Edmund Kugler Storms (1931-) is a nuclear chemist who worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) for 32 years before retiring in 1991. Storms was born in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania on 22 April 1931. He earned his B.S. in Chemistry from Pennsylvania State University in 1953; M.S. in Radiochemistry from Washington University in 1957; and Ph.D. in Radiochemistry from Washington University in 1958. At LANL, Storms' studies include but not limited to vaporization behavior of refractory materials; super conductivity; chemistry of high-temperature nuclear fuel; and cold fusion, energy and tritium production. After retiring from LANL, Storms collaborated with Brian Scanlan to form a company called Kiva Labs where they explored evidence of cold fusion from 2007-2012.
Storms has published over a hundred journal articles, several books, and two patents. In 2002, Jed Rothwell and Storms started an online library,
Arranged in the following series: 1. Los Alamos National Laboratory; 2. Independent Investigation; 3. ENECO; 4. Lattice Energy; 5. Kiva Labs; 6. University of Texas at Austin. Energy Institute; and 7. Digital Media.
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Donated by Edmund Storms in December 2021.
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Four photographs and VHS were transferred to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.
Printed publications were transferred to the Print and Journal Division of Special Collections.
Series 1: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). This series consists primarily of materials related to Storms' research on cold fusion during his final years at LAN where he led one of two LANL teams that had success in replicating LENR. Included are clippings, data, memorandums, presentations, and reports related to cold fusion. The contents found in box 5, folders 5-6 are Storms' professional materials, previously contained in a binder, before the discovery of cold fusion. Note: the printouts in this series are related to Storms research at LANL and were produced in 2016.
Series 2: Independent Investigation. This series consist of materials related to Storms' research on cold fusion after his retirement from LANL. During this period, he consulted with LANL and provided testimony to the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation in 1993. The memorandums in this series overlap with the memorandums in the first series. The correspondence include e-mails and faxes from the following:
Enclosed with the correspondence are articles, papers, printed materials, and research materials. The financial records in this series are primarily receipts for "Energy K. Systems." The papers include published and unpublished writings. Additional writings by Storms were compiled in five Pendaflex folders found in boxes 17-18.
Series 3: ENECO was formerly known as "Future Energy Applied Technology, Inc." was a lab formed in Salt Lake City, Utah to secure patents on low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR). During this period, while Storms served on the Board of Directors, he attended and presented at conferences and wrote papers concerning cold fusion.
Series 4: Lattice Energy. Storms conducted independent evaluations of LENR as a Senior Scientist for Lew Larson of Lattice Energy from 2000-2006. This series primarily consists of data and progress reports generated by Princeton Gamma-Tech, Inc. related to Pd foil, cylinder, dot, and Seebeck. He also attended and presented at conferences and wrote papers. Included is the agreement with Lattice Energy in 2004.
Series 5: Kiva Labs. This series was a collaboration between Brian Scanlan and Storms from 2007-2012. During this period, Storms published his first book entitled "The science of low energy nuclear reactions." Papers and research conducted jointly with Scanlan occurred during this period, including materials related to glow discharge. Note: the reports produced during this time also were generated by Princeton Gamma-Tech, Inc. and may belong in this series or the previous: Lattice Energy.
Series 6: University of Texas at Austin. Energy Institute. This series consists of materials related to the university's documentation of Storms' research from 2016-2018. This project was completed in several states: Stage 1, Information collection; Stage 2, Organization; and Stage 3, Documentation. The documentation found in box 33, folder 5 was used as a rough guide for the arrangement of Storms' papers.
Series 7: Digital Media. Lastly, the digital media found in this series are restricted until reformatted. Items include compact discs, floppy disks, and a hard drive.
Source: Grimshaw, Thomas. 2018. Documentation of Dr. Edmund Storms' 29 Years of Cold Fusion Research. Austin: University of Texas at Austin. Energy Institute.
Set 19E and B-5. Clippings and photocopies. Includes Newsweek cover coverage.
Set 3A. Clippings and photocopies.
Set 3B. Primarily media analysis from LANL related to cold fusion. Clippings are photocopies.
Set 6A. Data from earliest tritium work at LANL. Published in first of four papers prepared while at LANL: nature of tritium, behavior of tritium, cold fusion review, excess heat. Photographs attached.
Set 6B. Palladium analysis – micrographs, X-ray results. Data from earliest tritium work at LANL. Published in first of four papers prepared while at LANL: nature of tritium, behavior of tritium, cold fusion review, excess heat. Photographs attached.
