re: Heavy burden of proof.
Contrary to myth, if something like this worked, General Electric would be first in line to license the technology.
As another example, I'm constantly amazed by the number of people willing to believe that car companies all over the world in many different nations would somehow conspire to keep simple and inexpensive technology for 100 MPG cars off the market. Any one of them would drive a Hummer over their grandmothers to put something like that in their showrooms.
Patent can be found here.