Carbon Nanotube Energy? New Patent Filed by Seldon Technologies

ECat World ^ | Posted on February 28, 2014 | Frank Acland

[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

[Kevmo]

Oops, that was a mistake. I misread a line in another article about the company. It’s privately traded.

[Wonder Warthog]

"The thing is, they’re so small that they disrupt cell membranes very easily."

It's not just the size, it's the shape as well. "Long and skinny". The carcinogenic types of asbestos (not all the different minerals that comprise the broad class "asbestos" are carcinogenic) have a similar shape.