Posted on 12/20/2010 1:24:08 AM PST by 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.
I agree, there’s less risk involved when no one else is working along the same lines. Compare this to controlled fusion, which has been under continual R&D since 1950, at least — and yielded precisely nothing. Unless one counts the findings which show that it’s probably not doable.
The problem with guys like these is that they are not interested in looking for real investors, they are looking for real believers.
***Well, their claim is that they’re starting to build plants. It could just be the next step in an audacious plan to swindle people, or they could be telling the truth. At this point it is very difficult to tell the truth. I have been reading up on the rest of the field in cold fusion, and no one is at the point where they could build a plant, but the rate of replication is getting to the point that it will soon be above 70-75%. That should start attracting research money.
Yup. That would be cool. From where I’m sitting, I think we should be steering $Billions from hot fusion (which has given us almost nothing) over to cold fusion, which is coming into its own.
Well said. The research is fascinating. I don’t know how laymen can contribute and, better yet, profit. One way would be to buy Palladium futures, I suppose.
It refutes all your assertions
***No, it doesn’t.
(I have no doubt you’ll pooh pooh Wikipedia
***Wrong again. But it is just one datapoint among many.
but the article contains links to research refuting Mill’s “science”).
***It also contains links to things like NASA replicating the results.
May–November 2002: A NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Phase I study is conducted at Rowan University, led by mechanical engineering professor Anthony Marchese, to investigate the so-called BlackLight Process for use in spacecraft propulsion. The team reports that with assistance from BlackLight Power, they successfully replicated previous results, including the observation of line broadening indicative of hydrogen atoms moving much faster than would ordinarily be expected under the experimental conditions.[22]
Also
August 12, 2009: A BLP press release asserts that scientists at Rowan University have for the first time independently formulated and tested fuels that on demand generated energy greater than that of combustion at power levels of kilowatts using BLP’s proprietary solid-fuel chemistry capable of continuous regeneration. Operating power systems using BLP’s chemistry, Rowan University professors have reported a net energy gain of up to 6.5 times the maximum energy potential of the materials in the system from known chemical reactions.
You ad hominem attacks on posters who disagree with you really do nothing to support your case
***Hey, sparky, you’re the one starting in with ad hominem. If you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen. Your meandering posts aren’t contributing much to enlightenment on the topic. Like I said, more heat than light.
plus your claim to have made money in cold fusion immediately puts your support for balcklight in the suspect category.
***Not at all. It puts my claim right square in the middle of the datapoints involved in this inductive pursuit. It means someone is putting his money where his mouth is, unlike you. I have already made money doing exactly this, and if you’re so convinced of your own position I can advance even more contracts. But when all is said and done, your mouth will shown to be much bigger than anything else mentionable.
It would seem you’re here to shill for a company, not enlighten.
***I don’t care much about BlackLight power. I consider them 1 among dozens of scientific datapoints in the cold fusion arena. As the Wikipedia article said, 2007: In a review of cold fusion research, Edmund Storms, a cold fusion researcher, concludes that the hydrino model provides a possible explanation for cold fusion.[20]
Tell it to NASA!
***From that wikipedia page,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklight_Power
May–November 2002: A NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Phase I study is conducted at Rowan University, led by mechanical engineering professor Anthony Marchese, to investigate the so-called BlackLight Process for use in spacecraft propulsion. The team reports that with assistance from BlackLight Power, they successfully replicated previous results, including the observation of line broadening indicative of hydrogen atoms moving much faster than would ordinarily be expected under the experimental conditions.[22]
Sounds like another energy hoax.... like cold fusion.
***If you feel strongly about it then put your money where your mouth is, and take my money. I set up contracts at Intrade to trade on whether Dr. Yoshiaki Arata’s experiment would be replicated in a peer reviewed journal and I made money on them, not through some smoke & mirrors hoax but through simple peer reviewed scientific method. But I have found that snipers like you don’t usually put their money where their mouth is — all talk, from afar, no action.
These guys are complete and utter crackpots.
It isn’t even good nonsense.
***Then show where the science is wrong. It shouldn’t be hard to do if you’re so vehement about where they’re coming from.
Well, you’re right, there are millions of tons of DHMO in water, because it IS water. I doubt that “Huge majorities of the country believe that it should be totally banned.”
Thanks for bumping the thread.
I gather you haven’t been reading the thread, or you wouldn’t have said “the laws of physics are absolute.”
Your first sentence doesn’t make much sense.
There is nothing to prove except that PT Barnum was right.
***I ran into a lot of big mouth blustering like yours when I posted this article
The End of Snide Remarks Against Cold Fusion
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2265914/posts
Friday, June 05, 2009 5:56:08 PM · by Kevmo · 95 replies · 1,770+ views
Free Republic, Gravitronics.net and Intrade ^ | 6/5/09 | kevmo, et al
I noticed that almost every one of the blusterers slunk away when the time came to put their money where their mouth is, to put up or shut up. Most of them do neither, like a pack of cowards.
You can’t be serious. This is the chemical equivalent of a perpetual motion machine.
***I’ll post the same thing to you. I ran into a lot of big mouth blustering like yours when I posted this article
The End of Snide Remarks Against Cold Fusion
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2265914/posts
Friday, June 05, 2009 5:56:08 PM · by Kevmo · 95 replies · 1,770+ views
Free Republic, Gravitronics.net and Intrade ^ | 6/5/09 | kevmo, et al
I noticed that almost every one of the blusterers slunk away when the time came to put their money where their mouth is, to put up or shut up. Most of them do neither, like a pack of cowards.
If there were merit there they would see it. They don’t.
***Then your physicist friends are doing the world a disfavor by not publishing their findings and retorts in the same peer reviewed journals that this article was posted.
