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Xtreme Science Foundation (XSF) - an Institution whose time has come

Here we are at the beginning of 2009, year that will certainly prove very challenging for all of us, wherever we are. Such a global economic crisis doesn't only hurt people where it seems to matter the most - their pockets - but it also provides some time for reflection, and creates an opportunity to re-examine the adequacy of many fundamental principles our society has been guided by in its chosen developmental model.

We may finally understand that money IS NOT everything, and that Earth provides enough to satisfy everybody's needs, but not everybody's greed. We may hopefully understand what Gandhi said about "The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles.” And we should have understood by now that, in this WWW age, people are powerful, if they're not "asleep".

It's confirmed: Matter is merely vacuum fluctuations

From NewScientist - Physics & Math by Stephen Battersby: Matter is built on flaky foundations. Physicists have now confirmed that the apparently substantial stuff is actually no more than fluctuations in the quantum vacuum.

The researchers simulated the frantic activity that goes on inside protons and neutrons. These particles provide almost all the mass of ordinary matter.

Each proton (or neutron) is made of three quarks - but the individual masses of these quarks only add up to about 1% of the proton's mass. So what accounts for the rest of it?

IEA World Energy Outlook

The International Energy Agency has made a new comprehensive forecast of world energy from now until 2030. The conclusions are:

Current energy trends are patently unsustainable —socially, environmentally, economically
- Oil will remain the leading energy source but...

> The era of cheap oil is over, although price volatility will remain
> Oilfield decline is the key determinant of investment needs
> The oil market is undergoing major and lasting structural change, with national companies in the ascendancy

- To avoid "abrupt and irreversible" climate change we need a major decarbonisation of the world’s energy system

Rowan University confirms BlackLight's new disruptive energy source

BlackLight Power Inc. Announces Independent Replication of New Energy Source

CRANBURY, N.J., Oct 20, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Rowan University confirms BlackLight's new disruptive energy source

BlackLight Power (BLP) Inc. today announced the successful independent replication and validation of its 1,000 watt and 50,000 watt reactors based on its proprietary new clean energy technology. This follows BLP's May announcement that it had successfully tested a new non-polluting energy source.

BLP's 50,000 watt reactor generated over one million joules of energy in a precise measurement made by Rowan University engineers, led by Dr. Peter Jansson. The independent study included full characterization of a proprietary solid fuel to generate the energy, before and after the reaction.

XSF and the XS-NRG Prize (Executive Summary)

Unfortunately, the energy crisis is real. It is now widely accepted that the crisis is about to reach the critical point when only a “miracle” can turn the situation around and get us out of the “mess”-- a mess in which our lazy complacency with our own energy technology has pushed us into.

Fortunately we can buy some time by stepping up conservation efforts and by deploying more and improving on existing (some quite old) clean alternative energy technologies such as solar, wind, geothermal, hydro and ocean wave, etc., switching to cleaner burning fuels such as hydrogen, biofuels, etc., or building improved nuclear reactors, fuel-cells and so on.

Well understood from a scientific and technological point of view, these "evolutionary" developments are necessary to start removing our society from the present addiction to fossil fuels, but none of them represent the quantum-leap clean energy revolution we need to avoid major problems in the near future and guarantee a sustainable development of human civilization for generations to come.

Scientific Anomalies and How the Mind Manages Them

Excerpts from the Keynote Address For Festschrift in Honor of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) Lab’s Twentieth Anniversary -- By Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, Ph.D.

... PEAR’s work hasn’t had an altogether easy reception in some of the quarters which house mainstream science. That’s no surprise to anybody who makes a business of scientific anomalies. Anomalies don’t invite widespread acceptance until they’ve stopped being anomalous. That’s normal science and it’s old news.

But I want today to suggest that just because it’s old news doesn’t mean it’s not worth a fresh look as interesting news. A fresh look that turns it into interesting news may do us the particular favor of enabling us to move beyond all those tired arguments over whether or not work like that being done at PEAR belongs in the register of what mainstream science likes to call science. Those are by now very tired arguments. As arguments they’re boring. They rarely convince anyone of anything and worse, they have a peculiarly draining quality which usually leads me to feel with Melville’s Bartelby the Scrivener that, invited to engage, I Prefer Not.

how long must i wait to be vindicated

The global collapse of world economies and or global war with Russia over energy is occuring right before our eyes-when will you wake to what is the foundation of any civilized industrialized country- ENERGY- I HAVE SOLVED IT- pressure Princeton university to replicate my experiment to verify- over 17 months i still wait- Lets see how long it takes to uncover

i believe my experiments will end the energy crisis via nuclear fusion- the only way i can prove it is to have a credible university repeat my experiment- because i hand built a tunable Tesla coil at 1 million volts to resonate within heavy water/deuteron for stable conduction of plasma arc-the experiment is very dangerous and i am grateful to god i survived;) however, what seems even harder than the experiment- is trying to convince my fellow American citizens- i am for real- remember this- soldiers fight and die for energy-our economy is about to be crippled-how long must i be ignored as i try my best to stimulate you to help force a university to just replicate my experiment for verification.

Tesla & Environmental Resources

Michael Riversong writes: ADVANCED ENERGY RESEARCH AND ENVIRONMENTAL TREASURES

Beginning in 1983, Michael Riversong has been deeply involved in energy research, and from 1990 has been doing environmental consulting. This has resulted in many fascinating adventures. He has been in contact with many of this planet's best inventors and scientists. An able photographer and writer, he has often documented many developments in these fields.

Fortech Inc. Introduces Real-time Cost Modeling Solution for Power Generation

TEMPE, AZ -- Fortech Software Consulting, Inc. announces the introduction of “Power Manager™” leveraging its unique Utility Power Operations expertise along with its proprietary line of other Automated Solutions. Power Manager™ is a flexible, scalable, REAL-TIME business technology solution that seamlessly integrates Power Generation, Energy Forecast/Scheduling, Generation Cost Modeling, Resource Management, Accounting and Reporting functions required for any power operations.

The Dark Universe and Limitless Dark Energy

By CambridgeBlog: Last week I explained what I argue to be the greatest theoretical challenge facing fundamental physics today; that the very concept of the spacetime continuum is flawed and in need of revision. This week I want to explain what I think is the very greatest challenge coming from the experimental and observational side. Science thrives on a dialogue between theory and experiment and when you put all this together you arrive, as I see it, at the most exciting time for theoretical physics for a century, perhaps even since the 17th century in terms of the expected level of shake-up.