Blacklight Corporation seems to no longer want to be ignored. They have published full reports and resumes of the participants in 6 independent testers of their technology.
http://www.blacklightpower.com/technology/validation-reports/
The following teams have formally confirmed that Blacklight Power has a stable reactor (60 days stable operation) with a COP of 100!
Dr. Henry Weinberg – Professor, California Institute of Technology
Dr. Terry M. Copeland, Ph.D. C hemical engineering - Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
A team from a Fortune 500 firm consisting of an expert R&D manager, a PhD physics US DOD advisor. (Specifics of corporation and persons involved have been withheld.)
Dr. K.V. Ramanujachary, Professor, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ.
Nick Glumac, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology — Engineering Consultant.
Dr. James K. Pugh, Ph.D., and Dr. Ethiranjulu Dayalan from the ENSER Corporation.
Maybe we have given Blacklight too little consideration. I know that their hydrino theory seems a bit stretchy, but their technology seems pretty well established at this point. My suggestion to Blacklight is to suck a million bucks out of Dick Smith.
May 24, 2012 at 1:06 am |
That’s a pretty good validation group. I saw comments on another blog that said Sanmia-SCI was doing testing. This is a 6.5 billion dollar company that does extensive design and manufacturing and has a DOD division. Out of all the people testing I would think they can evaluate it quite quickly.
May 24, 2012 at 2:56 am |
What will nuclear reactive environments bring next… consider this… the end of the world as we know it might just turn out to be a good thing… for everyone. I hope so.
I await others validation and acceptance as well… with warm regards and electrifying anticipation. Soon… what a long summer this will be.
Thanks!
May 24, 2012 at 3:26 am |
I agree this is fantastic, but lets not forget that this is only mW… They are a long way off generating serious amonuts of electricity and this will most definitely take some time.
May 24, 2012 at 3:51 am |
Bruce – I think they’ve raised $15M for their next phase, so maybe Dick Smith is not needed. I’ve read Weinberg’s report and it seems kosher, so it looks like they need to scale up. Personally I don’t accept the Hydrino theory or Mills’ theories in general, but if the thing works then someone will produce a better theory sometime.
I’m wondering if the device can be manufactured, since most LENR at the moment has problems with consistency. If they can consistently build something that always works, then they are ahead of the competition and only have the scaling problem to overcome, and $15M should cover the cost of that.
May 24, 2012 at 7:40 am |
OK, so I did about an hour’s worth of research. I am at about the 90% level of confidence that this is real. 8% lacking because I want to see it scaled up, and 2% lacking because I emailed a couple of the comfirmers to see if they confirm that they said what Blacklight said that they said.
It looks to me, as a complete and lazy dummy, that the output is not heat but electricity. That is very interesting.
Does this mean that there will be even more crow eating by the pathoskeptics than anticipated. I guess the demand for crow may skyrocket. I should invest in crow producing companies.
May 24, 2012 at 7:46 am |
Yes, they do make electricity. This could be an idea companion with an ecat that generates heat and provides steam (Mist) for electricity. A nice solutions with no noisy steam engine. I think the combination of the two are promising, long term.
May 24, 2012 at 12:43 pm |
Direct to electricity? I missed that. That is a BIG deal! No need for steam engines, turbines, stirling, any of that stuff. This also opens the possibility for the perpetual D cell. Wow!
May 24, 2012 at 3:29 pm |
There’s a slight problem if you read the reports. Some of the cells work well and others not so well. Since the cell numbers noted were over a thousand, it implies that they’ve built around 1400 cells by now, and they still don’t all do the same things. It’s not dependent on the phase of the moon, since they’re running them at the same time. I hope it’s not dependant on the position of the planets at the precise time the cell is finally put together….
Currently it looks like it does work, but they don’t know all the reasons why. This could be the reason they’ve been keeping quiet for a while.
June 13, 2012 at 3:41 pm
Shrewd comment Simon. i hope you are familiar with Charles Fort.
