Sorry guys n gals that it took so long to respond. After I had made that post above, I had the bright idea to update my email address. The forum locked me out until my account could be re-activated. Thanks go out to Chris for doing this. The email notifying me came in and I found it in my spam folder today. I marked it as not spam, so all future email from this site should not go into the spam folder.
It's been one heck of a journey since I used to post here regularly. While I continued research to improve efficiency, I became actively involved in encouraging licensed manufacturing of my cell designs. One of those that approached me mid-2008 had agreed to take my latest cell design to market. It was a cell design that myself and Ed Holdgate had worked together on previously, and commenced with a fully documented prototype with notorized blueprints and photos in January of 2008. Ed did the machining and I supplied the design criteria to control leakage currents. Many here are probably familiar with what happened next. I spent 7 months working with that manufacturer, providing input to try to ensure that the product was built to, and performed to meet my, very demanding specifications. He claimed to be very experienced with mass manufacturing, and much of his talents seemed to confirm this. Unfortunately, in the interest of ramping up production to meet the high demand that developed, he had taken some shortcuts that ended up affecting performance and reliability. Despite my repeated requests, he never entered into a manufacturers license agreement contract with me. Instead, he applied for a patent on the design, and even filed for a registered trademark on my name. I'll not go into further detail, as it's all water under the bridge now. Suffice it to say, I had to break off all relations with this individual and his company.
It was while I was there that the chipping incident occured. I must honestly say, I don't know what his involvement was, if any, but it was he that brought me the Mountain Dew that I was drugged with that evening. When I awoke in my ofice chair the next morning, my shoulder was numb and tingling around the outside of the still numb area. I rubbed my shoulder and felt a lump under the skin in the center of the numb spot. When he arrived, I told him about my shoulder, and he offered that I should tell my doctor when I went back home. Every day was filled with things to do, so I soon became too busy to stay focused on my shoulder. It wasn't until months later that I discovered his former ties to the NSA. And the transponder ID number in the VeriChip surgically removed from my shoulder indicated that it was part of a batch that had been sold to the NSA.
I totally forgot about it until a few months later when my shoulder turned red and became sore. My doctor looked at it and scheduled a biopsy. The biopsy turned up a VeriChip, and the biopsy sample was sent out to a lab for pathology. The pathology report indicateded that the tissue contained desmoplastic malignant melanoma, but there was no mention whatsoever of the VeriChip. We contacted the lab for a return of the sample, and they refused, citing legal reasons. However, x-rays uncovered another VeriChip still in my shoulder, deeper than the first. The pathology report indicated that the margins were not clear, so I had to have surgery. The surgeon documented the cancer surgery with photos of the VeriChip and its removal from the tumor. This documentation is on my website at
http://www.bobboyce.org