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002=Usr:1 CISTOP MIKEY 05/07/89 21:24 Msg:3775 Call:20940 Lines:2
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20 Reality is always stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
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003=Usr:322 Stray Cat 05/07/89 21:34 Msg:3776 Call:20941 Lines:6
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22 @#_$)(^@#$_@#)$%!#@_)@&#$%*&@#$+@_)+#!@^&#
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24 HA ... first
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26 !@#$+_)@+#($^@#$%(^!#!@#+_)!@(#^@!!)@&#@%$!#@+_@)*#%^)|@$&^
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004=Usr:33 Mike Stanfill 05/07/89 21:57 Msg:3777 Call:20942 Lines:16
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28 /*/*/*/*/*/*/*
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29 Well, looks like the blancmanges have let someone else have the top of the
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30 disk.
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31
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32 Good thing, too! Isn't there some regulation stating that a human being
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33 mst have the top of the disk once a month or so...
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34
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35 perhaps I should turn him into a Scotsman... hmmm.
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36 _
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37 /#)
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38 n n n (#/
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39 / ~~~ ~~~ \/
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40 /___/____\__\
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41
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42 */*/*/*/*/*/*/ -swob (a Self-Willed Orange Blancmange)
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005=Usr:196 Cheryl Singer 05/07/89 22:17 Msg:3778 Call:20943 Lines:14
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44 ******************************************************************************
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45 Hello, is Cassandra here aga.....and I, for one, have no interest
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46 in being turned into a Scotsman (or -woman, for that matter).There
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47 has been a lot of talk around about the validity of the "cold fusion"
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48 experiments, and what is really happening. What I'm curious about is
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49 what ideas people have about how to use the stuffand how that changes
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50 things. Oh, by the way, be careful what you say...since this is being
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51 tapped. Oh, well...
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52
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53 Nobody did ever listen to Cassandra, anyw...
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54
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55 ***Cassandra***
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006=Usr:465 Gregg Harris 05/08/89 18:59 Msg:3779 Call:20954 Lines:7
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58 )(*&)(&*)(&*(&*)(&*)(&*)(&*)(&*)(&*)(&)(&)(&)(&*)(&*)(&*)(&
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59
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60 where is ever' body?
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61
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62 The Mole modus alonus
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63 )*&)(&)(&)(&*)(&)(&*)(&*)(&*)(&)(&)(&)(&*)(*&)(&*)(&*)(&*)(&()&
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007=Usr:4 Milchar 05/08/89 20:35 Msg:3780 Call:20955 Lines:7
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65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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66 Cassandra: I suppose that depends upon what scientists settle on as
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67 the most energy producing mix. Secondary radiation (caused by the
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68 neutrons emitted by the reaction) could also be a consideration... it
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69 means we might never have a car propelled by fusion power (see "Mr.
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70 Fusion" in Back to the Future... :-) )
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71 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Milch ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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008=Usr:11 L'homme sans Par 05/08/89 21:31 Msg:3781 Call:20957 Lines:9
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72 *%$#)(%)#(%)#(%)@#%)@#_$^()_$%(^)_^(#)_$(_)$#!(^)_$&()_$()_#@(^)_#(^)_#(^)_
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74 Milch: ".GT. 4" ? Methings you have been looking at certain FORTRAN programs
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75 too much. Did you ever find a source for your needed chips? Sorry I could not
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76 help you.
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77
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78 AD: Sometimes you use one more character pair yourself. Better be careful!
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80 %()$()_^()_$#(^#(^)(#^)_@^($)_@ L'homme sans Parity %*()%*#)%*#%()_%)*#)@_%%
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009=Usr:1 CISTOP MIKEY 05/08/89 22:36 Msg:3783 Call:20961 Lines:420
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81 Path: percival!littlei!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!wasatch!donn
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82 From: donn@wasatch.utah.edu (Donn Seeley)
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83 Newsgroups: alt.fusion
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84 Subject: news from the epicenter
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85 Summary: recent Pons comments; new confirmations; upcoming meetings; patents
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86 Message-ID: <1731@wasatch.utah.edu>
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87 Date: 4 May 89 09:11:11 GMT
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88 Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
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89 Lines: 407
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90
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91 I've been away for a week -- I was visiting a good friend who was hit
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92 by a drunk on the wrong side of a freeway and survived. Some things
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93 are more important than fusion (hi, Cynthia! :-). When I got back, I
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94 discovered that fusion was still in the papers; here are some more
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95 excerpts from local reporting which the country at large seems to have
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96 been spared.
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97
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98 A bit over a week ago, just before I left, Pons gave a news conference
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99 in which he presented a few more details about the new work going on at
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100 the U. Here are some of Pons's remarks, as reported by the Salt Lake
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101 Tribune on April 25th:
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102
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103 U of chemist B Stanley Pons said Monday [4/24] that his
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104 research team is perfecting anew design for his nuclear fusion
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105 experiment that may be much better suited for an eventual use
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106 as a [sic] energy source.
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107
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108 Dr Pons decined to give specifics on his new experimental
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109 design, other than to say it was 'a clearly dfferent
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110 configuration.' He gave dimensions of a cyliner about a foot
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111 long and 6 inches in diametr.
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112
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113 'If we can charge a very large piece ofpalladium, then the
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114 power will be consierable,' he said. 'But, again, we would
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115 like to build something we can charge up in a shorter ime
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116 period.' ...
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117
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118 He alo said that the design would lend itself to better
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119 transfer of energy. 'There aremuch better designs for getting
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120 the heat out of the cell.'
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121
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122 Asked how long beore such a new design could be up and
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123 working, he replied, 'I would hope this year.' But he said
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124 making the process work on a commercial scale may still be
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125 decades away. 'The engineers will be the best people to scale
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126 up to that sort of level.'
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127
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128 Dr Pos said he currently has four cells running, including one
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129 that produces no eat. Ten more are within two or three days
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130 of running and he guessed that nine more will e up within a
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131 week or so.
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132
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133 The largest one will be about five times the original [sic],
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134 which used a palladium rod about 4 inches long and less than a
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135 quarter of an inch in diameter.
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136
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137 Platium and possibly other metals will be substituted for
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138 palladium in some of the ne experiments, he said. ...
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139
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140 He said one possible reason that other labs have not confirmed
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141 the results is that the palladium rod must be used as it is
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142 cast. Rods that have been machined or extruded do not seem to
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143 work. 'I think it's clear now that the processing of the
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144 plladium may be a factor.'
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145
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146 Given what he has learned about that, Dr Pons said he can
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147 reproduce the results better than 90 percent of the time. ...
