I can understand the patent office denying cold fusion as a "source" of energy. As I understand it there is never enough ash to explain the amount of heat being claimed but, the patent they granted to Haisch and Moddel was based on manipulation of Casimir effect instead of catalytic action and the energy is rectified via a mechanism they term "Lamb Pinch". Their patent focuses more on the environment as the energy source while Lamb Pinch is the extraction method. The problem with claiming cold fusion or LENR as the extraction method is they are focusing on just one end "effect" of another as yet undefined interim extraction method that is providing the energy to make these rather unlikely nuclear reactions. much more likely. The energy source in both cases is gas motion /fractional translation relative to a tapestry of rigid Casimir geometries. Although LENR may be a beneficial contribution I don't think it is a necessary one and am convinced there is some sort of relativistic Heisenberg trap that is allowing these researchers to tap Zero Point Energy.
The US patent office also denied Randell Mills a patent based on his Black Light process described in terms of catalytic action causing "fractional states" of hydrogen but then in May 2008 granted a patent <http://www.calphysics.org/Patent7379286.pdf> to Haisch and Moddel describing a manipulation of Casimir geometry causing a lamb pinch of noble gases.. Mills recently described the hydrino as a fractional Rydberg atom further aligning himself with other researchers. This new definition for hydrino as fractional Rydberg can therefore be applied to a 2005 math paper by Jan Naudts which proposed a relativistic solution <http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0507193v2> for the hydrino. Unlike hydrogen being ejected from the suns corona near C and slowing down time, the hydrogen inside Casimir geometry is being negatively accelerated through equivalence and accelerates time..instead of increasing vacuum energy density like at the bottom of a gravity well this method uses suppression to limit the longer vacuum wavelengths and REDUCE the total energy density so time is accelerated. The fractional hydrogen it is at the top of a gravity hill [warp] due to suppression and we outside the Casimir geometry appear to be at the bottom of a deep gravity well and existing in slow time from the perspective of the fractional hydrogen. Jed Rothwell Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:27:18 -0800 I wrote: > When you apply for any cold fusion related patent, they automatically > reject it with a form letter. . . . > > > Let me upload a copy: > > http://lenr-canr.org/Collections/PatentOfficeMemo.jpg > That is a copy of their policy, not the form letter. Sorry for the confusion. I tossed out my copy of the form letter, which a researcher gave me. I should have scanned it. I will ask around for another copy. - Jed