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To report, only 5 months after the wanton and unsolved murder of our dear friend, Dr. Eugene Mallove, on the death of Infinite Energy, was not something we cherished - nor had we anticipated we would find ourselves having to do so. It was of little consolation to note that, if the murderers of Gene have still not been found, at least it was possible to identify the many grave-diggers of his spirit. In the immediate aftermath of his death, their exhibitionism was a veritable plague visited upon us - all in Gene's name. And if the identification of these grave-diggers took a while, it was only because of the unending lies which some of them, the new President of the NEF in particular (W. Zebuhr), entertained us with. But enough is enough. Now that the cat is out of the bag, there is no more reason to continue with what has become a charade.

We have made our report concerning the events that have taken place within NEF and IE since Gene's death. We will not re-iterate them here. But this is perhaps the right moment to ask ourselves what went wrong - why it is that these matters have gone so sour.

Of course, there are conjunctural factors. At the time of his death, Gene had barely created the NEF, had had little time to modify the composition and function of the Scientific Advisory Board, had known Bill Zebuhr for only two years, had made Bill - as the best he had at hand - his choice to replace him as head of the NEF, undoubtedly never imagining there would be a need for this to occur, and so on. But there are other factors also, not conjunctural but structural.

Though we had cautioned Gene about the likely failure of certain of his approaches to scientists, engineers and investors associated with all sorts of factions, corporations and investment interests at play in the so-called New Energy field, Gene was convinced that in the end he would find among them a real investor, who would both have the means and share the vision and commitment to our science and technology, as well as to its theory and philosophy. He refused to accept that the substantial and definitive inroads afforded by Aetherometry into the science and technology, not just of alternative energy systems, but of biological systems and nanomachines, might not be able to find minds sufficiently prepared and open to grasp them. And he was determined to be the link that would provide the connection. Entirely new vistas that he had never contemplated, and which none of these marginal factions of scientists and inventors had even an inkling of, had opened up to him, and, since 2001, he had been more and more feeling his obligations to IE and the cold fusion field as a dead weight about his neck.

But the outcome of Gene's repeated approaches, on behalf of Aetherometry, to investors and scientists had become invariably the same - at best a fishing expedition, and at worst a closed door, a complete lack of interest.

Of the scientists, engineers and writers that Gene had ready access to - individuals for whom he had repeatedly gone to bat over the years, for whom he had provided IE as a platform for discussing their results and whom he had gone out of his way on numerous occasions to assist, not one, to this day, has had the courage to pick up a single Akronos monograph and attempt an intelligent reading of it, despite Gene's repeated requests and challenges. People like E. Storms, J. Rothwell, T. Mizuno, J. Kooistra, J. Wall, M. Carrell, S. Chubb, T. Chubb, M. Swartz, S. Krivit, B. Zebuhr, J. Bass, J. Bockris, P. Hagelstein, M. McKubre, M. Srinivasan, H. Puthoff, K. Shoulders, H. Fox, to name but a few - some of whom had even been offered complimentary access to the monographs on our website. And how many copies of our DVD "From Pulsed Plasma Power to the Aether Motor" did Gene give away for 'free' - that is, by 'paying for them from his own pocket' - to yet others who he hoped against hope might still take up the challenge and dare to learn?

What this patently demonstrated is how shockingly lazy, indolent and sectarian today's scientists really are - even, and sometimes especially, those on the fringes, like the cold-fusioneers. They're unwilling - and most likely unable - to make the serious effort required to grasp new equations and methodology, to follow the language and the investigation past the title (or, if absolutely necessary, the abstract); and those that aspire to be designated as scientific "peers", guardians of institutional brain-washing, take it as a point of honor to refuse to read a single line we wrote. So these assorted "scientific communitarians" closed their doors, either diplomatically, cynically or brusquely in Gene's face. This, of course, when they didn't choose, as many of them did, to go the extra mile to stick a knife in his back - either professionally or by trying to poison against him one or another of his sponsors. Purely judeophobic attacks against Gene that were secretely penned by J. Kooistra, M. Carrell and still others, cost him two of his benefactors. It was so ugly that Gene only confided in us and no one else.

What this also made clear is that knowledge can never be left to mediocre and hateful people, any more than it can be made, or allowed to be made, a matter of democracy and be put to a vote.