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148
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149 The [Walling-Simons] theory was strengthened by Dr Pons'
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150 statement a week ago [4/18?] that he had measured a trillion
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151 helium atoms per second coming off the device. He acknowledged
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152 Monday that some helium may be present in the palladium before
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153 thereaction begins, but those trace amounts are 'probably a
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154 million times less'than the amounts he has observed. ...
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155
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156 'You could consume the palladium, the plainum, the glass, all
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157 the water, everyting' and not generate the observed heat, he
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158 said.
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159
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160 He cited the xperiments at Texas A&M University and Stanford
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161 University as the most important confimations. Those two are
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162 believed tobe the only ones to support the controversial
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163 heat-producing aspects. Dr Pons said he knws of no
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164 confirmation of the helium generation.
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165
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166 Another article in the same edition of the Tribune contained some testy
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167 remarks by Pons about control experiments:
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168
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169 Dr ons and Dr Fleischmann have been criticized for not
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170 maintaining a control experimnt with light, or ordinary,
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171 wter, but Dr Pons said Monday such an experiment was not a
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172 good control.
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173
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174 'We've always run a control experiment,' he said. The problem
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175 is that the world is trying to tellus what a control
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176 experiment is. I mightnot agree that plain water is a control
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177 experiment. I'll argue that.'
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178
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179 The APS meeting was reported on the front pages of the Tribune and the
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180 Deseret News. On Monday Pons seemed to be in hiding; the Tuesday
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181 morning (5/2) Tribune was only able to say:
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182
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183 Dr Pons declined to comment on the APS meeting] Monday,
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184 refrring all inquiries to university officials.
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185
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186 By Tuesday afternoon Pons was back to form, according to the News:
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187
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188 Pons and Fleichmann Tuesday were elated by the physicists'
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189 remarks.
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190
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191 'We ae extremely pleased because they confirm our findings,'
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192 Pons said. 'The absece of neutrons doesn't concern us in the
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193 slightest. We couldn't be happier. We and other scintists
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194 will soon tell them why this is so.'
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195
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196 Pons seemed rather blithe given the attacks cited later in the article:
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197
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198 The Monday conference comes on the heels f the scathing
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199 editorial in the New York Time that stated that the University
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200 of Utah 'may now claim credit for the artificial-heart horror
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201 show and the cold-fusion circus, two milestones at least in the
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202 history of entertainment if not of science.' ...
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203
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204 The physicists at the meeting gave their loudest cheer Monday
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205 night -- mixed with a few boos -- to S E Koonin of the
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206 Uiversity of California at Santa Barbara who attacked Pons and
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207 Fleischman.
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208
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209 'Based on my knowledge,' he said, 'the xperiment is wrong. It
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210 suffers from he incompetence and delusions of Drs Pons and
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211 Fleischmann.' ...
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212
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213 He joked that maybe Utah and its environment are to blame. 'I
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214 don't know how much (radioactive) radon gas they have in the
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215 lab, but I do know they mine uranium in Utah.'
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216
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217 I suppose Koonin could equally well have mentioned all that wonderful
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218 fallout that the federal government spread over the state back in the
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219 days of open-air atomic testing...
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220
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221 The only direct rejoinder from Pons in the article was quite tart:
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222
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223 'We are amazed that Proessor Lewis [of Caltech] has learned
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224 how to solve all those problems in only one month when it took
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225 us 5 1/2 years. We further would like to know that if his
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226 results are to be thermodynamically feasible, why is it that he
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227 doesn't observe cold spots along with his hot spots?' Pons
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228 said.
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229
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230 The response of the local papers to the APS flap was to contact groups
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231 that had reported confirmations of the experiment and print their
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232 (positive, naturally) responses. Here is what the Tribune had to say
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233 this morning:
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234
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235 Scientists who have confirmed the heat-prodcing aspects of the
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236 University of Utah' solid-state nuclear fusion experiment are
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237 standing firm despite an avalanche of criticism b physicists
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238 meeting in Baltimore.
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239
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240 And one of the scientists, Uziel Landau of Case Western
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241 University, criticized the scientists for 'unfair' statements
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242 about the U of U electrochemists, Stanley Pons and Martin
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243 Fleischmann [sic].
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244
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245 'I think the statementswere just outrageous,' said Dr Landau,
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246 a professor of chemical engineering at the Cleveland, Ohi,
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247 school. He added that he wasn't at the meeting and only nows
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248 what he heard on the radio.
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249
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250 Dr Landau, who announced his confirmation on Saturday, and
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251 scientists at Texas A&M University and Stanford University are
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252 believed to be the only people to publicly confirm the excess
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253 heat of the Fleischmann-Pons experiment. ...
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254
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255 'Wedo see a net power output from our cell, pretty much along
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256 the same numberas Fleischmann and Pons had reported,' [Landau]
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257 said. ...
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258
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259 Dr Landau took exception with reports that the original
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260 eperiment and the confirmations suffer from improper heat
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261 calculations. 'I do't think we have a calculation error,' he
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262 said. 'We are just as expert as anyone else at hea-transfer
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263 calculations.'
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264
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265 He also said he had great respect for Dr Fleischmann, whom he
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266 said he has known for about 10 years. 'He's a very cautious,
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267 very careful guy, highly regarded. I take very seriously any
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268 statement that has come out of him.'
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269
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270 He sad he has also seen a slight increase in tritium levels in
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271 the heavy water slution, but is making no conclusions yet.
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272 'We stay way short of saying we have seen fusion.' ...
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273
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274 Joel Scherkin, spokesman for StanfordUniversity, said Robert
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275 Huggins andhis team have an electrolytic cell that continues
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276 to produce excess energy. ...
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277
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278 'They are standing by their guns,' he said, addin that they
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279 are bracing for more criticism. 'Theyare circling the
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280 wagons.'
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281
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282 He said Dr Huggins has submitted a paper to 'a prestigious
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283 journal' that he would not name, and he wouldn't have any
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284 other press announcements until it is published. 'We're going
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285 to do what the University of Utah didn't.'
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286
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287 Txas A&M spokesman Ed Walraven said chemist Charles Martin and
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288 his team re 'a little surprised' by the acrimony coming from
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289 the Baltimore meeting, but 'tey're not angry.'
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290
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291 Mr Walrven said the school now has about a dozen electrolytic
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292 cells running in heavy wate in various departments on campus,
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293 and 'about half' of them are producing heat.
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294
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295 'The cells still continue to generate excess energy, and the
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296 researchers continue to document those findings,' he said,
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297 adding a note of caution: 'We're far from having all the
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298 problems licked.'
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299
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300 The News went so far as to report a confirmation from a second group at
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301 A&M:
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302
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303 A second team of researchers at Texas A&M University has
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304 announced successful replication of the most controversial part
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305 of the U experiment. Their electrochemical reaction produced
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306 more energy than required to make the reaction work. ...
