Some years ago I was on a Church walk and got chatting with an elderly
gentleman from the Church and I found that he had been a metallergist,
so we got to talking about LENR. It turned out that in the 50's he had
been working on a project that involved hydrogen and palladium and
noticed a number of anomolous effects. For various reasons which he
explained, and which I can no longer remember they decided not to pursue
this.
He said that he was not suprised at the Pons and Fleischmann
developments many years later, but was unaware of the continuing work.
As you say, so close, but so far away...
Nigel
On 07/02/2014 21:24, Jones Beene wrote:
http://www.google/patents/US4489049
In 1982 - several years before P&F made the big splash, scientists working
under US Navy contracts filed for what became US 4489049 for "Solid state
hydrogen pumping and storage material."
Abstract: A solid-state hydrogen storage system. A layer of an amorphous
binary metal alloy of a lanthanide and iron, nickel or cobalt is disposed on
a suitable substrate and overcoated with palladium metal.
Geeze, it would be a bit of a surprise, thirty+ years thereafter to learn
that the nickel version of this hydrogen pump did not produce some small
amount of anomalous heat.
Of course, there would have been no reason to look for excess heat, at that
time, but who knows how careful they were in the details?
Funny that years later, on the cancellation of SPAWAR some doubts linger as
to ultimate motivations and to what could be going on behind the scenes.
Yet, on or about early November 2011, one Rear Admiral Patrick Brady,
commander of SPAWAR, ordered researchers to terminate all LENR research. He
may or may not have initiated the order, but one is left to wonders where
Brady, or his superior, was located in 1982 and was he involved in
continuing R&D on the hydrogen "storage" system ?
Anyway, his order came about a week after News broke about Rossi's October,
2011, demonstration of the E-Cat.
Probably no connection.... just a coincidence... nothing to see here, please
move on.
Let's turn this over to the conspiracy theorists now so that it will be
certain to be discredited as with the rest of LENR...
Jones