Gene often said he had broad shoulders, so he shook off the minor players, the fleas and the ticks, and focused his combat on what he perceived to be the real issues. But the more he did this, the more 'Infinite Energy' could not help but question "Cold Fusion", question what cold-fusioneers had actually achieved over all these years and what they claimed they knew. The fact was, and is, that their CF units could not be made to function as projected, while the PAGD, HYBORAC and Aether Motors Gene witnessed in our laboratories worked punctually every time - exactly as it was described they would. Increasingly, Gene published evidence for massfree energy as found in a variety of anomalies (arc discharges, "orgone accumulators", electroscopes, Tesla coils, solar radiation, gyroscopes, etc, etc), claiming, correctly, that a new physics of Matter and the Aether was needed - beyond electromagnetic theory and even the best electrodynamic models, beyond the lame New-Age recitations of Old Aether theories. And increasingly, doors closed in his face.

Gene could not believe it. Obviously, our material was written for scientists, technically-trained people and serious thinkers - and anyone deeply concerned with the quest for a Knowledge that is in the service of Life. And though he knew well that, for this reason, the PADG and aetherometric materials would never be popular best-sellers - he was determined to tirelessly employ his skills as an educator to learn and to teach others how these extraordinary new tools could be employed - as well as to relay their practical application to potential investors. The technologies which he had tested and written about for the last four years of his life were here, at his disposal, ready to be made accessible to anyone having serious intentions of sponsoring the work, or to any colleague who was serious enough to learn the material. And, yet, he met with a complete dearth of interest from scientists and bona-fide investors alike. Why? It felt like a curse.

The simple answer is that the selling of free energy is now a market ruled by promoters, anglers, opportunists, looters, greedy and malevolent scientists, and a million imitators who are ready to pounce on anyone who has actually created something. Their objective is to create a vacuum around any serious inventor, and a hard vacuum around anyone whose invention is sufficiently real to threaten their position as promoters-who-have-nothing, no financial or intellectual capital and no breakthrough inventions.

'Gene knew that this was so, and knew also that whereas NEF/IE had to pactuate to some degree with this garbage in order to have some mass-appeal, our collective Aetherometric Project did not. Tired as he was of such degradation, he felt he could continue as our intermediary with the scientific, business and public communities. He thought that his own position, as a guarantor of the technology and someone proficient in the theory, would secure results, while permitting him to also interface with sought investors and the larger public.

Of the larger public, we know not what to say. We have had plenty of inquiries as to why we did not go to the Oregon conference, or ICCF-11, and even as to why we have no role in IE. At this point, the answers should be rather clear. But how to tell what is the 'general public' from those who have an information agenda - the new experts and servants of the publicitarian concept, always out for some information they can misappropriate and falsify?

What we do know is that none of the scientists and engineers that Gene approached, no matter how qualified they seemed to be, ever listened to him concerning our effort. And the odd one that did seem interested could be counted upon to reveal that his interest was in forcing open a back door into our laboratories and log books - like that reptilian physicist [Chino Srinivasan] who worked for the Indian Tata Co. and tried to use the Revenue Canada Agency (through an ex-Tata employee who, after being in Canada for a mere 2 years, was already an investigator for that agency!) to do a bogus audit of our company. This audit, in technological terms, went nowhere - for the simple reason that we never bothered to apply for scientific grants from our corrupt government, and consequently the auditors could not touch our log books. All they could do is take note of the demos and business negotiations we had conducted in the decade of the nineties.

So if Gene indeed made a mistake, it was to have trusted segments of this class - these scientists, these engineers, these cadres, these technocrats and 'thanatocrats' who dream only of 'saving us from ourselves' and of making bombs and particle guns to cure us from the horrors of war - and to have trusted too many of them individually, including his MIT school companions that he later discovered were not made of the fiber he had expected. Instead, they were humanoid invertebrates.

As a dire result - whether deliberate or not - of Gene's murder, open investigation into New Physics closed down, as the field was taken over by shabby image-makers - the promoters of technological salvation for a penny. And young people, now the most sought-after mass market, take it all in like sponges, as the hydra sucks their heads. William Burroughs described this so aptly in an interview with Nicholas Zurbrugg:

"I think ' Ghost of Chance' talks about this - about species wearing out?"

