TESTING VALIDATES HYDRINO THEORY

The American Reporter ^ | December 19, 2010 | Joe Shea

[Kevmo]

TESTING VALIDATES HYDRINO THEORY by Joe Shea AR Correspondent Bradenton, Fla.

BRADENTON, Fla., Dec. 18, 2010 -- A remarkable new energy source from fractional hydrogen will allow a gallon of ordinary water to become the energy equivalent of 200 barrels of oil, a team of physicists working near the onetime laboratories of Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein are saying.

"With further optimization," Dr. K.V. Ramanujachary of Rowan University in Glassboro, N.J., says, "there is no doubt that this technology will present an economically viable and environmentally benign alternate to meet global energy needs. If advanced to commercialization, it would be one of the most profound developments ever.”

The method of electricity production allows the fuel to reproduce itself by diverting part of the energy output to a catalyst that is then regenerated so fuel is only needed once. Using the process, about 10 100-watt bulbs could be lit 24 hours a day for a penny.

Hydrogen atoms of water can release an enormous amount of energy. Now BlackLight is promising an engine technology aimed at driving a car 5,000 miles on a gallon of water.

And if solar flares over the next 10 years have the power to blackout thousands of homes, as the National Oceanography and Atmospheric Administration has warned, the distributed power of the new cells could keep America lit up.

A working model is promised for 2011. Until it appears and independent laboratories confirm BlackLight's claims, most scientists will not accept such unorthodox technology, especially if it is based on classical rather than quantum physics. BlackLight's research has also been hampered in the past by its close ties to Rowan University, where several of its engineers have worked.

But the greater problem for BlackLight may be the oil companies and conventional utilities that will be displaced, if not destroyed, by hydrino technology. Even though the cells as described would collectively save homeowners and manufacturers trillions in electricity costs and generate many millions of jobs, it is also thought to be the target of a concerted foreign industrial espionage campaign.

The company, which has never tried to go public, keeps a low profile and has mounted a remarkably mundane website full of small type and dense physics with little appeal to readers. Even the weekly Cranbury Press has no mention of the company in its search database, yet there are thousands of search results on Google.

Ironically, the BlackLight Power facilities are located in Cranbury, N.J., a small town 8 miles from the Princeton University labs where Albert Einstein once toiled and 37 miles from the West Orange, N.J., laboratories of Thomas Edison.

But the proof is in the pudding, not the website.

"We have demonstrated the ability to produce electrical power using chemical systems for the direct production of electric power from the conversion of hydrogen to hydrinos, a more stable form of hydrogen,” said Dr. Randell Mills, chairman, CEO and president of BlackLight Power.

Working with a team headed by Dr. Alexander Bykanov at Harvard's Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics under contract with GEN3 Partners, the device showed hydrogen spectral emissions below 80 nanometers, the previously known "ground state" of hydrogen. Scientists formerly believed there could be no parts of the hydrogen atom smaller than the atom itself.

"This is decisive evidence of the existence of hydrinos as Dr. Randell Mills theoretically predicted," the BlackLight Power press release said. Hydrinos are a fractional element of hydrogen that skeptics in the world of quantum physics previously said could not exist.

“This is smoking-gun evidence of the existence of hydrinos," Dr. Mills said. "The light signature observed is from pure hydrogen and exists at a much higher energy level than deemed possible for this element in any known form.”

In a joint statement, Dr. Bykanov and Dr. Sam Kogan, chief operating officer of Boston-based GEN3 Partners, a company that evaluates new technologies and helps bring them to market, said "[BlackLight Power's] spectral results were identically [and] independently reproduced, and we could find no conventional explanation for the emission of bright light from hydrogen in this very high energy region. We believe that this confirms hydrino emission.”

Acceptance of Mills' ideas is largely the product of a battle between Einstein's old-fashioned "classical" physics and the newfangled "quantum" ideas of physicists like the late Richard Feynman.

One critic has been Stephen Chu, the Chinese-American physicist who was won the Nobel Prize and later became President Obama's Secretary of Energy. Chu urged investors to avoid BlackLight Power in 1999, saying he "felt sorry" for them. As many as seven Chinese-American physicists have co-authored some of the more than 80 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles published by and about Mills and his work, however. Mills could not be reached for comment on this article. His corporate public relations firm, the giant Hill & Knowlton, has not responded to emails in the past, and a Hill & Knowlton spokesperson, Milly Coleman, had her calls forwarded to voicemail Friday.

