Posted on 06/04/2012 10:26:18 PM PDT by Windflier
BlackLight Power, Inc. (BLP) announced last week a major breakthrough in clean energy technology, which experts agree holds tremendous promise for a wide range of commercial applications. The announcement comes on the heels of BlackLight’s recent completion of a $5 million round of financing to support commercial development of its new process for producing affordable, reliable energy from water vapor.
In six separate, independent studies, leading scientists from academia and industry with PhDs from prestigious universities including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the California Institute of Technology, confirm that BlackLight has achieved a technological breakthrough with its CIHT (Catalyst-Induced-Hydrino-Transition) clean energy generating process and cell. The Process is fueled by water vapor that is a gaseous component of air and present wherever there is any source of water. The CIHT cell harnesses this energy as electrical power output and is suitable for essentially all power applications including transportation applications and electrical power production completely autonomous of fuels and grid infrastructure at a small fraction of the current capital costs.
“BlackLight’s continuously operating, power-producing system converts ubiquitous H2O (water) vapor directly into electricity, oxygen, and a new, more stable form of Hydrogen called Hydrino, which releases 200 times more energy than directly burning hydrogen,” said Dr. Randell Mills, Chairman, CEO and President of BlackLight Power, Inc., and inventor of the process. Hydrogen is not naturally available and has to be produced using energy. But, H2O vapor is ubiquitous and free, obtainable even from ambient air. Dr. Mills says that BlackLight has achieved critical milestones in scaling its new technology with typical electrical gain of more than ten times that which initiates the process, operating over long duration at the 10 Watt (W) scale. A 100 W unit is planned for completion by the end of 2012, and a 1.5 kiloWatt (kW) pilot unit that can serve the residential power market, as an initial target commercial application, is expected to be operational by 2013. (One kW is equal to 1000 W, and 1.5 kW is the typical, average power consumption of a US home.)
BlackLight has raised a total of $75 M for the development and commercialization of its breakthrough energy technology, and has license agreements with companies to use its patented commercial processes and systems in heating and electric power generation. The new BlackLight Process validation reports, including full documentation and results of theory evaluation, replication and testing of the CIHT systems, and Hydrino characterization, are publicly available at http://www.blacklightpower.com/. The website also includes links to validator resumes and to technical and business support materials, including recent presentations that further explain the BlackLight Process and a technical paper providing the detailed chemistry and identification of Hydrinos by analytical methods, which laboratories can follow and replicate.
Each CIHT cell comprises a positive electrode, the cathode, a negative electrode, the anode, and an electrolyte that also serves as a source of reactants to form Hydrinos.
A Hydrino-producing reaction mixture creates electricity from H2O as the reactants are constituted with the migration of the electrons through an external circuit and ion mass transport through a separate internal path through the electrolyte to complete an electrical circuit.
I am not qualified to argue the merits of the technology discussed in this article. I am posting it for interest's sake alone.
Enjoy.
“(One kW is equal to 1000 W, and 1.5 kW is the typical, average power consumption of a US home.)”
No it’s not. Just the water heater alone draws more.
I thought we had Niagra Falls doing that for a long time now. Tesla!
http://nyfalls.com/niagara/niagara-falls-faq12.html
A well proven way to make electricity from water is to convert water into steam. You just need to use coal to heat up the water.
“It would be irrational not to be very skeptical, and I was extremely skeptical. However, after having reviewed Dr. Mills classical theory, participated in experimental designs and execution, and having reviewed vast amounts of other data BLP produced, I have found nothing that warrants rejection of their extraordinary claims, and I encourage aggressive optimization and fast track development of a scaled up prototype,” said Dr. Weinberg. “To be able to use hydrogen from water as a cheap and nonpolluting source of power would represent one of the most important technological breakthroughs in history.”
Dr. Terry Copeland, former manager of product development for several electrochemical and energy companies including DuPont Company and Duracell.
