Jones Beene wrote:
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pagnu...@htdconnect.com
>
> BTW, a recently published cold D+D fusion patent application is -
> Deuterium Reactor -- US 20130235963 A1
>
> ABSTRACT
> The Deuterium Reactor is a fusion reactor whose design is based upon a
> non-singular electrostatic required by the quantization of electric
> charge. This potential allows for a significant reduction in the fusion
> barrier of deuterium nuclei when these nuclei are held in close proximity,
> as within a crystal, and preconditioned using a magnetic field.
>
>
> Lou, interesting find, in a way.
>
> At first this application seemed nutty, but the inventor was funded by a
> small grant from:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Head_Naval_Surface_Warfare_Center
>
> Whether that adds any credibility to the application is debatable.
>
> One might reasonably ask: what is "a non-singular electrostatic required
> by
> the quantization of electric charge." Sounds cranky. Given the Quantum
> Hall
> Effect, it is hard to imagine what the inventor is talking about - unless
> he
> is invoking Mills' f/H or redundant ground states - from another
> perspective, or else Landau quantization.
>
> In regard to the later, the De Haas-van Alphen effect may indeed have a
> place in a hypothesis for "nanomagnetism" in LENR ... in the way that
> Ahern
> and others are suggesting, yet I do not remember seeing this effect
> mentioned before now.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Haas%E2%80%93van_Alphen_effect
>
> Jones
>