The company published its latest findings in the peer-reviewed International Journal of Hydrogen, and issued the news release Nov. 29 about the new power source, a system they call Catalyst Induced Hydrino Transition, or CIHT, that produces electricity directly. Others seeking a more palatable name have called it "Electricity from Collapsing Hydrogen Orbits,” or ECHO.

The company, funded with $70 million in investments by three large venture capital firms, says the technology allows an electric car, the size and weight of a Prius and costing about $9,000 to build, to travel more than 5,000 miles on a gallon of water. No combustion engine is required. A former chief of staff of the United States Air Force and a former CEO of Westinghouse Corp. have at various times sat on the company's board.

At least five American utilities, a Washington, D.C., energy broker and multinational firms in Italy and Holland are hoping to deploy the hydrino generators to produce an amount of electricity equivalent to that needed to run 1 million American homes - for as little as one cent per kilowatt.

An expanded team of scientists and engineers at Rowan University say they completed a thorough year-long series of additional testing of the thermal systems following the announcement and release of earlier validations, performed in October 2008 and August 2009. Using BLP’s proprietary solid-fuel chemistry, which is capable of continuous regeneration, they independently formulated and tested fuels that they found could generate on-demand energy greater than that of combustion but at the far lower power levels of kilowatts.

"When using BLP's chemical process, Rowan professors reported a net energy gain of up to 6.5 times the maximum energy potential of these materials from known chemical reactions," the release said. The Rowan team included Dr. Ramanujachary, who is Rowan University Meritorious Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, assistant professor of chemistry Dr. Amos Mugweru, professor of engineering Dr. John L. Schmalzel, P.E., and Dr. Peter Jansson P.E., asssociate professor of engineering at Rowan.

"In additional independent tests conducted over the last 12 months, involving 13 solid fuel mixtures made by us from commercially-available chemicals and confirmed by multiple analyses, our team of engineering and chemistry professors, staff and students at Rowan University has independently and consistently generated energy in excesses ranging from 1.3 times to 6.5 times the maximum theoretical heat available through known chemical reactions,” Dr. Ramanujachary said

Compared to thermal-based systems, Mills says, "[CIHT] produces electricity without requiring enormous thermally-driven mechanical generators." The power units would be distributed to individual homes, where they could power not just the home home but a neighborhood. The small unit in the car could even be hooked up to the house to power it.

Rather than relying on a giant utility, the units would make each home and neighborhood autonomous - "off the grid," as green energy activists like to say. That will make adoption of the units a quicker process, Mills says.

"Consequently, more rapid dissemination is expected by deploying many autonomous distributed units that circumvent the huge barriers of entry into the power markets such as developing and building massive billion-dollar power plants with their associated power distribution infrastructure," Mills said. "This is especially true in emerging markets.”

BlackLight Power focuses on using CIHT units to produce power to ultimately sell directly to consumers under power purchase agreements.

"The business plan is akin to that of solar leasing, but the costs are potentially vastly cheaper, and the systems may be deployable for essentially all applications of all scales untethered to the Sun or the grid, or as in the case of fuel cells and cars, a fuel supply," Dr. Mills said.

"To realize how transformational this technology will be, imagine that an electric car can travel over 5,000 miles on the hydrogen energy from a gallon of water without any pollution whatsoever. The power source can then be lifted out and plugged into your electrical panel to power your home with enough power to spare to also power your neighborhood,” Mills added.

Some of those hoping to exploit the new technology are already thinking ahead. "BLP’s breakthrough CIHT technology will allow us to become a major green-power producer for the DC metro area while enabling dramatic savings and unheard of independence," said John E. Akridge III, chairman and owner of Washington, D.C.,-based Akridge Energy.

"It is ideal for our needs across the full spectrum of our applications: powering apartment complexes, commercial offices, retail outlets, and mixed-use projects.” Akridge said. His firm, a BlackLight Power licensee that owns numerous buildings in Washinton, D.C., "intends to deploy distributed-scale CIHT electric power units at commercial real estate properties, sell electricity to its tenants and eventually into the local electric grid," he said.

At Rowan University, where much of the validation of the technology was done, the chairman of the college's physics department is emphatic about the process.

"The chemicals used in CIHT technology, similar to those used in thermal and chemical cells, were separately, thoroughly and diligently validated over the past three years by a team at Rowan University that included myself," Dr. K.V. Ramanujachary said. "Since the measurements on CIHT are electrical versus calorimetric, there can be no dispute over the power and the energy balance," he said.

