestions for you, despite that you are a far greater scientist than I wil...

I am an engineer.  Engines run on heat.  Sources of energy in any form are of basic interest to scientists and engineers.  Cold fusion experiments were supposed to be producing heat in quantities that exceeded what would be caused by the power used to drive them.  This was ridiculed as perpetual motion, but if a reaction of a type that was formerly unknown is occurring, it is not perpetual motion.  It is a discovery. My life during and since high school was in the shadow of the awareness that civilization consumes an extreme and steadily increasing amount of energy and that we live on a finite planet with an expanding population.  If we do not find a different way to power civilization, we may prove Malthus correct and discover a real need to reduce population by a large amount, or drastically decrease energy consumption per capita and that is potentially a very dismal prospect.  Even if we can get all the energy we need to live comfortably, the enviro...

I was a young engineer, working for FAA in Albuquerque on March 23, 1989.  A news item caught the interest of myself and co-workers.  Some scientists claimed to have discovered a new source of energy, which had been a focus of my interest since I was a boy.  It was also a prime interest of my father, an electrical engineering professor.  The news was of a press conference .   Two professors at the U of Utah, Fleischmann and Pons were telling the world about something that would unfortunately become labeled as "cold fusion".  This was the beginning of confusion that has persisted.  They really had no good reason to assume that it was a nuclear fusion reaction, and they were careful to admit that it was an hypothesis.  Their evidence was from an electrolytic apparatus.  The analysis was primarily from calorimetry, the measurement of heat, one of the first tools developed for chemistry.  In the modern era, this tool is credited to Lavo...