A recent patent application of interest in the context of the Rossi "dogbone" reactor: "Method and equipment for quantum vacuum energy extraction" US 20140092521
http://www.google.com/patents/US20140092521 Abstract Embodiments of the present invention comprise different methods and equipment for efficiently and relatively inexpensively producing Casimir cavities for use in quantum vacuum energy extraction. As mentioned previously in the context of Rossi, there is a possibility that providing a reactor of sintered alumina, which is both translucent and nanoporous, will accentuate the production of SPP along the interface of high current wires which have been incorporated into the structure. The high field so the SPP then interact with protons trapped in the Cavities. If so, and Charles Rosendorf is successful in having his applications granted then it would have added value in the context of Rossi. However, U.S. Pat. 7,379,286 was issued May 27, 2008 to Haisch, et al. entitled "Quantum Vacuum Energy Extraction" and would seem to negate that possibility. There are a growing number of observers who believe that the SPP can interact with protons in a Casimir cavity in such a way as to obtain energy from QCD. This is because a treasure trove of new-old information has turned up from the 1980s on quark confinement in Casimir cavities. More on that later. There are some interesting equations starting on page 6 here which define the roll of ZPE and the strong force in the context of quarks. If required spectra of the ZPF are suppressed in a cavity, then we may end up with "quark soup" in place of a proton. http://www.ardeshirmehta.com/ModificationOfTheStrong.pdf All of which implies that a "new energy source", the one which is involved in some kinds of LENR is actually sub-nuclear, in the sense of quantum vacuum interactions involving loose quarks of trapped protons in Casimir cavities. We may need to change the name of LENR to LTQS (low temperature quark soup).
