From: Steven V Johnson "Hi Ho! Hydrino!"
>From Harry > How can 30% of nickel in Rossi’s reactor be transmuted into copper? > http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=473 > The Lone Proton...masked marvel. Here is one curious and convoluted observation, assuming that some version of hydrino/fractional hydrogen turns out to be accurate. The biggest beneficiaries will probably be ... ta-da ... China. Why? because China has lots of trade dollars in the form of liquid assets to invest, if no patent is valid - money talks and first-to-market at the lowest cost means a lot. Over a billion citizens means they have tremendous incentive. As for the patents. Mills has NO gas-phase patent that I am aware of, so he cannot complain. You can't patent a theory and so even if f/H is found to be responsible, he gets little more than a nod of thanks. The patent which would have some precedence, except it is for hydrogen fusion is from Piantelli and it will expire soon. In fact, it looks like Rossi copied this one in his application, but changed the reaction to nickel transmutation. WO 9520816 ENERGY GENERATION AND GENERATOR BY MEANS OF ANHARMONIC STIMULATED FUSION Publication date: 1995-08-03 Inventor: PIANTELLI, FRANCESCO [IT] + OK to answer the question of the subject header: this kind of transmutation cannot happen at low energy unless there is a previously unknown nuclear reaction out there which happens at about 10,000,000,000 times less energy than the known reactions for Ni-H. Therefore, Rossi's published application will be considered a joke by USPTO, and will be rejected. Here is the link to Kowalski's updated page which explains why Rossi could be completely wrong in his explanation, if we must base it on known physics which is what they want to see in a patent: http://vixra.org/pdf/1103.0080v2.pdf Let's assume Rossi gets the substantial gain as claimed, and that the measurements are essentially accurate but he got the methodology wrong because it is Millsean. The copper seen is due to electro-migration from other parts of the reactor. Essentially this means that the inventor will be left out of the big party, since it was so crowded with prior art to begin with, and since he did not recognize what he had - soon enough to work something out with Mills. Does that mean that the field is wide open? Well yes - except for the one unpublished WIPO application which has been referred to before, but it probably identifies a Mills' catalyst. At any rate, this appraisal does not make Rossi's future prospects look all that fantastic. Robin is right that he will get to market early through the Greek connection - but will they be competitive with China in a couple of years? Rossi's future is far from shabby, if he has paid his taxes - but I will wager that in 5 years, 75% to 100% of all the Ni-H reactors made - will have been produced in China, or in other parts of the Third World with OPEC investment - and with no royalty. The NRC will still be holding hearings in the USA. But still, Rossi will be enjoying the Miami sunshine in retirement as a wealthy transplant trying to find a good Italian restaurant. Jones
