Photoelectrolytic apparatus for water splitting, US Patent 4140591, and Richard A. Posner: A Simple Plan--Making of the Calvin Cycle

AOUSC Accounting Division's finding - Richard A. Posner's (7th Circuit Judge) $250,000 bribe-taking made possible by the $5,000 bribe paid to James T. Moody (Judge, USDC, N.D.Ind.): Proof of the court's theft (1974 transfer-back) of the $48,903.81 from U.S. Treasury involved management ranks of AOUSC in control of its voucher examination section  

In the summer of 1998, the author Francis K. Fong began an investigation specialized to a written report by Steven C. Beering, Chair, National Science Board, as follows:

Richard A. Posner, 7th Circuit Judge, took a bribe in excess of $250,000 to launch a simple plan.  Over a peiod of nearly 20 years, Posner devised a structure of the Two Posner Orders, first, to involve, in the court's theft of the $48,903.81, the management ranks of AOUSC in control of its voucher examination section, and, then, bar a claim against the $48,903.81 transferred back 1974 from Treasury with which to pay (1978) the Woodmar recipients.   The First Posner Order was executed in 1984, Crumpacker v. Gettinger, USDC., N.D.Ind., No. H83-700 (7-12-84), to bar a claim by surviving Woodmar successors-in-interest to cover up PCDF Director Jay Given's gangland slaying for the $5,000 bribe he paid Moody.  The Second Posner Order, 976 F.2d 735, was perfected in 1992 for Moody to bar (2004) Fong as finder from claiming the Woodmar's cash assets--after the last of the Woodmar successionrs-in-interest had died (1998)--and "grant" the dead petitioners the $48,903.81 disbursed 1978 to the Woodmar recipients in further of NSF's Dark Photosynthesis Funding Standard (DPFS).     

The simple plan protected from exposure the Calvin cycle, or the DPFS.  But its shrouds ran afoul of the conclusion that the $48,l903.81 used by Posner in furtherance of the DPFS is an impediment to this country's development of a hydrogen economy from photosynthesis.  Photoelectrolytic apparatus for water splitting - US Patent 4140591, Fong's Second Patent with Lory Galloway, shows that the photogalvanic generation of electricity in the First Patent, US 4022950, posted below arises from the splitting of water into molecular hydrogen and oxygen, upon photoexcitation of the chlorophyll by sunlight.  Fong, F.K. and Galloway, L. (1978) J. Am. Chem. Soc. 100, 3694-3696.  Even more important, US 4022950 underscores Fong et al's further discovery of the reduction of carbon dioxide to organic fuels.  Fruge, D.R., Fong, G.D., and Fong, F.K. (1979) J. Am. Chem. Soc. 101, 3694-3697.