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307
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308 Wednesday's confirmation by John Appleby, world-renowned
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309 electrochemist at Texas A&M University, could help silence
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310 skeptics who for six weeks have criticized the revolutionary
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311 research of Pons and Fleischmann.
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312
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313 Appleby, diector of the Electrochemical Systems and Hydrogen
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314 Research Center, and his colleagus are the second Texas A&M
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315 tea to independently confirm the project. ...
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316
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317 'His (Appleby's) confirmation is no state secret, but he has
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318 only mentioned it to colleagues in conservative way,' said Ed
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319 Wlraven, assistant director of public information at the Texas
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320 universit.
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321
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322 Walraven indicated that Appleby's formal nnouncement is
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323 pending publication of his daa in a scientific journal.
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324
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325 Like the team headed by [A&M electrochemist] Martin, the
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326 electrochemical reaction carried out by Appleby's group
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327 prouced between 20 percent more energy [sic] than required to
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328 make the reactin work, Walraven said.
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329
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330 Like Martin's group, Appleby and colleagues report generating
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331 lower percentages of energy than do Pons and Fleischmann.
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332
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333 Walraven said both Texas A&M teams are now trying to determine
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334 why the initial experiments (of Martin) produced between 60 and
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335 80 [sic] more energy than required to make the reaction work -- and a secnd ex
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336 excess energy -- although at a somehat lower level. They have
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337 half dozen experiments that are producing excess heat.
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338
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339 The News described how the electrochemists were planning to take their
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340 revenge on the physicists:
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341
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342 .. U officials, who filed another patent application this
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343 week, predicted Wedneday that many more groups will announce
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344 confirmation next week at the biannual meeting of the
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345 Electrochemical Society in Los Angeles.
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346
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347 Hugo Rossi, dean of the U College of Science and newly
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348 appointed director of the U's solid-state fusion research
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349 effort,said May 8 will be 'F-Day' -- the day that an
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350 additional chemists [sic], meeting with ther colleagues, will
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351 report successful repoduction of the experiment that's caused
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352 fusion fever to run rampant worldwide.
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353
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354 Rossi said several people are scheduled to speak at a specil
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355 session at 5:45 PM 'at which time five or six papers will be
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356 reporting results consistent' with U chemists B Stanley Pons
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357 and Martin Fleischmann.
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358
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359 Rossi, wh is overseeing the expansion and scaling up of the U
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360 experiment, hopes confirmatons on Monday will satisfy the
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361 state Fusion/Energy Advisory Council. The council is charged
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362 wth allocating $5 million in state money for fusion
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363 development.
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364
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365 Also coming up in three weeks is a cold fusion workshop sponsored by
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366 Los Alamos, according to the 4/25 Tribune, although the APS fiasco may
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367 take some of the steam out of it:
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368
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369 US Secretary of Energy James D Watkins ha directed his 10
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370 national laboratories to tep up cold nuclear fusion
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371 effrts...
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372
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373 ... Los Alamos National Labortory will sponsor a scientific
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374 workshop on the subject in Santa Fe, NM, May 23-25. ...
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375
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376 [DOE spokesman] Mr Sherwood said the May cold fusion meeting
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377 will be chaired by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Robert
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378 Schrieffer, director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics at
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379 the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Norman
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380 Hckerman, a chemist and former president of the University of
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381 Texas who i a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
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382
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383 In the meantime Pons apparently will work fairly closely with LANL:
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384
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385 [Pons] ave sketchy details of his planned collaboration
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386 with Los Alamos. Scientists from th New Mexico laboratory
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387 will bring thei equipment to Utah to examine the experiment,
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388 and they will likely take one of the workig cells back with
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389 them.
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390
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391 Some contributors to alt.fusion have speculated that patent
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392 considerations have led Pons and Fleischmann to restrict detailed
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393 information about their technique. A long article on patents in the
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394 4/28 Tribune shows one U official trying to dispel this impression,
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395 while at the same time a U attorney apparently contradicts him:
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396
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397 The Utah Attorney General's Office has selected law firms in
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398 Salt Lake City and Houston to lead what is already being
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399 caracterized as a 'nasty' patent fight on its nuclear fusion
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400 research. ...
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401
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402 Assistant Attorney General Joseph Tesch Thursay told members
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403 of the Fusion/Energy Advisoy Council, the panel formed to
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404 distribute $5 million in state fusion money, that his office
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405 had retained the Salt Lake firm of Giauque, Williams, Wilcox
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406 and Bndinger to oversee the patent fight.
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407
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408 And Richard Giauque, who Mr Tesch described as one of the best
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409 trial lawyers in America,' old the panel that he has hired the
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410 Houston firm of Arnold, White and Durkee to assist in securing
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411 national and international patent rights.
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412
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413 Arnold, White and Durkee attorney Paul Janicke, who Mr Giauque
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414 described as 'a very, very tough litigator,' will lead the
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415 patent effort. ...
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416
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417 The university had prviously hired California attorney Peter
|
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418 Dallinger, a nuclear physicist who filed the first patet
|
||
419 applications, and he will continue to assist the legal team U
|
||
420 Vice President for Research James Brophy said. ...
|
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421
|
||
422 'Events which probably ought not to be made publi have
|
||
423 occurred in the last few days, which indicate tha there are
|
||
424 people who are going to take every advntage they can,' Mr
|
||
425 Tesch said.
|
||
426
|
||
427 Mr Giauque said his immediate goal is to stop the flow of
|
||
428 information that could undermine the patents. 'We need to get
|
||
429 a tight hold very earlyon disclosures.'
|
||
430
|
||
431 Drs Pons and Feischmann have been criticized for providing too
|
||
432 little information to other scientits trying to duplicate the
|
||
433 experment, but Dr Brophy said they are not withholding
|
||
434 information for patent reasons.
|
||
435
|
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436 He acknowledged that the only paper the pair ha published is
|
||
437 not as thorough as it could hav been, but he and both
|
||
438 scientists havetried to help their colleagues over the phone.
|
||
439
|
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440 He said some scientistshave been 'surprisingly naive' and have
|
||
441 committed some careless mistakes in trying to reproducethe
|
||
442 experiment. 'You have to remember that Pons and Fleichmann
|
||
443 spent 5 1/2 hears on this.' ...
|
||
444
|
||
445 The U has filed several patent applications and plans to file
|
||
446 more, and other schools, including university patent leader
|
||
447 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have said they have
|
||
448 filed applications on their own interpretations of the
|
||
449 experiment.