“BLP has successfully fabricated and tested CIHT cells capable of producing net electrical output up to 50 times that input to maintain the process,” said Dr. Copeland. “Some cells have produced steady power for over one month. The power generation is consistent with Dr. Mills’ theory of energy release resulting from Hydrino formation. No other source of energy could be identified. The CIHT cell will use cheap, abundant, nontoxic, commodity chemicals, with no apparent long-term supply issues that might preclude commercial, high volume manufacturing. The capital cost of the CIHT cell based on optimization of the cell dimensions is estimated to be under $100/kW compared to at least ten times that for fuel cells that further require a source of hydrogen or hydrogen gas and a fuel infrastructure.”
Dr. James Pugh, Director of Technology at The ENSER Corporation.
“Representatives from the ENSER Corporation witnessed the assembly and operation of multiple CIHT cells, and the results showed excess electrical energy, up to 100 times that used to maintain the process in cells run as long as sixty days,” said Dr. Pugh. “There is no apparent difficulty in assembling single cell and multi-cell units, in a production scale environment. By carefully designing and optimizing the CIHT cell, a one-liter volume could generate 3.3 kW. This is greater than that necessary for motive as well as stationary electrical power applications.”
Dr. K.V. Ramanujachary, Rowan University Meritorious Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
“BlackLight’s CIHT electrochemical cell harnesses this fundamentally new primary energy source as electrical output by using a catalyst to cause hydrogen atoms of water molecules to transition to a lower-energy, Hydrino state, resulting in a release of energy that is intermediate between chemical and nuclear energies, and a nonpolluting product,” said Dr. Ramanujachary, who conducted one of the validation studies. “The CIHT cells constantly output stable, very high-gain electrical power for more than a month, with H2O as the only source of fuel for the process. The trace H2O vapor was supplied by a water source, or alternatively, it was extracted directly from the air, resulting in generation of electricity from water alone. This process and system that I have confirmed is truly exceptional.”
About BlackLight Power
BlackLight Power, Inc. was incorporated in 1991 and is based in the Princeton area of New Jersey. It has received 62 patents including four in the U.S., and has more than 100 pending patent applications for its innovative processes, process applications, and products.
The BlackLight Process uses a novel catalytic process to generate energy from water vapor, releasing the latent energy of the hydrogen atom by forming a more stable form of hydrogen called Hydrinos. The Process is applicable to essentially all power applications, including thermal, electrical, automotive, trucking, marine, rail, aviation, and aerospace.
You’re thinking in terms of pre collapse to tecnocratic authoritarian socialism American usage. After that event, we’ll use about that much running the 3 compact flourescents, 600 watt microwave and fan alloted to each house...
bflr
“No it’s not. Just the water heater alone draws more.”
That’s true but the water heater doesn’t run all the time. The 1.5KW is an average consumption, which is roughly what an household uses. Take a look at your electric bill and you’ll see that that’s close to what you use. Obviously when you have your TV on, and the fridge is running and you’re drying your hair all at the same time, your peak usage will be much more, but that doesn’t last that long. At night when you’re asleep you don’t use much at all.
If it is a good bet idea, private investors ought to give it a go.
But private investors have been trained to go to government, for risky ventures. Let the taxpayers fund the losers, leaving their money own for the eventual winners.
It would be one thing if the government money only funded risky R & D, but these days the government money is going into commercial scale risky projects like Solyndra.
Was interested until I read the above paragraph.
Looks like they have limited scalability (maybe size problems).
If they would be talking 10KW to 15 KW range, I would be interested.
1.5 KW would hardly be enough for a smallish, pull behind camper.
I have a 15KW diesel tractor turned aux. for the house with a 5.5 KW gasoline backup for it.
The 5.5 will run lights, a few fans and fridge, that's it.
The drawing above is of a battery!
Solyndra part deux.
I’ll believe it when I see it ... maybe. Meanwhile, I still have faith in the laws of thermodynamics, which pretty much say this is bogus.
All of this depends on being able to push hydrogen atoms to achieve a state lower than the currently known ground state.
With the abundance of hydrogen in the universe, one would think we would have seen these hydrinos in the wild... but alas, we have not.
Which calls into question the assumptions that they can be made to exist.
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