(Photo: "The End of Scientism" - Oil Painting by Uri Dowbenko -http://www.uridowbenko.com)

My long-time friend, Dr. Eugene Mallove, is dead. The local police have ruled his death a homicide.

At this writing, his killer is (or “killers” are) unknown, and the precise reasons for his brutal killing are equally mysterious.

The timing of Gene’s death - May 14, 2004, just as his 15-year, ( literal one scientist crusade to force the world’s scientific and political communities to take seriously a revolutionary form of energy that can literally “change the world” was finally about to be vindicated this year, by a reversal of the original negative analysis 15 years ago by the same government agency, the U.S. Department of Energy - makes no sense, regardless of the exact reasons for his murder.

After my initial shock and grief had given way to anger, and then to needing to let those who did not know Gene Mallove as I did what a remarkable man had suddenly been taken from us, I realized that Gene himself had given me the perfect tool to show the world “who they have lost” … and maybe “why.