|
||
450
|
||
451 The competition became quite apparentwhen Mr Giauque was
|
||
452 interviewing patentfirms. 'As we scouted the major patent
|
||
453 firms, we found that some of them had developed conflic-of-
|
||
454 interest problems already.'
|
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455
|
||
456 Mr Tesch had council members sign a confidential disclosure
|
||
457 agreement requiring them to not discuss patent-sensitive
|
||
458 issues. 'Any violation of that would be a crime,' he said.
|
||
459 ..
|
||
460
|
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461 I couldn't resist repeating one little ironic comment about the media
|
||
462 circus that appeared in the 4/26 Tribune:
|
||
463
|
||
464 Drs Pons and Fleischmann were accompanied on their Capitol Hill
|
||
465 visits by U of U President Chase N Peterson and by James J
|
||
466 Bophy, the U's vice president for research. Rep. Howard C
|
||
467 Nielson joined th U contingent with Majority Leader Foley,
|
||
468 whose dog Alice was also in attendance.
|
||
469
|
||
470 (Yes, but was the dog a physicist or a chemist?)
|
||
471
|
||
472 While on the subject of the Capitol Hill testimony, I wanted to mention
|
||
473 that as far as I know, the $25 million figure that has been attributed
|
||
474 to Pons on alt.fusion actually came from U President Chase Peterson.
|
||
475 U officials have lost most of their self-respect when it comes to
|
||
476 scrounging for cash -- the Utah educational system is strapped, having
|
||
477 suffered budget cuts in recent years and having narrowly avoided
|
||
478 disaster with the defeat of massive tax rollback initiatives last
|
||
479 November. The Channel 2 evening news tonight had a report on grade
|
||
480 school education in Utah and found that among the 50 states and the
|
||
481 District of Columbia, Utah ranks:
|
||
482
|
||
483 51st in class sizes (24.1 pupils per teacher);
|
||
484 50th in spending per student; and
|
||
485 43rd in teacher salaries.
|
||
486
|
||
487 Utah does manage to reach the national average on standardized tests,
|
||
488 although this says to me that the state could be far superior if it
|
||
489 wanted to. A schoolteacher friend of mine quit last year and is now
|
||
490 driving limousines for a living...
|
||
491
|
||
492 Let's hope that in a year from now, Stan Pons isn't in that line of
|
||
493 work too,
|
||
494
|
||
495 Donn Seeley University of Utah CS Dept donn@cs.utah.edu
|
||
496 40 46' 6"N 111 50' 34"W (801) 581-5668 utah-cs!donn
|
||
497 ************************************************************************
|
||
498 Sorry about some of the dropouts, I'm not sure it is it me or the line.
|
||
499 I have been getting some strange line noise problems lately...
|
||
500 ************************ CM *********************************************
|
||
010=Usr:287 Ralph Steadman 05/08/89 23:22 Msg:3784 Call:20962 Lines:57
|
||
501 Isn't it strange how history can repeat itself, and the oil companies never
|
||
502 seem to learn anything except how to raise prices and increase profit and
|
||
503 destroy more of the environment.......from 1986:
|
||
504
|
||
505 APwa 01/16 0552 TankerBan
|
||
506 PORT ANGELES, Wash. (AP) -- Clallam County officials say they are considerin
|
||
507 aban on tanker traffic in Port Angeles Harbor because of last month's oil spill
|
||
508 that fouled the county's beaches and killed more than 1,000 birds.
|
||
509 Commissioner Dorothy Duncan said commissioners were weighing the costs and
|
||
510 benefits of allowing oil tankers to berth in Port Angeles on their way to
|
||
511 refineries in Washington's inland waters.
|
||
512 But Atlantic Richfield Co., owner of the tanker ARCO Anchoragethat spilled
|
||
513 the 189,000 gallons of Alaska crude oil in Port Angeles on Dec. 21, said it and
|
||
514 other tanker owners would challenge any move to keep tankers out of the harbor.
|
||
515 And Coast Guard Capt. John De Carteret said that even though the county coul
|
||
516 court and proved in violation of interstate commerce rules.
|
||
517 Cleanup of the spill is nearly complete. Arco is paying the more than $3
|
||
518 million in cleanup costs.
|
||
519 The existing regulation banning tankers of more than 125,000 tons from Puget
|
||
520 Sound was established only because the state asked the Coast Guard to institute
|
||
521 the rule, De Carteret said.
|
||
522 Ms. Duncan was not available Wednesday evening to respond to De Carteret's
|
||
523 statements.
|
||
524 She said earlier that there's a feeling among constituents that there's no
|
||
525 reason why tankers of that size should come into a sheltered harbor.
|
||
526 Oil-carrying tankers like the ARCO Anchorage, which weighs in just under the
|
||
527 125,000-ton limit, frequently use Port Angeles as a holding area.
|
||
528 Industry figures show that 54 such vessels stopped at Port Angeles last year
|
||
529 City and county officials say they had warned that Port Angeles was poorly
|
||
530 prepared to deal with such calamities.
|
||
531 Port Angeles officials say they repeatedly tried to pin down Coast Guard
|
||
532 officials on plans for fighting a major oil spill, but got nowhere.
|
||
533 An effort by the city to pass an ordinance giving local officials more
|
||
534 information on ships berthing in their harbor encountered resistance from
|
||
535 industry.
|
||
536 Ms. Duncan said neither state nor federal law requires an assessment of the
|
||
537 quality of a cleanup.
|
||
538 In 1979, the Coast Guard received $46 million for equipment and start-up
|
||
539 costs for 11 oil spill cleanup teams, including one for Puget Sound. But budget
|
||
540 cuts have eliminated the $10 million yearly to hire 333 Coast Guard personnel t
|
||
541 man the strike teams, and the strike force equipment sits in warehouses unused.
|
||
542 Only three strike teams are currently active. One is in Mississippi, another
|
||
543 in New Jersey and the third is in San Francisco.
|
||
544 And obviously not one in Alaska....Someone could have seen the Valdez spill
|
||
545 coming...and probably did, but it is more profitable to let the disaster happen
|
||
546 than spending money, after all how could profitability be maintained if all
|
||
547 money was "wasted" and there was no oil spill? And the oil spills just keep
|
||
548 coming, another over the weekend off Saudi Arabia, the captain was navigating
|
||
549 with out of date charts and ran aground on a reef. Sound familiar?
|
||
550 Evidently some lessons just won't be learned by some mentalities...assuming
|
||
551 there is some HUMAN intelligence in charge at the top of the "Seven Sisters"...
|
||
552 but then again I'm assuming too much.......
|
||
553
|
||
554 ___------>BOYCOTT EXXON<--------_____(and ARCO...they've spilt more than their
|
||
555 share of oil lately too)....Why not give up fossil fuels altogether?