Set 7A. Data from earliest tritium work at LANL. Published in first of four papers prepared while at LANL: nature of tritium, behavior of tritium, cold fusion review, excess heat. Photographs attached.
Set 1C-1. Data from earliest tritium work at LANL. Published in first of four papers prepared while at LANL: nature of tritium, behavior of tritium, cold fusion review, excess heat.
Set 1F. Submitted to the United States. Department of Energy.
Set 1B. Primarily progress reports from LANL related to cold fusion.
Set 1E-1. Lab-wide distributed cold fusion. Includes research documents and discussion.
Set 1I. From J. O'M. (John O'M.) Bockris, 1923-2013. Subject: Increase of Pace Needed for the Cold Fusion Work.
Set 4A-1 and 4A-2. Speculations, discussion, and observations from LANL related to cold fusion. May be duplicates from the memos found in Set 1B and Set 1E-2. Includes McKubre speech; summary of cold fusion meeting in Sienna, Italy; and photocopies of clippings.
Set 4A-3. Primarily progress reports from LANL related to cold fusion. Includes photographs.
Set 7B. Primarily progress reports from LANL related to cold fusion.
Set 7C and 22F. Storms, E. K. "Cold Fusion", present status as a significant phenomenon, Nuclear Materials Division. Includes miscellaneous transparencies. Includes draft of a presentation at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 6 May 1993.
Set 1C-2. Submitted for presentation at the Anomalous Nuclear Effects in Deuterium/Solid Systems at Brigham Young University [printed slides].
Set 1D. Printed slides and transparencies.
Set 22-6. Transparencies and printed materials.
Set 1E-2. Ronald R. Parker response to the
Set XB-3. Select printouts from Storms, E. K. LANL research on 3-1/2 inch floppy disks.
Set 5. Palladium analysis – micrographs, X-ray results. Data from earliest tritium work at LANL. Published in first of four papers prepared while at LANL: nature of tritium, behavior of tritium, cold fusion review, excess heat. Photographs attached.
Set 1G. Draft. Prior to onsite visit.
Set 23-8. Progress report for the period 90-01 – 90-06 (for) work supported by USDOE/OBES. Edmund Storms, Carol Talcott, Joe Bubernak. Los Alamos National Laboratory. Los Alamos, NM 87545.
Set 1H. Copy to G. Rosenblatt, from P. Ross, Weekly Report from LBL Cold Fusion Group, University of California, Berkeley; and To Cold Fusion Group, from Edit Landin, Secretary to Dr. Thomas J. Barton, Weekly Cold Fusion Reports from Ames Laboratory.
D-2. Includes reprints; list of publications; technical information release form, Storms, E. K., Feber, R., and Ramsey, K., Final report of material compatibility study; Storms, E. K. Uranium carbide. 1982; and proposals.
Set 19T. Book contract.
Set 19J and 19P. Various entities.
Folder not reviewed by LENRGY.
Set 26B. Preparation materials.
Set 4B-C. Clippings and photocopies. Includes Hydro Dynamics, Inc. information packet. Includes photocopies of materials from folder not reviewed by LENRGY and photocopies from Technology review, May/June 1994.
Set 19S. Includes correspondence.
B-2. Includes agreements and financial records.
Set 26A.
Set 4B-1. Includes materials related to United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space testimony, 1993.
Set 4B-3. Includes letters with Jed Rothwell; materials related to United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space; The Torch volume 66, number 1; New Energy News volume 1 and numbers 8 and 9; and Cold Fusion Times, volume 1, number 3 [photocopies].
Set 18-1-3.
Set 18-4-7.
Set 18-8.
Set 19K. To E. K. Storms from Jed Rothwell related to protocols from John Dash et al. "Ti Study Dash."
Set 19A-C and 19N-O. Includes United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration statement of work, 2015.
Set 20C.
Folder not reviewed by LENRGY. Miscellaneous. Includes letters to United States congressmen.
Folder not reviewed by LENRGY. Primarily related to Storms' papers submissions and reviews.
Set 28.
A-31. Related to requests for cold fusion booklet.
Set 19Q. Includes agreements.
D-3. Primarily letters from Storms.
Set 19M-2. Includes agreement and progress report, 2006.
Set 23-23.
Set 19V. Includes papers.
Set 23-24. Related to Gene Mallove death.