June 13, 2012 at 4:05 pm
Barrie – when I was a programmer, “dependant on the phase of the moon” described a program (written by someone else!) that didn’t do the same thing all the time, but sometimes gave a stupid answer. Normally this was a bad program, but sometimes a bad compiler. Those bugs took a while to find, since the logic in such a program was often convoluted.
I was vaguely aware of Charles Fort, but never really looked till now. Thanks, it explains the Fortean Society.
June 13, 2012 at 4:15 pm
As a devotee of the coming dominant paradigm: The Plasma Universe, I buy into the Sun/Planets electro-magnetic cycles, affecting weather and (the ancients were smart) probably all life.
Nice to get your previous response re Charles fort Simon. Cheers.
June 14, 2012 at 2:21 am
Barrie – from quantum theory, we reckon that everything in the universe affects everything else, and the effects are from where they are at this moment in time, not where we see them to be. This is counter-intuitive, for sure, but does seem to be getting more confirmations coming through. So yes, there might well be some reality behind those astrology ideas.
The ancients were as smart as we are, and obviously in cases there were genii who set trains of thought that are still valid after thousands of years. When you spend a lifetime studying something, you can make connections that would not be obvious to most people. As with most things, though, there are a lot of ideas that are wrong mixed up with the good ones. Your task (should you choose to accept it) is to work out which are which. This tape will self-destruct in 10 seconds….
June 14, 2012 at 3:49 am
D’accord. But i self-destructed in 5!
May 24, 2012 at 8:00 am |
Professor Glumac confirms that he is a real person. (:->) I am now at 91% certain.
May 24, 2012 at 8:15 am |
2012 is certainly turning out to be some sort of paradigm shift with regards to exposing potentially transformational energy generation technologies. I wonder if some underlying policies, in the world at large, have shrugged off their doubt clouds and are now beginning to open up to alternative thinking. Could it be that the recent economic disaster has some how jogged the massive slumbering economic world beast, shocking it to open its eyes and reconsider its current plight?
Regardless, what may or may not have been intentional suppression of new energy ideas sure feels like its been lifted and that we really are finding (or finally seeing) new ways to produce consumable energy.
May 24, 2012 at 11:04 am |
Anony – I think that it’s more that at least a couple of decades are needed for “bad science” to be worked on by the crackpots and brought to the “real science” state, given that those crackpots will be poorly financed.
The Rossi demonstrations have added some urgency to the other investigators’ efforts, since it looked like he would get to manufacture first and thus make the lion’s share of the profits. Some people say that Rossi has done the field a disservice, but I think the publicity has been a major factor in the current flurry of new announcements.
While oil was cheap, no-one saw any financial benefit from developing any other source of energy apart from nuclear fission. Any research in that direction didn’t get good financing (apart from the fusion program, and that was government-sponsored in a surprisingly long-sighted decision), and didn’t get squashed, just ignored as not being worth bothering with. Business people want to see a profit, not a generalised “it’s good for the World” sentiment that costs them money.
So – we’re getting the cheap energy when we really need to have it. Are we going to get proper space-travel in time to move that asteroid that’s heading towards us??
May 25, 2012 at 6:48 am |
I am confused. The validations make me want to learn more.
a) Is this LENR? It sounds so different.
b) How is the electricity created?
May 25, 2012 at 8:23 am |
kwhilborn – I’ve been trying to work this one out myself. It looks like the energy is going into battery chemistry, so it reverses the changes caused by discharging the cell. I can’t say yet how it actually works, or why the two half-reactions in the battery are both recharged by the input energy. Not enough information.
I’m currently assuming it is LENR in some form, since I don’t like the Hydrino theory (yes, I’m biased here, but I could be wrong). You’d therefore need a battery chemistry that uses kinetic energy (heat) to form a compound that is unstable and when it breaks apart gives an electrical charge – the other plate needs a similar but opposite charge production. LENR has to be stimulated by the precise conditions of the metals and electrolyte, with the addition of a charging current. You’ll need an internal counter-current in the cell to avoid build-ups of charge that stop it working – this may be why some cells give out twice the charging energy, and others give out a lot more. Another reason for the earlier stopping may be that not enough LENR is happening to supply the extra heat – not optimal conditions.