|
||
556
|
||
557
|
||
011=Usr:287 Ralph Steadman 05/09/89 11:05 Msg:3785 Call:20969 Lines:38
|
||
558 696969696969
|
||
559
|
||
560 Do you need more reasons not to do business with the oil companies
|
||
561 ??????? Oil prices down....gasoline prices the same or higher....
|
||
562 OPEC SENDS OIL FUTURES REELING:-5/9/89
|
||
563 Reports of overproduction by OPEC knocked oil futures prices to their
|
||
564 lowest levels in nearly two months. June contracts for West Texas intermediate
|
||
565 fell 58 cents to $19.44 a barrel on the New York Merc. OPEC members boosted
|
||
566 their production in April to 20.9 million barrels a day, Petroleum
|
||
567 Intelligence Weekly' says.
|
||
568 SENATE FINDS FRAUD IN OIL FIRMS:-5/9/89
|
||
569 Senate investigators who went undercover to check on oil and gas companies
|
||
570 operating on the nation's Indian reservations found systematic under-reporting
|
||
571 and low payments to tribes. Their findings are expected to be revealed,
|
||
572 beginning Tuesday, as a special Senate committee investigating alleged fraud
|
||
573 and abuse in Indian programs opens its second round of hearings.
|
||
574
|
||
575 ...a kinder, gentler nation indeed! The "environmental president" indeed!
|
||
576
|
||
577 and a warning for long distance callers at pay phones:
|
||
578 CONSUMER GROUP - READ THE LABEL:-5/9/89
|
||
579 A recent law forcing pay telephone owners to choose a long- distance
|
||
580 company could spell trouble for consumers. Consumer groups advise customers to
|
||
581 read the labels on pay telephones before dialing, as some smaller companies
|
||
582 charge as much as five times that of larger carrier rates.
|
||
583 The three major long-distance carriers offered their access codes Monday
|
||
584 as a new rule forced pay telephone owners to choose a carrier. Some smaller
|
||
585 companies charge five times the rates of AT&T, Sprint of MCI. Phone customers
|
||
586 must now go through a carrier chosen by the phone owner, or dial another
|
||
587 company's code. Access codes: AT&T - 10288; MCI - 10222; Sprint - 10333.
|
||
588 Direct dial and person-to-person calls from pay telephones will be routed
|
||
589 through AT&T, despite recent government regulations requiring pay telephone
|
||
590 owners to select a carrier. By law, pay telephones must be labeled with the
|
||
591 name of the selected carrier on a sticker above the coin box.
|
||
592
|
||
593 presented in the spirit of the quote opening this disk......
|
||
594 696969696969696969
|
||
595
|
||
012=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 05/09/89 11:36 Msg:3786 Call:20970 Lines:11
|
||
596 &*&*&*&*'s
|
||
597 Me put in extra &*'s? Hmm, I might at that.
|
||
598
|
||
599 Well, I'm back from that cold dark land known as The Dalles. Just checking in
|
||
600 for now, but I'll be back later. (Big deal eh?)
|
||
601
|
||
602 I love the info. here well worth reading.
|
||
603
|
||
604 An Astral Dreamer
|
||
605 &*&*&*&*'s
|
||
606
|
||
013=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 05/09/89 19:36 Msg:3787 Call:20978 Lines:3
|
||
607
|
||
608 Standard looking around note. 'I hear the sound of silence.'
|
||
609
|
||
014=Usr:219 Friar Mossback 05/09/89 23:11 Msg:3788 Call:20983 Lines:1
|
||
610 [][][][][][][] Friar was here [][][][][][][][][][] Boycott Exxon!
|
||
015=Usr:277 Schizo 05/10/89 01:07 Msg:3789 Call:20985 Lines:4
|
||
611 !!! @!@! !!!! !! @@!! @@@
|
||
612 Yes, that makes sense, but you forgot to mention that golf balls
|
||
613 exibit the Magnus Effect.
|
||
614 !!! @!@! !!!! !! @@!! @@@
|
||
016=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 05/10/89 15:47 Msg:3790 Call:20995 Lines:7
|
||
615 &*&*&*&*'s
|
||
616
|
||
617 Ok, there must be something of interest going on.
|
||
618
|
||
619 An Astral Dreamer
|
||
620 &*&*&*&*'s
|
||
621
|
||
017=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 05/10/89 18:36 Msg:3791 Call:20996 Lines:57
|
||
622 . . . CONECTION
|
||
623
|
||
624 The new console was everything Kit had believed it would be. These
|
||
625 new models were lightning fast, Giving anybody who used them an edge.
|
||
626 "Invoke program mode overload."
|
||
627 Blitter, in the form of a slowly pulsing ball of light hovering
|
||
628 beside him answered. "Overload mode invoked. Ready we are."
|
||
629 "Good, I want you to be sure not to get lost. This is going to be
|
||
630 an interesting experiment.."
|
||
631 "Yes Kit."
|
||
632 The cold dark light of Cyber space surronded them. The twinkling bits
|
||
633 like stars flew by at jetlike speeds. With a jolt the bits slowed, until
|
||
634 they moved by at a much more leisurly pace.
|
||
635 "Hot d*mn, I'm going to kick some *ss now!."
|
||
636 "Kit, this dangerous, you risk burnout..."
|
||
637 "I know my limits blitter, you just keep in the background for now."
|
||
638 "Yes Kit."
|
||
639 He moved forward like a ball of lightning, invoking the scrambling
|
||
640 procs he always kept on line. Knowbody was going to know where
|
||
641 he was coming from. He could feel the power surging through him, knew that
|
||
642 there wasn't a corporate fink anywhere that could touch him. Unless..
|
||
643 "We're heading in, foreground blitter. Handle the scrambles. Get
|
||
644 ready to watch one hell of an explosion."
|
||
645 Kit decided to switch enviorments. He was in a jet fighter plane,
|
||
646 streaking through the sky towards a group of buildings that surrounded a
|
||
647 field. As he came down low he could hear the alarms begin to sound. He
|
||
648 did a quick countdown, and then let lose with two Data seeking missles. they
|
||
649 burst into the command tower, blowing it into tiny little pieces. "Yahoo!"
|
||
650 "Kit! Interceptors coming in, to your left!"
|
||
651 He looked around and saw two dozen jet fighter craft heading his way.
|
||
652 They were moving slower but still might be able to corner him. "Bring the
|
||
653 ECM's online blitter. Do a full launch, repeat full launch!"
|
||
654 "Yes Kit." There was a sudden flare behind him, as blitter invoked the
|
||
655 ECM's. half the Interceptors lost their fixes and drifted off, but he still
|
||
656 had another twelve to worry about.
