Joshua, and all others who are trying to get to the bottom of this - If there is one report that everyone interested in Rossi/E-Cat should read, it is the 1994 final Thermacore report to DARPA. "Final Report, SBIR Phase I, Nascent Hydrogen: An Energy Source."
Unfortunately it is not on the Web anymore, nor even on LENR/CANR, it seems - although we talked about in 2009 and it appeared that Jed Rothwell was going to put it up. He might do that now - since it is so close to the E-Cat that it is eerie. I have the doc as an 8+ MB scan, and will send it to anyone who is interested if Jed does not want it up on the site. This could be the most important paper in the history of Nickel-hydrogen, at least up to Rossi, if he has indeed pushed the technology over the top - and it presents a continuing mystery, especially in light of all of the hoopla over Rossi. The experiment was gas-phase, but was spawned by the electrolytic cell, which also gives lots of heat - and there is no radioactivity. The underlying patent is about to expire: Thermacore #5,273,635 December 28, 1993 - Inventors: Gernert; Nelson J. (Elizabethtown, PA); Shaubach; Robert M. (Litz, PA); Ernst; Donald M. (Leola, PA) Though the original patent was owned by Thermacore, not BLP, that company was bought up by Modine, and soon after all the inventors took early retirement. This exciting technology could have simply been lost in the transition, as a footnote in the history of Ni-H. Recently the company was sold off by Modine and is now back in operation, again as Thermacore. Consider this quote: "The most outstanding example is a cell producing 41 watts of heat with only 5 watts of electrical input. The cell has operated continuously for over one year..." OK, that is from 17 years ago, and it showed a COP of 8 for over one year. Note: this claim is coming from the highest of high-tech companies - a prime Pentagon contractor, and not some weird inventor who is honesty-challenged. (and possibly the luckiest man on earth) BTW, this is the company that invented the heat pipe. The claims should be completely credible. Jones
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