You probably need a good electrochemist (I’m not) to give a good analysis of this reaction.
May 25, 2012 at 11:40 pm
okay Ive learned Hydrogen is bumped by atoms shrinking and giving off energy that increases exponentially each time. and the shrunken atom is called a Hydrino.
This would be nuclear so is qualified as LENR although much different from the ecat.
Many physicists would argue that Hydrinos do not exist, yet this power source is dependent upon them being real.
The electricity has the released hydrogen energy added to it during its cycle.
May 26, 2012 at 3:30 am
kwhilborn – just because Mills’ explanation of why he gets the power out depends on Hydrinos being real doesn’t make the explanation therefore validated because he gets the energy. If real, this would not be nuclear power as such but orbital power, which is normally used to drive things such as lasers. If such a lower energy state existed, you would expect it to be seen a lot more than it is – the lowest energy state is normally the most-populated, and you need to add energy in to get it to a higher, less stable state. You could regard particles as phlegmatic – they don’t stay excited for long.
It would make more sense to me if Blacklight had actually accidentally found a way to produce a source of muons, thus what he is seeing may be muon-catalysed fusion. This is certainly one form of LENR. Making muons ought to be easier than making Widom-Larsen’s heavy electrons – it needs less energy. It might also be true, of course, that W+L are wrong, and the other LENR reactions we see are also really muon-based. Currently the jury is out on all of the hypotheses as to how and why LENR occurs.
Overall, a good hypothesis will drive improvements of the technology. If the hypothesis is not true, then it will be difficult to improve the power-output and reproducibility. Getting a good technology also helps in working out the theory behind it. You can thus expect a load of ideas to be generated, and most if not all will of necessity be wrong. It may take quite a few years before we are reasonably certain of the theory behind all these things.
May 31, 2012 at 10:58 pm |
Simon,
One of Randell Mills’ interesting claims is that the stable hydrino constitutes the dark matter that represents the bulk of total matter in the universe. I’m encouraged after reading the six reports, and puzzled why it hasn’t generated more news in the States.
June 1, 2012 at 12:11 am |
Patrick. I read that claim also and was sorta dumb struck by it. I’m not sure too many people are buying it as a Hydrino is an atom of low atomic state that should be easily detected and they seem to be having real problems determining what dark matter is. I think, the reaction is muted as know one knows.
If this was true a space vehicle could just fly along scooping up the dark matter for a LENR fuel. Start Trek would be just around the corner.
June 1, 2012 at 1:24 am |
Patrick – Those claims seem against what we currently know about energetic states. If the Hydrino existed and was a lower-energy state of Hydrogen, then most Hydrogen would be in that state most of the time, and yet we see Hydrogen in its base energy state with the equivalence of a Bohr radius of 1, not 1/2, 1/3 etc.. If such fractional states existed, then also why would it be confined to just Hydrogen, and not all other elements?
The observations of spectral lines are probably correct, but I feel that the explanation of them is wrong, and they are misinterpreting the results. It is very easy to misinterpret results – all of us do it since there is a lot of complexity in the data, and there is no guarantee that our base assumptions are correct.
Even though I think the explanation is wrong, that doesn’t mean that the technology of getting energy out of the system is therefore not working – it may well work, and the independent tests certainly point to it being functional. With the “wrong” theory, that just means that maybe the best method of getting the energy out is not being applied. If the devices get into production and are good, then someone later on will get a better explanation of how they work, and thus improve the design.
Bob – if so then the “dark matter” is going to be at a low energy state already. You’d have to gather the remaining Hydrogen and convert it to Hydrinos to get your space drive. The Bussard ram-jet idea has been around for decades, but there the idea was to fuse the Hydrogen into Helium to get the energy.
August 1, 2012 at 4:48 am |
“My suggestion to Blacklight is to suck a million bucks out of Dick Smith.”
LOL, that is funny. I would if I were Dick Smith.