Worth mentioning again is the hypothetical “backstory” going back to 1989, surrounding the high level of “official neglect” shown to the P&F effect. The word ‘hypothetical’ is used, since the historical situation makes no sense, logically or scientifically, unless there is a hidden motivation – which is to say a secret but very strong incentive, possibly known only to a few at the top levels of Government.
The secret information supposedly would make it worthwhile to try to pull strings so that further experimentation in this field was rendered difficult if not impossible due to low funding. Of course, it has been noted that one should never underestimate official incompetence, which is more consistent with neglect than is some kind of invented conspiracy theory, based on what was known then by only a few. Nevertheless, in 1989 there were a few, especially in Military Labs, who realized that palladium hydride was superconductive, and this has implications for other things (such as spherical compression). Yet, in fact, the actual patent for palladium hydride was not issued until 2006, but had been reported in the literature far earlier before 1989 – leading to speculation that it would have been sequestered back then by the Pentagon, if it came from US inventors. Here is the patent which is in effect now. http://www.google.com/patents/US7033568 High Tc palladium hydride superconductor US 7033568 B2 Abstract: A palladium hydride superconductor, Pd-yHx where yHx is 1Hx, 2Hx, or 3Hx, having a critical temperature Tc≧11K and stoichiometric ratio x≧1. The inventor is Paolo Tripodi - a Senior Researcher at ENEA · Frascati Research Centre, Rome, Italy and AFAIK not a citizen of the USA. This patent was filed in WIPO which is a strategy that keeps it from being sequestered by the Pentagon in the USA. The one detail that this patent brings out, loud and clear – and in the context of recent threads about ballotechnics and a potential cold-fusion explosive - is the possibility that a superconductive sphere of palladium could be loaded with a 1:1 mix of 2H and 3H which is far more likely to fuse than deuterium alone. Superconductivity would tend to imply that compressive forces will multiply exponentially as inverse cube of radius, instead of inverse square since these forces change power law for the case of dipoles in spherical convergence. Since we now appreciate that deuterium alone can fuse at low energy is there any reason to suspect that a far more dangerous and reactive mix of isotopes would not fuse at even lower input energy, especially when superconductive forces are involved ? That frightening scenario provides, in retrospect - what could be described as a powerful motivation to pull strings, so that further experimentation in this field was neglected. But by the time of the Tripodi patent filing, apparently there was nothing more which could be done to keep this information contained, other than to continue the strategy of “official neglect”.
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