If you think it’s a scam then you’ll have no trouble betting against cold fusion experiments being replicated in peer reviewed journals. After all, if you’re right, you get to make money off it. And you know you’re right.
How I Made Money from Cold Fusion
Saturday, January 23, 2010 12:28:49 PM · by Kevmo · 28 replies · 1,013+ views
Exclusive Article for Free Republic | 1/23/10 | Kevmo
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2435697/posts
One, cold fusion has never been done in the lab, regardless of what you think.
***And why should we listen to what you think? I have money in my pocket that came directly from the fact that a certain cold fusion experiment was replicated, and it was money taken from people who are so cocksure “it has never been done in the lab”, like you.
Asking for a working car or model is hardly raising the bar,
***Sure it is. You’re not even asking that from the hot fusion boys.
it is simply asking the people who are making these claims to put up or shut up.
***No, it ain’t. The cold fusion arena is in its infancy, starved of research dollars while it has generated thousands of Megajoules of energy. In the meantime the hot fusion arena is fed $Billions while it has produced, what, maybe 10 Megajoules of energy. It is the hot fusion boys who have not put up nor shut up.
Do I believe this Hydrogen BS? Nope, and if you do you are considerably more naive than you sound.
***I am naive enough to bet on certain hydrogen experiments in cold fusion getting replicated in a peer reviewed journal, and yet my naivete’ was rewarded with money in my pocket. But I doubt you really ‘believe’ in your position because you won’t be selling me any contracts at Intrade — and certainly not at the price that such vehemence would suggest is appropriate.
If you published an article in a peer reviewed, scientific journal that replicated your result, I’d be interested. And I’d especially be interested in putting my money where my mouth is to support your technology. Been there, done that.
How I Made Money from Cold Fusion
Saturday, January 23, 2010 12:28:49 PM · by Kevmo · 28 replies · 1,013+ views
Exclusive Article for Free Republic | 1/23/10 | Kevmo
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2435697/posts
From the article their machine sounds an awful lot like “cold fusion” of the early 90’s.
***That’s perceptive. I think this is interrelated with cold fusion. From the wikipedia entry on this company:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklight_Power
2007: In a review of cold fusion research, Edmund Storms, a cold fusion researcher, concludes that the hydrino model provides a possible explanation for cold fusion.[20]
I never did read about the conclusion of cold fusion, by the way. “Mainstream” scientists claim bad measurement were the reason for observed energy gain, but I have never seen it proven - only conjecture
***Here’s a free online book that mostly would bring you up to speed.
http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/BeaudetteCexcessheat.pdf
Kevmo: All the while in this backwater technology, guys have produced both.
r9:
They say they have produced both. And, they say they’ll have their working model in 2011 ...
***You’ve conjoined what I said about cold fusioneers producing ignition and sustained reaction with these Blacklight guys who claim to have a working plant.
how can we believe what you say, given that they evidently don’t have a working model yet?
***These blacklight guys are just one datapoint in the cold fusion arena. They are the first to claim they have a working model, whereas everyone else in the cold fusion field have just laboratory experiments. My position is that these guys are all making good progress and deserve the lion’s share of fusion research money, rather than the hot fusioneers who have had 50 years + $Billions and given us nothing.
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”
***I don’t think it’s the same at all. If you trust your data and put your money down at Intrade, you can make money off global warming cultists with contracts such as these:
Climate and Weather - Global Temperatures
Will Global Average Temperatures for 2010-2012 be THE warmest on record?
Contract Bid Ask Last Vol Chge
2010.GLOBALTEMP.WARMEST
Average Global Temperature for 2010 to be the warmest on record M Trade 88.1 92.9 88.1 2482 -5.0
2011.GLOBALTEMP.WARMEST
Average Global Temperature for 2011 to be the warmest on record M Trade 28.1 29.1 29.2 1088 0
2012.GLOBALTEMP.WARMEST
Average Global Temperature for 2012 to be the warmest on record M Trade 32.0 44.0 37.9 216 0
Will Global Average Temperatures for 2010-2014 be AMONG FIVE warmest on record?
Contract Bid Ask Last Vol Chge
2010.GLOBALTEMP.TOP5
Average Global Temperature for 2010 to be among five warmest years on record M Trade 88.0 98.0 98.1 528 0
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2014.GLOBALTEMP.TOP5
Average Global Temperature for 2014 to be among five warmest years on record M Trade 36.0 88.9 61.0 4 0
Will 2010 be a warmer year than 2009?
Contract Bid Ask Last Vol Chge
GLOBALTEMP.2010>2009
Global Average Temperature for 2010 to be higher than for 2009 M Trade 95.5 98.2 92.0 265 0
Will 2019 be a warmer year than 2009?
Contract Bid Ask Last Vol Chge
GLOBALTEMP.2019>2009
Global Average Temperature for 2019 to be higher than for 2009 M Trade 84.0 85.0 85.0 198 0
Will 2019 be 0.2 degrees celsius warmer than 2009?
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GLOBALTEMP.2019.0.2C>2009
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Will Global Average Temperature for 2010-2014 exceed 2005-2009 by 0.1 degree C?
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GLOBAL.TEMP.10-14>05-09
Global Average Temperature for 2010-2014 to exceed that for 2005-2009 by 0.1 deg C or more M Trade 2.1 69.0 49.5 4 0
Monthly Global Temperature Anomalies 2010
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GTA.NOV2010.>0.40
Global Temperature Anomaly for Nov 2010 to be greater than 0.40 Degrees C M Trade - - - 0 0
GTA.DEC2010.>0.40
Global Temperature Anomaly for Dec 2010 to be greater than 0.40 Degrees C M Trade 81.0 - 60.0 2 0
Monthly Global Temperature Anomalies 2011
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.
***To each his own.
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