Posted on 03/01/2014 12:36:58 AM PST by Kevmo
Carbon Nanotube Energy? New Patent Filed by Seldon Technologies
Posted on February 28, 2014 by admin • 30 Comments
Here’s something that just came to my attention, and I haven’t really had time to investigate it thoroughly, so I thought I’d put it up here for information and comment. It’s a patent filed by Seldon Technologies, a Vermont company which works mainly in the field of water purification, and use carbon nanotubes in their filtration systems to make a product they call Nanomesh.
Seldon seems to be branching out in their research and development endeavors, however, and have filed a patent which deals with energy production titled “Methods of generating energetic particles using nanotubes and articles thereof”. The patent was published on October 10 2013.
The abstract reads:
There is disclosed a method of generating energetic particles, which comprises contacting nanotubes with a source of hydrogen isotopes, such as D2O, and applying activation energy to the nanotubes. In one embodiment, the hydrogen isotopes comprises protium, deuterium, tritium, and combinations thereof. There is also disclosed a method of transmuting matter that is based on the increased likelihood of nuclei interaction for atoms confined in the limited dimensions of a nanotube structure, which generates energetic particles sufficient to transmute matter and exposing matter to be transmuted to these particles.
I can’t find any reference to any product under development out there, but the application mentions some experiments done with carbon nanotubes in which neutron production ‘above background levels’ was measured. For example, in one experiment, a carbon nanotube electrode was submerged in a bath of deuterium, and after a voltage was passed through it, neutron bursts were recorded.
Patent # US 20130266106 A1 https://www.google.com/patents/US20130266106?dq=ininventor:%22James+F.+Loan%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0bMOU4nIJMyGogT-1YLoAg&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAA
I checked on their website, and they do not have any mention of this patent on this publicly traded company. It would appear to be a stealth project.
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I can’t wait for them to start creating human livers out of nanotubes using 3D printing.
Interesting. Nanotubes also look like they have a future in computing, supercapacitors, batteries, bioengineering, structural material.....
I suspect they will be determined to be a carcinogen and banned.
Hari Seldon understands the future better than anyone.
I suspect that it is only "loose" nanotubes that are carcinogenic. To be useful in ultracapacitors, they will undoubtedly be secured (actually grown) on sheet electrodes.
IIRC, even asbestos can still be used for some applications. Stringent safety measures during manufacture (or disposal) of anything that uses them, but once secured and rendered immobile in a matrix, are "OK".
Fast charging batteries would be great but now sure how practical it would be for large battery packs - how would the energy get to the battery?
transmuting matter? changing one substance into another??
Lightning strike?
Ha! I can see it now; teeny smart cars driving about with huge lightening rods on top.
Draging a ground strap like bumper cars.
Done every day in thousands of different places.
Now imagine getting into a collision which results in all that energy being released in a millisecond...
Yes. Transmutations have been a part of LENR investigation since 1989.
I suspect they will be determined to be a carcinogen and banned.
***That rings a bell. I think I remember hearing about CNTs causing cancer. The thing is, they’re so small that they disrupt cell membranes very easily.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seldon_Crisis
Wiki defines a “Seldon Crisis” as a [social <-> political] situation that, to be successfully surmounted, would eventually leave only one possible, inevitable, course of action.
Is not Peak Oil a Seldon Crisis which only leads to LENR?
Remember when 18 wheelers had a chain looped through a ring that grounded the truck?
“on this publicly traded company”
What is the symbol? I don’t seem to be able to find it.
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