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Patrick G. Bailey
Patrick G. Bailey
ResidenceLos Altos, CA, United States
NationalityUSA
Known forAdvanced Energy Conversion Techniques and Devices
Scientific career
FieldsResearch Scientist, President of the Institute for New Energy, Past Editor of the New Energy News

Dr. Patrick G. Bailey is an American research scientist and engineer trained in nuclear engineering. He spent his professional career at institutions including the Electric Power Research Institute and the Lockheed Space and Missiles Company, and is known as a long-time advocate of "new energy" research. In 1991 he co-founded the Institute for New Energy (INE), which he has served as president since 1992, and he later edited its newsletter, New Energy News.

Education and early life

Bailey received a BS in Engineering Physics from the University of California, Berkeley, and both an S.M. and a PhD in Nuclear Engineering, with a minor in Physics, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

At Berkeley he served in Air Force ROTC and was a four-year letterman in varsity gymnastics, on a team that placed second in the NCAA in 1966. According to Bailey, he is the "Pat" referred to in the book The Way of the Peaceful Warrior, written by his teammate Dan Millman. During his five years at MIT he played for the MIT Rugby Team, usually at number 8; the team won the New England North-East Championship in 1969, and he acquired the nickname "Shotgun."

Military service

After completing his studies, Bailey served in the United States Air Force as a Nuclear Research Officer, rising to the rank of Captain. He was one of three officers responsible for the Department of Defense Nuclear Safety Program for the first launch of Plutonium-238 into space; his analysis of the relative safety of that launch was forwarded to the President of the United States for signature and approval. During this period he also served for two years as an Adjunct Professor of Graduate Nuclear Engineering at the University of New Mexico, teaching both in the classroom and in the Nuclear Engineering Laboratory.

Scientific career

Following an honorable discharge from the Air Force, Bailey worked for three years at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory on numerical computer simulations of commercial nuclear reactor systems. He then joined the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in Palo Alto, California, where he was a project and program manager in the Nuclear Power Division and the Safety and Analysis Department for eight years.

After the Three Mile Island accident, Bailey moved to the Lockheed Space and Missiles Company in Palo Alto and Sunnyvale, California (now Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company), where he worked for many years as a Senior Electrical Engineer. He retired from Lockheed Martin in 2011. He continued to play rugby throughout his career—in the Air Force, at the University of New Mexico, at Santa Fe, and for the Bay Area Touring Side (the BATS)—for about eight years.

New energy advocacy

Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference

For many years Bailey was involved with the Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference (IECEC), an annual conference historically sponsored by seven major U.S. technical societies: the ACS, AIAA, AIChE, ANS, ASME, IEEE, and SAE. Each society ran the conference in turn, and Bailey was one of two IECEC Steering Committee members representing the American Nuclear Society. He served as IECEC Technical Program Chairman for the ANS-sponsored conferences in 1984 (San Francisco) and 1991 (Boston), each spanning five days and some 800 papers. He has remained a Senior Member of the AIAA's Advanced Power Systems Technical Committee.

Institute for New Energy

Bailey has said that U.S. technical-society conferences would not permit discussion of alternative physics or advanced technologies. To provide a venue for such work, he and Toby Grotz—both active in the International Association for New Science and the U.S. Tesla Society in Colorado—organized the Institute for New Energy (INE) in 1991. Grotz was its first president; Bailey became president in 1992 and also serves as the INE webmaster. The institute's website is http://www.padrak.com/ine/. The INE held several annual meetings in Colorado at which many papers were published.

New Energy News

Hal Fox, of the Emerging Energy Management Fund (EEMF) group in Salt Lake City, Utah, became the editor, publisher, and funder of New Energy News (NEN), a monthly newsletter of the INE. Fox published it as a printed, mailed newsletter until 1999–2000, after which it became an emailed newsletter. Bailey later took over as its contact, editor, and publisher until it ceased publication after May 2005.

Cold fusion

Bailey has supported cold fusion research since the claimed discovery and replications of the 1990s. He was instrumental in having what he describes as the first paper on successful cold fusion research presented in his technical session at the 1994 IECEC in Monterey, California, by the Stanford Research Institute of Menlo Park, California, with funding from EPRI.

Views

Bailey is a supporter of the Natural Philosophy Alliance (NPA) and of "new energy" research and "advanced energy conversion" devices. He has expressed interest in publishing a volume of selected NPA papers through a major university, and has been critical of aspects of mainstream physics education, including the teaching of the Lorentz transformation and the Big Bang theory.

Contact

Bailey may be contacted in writing at:

The Institute for New Energy (INE)
PO Box 201
Los Altos, CA 94023-0201

(Email addresses ending in "@padrak.com" are no longer in use.)

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