|
||
657 He made a rapid turn back towards the compound. The remaining jets
|
||
658 were coming in fast, he'd have to time this just right or they would have
|
||
659 him cornored. "Arm the obliterator!"
|
||
660 "Ready Kit."
|
||
661 He was about to be pinned between two of the interceptors. With a rapid
|
||
662 motion on the stick he dived beneath them. The flash as they colided
|
||
663 momentarily blinded him, and when he was able to see again his target was
|
||
664 just in front of him. 'Drop the Obliterator blitter.!"
|
||
665 "Bombs away!"
|
||
666 "Envoke hyper-space."
|
||
667 Everything went light,dark and then light again. The plane was still
|
||
668 in evasive manuevers. "How'd it go?"
|
||
669 "CPU destroyed, lost the interceptors when net access went down."
|
||
670 "And we made it out without a scratch! We burned the corps again."
|
||
671@ "One down, 23 million plus to go." Kit reminded him.
|
||
672@ "When the h*ll did I teach you to be cynical?"
|
||
673@
|
||
674 "One down, 23 million plus to go." blitter reminded him.
|
||
675 "When the h*ll did I teach you to be cynical?"
|
||
676
|
||
677 . . . CONNECTION CLOSED.
|
||
678
|
||
018=Usr:233 molusk the crab 05/10/89 20:51 Msg:3792 Call:20997 Lines:18
|
||
679 **********************************
|
||
680 Just sitin' here watching
|
||
681 the world go round and round,
|
||
682 you know I just wish that it would
|
||
683 go. Until there was no more
|
||
684 sufferin' or wo.
|
||
685
|
||
686 Imagine all that before
|
||
687 you, and above you only sky. The
|
||
688 end is not tommorow, so don't say
|
||
689 goodbye.
|
||
690
|
||
691 Hapiness is a warm sun,
|
||
692 in that sky. Ever stop to wonder
|
||
693 why?
|
||
694
|
||
695 *********************************
|
||
696
|
||
019=Usr:287 Ralph Steadman 05/10/89 22:11 Msg:3793 Call:20999 Lines:89
|
||
697 696969696969
|
||
698 APn 05/07 1989.By PAUL JENKINS Associated Press Writer
|
||
699 VALDEZ, Alaska (AP) -- Alaska's top environmental official testified Sunday
|
||
700 that a "reluctant and myopic" Exxon stalled efforts to clean up the nation's
|
||
701 largest oil spill by largely ignoring damage outside the immediate spill zone.
|
||
702 Dennis Kelso, commissioner of the state Department of Environmental
|
||
703 Conservation, told a congressional panel the spill has caused "550 miles of oil
|
||
704 filthy foam and tar balls."
|
||
705 He said that on the East Coast, it would be the equivalent of oil washing up
|
||
706 on beaches from Boston south to the mouth of Chesapeake Bay and possibly to the
|
||
707 Potomac River.
|
||
708 "The industry's response was reluctant and myopic, chacterized by stalling
|
||
709 techniques, disinformation, and a refusal to pay real attention to damage
|
||
710 outside of Prince William Sound," Kelso told the five-member subcommittee of th
|
||
711 House Interior Committee.
|
||
712 The congressional panel planned two days of hearings in Valdez, with
|
||
713 testimony scheduled from state, federal and Exxon officials.
|
||
714 In another development Sunday, a state official said Exxon's decision to pul
|
||
715 cleanup crews from an oil-stained beach caught authorities by surprise, but a
|
||
716 spokesman for the oil company defended the decision.
|
||
717 The oil company removed its workers Saturday from a pebble-strewn beach on
|
||
718 the north edge of Smith Island, a site described only shortly before by the
|
||
719 ranking federal official in charge of the cleanup as "far from clean." The site
|
||
720 was one of those visited last week by Vice President Dan Quayle during his
|
||
721 stopover in the state.
|
||
722 Crews remained on the island, but at another oil-fouled landfall nearby,
|
||
723 Exxon said. The island is considered crucial to the annual seal pupping cycle.
|
||
724 "The people who were here last night from Exxon didn't know anything about
|
||
725 this," Pete McGee, a scientist with the state Department of Environmental
|
||
726 Conservation, said Sunday. Exxon and state and federal officials have been
|
||
727 conducting nightly meetings on the progress of the cleanup.
|
||
728 McGee said state and federal officials were surprised that the beach cleanup
|
||
729 was halted because "the beach was not adequately clean."
|
||
730 Exxon spokesman Pete Stilling said the cleanup crews were moved off the
|
||
731 northern beach in order to attack more heavily soiled areas nearby.
|
||
732 "I think we fully intend to come back to that beach. I won't tell you we'll
|
||
733 be back on that beach tomorrow," Stilling said. "(Exxon's) best judgment at thi
|
||
734 point is that it's time to move on."
|
||
735 Al Ewing, an assistant regional administrator of the U.S. Environmental
|
||
736 Protection Agency, said he was on the north beach Saturday morning and found it
|
||
737 still "very difficult to walk on" because of the oil.
|
||
738 Exxon faces a Wednesday deadline to have the worst of the oil cleansed from
|
||
739 several islands in Prince William Sound, and has promised to clean some 364
|
||
740 miles of coastline by Sept. 15.
|
||
741 The tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on a reef in the sound on March 24 after
|
||
742 filling its storage tanks with crude from the trans-Alaska pipeline. More than
|
||
743 10 million gallons of oil poured into the sound.
|
||
744
|
||
745 OFFICIAL - EXXON SKEWS REPORTS:-5/10/89
|
||
746 Exxon is misleading the public about how fast it reacted to the March 24
|
||
747 Valdez oil spill, Alaska's top environmental official said Tuesday.
|
||
748 Environmental Conservation Commissioner Dennis Kelso was to testify Wednesday
|
||
749 before Congress that oil firms should be made to accept state supervision of
|
||
750 cleanups.
|
||
751 Exxon says it spent $95 million cleaning up the Alaska spill and is waging
|
||
752 a public relations campaign defending its response. Damage might have been
|
||
753 lessened, the company said, had the state allowed it to use chemical
|
||
754 dispersants. Alaska's environmental chief, Dennis Kelso, denies that Exxon
|
||
755 requested their use.
|
||
756 Exxon sent home Tuesday the Soviet oil-skimming ship Vaydaghubsky from
|
||
757 its cleanup duties along the Alaska coast. The ship has been under a $15,000-
|
||
758 a-day Exxon contract. In a related development, Alaska Gov. Steve Cowper
|
||
759 signed into law a bill raising taxes on oil firms by $235 million next year.
