2026-10-04 — Internet Archive copy of INE / New Energy News page (padrak.com)

URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20080105120935/http://padrak.com/ine/NEN_5_9_7.html Reached from the Natural Philosophy Wiki letter page ("Link to paper (Internet Archive)"). Source: New Energy News (NEN) vol. 5 no. 9, Jan. 1998, p. 19; Fusion Information Center, Inc. (Hal Fox, editor); letter dated Nov 22, 1997. Page carries "COPYING NOT ALLOWED", so no copy saved; summarized here.

Content (primary, the inventor's own words; paraphrased, short quotes only) [web]

• Znidarsic says he is going public because (1) he has a patent application on file, "filed Oct 19 ,1997", for the process, and (2) results have been "less than expected".
• Premises stated: cold fusion electrodes are room-temperature superconductors (cites Phys. Rev. Lett. vol 35 no 2, 14 July 1975 — i.e. Papaconstantopoulos & Klein on Pd-H superconductivity [memory, high]); cites Celani (Italy) and US Patent 4,043,809 (Ruvalds); cites CETI (beads ~1,000 angstrom films, preheater) and Chubb (fine-grain palladium).
• Empirical rule he says he found: frequency of operation (MHz) = 37 / (length of superconductor in inches). (= 9.4e5 m/s as f x L.)
• Mentions NASA Marshall's "Downshifting of the Frequencies Theory" as possibly related.
• Patented process: vibrate a ceramic superconducting disk in the RF range; RF energy extracted and converted directly to electrical energy; "absorbs vars and produces watts".
• Apparatus: resonant coil beside a superconducting disk, both in a Dewar; spark-gap excitation tunable 1.5-50 MHz; circulating current of a few amps induced in the disk by inserting an electromagnet pole through a central hole; EM field monitored by oscilloscope.
• Result: in two instances an anomaly just above noise at 11 MHz with a 3.5-inch disk (change in decay constant of the ringing coil); "We cannot now repeat this"; latest tests showed no anomalous energy. Asks for feedback, prior art, and "Am I the first to file?"
• Contact: fznidarsic@aol.com (same as the 2011 paper).

Bearing on claims

• Claim 1 and 6: this is the inventor's own earliest dated statement of the experimental basis for Vt and for macroscopic vibration of a superconductor; reports a marginal, unrepeated anomaly and a null later result. Note "we" (more than one experimenter) — who else is unknown.
• Historical record: a US patent application filed 19 Oct 1997 exists by his own account; no granted patent found (see google-patents note). Applications filed before 29 Nov 2000 were not published unless granted [memory, high], so an abandoned application would not appear in Google Patents.
• Recheck: no (static archive), but the padrak.com/ine index may hold more Znidarsic items.