techjunkie, I googled the EPA limit for tritium in drinking water. It is 20,000 picoCuries/liter (about 20 x 10^-9 Curies/kg - the Curie is a unit of radioactivity). Tritium itself is about 10,000,000 Curies/kg. This makes the drinking water limit about 2 x 10^-15 or 2 parts per quadrillion (if you find an error in these numbers please let me know). My understanding is that nuclear reactor operators would be happy if the tritium concentration in their effluents was below the drinking water limit.
Skepticism is healthy - I'd like to see more of it on these boards. There were a couple of reasons I didn't bring up the issues. First, I wanted to confirm my suspicions with a talented chemical engineer I know before I posted anything. Second, it was close to Christmas and I was busy.
You're right about there being more patents in the pipeline. The USPTO website shows two "daughter" patents (one US, one international) that have already been applied for.
I agree with you that it should be easy to conduct an experiment to verify the patent.
Keep up the healthy skepticism.
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