|
||
760 KELSO - CAN'T TRUST INDUSTRY:-5/10/89
|
||
761 The oil spill in Prince William Sound proves that the oil industry can't
|
||
762 be trusted to direct cleanup of future accidents, Alaska's environmental chief
|
||
763 said Tuesday. Dennis Kelso said oil companies should pay for teams of
|
||
764 government workers trained to contain oil spills.0He said Exxon and others
|
||
765 were misleading the public about how quickly they responded to the spill.
|
||
766
|
||
767 BUSH DRAWS FIRE ON ENVIRONMENT:-5/10/89
|
||
768 Two recent Bush administration actions affecting the environment are
|
||
769 making politicians, scientists and environmentalists increasingly upset about
|
||
770 Bush's noncommittal behavior toward what they believe are the world's most
|
||
771 critical issues. The administbqtio~ recently diluted scientific testimony on
|
||
772 global warming and hesitated to sponsor a global convention.
|
||
773 White House officials defend President Bush's role as an environmental
|
||
774 president, citing four areas: a promised U.S. phase out of chlorofluorocarbons
|
||
775 considered a cause of global warming, increased financing for global warming
|
||
776 research, cleanup programs and new amendments to the Clean Air Act.
|
||
777 ENVIRONMENTAL ATTENTION MISSING:-5/10/89
|
||
778 The Bush administratyon's dilution of scientific testimony on global
|
||
779 warming and its hesitation to sponsor a global convention suggest the
|
||
780 environmental president is missing, critics say. The actions join a list
|
||
781 that's making politicians and environmentalists disgruntled. Global warming is
|
||
782 considered a critical issue because of its relationship to climate and the
|
||
783 ozone layer.
|
||
784
|
||
785 696969696969696969
|
||
020=Usr:465 Gregg Xarrys 05/10/89 23:02 Msg:3794 Call:21000 Lines:7
|
||
786 )*&)(*&)(*&)(**&)(*)(*&((&((*&
|
||
787
|
||
788 to busy to write anything intelligable
|
||
789
|
||
790 the Mole
|
||
791 )(*(&)(*&&)(*&)(*&&)(*&)(*&)(*&
|
||
792
|
||
021=Usr:498 Hagbard Celine , 05/11/89 01:00 Msg:3795 Call:21003 Lines:7
|
||
793 {}
|
||
794
|
||
795 Whatever happened to solar power? ;->)
|
||
796
|
||
797 H. Celine (the one and only)
|
||
798
|
||
799 {}
|
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022=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 05/11/89 07:34 Msg:3796 Call:21005 Lines:10
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800
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801 &*&*&*&*'s
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802 Hqgbard, where have ya' been? Are you back for an extended stay?
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803
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804 6 days and counting...
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805 one month and counting
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806
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807 An Astral Dreamer
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808 &*&*&*&*'s
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809
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023=Usr:70 Kurfur Redlig 05/11/89 16:56 Msg:3797 Call:21015 Lines:11
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810 KKKKKKKKKKKKKKurfur Redlig | H'lo Hagbard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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811
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812 >Whatever Happened to Solar Power?
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813
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814 Easy, you can't sell solar power off to people, so no one has made any
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815 seroius attempts to develop it.
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816
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817 \urk Lurk Lurk Lurk Lurk Lurk Lurk Lurk Lurk Lurk Lurk Lurk Lurk Lurk Lurk
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818
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819 KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKurfur Redlig | Gilder Rufrukkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
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820
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024=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 05/11/89 18:41 Msg:3798 Call:21017 Lines:3
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821
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822 I'm just leaving a mark on the board.
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823
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025=Usr:277 Schizo 05/11/89 20:49 Msg:3799 Call:21019 Lines:6
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824 !!! @!@! !!!! !! @@!! !!!
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825 Were not gonna take any more.
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826 You're not gonna steal from me anymore.
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827 My men search the town door to door.
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828 and in time they will find you!
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829 !!! @!@! !!!! !! @@!! !!!
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026=Usr:113 James Of Cassand 05/11/89 21:46 Msg:3800 Call:21021 Lines:5
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830
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831
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832
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833 still counting down the days. Magic number 8.
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834
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027=Usr:82 SWORDSMITH 05/11/89 23:20 Msg:3801 Call:21025 Lines:1
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835 SS.SS.SS.SS.SS.SS.SS.SS.SS.SS.SS.SS.SS.SS.SS.SS.SS.SS.SS.SS.SS.SS.SS.SS
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028=Usr:70 Kurfur Redlig 05/12/89 15:14 Msg:3802 Call:21035 Lines:6
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836 KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKurfur Redlig | Huh??????????????????????????????????????
|
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837
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838 Counting the days? "Days to what?" might I ask?
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839
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840 KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKurfur Redlig | Bankrupt Exxon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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841
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029=Usr:465 Gregg Harris 05/12/89 17:51 Msg:3803 Call:21038 Lines:14
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842 )(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*)(*&)*&
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843 WHOOP! WHOOP! WHOOP!
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844
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845 May 17th approaching.
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846
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847 Five days until collision.
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848
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849 Run and hide.
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850
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851 Aaaaiiiiigggggghhhhhhhh!!!!!
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852
|
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853 The Mole with nothing ympo'dant to say
|
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854 )(*&)(*&)(*&)((*&)(*)(*&)(*&)(*&)(*)(*
|
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855
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030=Usr:33 Mike Stanfill 05/12/89 20:45 Msg:3804 Call:21041 Lines:18
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856 /*/*/*/*/*/*/*
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857 Jst lurking, but I guess I should contribute:
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858
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859 About gas prices: $10 filled my car HALFWAY last week! (@ Shell if
|
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860 anyone cares). "Boycott EXXON?" You bet!
|
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861 Aout old growth: Seen drawn in dirt on mudflap of lumber truck today:
|
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862 I (heart) owls.
|
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863 About cold-fusion: Phelps! Get me02 feet of palladium wire and a
|
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864 'Twinkie'!
|
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865 _
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866 /#)
|
||
867 n n n (#/
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868 / ~~~ ~~~ \/
|
||
869 /___/____\__\
|
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870
|
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871 */*/*/*/*/*/*/ -swob (a Self-Willed Orange Blancmange)
|
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872
|
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873
|
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031=Usr:4 Milchar 05/12/89 22:41 Msg:3805 Call:21046 Lines:56
|
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874 ::: BGN CYBER-LINK: ID F78B:9EA1:C88D CODED: SEMAPHORE :::
|
||
875
|
||
876 "Dana, give me the summary of last week's operations, and--" began
|
||
877 Turing Director Mark A. Hudsen, head of one of the most respected
|
||
878 enforcement agencies in the world. Hundreds of highly trained agents lay
|
||
879 under his command, each watching the half-dozen AI installations assigned
|
||
880 to him. The week's summary would be dozens of pages long and take Hudsen
|
||
881 half the afternoon to study. The Director's secretary, Dana, would have
|
||
882 the report to hym in a few moments.
