Last fall, the DOD was directed to brief Congress on LENR developments. We talked about it here, but never heard anything that came of it and the matter forgotten. "Cold Fusion Times" linked to this online FOIA (freedom of info act) website:
http://www.theblackvault.com/d…rial-department-defense/#
The owner of the site had this to say:
"On May 13, 2016, Popular Mechanics published an article entitled, “Congress Is Suddenly Interested in Cold Fusion.” David Hambling wrote:
“Cold fusion is rising again, thanks to allegedly successful experiments and demonstrations. Now interest in the field, also known as low energy nuclear reactions (LENR), has reached the highest levels, as the House Committee on Armed Services has asked the Secretary of Defense to provide “a briefing on the military utility of recent U.S. industrial base LENR advancements” by September 22.
The Committee quotes a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) assessment that says if cold fusion works, it would be a disruptive technology that could revolutionize energy production and storage.
That is putting it mildly. Commercial cold fusion as claimed by Andrea Rossi and others, outlined in our April article, would remove dependence on oil or other fossil fuels, domestic or imported. In military terms, it would enable ships, aircraft, and tanks to continue indefinitely (or at least for months) without refueling, with abundant power for lasers or other directed-energy weapons.”
Intrigued, on January 16, 2017, I filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for this briefing material cited in the article. On July 6, 2017, I received the material. Included, was the PowerPoint presentation briefing material (converted to a .pdf) along with a few pages of emails concerning the LENR briefing."
Here is the briefing. Not sure Congress actually got briefed though? Nothing too interesting, as it concludes the same problems LENR had 30 years ago, are still there:
http://documents.theblackvault…0DOC_02_LENR_Briefing.pdf