The Larsen & Windom Patent on gamma shielding: "Apparatus and method
for absorption of incident gamma radiation and its conversion to
outgoing radiation at less penetrating, lower energies and
frequencies ":
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?
Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-
bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7893414.PN.&OS=PN/
7893414&RS=PN/7893414
http://tinyurl.com/47al74f
was heralded by NET:
http://blog.newenergytimes.com/2011/02/22/cold-fusioneers-complain-
lenr-researchers-patent/
http://tinyurl.com/46zgbfu
It is notable that, despite the huge amount of content on cold fusion
and LENR, it is not a patent on a nuclear energy production method,
merely a gamma shielding method.
Also, unless I missed it, there does not seem to be any test data
provided in the patent proving the method works. It would seem
sending a gamma beam through such thin shielding material and
*measuring* attenuation would be the minimal level of proof required
to show that the theory is not completely bogus.
Again the authors make the absurd claim that "cold fusion" reactions
do not encompass weak reactions: "Together, the four scientific
papers by the present inventors comprising Attachments 1-4 can
explain all of the major features exhibited in many seemingly
anomalous experiments (lumped under the unfortunate term cold fusion)
that have previously been regarded by many as theoretically
inexplicable. In contrast to other earlier theories involving
penetration of Coulomb barriers, the present Invention's methods and
apparatus for creating low energy nuclear reactions are
scientifically reasonable within the context of the well-accepted
standard model of electroweak interaction physics. The key process
responsible for producing most of the experimentally observed
anomalies explained by these publications is not any form of cold
fusion, nor is it any form of fission. On the contrary, the key
physical processes driving the unique behavior of these systems are
primarily weak interactions."
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
