[Kevmo]

I checked the Excerpt list and did not find The American Reporter on it.

[Slings and Arrows]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics

[saganite]

I’m sure we’ll be reading in 20 years how the evil oil companies blocked Hydrino technology just like they blocked the 100 mpg carburetor.

[calex59]

Just how much energy does it take to extract this hydrogen from the gallon of water?

[DainBramage]

Im working on a theory of mine using the same technology to clear clogged pipes.

Its much the same process except I use HiDrainos.

This same Chinaman "feels sorry" for me too....go figure.

[BRK]

Sounds like BS to me. However, I believe that any kind of true energy breakthrough will change the world more than any other single thing. I always hear how the oil companies will stop them if somebody comes up with something, but that's pure crap. If this thing works, why waste time announcing it over and over again? Just build a plant and start selling electricity at 3 cents per kwh and within a few years you'll be the richest person in the history of the world. You could start of with a 1 MW plant and get proceeds of 24x1000x.03=$720 per day! If the cost is 24 kwh for a penny, then the daily net is $710. After a couple of months of documented performance, take these checks to the bank and then borrow enough to build a 10 MW plant, from which you can get $7,100 per day and so on. The problem with guys like these is that they are not interested in looking for real investors, they are looking for real believers.

[THX 1138]

A working model is promised for 2011.

OK, fine. I can wait a couple of years to see if there is anything to this.

But a cursory Google search (which quickly bored me) shows that these guys have been screwing around with this stuff for years.

Major doubts...

[Ronin]

I know it is too much to hope for that this might be the real deal, but I am STILL hopeful.

Not just because of all the nice things that cheap energy like this would make possible — but because the price of oil would drop like a frigging rock to a few bucks a barrel and the end of the oil money would mean the end of Arab financed terrorism.

All the foreigners would leave Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States and within 20 years the Arabs would abandon the cities and go back to living in tents in the desert.

[The Working Man]

Thank you for posting this.

I’m sorry that you are being attacked also over the claims in the article.

If the technology pans out I think the quality of life all over the world will improve and if it doesn’t then nothing changes. In the meantime the research is fascinating.

[Fresh Wind]

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.

It might also be said that they are located only ten miles from the place Martians were said to have landed in 1938.

[tutstar]

Read. Later

[jla]

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[sonofagun]

Tell it to NASA!

[BuffaloJack]

Sounds like another energy hoax. A lot like global warming and cold fusion.

[AndyJackson]

These guys are complete and utter crackpots.

It isn't even good nonsense.

[Ghotier]

Highly unlikely that it is environmentally safe. Dihydrogen monoxide (DHMO) is known to be toxic. It has killed huge numbers of people. Furthermore it is an environmental pollutant even more widespread than CO2 and is detectable in rivers and lakes throughout the country. Huge majorities of the country believe that it should be totally banned.

http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html

[Dennis M.]

Ways to work around the law of conservation of energy have been around for at least 100 years. They are an excellent way to make money off of the gullible. Unlike mans laws, the laws of physics are absolute.

[backwoods-engineer]

I'm sure BlackLight has an excellent, effective method...

... of separating investors from their money.

You can't be serious. This is the chemical equivalent of a perpetual motion machine.

[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.

[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.