Set 23-20.
B-A1. Includes photocopies of clippings and research materials.
Set 19L.
Set 23-22. Related to papers.
E-B.
Materials safety data sheet.
Set 24D. For unknown final paper. Includes materials from folder not reviewed by LENRGY.
A-2, 18.
A-11, 22.
A-28.
A-17.
A-18.
A-4, 7, 15, 32. Miscellaneous.
A-9, 23.
A-8. Residual gas analysis. Includes technical data sheets.
A-10.
A-21.
A-20.
A-6, 24.
A-27.
A-16, 25.
A-13.
A-26.
Set 4B-5. Submitted to the National Science Foundation.
Set 26C. Investigation of LENR for energy production. LENRGY collaboration. Draft.
Folder not reviewed by LENRGY.
Set 4A-4. Progress reports and comments from LANL related to cold fusion. Includes notes; reviews related 2nd Annual Conference on Cold Fusion in Como, Italy; and materials not reviewed by LENRGY.
Set 20A. Includes correspondence; Nova Resources Group, Inc. drawings; Randy Souther and LENR-CANR.org agreement; c/FAR, Energy Development Institute business plan; invention disclosure; International Conference on Cold Fusion (ICCF1) annual report and accounts (ICCF5) transcript; International Society for Condensed Matter Nuclear Science website printouts; stickers; and Method and Apparatus for Energy Production draft.
D-5, 6. Incomplete issues of Fusion facts. See also the
Folder not reviewed by LENRGY.
Set 4B-2. Related to cold fusion.
Set 22. Includes letters with George H. (George Hunter) Miley, 1933- and experiments; "The status of cold fusion"; "Cold fusion: an after-death experience"; "Cold fusion: is an important, potential energy source being ignored?"
Submitted to the International Journal of Modern Physics.
Preprint.
Set 24B. Draft.
Set 24E. Widom, A. and Larsen, L.
Set 23-12.
Set 24F. For unknown paper.
Sets 14-16. Gas loading, nickel-hydrogen studies. Mass spectrometer plots.
Sets 14-16. Gas loading, nickel-hydrogen studies. Mass spectrometer plots.
A-3. Some characteristics of heat production using the "cold fusion" effect. Includes conference materials.
A-29. Storms, E. K. Excess power production from platinum cathodes using the Pons-Fleischmann effect in 8th International Conference on Cold Fusion. 2000. Lerici (La Spezia), Italy: Italian Physical Society, Bologna, Italy. Includes conference and travel materials.
A-5. Introduction to the section on cold fusion. Includes conference materials.
Set 4B-4. In Italian.
Grimshaw, Thomas W. Presented to the faculty of the graduate school of The University of Texas at Austin in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Public Affairs.
Reports #167 and #172.
Set 19U-1-2. Related to papers.
Set 32.
Set 21 and 22-5. Storms, E. K. Statement of Dr. Edmund Storms before Congress in Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, U. S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session. 1993. Washington, C.D.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
Set 19G.
Set 19H.
Set 19F.
Formerly "Future Energy Applied Technology, Inc."
Includes rescission offer; shareholder meeting, 1993; correspondence; proposal; agreements; and financial records.
88+BX107
Set 20D-2. United States. Bankruptcy Court (Utah) case number 08-20319 GEC, Chapter 11. Includes Instructions for A P-F Study of Palladium; exhibits and merger by ENECO, Inc. and Wentwort I, Inc.
Includes draft.
Infinite Energy, 1995. Two versions.
Set 22-4. Storms, E. K., How to produce the Pons-Fleischmann effect. Fusion Technology. 1996.
Fusion Technology, 1994 and submitted to International Symposium, "Cold Fusion and Advanced Energy Sources," Belarusian State University, 1994.
Set 22-3. Storms, E. K., Some problems with palladium and how to solve them. 1997: NHE Japan [transparencies].
Set 22-7 and 22-8. Includes "Cold fusion or how to be an alchemist while annoying every physicist you know" and "Some thoughts on the nature of the nuclear-active regions in Palladium".
Set 20D-1. Includes correspondence, memorandums, papers, and agreements.
Set 30.
Set 19M-1. Primarily with Lewis Larsen.
Set 23-7.
Princeton Gamma-Tech, Inc.
E-E. Includes progress reports and Princeton Gamma-Tech, Inc.
E-C. Includes Princeton Gamma-Tech, Inc.