AR Correspondent Joe Shea can be reached at amreporter @ aol.com. Mark Goldes contributed additional reporting on solar flares.

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[catnipman]

Man, I just love these energy from water schemes! They’re my absolute favorites. I think a good one comes along about every 2-5 years.

Don’t know what it is about water that makes it such a perpetual object for unlimited energy scams, though. Maybe because it is so common. After all, we have oceans of the stuff just for the taking.

But dirt is common as well and it too is made from atoms and stuff, and yet no one ever has any interesting energy-from-dirt schemes. Maybe it’s because we all have water delivered to our houses and it comes pouring out of our faucets. So, maybe if dirt came out of faucets it too would get more consideration as a source of unlimited energy.

However, the real kicker, I suspect, is that water is composed of oxygen and hydrogen, and we all know how much energy is given off when you burn hydrogen and oxygen together, right? So therefore if water is made from hydrogen and oxygen, we should be able to burn water to get energy, right? QED.

[calex59]

One, cold fusion has never been done in the lab, regardless of what you think. Asking for a working car or model is hardly raising the bar, it is simply asking the people who are making these claims to put up or shut up. Do I believe this Hydrogen BS? Nope, and if you do you are considerably more naive than you sound.

[catnipman]

“Is it possible to set up a system in such a way that putting a tiny amount of energy into a reaction in that system can get back hundreds or many thousands of times more energy than you expended in getting the reaction started? “

Oh yes indeed! It’s called dynamite. Apply a small amount of energy in the form of a match to the fuse, and very shortly hundreds of thousands of times of energy are released.

Fortunately, the rest of the world is more stable than dynamite. It’d be a real bummer to somehow light the oceans on fire and have them explode like a gazillion bazillion tons of dynamite.

[Hot Tabasco]

There’s no K.V. Ramanujachary in the physics department of Rowan University.

Try Chemistry and Biochemistry

Rowan U.

[aruanan]

Fortunately, the rest of the world is more stable than dynamite. It’d be a real bummer to somehow light the oceans on fire and have them explode like a gazillion bazillion tons of dynamite.

Who is suggesting anything like that could happen?

[CharlesWayneCT]

I picture the day when either we have used our entire supply of water to generate power, leaving us all to dehydrate to death while our plant life wastes away and life as we know it ends.

Or, somebody drops their power converter over the side of their boat by mistake, and it starts a reaction which converts the entire ocean into energy, and the planet goes up in a fireball.

We should all be very thankful that it is so hard to get energy out of water. The alternative would be a disaster.

[Alter Kaker]

I can get a 1993 Ford Taurus to achieve 900 mpg using only a ball of string, a can of Crisco-brand vegetable shortening, three rubber bands, a ball bearing and $20 million in venture capital.

Anybody wanna get me going? You could make zillions.

[r9etb]

All the while in this backwater technology, guys have produced both.

They say they have produced both.

And, they say they'll have their working model in 2011 ... how can we believe what you say, given that they evidently don't have a working model yet?

[TexasTransplant]

The same “Leap of Faith” is required to believe in “Man Made Global Warming”
Which is why “Carbon Credits” are equally as valuable as this “Stock”
Maybe if we get Congresscritters to Subsidize this instead of Ethanol at least I wont have to rebuild the carburetors on my M/C and Lawnmower every year.
Your moving in the correct direction and the Research is really fascinating but George Noory hasn’t done a show on it yet so I’m still on the fence.

TT

[TheTopRead]

I’ve checked them out - they seem to be legit. I know it sounds crazy, but the test results speak volumes. Even Harvard did a spectrocopic study on the pure hydrogen plasma generated by the Blacklight process and, according to the continuum spectrum it produced, it would seem that electrons were falling below the conventional ground state. That would certainly explain where all the power generated comes from, i.e. there is no violation of natural laws. Unless someone here can offer a conventional explanation for those incredible test results - GEN3, a highly capable scientific research company, couldn’t come up with one - I think Dr. Mills just might be on to something. I could be wrong, since I’m not an expert, but I don’t think so. I’ve shown the test data to a physics professor at the University I attended and he was absolutely stunned by the test data that came out of the Harvard study and the impact this could have on conventional quantum theory. If the data is accurate - and he had no reasonn to believe that it was - he said that this could be one of the greatest scientific discoveries of all time.

