Wally Rippel says that he’s sorry to note that a great deal of the evangelical world actively works against environmental friendliness. They seem to see fossil fuels as their allies, and ecologically sound solutions as their enemies. Here is more …
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Wally Rippel: Politics and Economics Have Caused Many Cold Fusion Casualties
Wally Rippel pointed out to me that there have been numerous casualties from the political and economic fall-out surrounding cold fusion. As an example, Dr. Peter Hagelstein at MIT, best known for his X-ray laser, is also a strong proponent …
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Wally Rippel: The Human Side of the Cold Fusion Equation Is Even More Interesting than the Science
Wally Rippel pointed out to me that the human side of the equation is even more interesting than the science. There has been a calculated effort to discredit the idea of cold fusion. For obvious reasons, cold fusion threatens existing …
Wally Rippel: Fusion Doesn't Have to Be Hot and Fast
Wally Rippel believes that it was simply an intellectual error to assume that fusion could only happen in the way it was does in the explosion of a hydrogen bomb, i.e., 100+ million degrees Kelvin and extremely short time periods …
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Wally Rippel Explains the Early Days of Cold Fusion
Wally Rippel described to me how cold fusion is a concept that began in 1989 with the experiments of Fleischmann and Pons at the University of Utah. Here is more information on Wally Rippel and his contribution to Renewable Energy …
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Wally Rippel – "Cold Fusion is Legitimate Science"
Is cold fusion legitimate science, or a hoax? Wally Rippel believes the former. When we electrolyze heavy water, i.e., water made of deuterium and oxygen, in the presence of a palladium electrode, we wind up with more energy that we …
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About Wally Rippel, Contributor to "Renewable Energy Facts and Fantasies"
The chapter of the book Renewable Energy — Facts and Fantasies entitled “Cold Fusion” is a transcript of the interview with Wally Rippel on this subject. Quote: “Imagine a liquid fuel which stores ten million times as much energy …
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Daylighting Collaborative and Intelligent Building Design
Echelon’s Steve Ngyuen, the fellow I interviewed for my book’s chapter on intelligent building management, spent a few minutes describing “light harvesting” to me — the idea of making use of the sun’s light the way buildings are designed, thus …
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Wally Rippel on the 2GreenEnergy Report
The other day, esteemed physicist and electric vehicle engineer Wally Rippel dropped by the television studio and talked to me about a range of cool issues. The type of guy Wally is becomes clear when you understand an experiment he …
Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air
In the process of writing my book on renewables I read quite a few others, including Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air (2009) by Dr. David JC MacKay. This is a fanstically worthwhile project by a professor of physics …
