What happened to these men and their device? How can a functional generator fail to be mass produced all these years later?
On Dec 16, 2011, at 13:15, "Jones Beene" <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > Robert > > Ø Before the courts determine a victor, who will the "people" identify as > the inventor? I believe that it may just come down to "branding"… So, if > Nickel Hydrogen really takes off, who gets the credit? > > The first Ni-H device to achieve significant excess energy (> 10 watts > continuous) and to run for a year in OU mode, and which was completely > verified by NASA, and Haldeman at MIT - was the Thermacore reactor, based on > Mills’ theory and invented by Gernert, Shauback, and Ernst. > > Those three: Gernert, Shauback, and Ernst should get full credit IMO – not > Piantelli, not Focardi, not Rossi, not even Mills who was technically the > first theorist of Ni-H. > > These three guys have not only the legal priority date, but also the first > replicated, strong, continuous results with gas phase hydrogen. (there was > prior subwatt transitory results) > > As we have mentioned here before, their reactor got more energy per unit of > Nickel surface area than the current Rossi reactor, and had not Thermacore > gone through merger and corporate reorganization about this time fame (mid > nineties) the inventors would surely have tried “nanometric” nickel – which > was Rossi’s main contribution. Note Piantelli was late on ‘nano’ too. Rossi > does not even get credit for the “nano” since Mills used Raney nickel – by > Mills neglected gas-phase. > > Why did Mills steer clear of gas-phase? ANS: probably he saw early on that > the reactants became slowly radioactive, and RM had spurned LENR since the > beginning. > > Thermacore Patent 5,273,635 December 28, 1993 This has the World wide > priority date and it has expired. > > Inventors: Gernert; Nelson J. (Elizabethtown, PA); Shaubach; Robert M. > (Litiz, PA); Ernst; Donald M. (Leola, PA) > > Note: Randell Mills is NOT listed as co-inventor. > > Jones >
