Via Next Big Future: BlackLight Power claims independent replication of results
I mentioned in an earlier posting that while culture and government never fail to disappoint, science holds forth great promise.
Except for two areas, physics and climatology. Both have been prone to the same problems government has – religious zeal for and against ideas ignoring facts.
To quote Next Big Future:
Note: the Blacklight Power process is highly controversial. Many people believe it is a total scam. So reports like this will not convince those people.
Maybe it is a scam, I don’t claim to know. BUT physics has been ruled by “scams” for decades. Whether over String theory, multi-verses, physicists endlessly have fought meaningless and hopeless theological battles in mathematical dimensions they invented for the discussions. Remember, what Einstein viewed as crazy, quantum mechanics, now rules physics and is what people use to call the BlackLight Power process bogus.
From Blacklightpower.com:
BlackLight Power has invented a novel chemical process of causing the latent energy stored in the hydrogen atom to be released as a new primary energy source. This allows the negatively charged electron that is otherwise in a stable orbit to move closer to the naturally attracting, positively charged nucleus to generate power as heat.
Basically, they “discover” a new particle and put it to use. You know, sort of like what an “approved” physic project like the Large Hadron Collider does only with actual practical applications.
So keep after it BlackLight Power. If it works, I’ll gladly accept cheap power. If not. I have the admin password for KenNelson.com, I’ll go back and erase this posting (-:
October 22nd, 2008 at 8:22 pm
Get out your post eraser. This is old news. Check the web archive:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/blacklightpower.com/
A “major university” confirmed these results 10 years ago and the prototypes were one year away from commercialization. Mills had millions of dollars worth of investors money and was submitting his ideas to the ultimate judge — the marketplace — with results expected in a year.
Let’s see that was 1999. I’ve had my BLP generator providing all of the energy for my house since 2001. It runs on water and hums along with zero maintenance. I’d show it to you, but why should I? I’m getting power for $0.01 and what to I have to prove to the same sort of skeptics who didn’t believe Galileo or the Wright brothers. The real proof the toasty warm air circulating through my living room for free.
Actually, the real marketplace that Mills is testing is the market for stupid venture money. Let’s see if he finds a new round of suckers with enough cash to keep his snake oil lab funded for another 15 years.
I guess the utter lack of professionalism that we see in the NYT political coverage has all affected their ability to sniff out the mushrooms from the bullshit in technology coverage as well.
-Mercy
October 22nd, 2008 at 8:38 pm
Hi Mercy,
My BS meter is high as well, but it isn’t my money (either investment or tax $) so all I can do is hope it works.
My main point is that physics people really can’t be trusted to not go down rabbit holes and to be blinded by their own science “religion”.
So just because “physics” people don’t like it doesn’t disqualify it in my book.
October 24th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
looks like it runs on hydrogen gas and not water. So you still have to do electrolysis to get the hydrogen gas.
eletrolysis for hydrogen – put it in the reactor – reactor makes heat – use heat to make electricity – use electricity for electrolysis – repeat cycle.
I wonder what the efficiency of this whole operation would be.
October 24th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Hi Fred,
I can’t find exact efficiency numbers. Blacklight’s main page says:
“The power density is among the highest known, (comparable to or higher than that of internal combustion),”
Ken