http://www.google/patents/US4489049
In 1982 - several years before P&F made the big splash, scientists working under US Navy contracts filed for what became US 4489049 for "Solid state hydrogen pumping and storage material." Abstract: A solid-state hydrogen storage system. A layer of an amorphous binary metal alloy of a lanthanide and iron, nickel or cobalt is disposed on a suitable substrate and overcoated with palladium metal. Geeze, it would be a bit of a surprise, thirty+ years thereafter to learn that the nickel version of this hydrogen pump did not produce some small amount of anomalous heat. Of course, there would have been no reason to look for excess heat, at that time, but who knows how careful they were in the details? Funny that years later, on the cancellation of SPAWAR some doubts linger as to ultimate motivations and to what could be going on behind the scenes. Yet, on or about early November 2011, one Rear Admiral Patrick Brady, commander of SPAWAR, ordered researchers to terminate all LENR research. He may or may not have initiated the order, but one is left to wonders where Brady, or his superior, was located in 1982 and was he involved in continuing R&D on the hydrogen "storage" system ? Anyway, his order came about a week after News broke about Rossi's October, 2011, demonstration of the E-Cat. Probably no connection.... just a coincidence... nothing to see here, please move on. Let's turn this over to the conspiracy theorists now so that it will be certain to be discredited as with the rest of LENR... Jones
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