[TheTopRead]

Correction - “and he had no reason to believe that it was INACCURATE”

[JD_UTDallas]

Even if the testing proves this beyond a doubt, the luddites and there lackeys along with all the environmental anti-humanists will be up in arms as the bane to any anti-humanist gaia worshiping simpleton will oppose this in earnest why? because this would allow the expansion of the modern human race beyond any imaginary limit on future energy peak.

It is has been documented that with high intensity hydroponics the yielded per acre of land in an indoor farm vertically stacked in buildings could in theory support 50-500 billion people yes thats right we have the technology to feed 50 billion people if we mass produce industrial vertical hydroponics, with high pressure full spectrum sodium vapor lights, we will never run out of Na or SIO2 for the lamps EVER. Fresh water..desal ask the Israelites they are the world leaders in Desal tech. Protein GMO nitrogen fixing cyanobacteria as well as heterotrophic E.Coli can be grown in vats that are 100% complete in the 9 essential amino acids. Make high protein feed with mono/polysaccharides again from hydroponic cyanobacteria that secrete 5 & 6 carbon sugars to monogastics like us or swine and fowl. The limit on the carrying capacity of Terra is affordable plentiful energy not aridable land or fresh water this is a well documented fact.

UT Austin has been working on cyanobacteria that secrete sugars and hemicellulose that are nitrogen fixing too cows eat hemi and we eat mono/poly sugars the research is for biofuel but at those production levels billions could be feed instead of burning in our cars. The idea is to use the ethanol as a way to take off peak energy turn it to photons and get a store-able product out of the photons. The ARPA is already funding GMO bacteria that can take electricity directly and make hydrocarbons from water and CO2 from the air. If an E.Coli can make methane, butanol, acetone or ethanol these are only a few molecules away from stuff we can eat, ethanol is already a significant daily caloric factor in many Americans. Acetone can be dimered to isopentane or trimered to C12-15 AKA jet/disel fuel.

ABE fermentation is WW2 tech making a GMO E.coli that uses anodic e- rather than ATP for cellular energy is also being done. combine and you have Electrofuels..or better yet electrofoods E.coli have been know to produce free fatty acids,mono and poly sugars, complete proteins, ketones, aldehyde’s of which for food Formaldehyde is the most signifigant as Formaldehyde can be oligomered with 6 of itself to glucose the sugar that we all need everyday as the base of the ATP cycle in our cells. GMO E.coli can make any or all of these exclusively with the right genetic manipulation.

The genetic tool kit to turn off ethanol production genes and instead secrete the sucrose which has to be made first anyways is possible and being done at the lab scale already. In other words humans already know how to side step photosyn and go directly from electricity to food again if their going after biofuel the scale is so massive billions could be feed. No limitless cheap energy will EVER be allowed on this planet, to many things can happen that take the status quo out and bring in a new era of human achievements this will not be allowed by the power in control, even if this works it will not see the light of day.

[Moonman62]

This scam has been around for several years. I can’t believe it’s still alive.

[SunkenCiv]

A remarkable new energy source from fractional hydrogen will allow a gallon of ordinary water to become the energy equivalent of 200 barrels of oil, a team of physicists working near the onetime laboratories of Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein are saying.

Obviously the work of a disinterested journalist. ;')

...The method of electricity production allows the fuel to reproduce itself by diverting part of the energy output to a catalyst that is then regenerated so fuel is only needed once. Using the process, about 10 100-watt bulbs could be lit 24 hours a day for a penny.

Thanks Kevmo. :')

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[allmost]

Thanks for the ping.

Skeptical of these claims. There is one thing I like about them though.
"A working model is promised for 2011."
I like that. It would be interesting to see an expansion, modification, etc, of the Lamb shift or some previously undiscovered anomaly that can be utilized. They claim working models in less than a year. Regardless of the outcome I'd like to see the results.

[The Cajun]

Now BlackLight is promising an engine technology aimed at driving a car 5,000 miles on a gallon of water.

Hey if they said they were going to build an engine that would power a car for 10 miles on a gallon of water I would be interested, but 5,000 miles!
The good Captain Kirk and old Scotty would be envious.

[SunkenCiv]

In 2011 there’ll be another “article” about how the working model will be promised for 2012, probably linked with the Mayan calendar as well. ;’)

[allmost]

Could be. I still like the general angle of extrapolating beyond the requirement for ‘renormalization’. If it fails, it probably will IMO, it’s still a better track to follow.