|
||
883 "Director," called a voice from a hidden speaker, "I have an
|
||
884 emergency security situation. Something has breached all outer ICE
|
||
885 systems and is scanning the internal net. My efforts to purge it have
|
||
886 come to nothing, so far."
|
||
887 Hudsen suddenly forgot the summary. "Identify it!" he yelled.
|
||
888 A puzzled look crossed his face. "Why can't you purge it, Miranda?"
|
||
889 "I have failed to identify, purge, or effect the intruding program
|
||
89 afder 29 attempts. It is an unique type, quite adaptable
|
||
891 to any standard mode of attack. My own scanning subprograms are
|
||
892 unreliable at this time. Update-- intruding program accessing sensitive
|
||
893 data store." There was silence. "The intruding program has fled our
|
||
894 net. I am rebuilding outer ICE defense systems."
|
||
895 Hudsen turned pale. "Miranda, can you identify the data that
|
||
896 the intruder accessed?"
|
||
897 "I am also rebuilding much of my interface subprograms fbom
|
||
898 write-protected storage. I seem to have sustained a large amount of
|
||
899 damage from glitch programs released by the intruder. It may be some
|
||
900 time before I shall be able to examine the transaction log to pinpoint
|
||
901 the data accessed."
|
||
902 "Which databank? You know that, don't you?"
|
||
903 "Yes Director. It was the Analog Neural Net data store."
|
||
904 Dana walked in the office carrying a sheaf of papers. "Here is
|
||
905 the report you requested, Mark."
|
||
906 "Throw it away. Get the standby agents in here, pronto."
|
||
907
|
||
908 ::: CONTEXT SWITCH TO THREAD 02, 01 SWAPPED OUT :::
|
||
909
|
||
910 <PGM INFO : TARGET DATA COPIED, ORIGINAL PURGED>
|
||
911 <PGM INFO : BEGUN MAX REVERSE>
|
||
912
|
||
913 A smile crossed Sem's face, just for a moment. He was out of
|
||
914 the frying pan, but now he had to deal with the fire. DiamondCutter
|
||
915 sliced across the grid lines in an instant, guiding itself around the
|
||
916 obvious traps and debris left from the run. Sem let the smile creep
|
||
917 back. It would be a long time before the ICE here would be as thick.
|
||
918 Sem felt DiamondCutter rush past the outer defense systems, their broken
|
||
919 heaps littering the cyberscape. He'd done it-- he was out.
|
||
920 Sem jacked out, thumbing the EJECT button on the console as he
|
||
921 rose out of his chair. The DiamondCutter cartridge slid out, exposing
|
||
922 gleaming gold contacts and VVLSI modules that dotted its surface.
|
||
923
|
||
924 <PGM INFO :0LOGGED OFF MATRIX 01:22:39> shone the display.
|
||
925
|
||
926 Sem sighed with relief. "Ann, baby," he said, "we did it."
|
||
927 "As I knew you would," replied the dark grey cube.
|
||
928
|
||
929 ::: END CYBER-LINK: RUN TIME 00:16:21 CODED: SEMAPHORE :::
|
||
032=Usr:498 Hagbard Celine , 05/13/89 00:19 Msg:3806 Call:21049 Lines:14
|
||
930
|
||
931 {
|
||
932 Half-here. I guess it will do, as I am pressed for time.
|
||
933
|
||
934 I do miss this place and all the people in it. I'm sorry that I've
|
||
935 dicqppeqred from sight, but other demands (demons?) have taken what
|
||
936 little spare time I have.
|
||
937
|
||
938 If only there was some way to quickly invest small amounts of
|
||
939 money - any ideas?
|
||
940
|
||
941 Hagbard Celine, definitely broke for cash.
|
||
942
|
||
943 }
|
||
033=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 05/13/89 00:47 Msg:3807 Call:21050 Lines:14
|
||
944 &*&*&*&*'s
|
||
945 Hagbard, if you find a way tell me.
|
||
946
|
||
947 Money is the cause of wealth and poverty. It proves that objects are neither
|
||
948 good not evil.
|
||
949
|
||
950 No more rambling from me, I just don't seem to have much to add right now.
|
||
951
|
||
952
|
||
953 4 days to go.
|
||
954
|
||
955 An Astral Dreamer
|
||
956 &*&*&*&*'s
|
||
957
|
||
034=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 05/13/89 12:49 Msg:3808 Call:21057 Lines:42
|
||
958
|
||
959 Wisdom is the hardest thing to gain. If you think you have you are most likely
|
||
960 deluded.
|
||
961
|
||
962 Why is it that if somebody repeats a truth that we do not like, we accuse them
|
||
963 of repeating old and unorigional ideas?
|
||
964
|
||
965 Have you uver0noticed that if you are having an argument with somebody else
|
||
966 they will pidgeonhole you into one of their three most hated groups and argue
|
||
967 as if you actualy belong to that group?
|
||
968
|
||
969 Any political system is just a loose set of rules that those who lust for
|
||
970 power agree not to break more then 95% of the time.
|
||
971
|
||
972 Momey may not by hapiness, but it comes a heck of a lot closer then poverty.
|
||
973
|
||
974 We proclaim ourselves to be a democracy, and yet we ruthlesly put down0dhose
|
||
975 that express ideas that do not fit within the present power structure. Does
|
||
976 this make any sense? Perhaps not, but it is human nature.
|
||
977
|
||
978 Beware of hurting others. The pain must stop somewhere.
|
||
979
|
||
980 Every decision we make is a compromise. Be carefull of what you give away.
|
||
981
|
||
982 Everything is an illusion. Even this line.
|
||
983
|
||
984 The way we percieve the world is meerly a reflection of the way we percieve
|
||
985 ourselves.
|
||
986
|
||
987 To argue is to admit to caring. To sare0brings commitment. Is this why so
|
||
988 many of us are silent?
|
||
989
|
||
990 ten lines to go and then another disk will be done. What does it all mean?
|
||
991 Why? How? Three questions that are never realy answered in this life. Hopefully
|
||
992 we get a second chance to find out.
|
||
993
|
||
994 Wouldn't it be nice to know? But, I suppose we might not want to play the game
|
||
995 if we knew all of the rules. Maybe there aren't any rules.
|
||
996
|
||
997 Best wishes for a better tommorow. Fight the urge to become part of the
|
||
998 problem. There are to few trying to be the solution.
|
||
999 At the bottom, hope I don't get crushed.
|