Eric---Bob here-- I agree with your assessment. However, it does imply fusion of D and in fact uses the term "fusion". The following is a copy (translated from German with some mistakes) of the paragraph 12 of the patent :
"Particularly preferably, the cathode material has been found to palladium, which is a result of its comparison to the other in the given materials high electron work function of 5.6 eV particularly well. With corresponding cooling of the cathode can thus much more of a produced by the resulting at the cathode heat electron current through the plasma arc can be prevented, as this for the heat generation process contributes nothing or these rather hindered as to produce a desired direction cathode particle to trigger fusion of the not produced in the cathode or impeded. Similar to achieve with other materials, it is necessary because of the lower work function of a much higher expense of cooling in order to prevent the undesired electrode current from the cathode and to minimize." Reading the whole patent is interesting, especially noting the timing of controlling input energy pulses. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: Eric Walker To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2014 10:41 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:New German LENR Company On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: Here is their patent - it appears to be photoelectric [snip] Abstract The invention relates to a method for producing thermal energy, wherein light, initial material is introduced into a plasma arc I don't think it claims to involve a photoelectric effect; it does not appear to make any attempt to explain what's going on. It seems to be a water torch invention in the lineage of Brown's gas, where water is dissociated into hydrogen and oxygen, and it tries to improve upon a 1990 cold fusion patent [1]. It refers to water rather than noble gasses, so I think the comparison to Papp's device only goes so far. But it definitely reminds me of many of the electric arc devices/experiments. The present patent focuses a lot on the electric arc and the waveform used to drive it. It is surprising to me that someone can write all of this stuff up and get a patent for it. There is very little to clearly differentiate this patent from any number of experiments and patents that are out there. I recall hearing that in the European patent system, you get a patent automatically upon application, but this does not imply that it is defendable. Eric [1] https://www.google.com/patents/EP0393465A2