"Yes - well, it seems we're getting an increasingly flawed human product. It's incredible. In a recent poll, something like half of high school graduates could not locateVietnam on a map and didn't know that we'd fought a war there, much less that we'd lost a war there. And when it comes to World War Two - no idea who Churchill was, or Stalin - "Stalin, don't know about him!" Now, these are high school graduates! It's apalling! (...) People are getting stupider and stupider! There's no doubt about it!"

"Is this enough to drive you back to teaching, to try to remedy it?"

"No. No, no, no, it's past that! It's past remedy - it's hopeless. There's nothing you can do with something like that."

"Except, I suppose, satirize it?"

"Well, this is going to have almost no effect." (...)

"Did you find it (...) fun teaching?"

"No. I don't like teaching at all. I don't like classes, I don't like teaching, period. I enjoy performing, at a reading - that's a very different thing. But teaching, you're putting a lot out and getting nothing back. You put things out and they're not going anywhere. It's like pouring it into a bottomless pit. (...) Even if I do teach, I keep it more in the form of lectures, so that I can get up and talk, give a lecture, and that's it."

"And do you think that technological advances offer much hope for the future?"

"Well, we have all this technology and ways of disseminating information, but you have this appalling ignorance. So, you have all this technology, but what is it doing?Are people becoming more aware, or are they availing themselves of this information? Apparently, not at all."

"So maybe that's the challenge - to work out what the potential is?"

"I don't think there is any. It's sort of strange, but we're just getting stupider and stupider. I think one thing that characterizes the present day are these separations between, say, people who have awareness and the mainstream, which is just sinking into a complete state almost bordering on the far side of idiocy. (...) No politicians, of course, can address the issues - such as the destruction of the rain forests - or take the measures that would be necessary, in time. They will not do anything until it's too late. The only thing that gets homo-sap up off his dead ass is a foot up it! And that foot usually comes too late. They won't do anything about it until it is too late. Till they've destroyed (...) whatever it is that's being destroyed."

Sounds familiar? Full of promises of paradise and utopia, of ever more costly would-be solutions (that are just around the corner) for problems that it cannot grasp, let alone understand, the human species (pl.) is looking squarely into the face of its extinction - if not by a variety of accumulated suicides (ecocide, genocide, pandemics, etc), then by that simplest of the paths to damnation: sheer inadequacy to deal with the serious problems it has created.

Of course, there will always be a market for a fashionable belief in salvation lying just around the corner. IE will now be able to have its share of this market, probably for years to come. The imaginary ZPE will deliver to us salvation on a platter and an EVO bomb for dessert. And the table-top cold fusion cell will save us from ourselves, or at the very least become a bargain-basement tool for terrorists. One marvels at the appalling stupidity, at the ferocious appetite of the human world for fictions dished out and managed by the scientific and image-making cadres. Inadequate thought has led the world to where it is now, "from error to stupidity", as Debord was fond of saying. But maybe Debord was mistaken in thinking that if one cannot choose the epoch one is born into, one can at least transform it. It seems the epoch has long ago reached a point where all transformation is always into another version of the same. It has become un-transformable just as it appears to change.

Could the world be saved by technology, even the best and ultimate technology? Could Burroughs be wrong? The murder of Gene and the slow death of IE have only proven him right. Our own combat will continue elsewhere. But we have no illusions left about its outcome.

By the time he was murdered, Gene, too, had few, if any, illusions left about these techno-scientific cadres and their ethical worth or their capacity to take science beyond the pit where it now lies, let alone to bring forth an alternative power technology (ah, and then there is "anti-gravity"...). He had confronted many and copied us on the exchanges. He wanted to expose the whole lot of them - but only after our having secured the mythical investment in ABRI through the Aethera company he had founded. It never happened. Instead, the barbarians have now taken over IE, and brought shame upon our homage to Gene, by 'transforming Infinite Energy' into the New Banner of free-energy crackpots and failed cold-fusioneers. Riding the tide of these politically-correct times, the new IE will display Gene's body as the relics of a fallen martyr and will market the distortion of his spirit to sell bankrupt fantasies with mass-appeal. A little Canadian PC sociology à la Manning, a pinch of O'Leary's rabble-rousing delirium about the glorious dawning of freedom from laws in physics, and a good dollop of Scott Chubbs' healing magic. Only the idiocies of the jolly deMeo are still missing. But maybe not.

We warned you all.

We shall write no more for Infinite Energy.

Eugene Mallove is dead.

October 2004

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