For slain man's family, no arrests mean no closure (Dr Eugene Mallove)

[Minstrel Boy]

For slain man's family, no arrests mean no closure
8 months after his death, no leads in Mallove case

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS
Monitor staff
January 24. 2005 8:00AM

Soon after Eugene Mallove of Pembroke was found murdered in Connecticut, outside his childhood home, the local police said they had talked to a couple of suspects and expected to have fingerprint and DNA evidence within a month.

That was eight months ago, and the police said last week that they are no closer to solving the case. Some of that DNA evidence - the best hope of tying someone to the scene - still hasn't come back from Connecticut's state lab. The police haven't recovered any of the items taken from Mallove, a watch, cell phone and credit cards, said Lt. Timothy Menard of the Norwich, Conn., police. And despite pleas to the public for help, no one has called.

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Mallove's van was located the next morning about 15 minutes away, in a remote parking lot of Foxwoods Resort Casino. A few have theorized that Mallove, a scientist, was killed because he was a tireless champion of cold fusion, a controversial cheap and clean alternative energy source. The police, however, believe Mallove was a victim of a robbery gone bad because several items, although of little value, were taken.

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The family is also saddened by what Mallove's murder has cost the science community, specifically research on cold fusion. Mallove's New Energy Institute, a Concord-based organization aimed at educating the world about the possibilities of new energy, had received nonprofit status shortly before his death. He had hoped being a nonprofit would bring in new donations and allow him to expand his work. The federal Department of Energy was also showing new interest in Mallove's work.

http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050124/REPOSITORY/501240347/1031



http://www.infinite-energy.com/

Police investigate slaying of N.H. man in Conn.

By Associated Press
May 16, 2004

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Mallove, who earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. from Harvard University, was chief science writer at the MIT news office until he left to champion cold fusion. He also taught science writing at MIT and Boston University. He was the author of several books, including one on cold fusion that was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize: "Fire and Ice: Searching for the Truth Behind the Cold Fusion Furor."

Mallove believed the infamous Pons and Fleishmann announcement in 1989 that they created nuclear fusion by running an electrical current through a jar of water was not "voodoo science," but a glimpse into an interesting topic worth investigating.

That belief was partly vindicated earlier this year when the U.S. Department of Energy ordered a panel of scientists to review existing research on cold fusion to see whether it is worth pursuing.

"They are now going to do the right thing. It’s over 10 years late, no doubt about that, (and) should have been reviewed a long time ago ... but this is a breakthrough," Mallove said in a recent interview with The Telegraph of Nashua, N.H.
http://www.pureenergysystems.com/obituaries/2004/EugeneMallove/AP_long_May16.htm

[genieroze]

1. His work could really hurt the energy companies and he was killed

and there are NO leads, could have been a robbery even though nothing of value was taken. The DNA evidence hasn't come back after eight months? Someone call Maury Povich, he can have DNA testing done in two days. What's wrong with this picture? What politicos do the energy companies have in office now, that a good place to start looking.

[seemslikeadream]

2. Cold Fusion Expert killed was to go to Washington to meet DoE commissioner

The Rebirth of Cold Fusion: Real Science, Real Hope, Real Energy
Steven B. Krivit and Nadine Winocur
The Rebirth of Cold Fusion informs the general public about the science and significance of this new field of energy research. The original promise of cold fusion-nuclear energy in a tabletop device without harmful radiation-has gained increasing credibility with scientists around the world who have now replicated it hundreds of times through a variety of methods. Through investigative reports and firsthand interviews with cold fusion researchers and critics, this book vividly portrays how the social and political environment failed to support scientific objectivity and resulted in the premature rejection of what may, in fact, turn out to be the planet's greatest hope for survival.

Cold Fusion Heating Up -- Pending Review by U.S. Department of Energy
According to Dr. Eugene Mallove, editor of Infinite Energy Magazine and a passionate advocate of cold fusion development, the evidence of excess heat and products from nuclear reactions is so extensive as to compel a finding that the cold fusion phenomenon is real. Were it not for Dr. Mallove and others who kept the faith, cold fusion might well have faded from the public consciousness.

When the Department of Energy decided to give cold fusion another hearing, it made no public announcement and did not post any information about its decision on its website. Nevertheless, Dr. Mallove remains confident that once the Department evaluates the evidence in an open-minded and unbiased fashion, it will reconsider its earlier rejection of cold fusion and pave the way for funding of next-generation cold fusion research.

Whether or not cold fusion can be turned into a useful source of energy remains uncertain. But the first step of that 1000-mile journey has been taken. The existence of the phenomenon discovered by Fleischmann and Pons in 1989, then disavowed by the scientific establishment, but subsequently confirmed worldwide in thousands of experiments, may finally be recognized as a revolutionary discovery of science. Cold Fusion may become hot news again.
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http://www.pureenergysystems.com/news/exclusive/2004/ColdFusion_DOE/

Evidence on Cold Fusion Remains Inconclusive, New Review Finds
By KENNETH CHANG
New York Times

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Over the past several months, 18 scientists reviewed research in cold fusion, and two-thirds of them did not find the evidence for nuclear reactions in the experiments convincing. Almost all of them, however, said that aspects of cold fusion merited consideration for further research.

"I think the new review has shed some light on the status of research that has been done over the last 15 years," said Dr. James F. Decker, deputy director of the science office in the Energy Department who agreed to the review at the request of several scientists involved with cold fusion research.

Dr. Decker said the department was open to proposals for cold fusion research, but added that was not new. "We have always been open to proposals that have scientific merit as determined by peer review," he said. "We have never closed the door to cold fusion proposals."

Cold fusion briefly appeared to promise an unlimited energy source in 1989 when Drs. B. Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann of the University of Utah announced that they had generated fusion - the same process that powers the sun - in a tabletop experiment using a jar of water containing deuterium, a heavier version of hydrogen.

They claimed that an electrical current running through the water pulled deuterium atoms into two palladium electrodes, generating heat. The speculation was that the heat was coming from the fusion of the deuterium atoms.
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http://www.infinite-energy.com/resources/inthenews.html

[bin.dare]

3. Mallove was a con man, pure and simple, ...

... up there with the likes of Tom Bearden and Joe Newman.

I do not wish to speak ill of the dead, but one of the best descriptions of him is from Eric Krieg: "he is an effete snob who constantly boasts about having gone to MIT. He makes money by promoting crackpot technology including a number of con men and people who make a living promising free energy in a few weeks. If you look up old issues of his one sided journal, you basically see mostly his own writings and promotions of lunatics who have done nothing but waste people’s time with false claims."

Krieg's website and pact on free energy is at:
http://www.phact.org/e/freetest.html