E-H, G. Includes progress reports and Princeton Gamma-Tech, Inc.
E-D. Includes progress reports and Princeton Gamma-Tech, Inc.
E-F. Includes progress reports and Princeton Gamma-Tech, Inc.
E-I. Case study.
E-J. Case study. Includes progress reports and history of EKS-003 and 005.
Set 22-1. 11th International Conference on Cold Fusion. 2004. Marseilles, France. Includes transparencies.
Set 24G.
Set 23-6.
Set 25L. Tenth International Conference on Cold Fusion. 2003. Cambridge, MA.
Tub A-1. Ways to initiate a nuclear reaction in solid environments. Includes conference materials.
Set 22-9 and 22-10. An Update of LENR for ICCF-11 and Cold fusion, (LENR) real or not?. Includes transparencies.
Set 29. Case effect study. Includes e-mails with Eugene Mallove; Jed Rothwell; and Doug Perkins.
E-B.
F-C. Includes data and Princeton Gamma-Tech, Inc.
F-D. Includes data.
F-E. Includes data and e-mails.
Set 25K.
Set 23-17. Rejection history of the paper "Cold fusion: an objective assessment".
Set 23-15. Related to glow discharge.
Spiral bound.
Spiral bound.
Set 19I. Various entities.
Set 22-11. Incomplete drafts of book. Includes letters with J. O'M. (John O'M.) Bockris, 1923-2013.
Set 25I. International Low Energy Nuclear Reactions Symposium (ILENRS-12).
Set 25Q. Includes draft.
Set 25O. Submitted to Journal of Condensed Matter Nuclear Science.
Set 25N. Two versions.
Set 25C and 25H. Submitted to Journal of Condensed Matter Nuclear Science.
Set 24A. Draft.
Set 25A. American Physical Society Conference. 2008. New Orleans.
Set 25J and 25P. Submitted to Journal of Condensed Matter Nuclear Science. Two versions.
Set 23-18. Naturwissenschaften, 2010.
Set 23-26. Includes reviewers' comments.
Set 25M. Includes comments.
Set 24H and 25G. Includes presentation materials.
Set 25B and 25D. AIP Symposium Series, J. Marwan, Editor. 2010, American Institute of Physics. Two versions.
Set 19R. Patent with Brian Scanlan.
Sets 11, 13, and 19D. Pictures; compositions; nickel-hydrogen studies; gas loading; and residual gas analysis.
Set 12B. Gas discharge experiments with Brian Scanlan. Made with "old" EDX before it failed. Includes "Gas Loading Progress Report, 10/20/09" in back. From Storms. To Kiva Labs.
Set 24C.
Set 24K.
Set 24I. 16th International Conference on Cold Fusion. 2011. Chennai, India.
Set 23-2. Progress reports related to Lett's cells.
Set 12B. Gas discharge experiments with Brian Scanlan. Made with "old" EDX before it failed. Includes "Gas Loading Progress Report, 10/20/09" in back. From Storms. To Kiva Labs.
Set 20B-1-2.
Set 10. Spectrum reports. Data and plots used to define following steps.
Documentation of Dr. Edmund Storms' LENR Research Center, Stage 1 (information collection) report. Draft and second draft. Two copies of the second draft.
Documentation of Dr. Edmund Storms' LENR Research Center, Stage 2 (organization) report. Preliminary draft.
Documentation of Dr. Edmund Storms' LENR Research Center, Stage 2 (organization) report. Second draft. Two versions.
Documentation of Dr. Edmund Storms' LENR Research Center, Stage 3 (documentation): Annex I, Volumes 1-2. Collected works (publications).
Documentation of Dr. Edmund Storms' LENR Research Center, Stage 3 (documentation): Annex I, Volume 3. Collected works (publications).
Documentation of Dr. Edmund Storms' LENR Research Center, Stage 3 (documentation): Annex II, Volumes 1-2. Collected progress reports.
Documentation of Dr. Edmund Storms' LENR Research Center, Stage 3 (documentation): Annex III. Interviews of Dr. Storms (annotated).
Documentation of Dr. Edmund Storms' LENR Research Center, Stage 3 (documentation): Annex IV, Parts 1-3.
Documentation of Dr. Edmund Storms' LENR Research Center, Stage 3 (documentation): Project report. Draft and second draft.
Documentation of Dr. Edmund Storms' 29 years of cold fusion research. Experiments, explanations, and related scientific contributions. Draft summary.
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