I am not sure whether this material has already been posted to Vortex, but if not, it may be of interest.
First, (Ahern's) Vibronic Energy Techologies Corp. presentation can be found at: http://www.scribd.com/doc/39076066/Vibronic-Energy-Technologies --------------------- Second, his patent - U.S. Patent Number 5,674,632 'Method of maximizing anharmonic oscillations in deuterated alloys' is at: http://patents.justia.com/1997/05674632.html A few interesting excerpts - ABSTRACT For a condensed matter system containing a guest interstitial species such as hydrogen or its isotopes dissolved in the condensed matter host lattice, the invention provides tuning of the molecular orbital degeneracy of the host lattice to enhance the anharmonicity of the dissolved guest sublattice to achieve a large anharmonic displacement amplitude and a correspondingly small distance of closest approach of the guest nuclei... leads to enhanced interaction between nuclei of the sublattice.... GOVERNMENT RIGHTS IN THE INVENTION This invention was made with U.S. Government support under contract No.F19628-90-C0002, awarded by the Air Force. The Government has certain rights in this invention. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Strong force nuclear interaction of hydrogen isotopes, deuterium in particular, have been extensively studied in the regime above 30,000 eV. Tunneling phenomena through the Coulomb barrier has been well characterized and described as requiring tunneling through a barrier of 0.7 .ANG. in width and 400,000 eV in height. Interaction of nuclei in a palladium-deuterium condensed matter system has been shown to be 10.sup.7 times more probable than the Coulomb tunneling described above. The reported successes in this system are best accounted for by a palladium-deuterium interaction scheme occurring in the presence of strong wave function overlap. It has been shown that such wave function overlap may be achieved via specific molecular orbital degeneracy conditions. Fundamental shifts in the molecular orbital topology of a condensed matter system are known to be achievable via sub-micron, nanometrically-sized surface features. Such nanometric surface features alter the surface and near surface electrochemistry of a condensed matter system, and thereby effect the orbital topology of the system. This effect cannot be attributed to a simple increase in surface area; rather, the surface character at the nanoscale can only be predicted from a real-space molecular orbital perspective. The resulting properties are purely quantum-mechanical in nature, i.e., they cannot be derived by a simple extension of continuum elasticity theory to the nanoregime. Thus, nanometric, low-dimensional surface features can be expected to interact with electromagnetic fields and radiation in a corresponding quantum-mechanical nature.... -------------------- Lastly some recent results obtained with Ahern's nano-powders are in abstracts "Mt-01", "Mt-02" and "GL-02" at the compilation of the Feb-2011 ICCF-16 "16th Intl Conf on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science" http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Srinivasaniccfthinte.pdf It seems like the patent issue may be a problem, especially since there is some U.S. government ownership. The patent seems to explain the enhanced fusion (or other nuclear reaction) rates, but does not appear to account for the thermalization of high-energy gammas or neutrons. I welcome others' impressions. Thanks, Lou Pagnucco
