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.
The unit is kilowatt hours. That’s what is on my electric bill.
It’s always bad when they use the wrong units.
My house uses about 25-30 KW a day. And I have gas hot water and heat.
So they are separating the Hydrogen from the Oxygen or are they just Manipulating the Atoms and Molecules ?
You mean 25-30 KWHr a day, not KW. (Energy not power)
If you had something that generated 1.5KW constantly it would generate 24Hr*1.5KW = 36KWH per day, which is more than you use.
The best part is that it uses up water, so we won’t have to worry about that rising sea level problem ;-)
But where are we going to store all those hydrinos, whatever the heck they are?
Thanks for the "pump and dump" heads-up.
Unfortunately, I do not draw at a constant rate. So that requires storage, which is very expensive. I would need to produce on the order of 6 to 8 KW to avoid being inconvenienced.
The 1.5KW is an average consumption, which is roughly what an household uses.
My daily electric usage varies, by season and by severity of any particular month, between 0.7 and 3.75 KWH/hour over any particular month.
I KNOW this, because our power co-op has online-accessible charts of both monthly & daily consumption & cost; as well as .pdf copies of monthly bills going back at least 10 years.
Is that what this is talking about? 1,5KW continuous output; and store for peaks? IOW, DC and a huge battery bank?
OR is this THERMAL Kilowatts, as in BTU/hour or calorie-seconds? If so, then the 3.3 KW amounts to about 4.4 horsepower.
This seemed to be a big confusion at first with the e-cat numbers, when doc Whatshisface was talking of building a “1 megawatt” demonstration plant. That amounted to 1,340 HP worth of steam; or 3,415,179 BTH/hour...if it had lived up to billing.
The nice thing about being hooked up to a utility company is that it supplies whatever you need.
If you have your own generating device (such as solar) and you’re hooked up to a utility company, then you can use the utility as a “virtual storage device”. In other words, during peak demand when your generating device doesn’t put out enough power your utility makes up the difference. When you’re using less power than you generate, then you feed the extra power into the utility grid and the utility credits you.
If you’re off-grid, then you need a storage device (a few days worth, depending on the availability of your generator). That means you have to be able to store about 100 KWH for a typical house. This will take care of peak demand as well as loss of generator (for a couple of days).
Solar and the device in this article generate electricity directly, so it’s 1.5KW of DC electricity.
Rossi’s ecat generated steam, so his power was thermal not electric, which means you would only get one third (roughly) of the thermal power converted into electricity. (But you could use the “waste” heat to warm your home).
1.5KW is not enough to run peak loads, but it is a reasonable average. That is over 1000KWH per month. Last month I used 574KWH of electricity to run my 1400sf condo and I can tell you I have more than “a few lights and a fridge”.
To run peak loads you would either need to be grid-tied or have a battery bank and an inverter. You’d use the 1.5KW generator to keep the battery pack trickle charging. A $2,000 battery pack and a $10,000 10KW off-grid inverter are not trivial expenses, so their claim of $100/KW for the generator doesn’t tell the whole story. If they could be ganged in parallel, a few dozen 1.5KW units for $2,000 - $3,000 would allow true off-grid living.
All of which I find hard to believe because I’ve been reading things about BlackLight Power for a decade and I still can’t go to Home Depot and buy one. They could sucking in venture capitalists though. Maybe they should change their name to “BlackHole for Money”.
aka Electrolysis.
Apparently they are able to electrolyze water vapor, that's pretty neat. But whether it produces more energy than it consumes..?
Hydrino?
Good point. If we use coal, natural gas and oil to heat, we can get the cost way up..but green.
bfl
1.5 kW in a day is 625 AmpH/day. This equates to the roughly 12 deep cycle batteries you will need to meet peak loads. Water heaters do not run continuously. Neither does your 1600 watt microwave or hair dryer. If you are in college, your 200 watt stereo might.
It actually sounds about right for a small home with 2-3 residents.
...as with all things new, wait and see, usually is able to separate winners from losers.
Saying that a house uses 1 kilowatt of electricity is like saying a car uses 1 gallon of gas. True, it will run, but for how long?
In cars, they measure energy used over distance, or the miles traveled per gallon. In houses, they use kilowatt-hours, the energy used over time.
A kilowatt is only a snapshot of how much power is being used at a given time.
So sure, at idle, with nothing running like TV sets, computers, air conditioning and the like, your house probably draws 1 Kw. As soon as the thermostat kicks on the water heater, or someone powers up a hairdryer, or you put the toast down, you’re probably already above 1 Kw.
Look up the wattage of some of your favorite appliances and you’ll realize how small a kilowatt is. Now, imagine everything that runs in that hour, and add in all those watts too. Lots more than 1 Kw.
Maybe I should have mentioned I’m an electrical contractor? :)
Anyway, I was sleepy. I like your post.
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