One reason for the post below concerns the apparent evolution of Gupta's
research, in which a superior lithium ion battery is the result.
http://electrovaya.com/
The company is Ectrovaya - which is Canadian... and their battery
recently won a competition with other advanced batteries... yup, they
are apparently superior to the new battery offering of Tesla.
Not sure if there is a contribution from LENR or not. But batteries
could be the backdoor for commercialization ... All those lithium
battery meltdowns were indeed- a message.
Here is a strange bit of history which seems to have been somehow
overlooked and misplaced. It almost reads like "alternate facts"....
The Fleischmann/ Pons announcement of cold fusion happened on March
23, 1989. Ostensibly this date was forced on them by concerns about
the competing work from Steven Jones at BYU, but there was another
more specific threat. Perhaps their rush was not BYU but concern over
a competing line of research which Fleischmann had participated in,
going all the way back to the 1970s. These were palladium metal
lattice experiments described by B. Dandapani (and Fleischmann as
coauthor) in the Journal of Electronal. Chemistry, 39, in 1972 and later.
On March 31, 1989 - 8 days after the hurried Utah announcement the
following patent was actually filed by Gupta and Jacobs in the USA,
and it was soon GRANTED ! And then it was almost completely ignored
today, even though it undercuts the IP claims of others and actually
mentions "dense hydrogen" as the operative mechanism. Yet, the IP was
not commercially useful, probably due to the high cost of palladium.
It is now in the public domain.
"Process and apparatus for generating high density hydrogen in a
matrix" US 4986887
https://www.google.com/patents/US4986887
That's right - the first LENR filing was actually granted by the
Patent Office - so there is no wonder why later filings did not succeed.
There was and still is - a lot of whining going on - but no evidence
of a "grand conspiracy" by insiders in Hot Fusion, although they did
not agree there was a breakthrough. Plus, there is no way Gupta could
have based his IP on "stealing the P&F work" since it normally takes
months to draft a decent patent filing and several days to get it to
USPTO by mail, and Gupta had published on the subject before 1989.
We now understand why almost everyone else's patent application was
denied or languished, and it has nothing to do with violating the Laws
of Physics or Thermodynamics, nor to a hostile hot fusion establishment.
There was, in fact, a valid patent granted for LENR.
