-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] > The paper is dated 2010, not 2011.
Right. That is why I am thinking that the 18 months (before publication) will be over 'any day now' and we should be able to learn the details (at least to the level that one 'skilled in the art' can duplicate the direct conversion results). Obviously, if true, this blows Rossi completely out of the water. But Mills has been a massive disappointment to investors and observers for almost 20 years, so no one is holding their breath. Horace suggests that enough of the technology may be covered in other patents so that there is no new filing. That could be true, but it seems to be completely out of character with Mills' history of massive IP filings in the past. BLP is a patent filing machine if nothing else. RM has mentioned direct electrical conversion in several other patents, but a few of those involved converting UV light emission to electricity via photocells. My favorite was the reverse gyrotron, which was the biggest disappointment of all. The CIHT looks to have a more direct route like a battery, where there is possibly a pn junction involved (reminiscent of the late Paul Browns betavoltaic battery) except employing UV instead of beta particles to provide the emf. Is there a way to polarize UV emission in advance? Magnetism? Jones >-----Original Message----- >From: Horace Heffner > >http://tinyurl.com/28a8pxu > >It would be instructive to see the patent application, which is not >mentioned in this PR release. > >An application was surely filed before the very first announcement of CIHT >was made, which could have been prior to the 18 month period normally >allotted (prior to open publication in the USA). > >I've wasted and hour or two searching the recently published applications >both here and on the espace site - but to no avail. > >However, it should be out "any day now" ... unless some kind of secrecy >order has attached.
