Six Tiny Utilities Buy “Scientifically Impossible” Energy
Blacklight Power has signed a contract with Akridge in Maryland, marking the sixth utility to sign up for a mysterious form of energy that defies quantum physics. The company claims that it can create energy by lowering the energy level of hydrogen atoms to below their “ground” state. Most scientists agree that this is impossible.
But that hasn’t stopped “six utilities” from signing on for the theoretical power, (though one of the utilities; Akridge Energy LLC is apparently owned by a property company.)
In an increasingly anti-science culture, scientific consensus doesn’t count for much, but the consensus is that you can’t lower hydrogen atoms below their ground state.
Most scientists agree that this violates the laws of quantum physics.
The six utilities are going out on a limb. Or perhaps they know something we don’t:
Blacklight’s founder; Randell Mills claims he found a way to produce a theoretical form of the hydrogen atom. Although Mills who is a Harvard trained medical doctor, has had trouble claiming patents in the past, two are listed as granted on the USPTO website: 7,188,033, on rendering the chemical bonds of hydrogen, and 6,024,935, on methods for releasing energy from hydrogen atoms. Blacklight’s most recent study titled Commercializable Power Source from Forming New States of Hydrogen is on his website.
The hydrino is a theoretical form in which the electron has entered a lower orbit — meaning the atom itself contains less energy. Mills decided that he could not only produce hydrinos, but also capture the energy released during the transition from hydrogen, using it to generate electricity.
When the hydrino is created through a reaction between hydrogen and a catalyst, according to Mills, it lets go of more than enough energy to fuel electrolysis in common water, thus producing more hydrogen. The excess energy — the majority — would go to producing electricity. The only outside ingredients needed are a catalyst, (which one?) to turn the hydrogen to hydrinos, and heat (which would also be generated once the reaction had started). And the hydrinos created by the process? They’re non-reactive and can be released to float up into space, as they’re lighter than helium. Or be processed into unique chemicals with a range of useful applications.
Venturebeat is saying that BLP has received $10 million from Shelby Brewer, the assistant secretary of nuclear energy under Reagan, among others like electric utilities Conectiv and Pacificorp. Most of the investors are undisclosed.
Between its six deals, the company has given out rights to use the mysterious and secretive process to produce 8,000 megawatts of electricity overall for almost a million customers. Oh, and this theoretical energy would cost $0.01 cent a kwh.
What’s interesting is that Blacklight has now shred its cloak of secrecy. Theories and press releases are one thing, but publicly demonstrating a new way to generate energy is easy to prove — does it work, or not?
Blacklight is not publicly traded and doesn’t appear to be looking for money; so there is little motivation to claim a nonexistent process. On the other hand, if it works, a public demonstration settles it.
This could be a groundbreaking year for quantum physics. Or not.
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August 6th, 2009 at 11:50 pm
Chava Energy is also developing fractional Hydrogen technologies.
The website has a couple of articles under the Heading HOW? that may be of interest.
In addition to the one labeled fractional Hydrogen, just above it an article about a Self Powered Internal Combustion Engine – SPICE.
Mills is correct in stating that, using fractional Hydrogen as fuel, a barrel of water can equal hundreds of barrels of oil.
August 7th, 2009 at 2:43 am
Math papers from Naudts in 2005 and Bourgoin in 2007 confirm the 137 fractional states claimed by Mills but they are both based on relativistic math. 2 objects can be stationary relative to each other spatially but through equivalence be displaced on the temporal axis. This suggests Mills catalyst Rayney Nickel which like all skeletal catalysts forms arrays of random sized Casimir cavities is forming sharp boundary “equivalence zones” where inside the cavity see outside the cavity similar to how we see an event horizon only without the need for all the mass and huge gravity well. The Bohr radius is never violated in 4D but can appear fractional in 3D through Lorentz contraction while minimum displacement kept on the temporal axis. http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/blog/7200-catalyst-and-casimir-cavity-property-sets-should-be-merged-23766.html
August 7th, 2009 at 3:19 am
If it works watch them go to another country that helps them grow.
August 7th, 2009 at 6:29 am
“In an increasingly anti-science culture, scientific consensus doesn’t count for much”
Once upon a time, the best scientific minds in the civilized world arrived at the consensus that the earth was the center of the universe and that the sun revolved around it. Some time later, conventional wisdom held that the world was flat. The list of scientific bloopers throughout human history is endless. I can’t imagine why people would be somewhat skeptical of the latest and greatest ’scientific consensus’.
I would disagree that we live in an increasingly anti-science culture. People are not opposed to scientific discovery and advancement. What they are opposed to is the arrogance of the scientific community, and to the notion that their collective wisdom is indisputable. What you are beginning to see is simply a backlash against the worship of science above all else, and a growing distrust of those in the scientific community who continually forecast doom and gloom just around the next corner.
The natural world is an amazing place, and we have barely begun to scratch the surface of it. Isn’t it rather foolish to mock this company’s work just because the ’scientific consensus’ says that it’s impossible? A wise old physics professor of mine liked to say, “The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.” Perhaps our best and brightest don’t yet know enough to see that they don’t know everything.
August 7th, 2009 at 8:15 am
No it was not “the best scientific minds in the civilized world” – It was the religious orthodoxy of the time — that the sun revolved around the world, because that’s where we should be as God’s creation at the center of the universe.
When Galileo applied empirical scientific thinking, he proved things to be the opposite; that the world turned out to revolve around the sun. He was tortured for it, but the age of scientific thought began there anyway.
“distrust of those in the scientific community who continually forecast doom and gloom just around the next corner.”
Many religious conservatives refuse to accept climate science (“doom and gloom”)because they think it’s blasphemy to think God would let us destroy His creation – and that scientists are being presumptuous to think that it could happen.
But there are other equally religious people who think that we must cherish God’s creation (which includes our descendants) and not leave this place a hell.
But I agree with you the natural world is full of amazing surprises and we have barely begun to scratch the surface of it.
August 7th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
It wouldnt surprise me if this was all bogus. Either the companies involved know nothing of this agreement or they dont even exist.
August 7th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
…or barely exist!
6 “utilities” with fewer than a million customers between them…?
October 26th, 2009 at 12:36 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1iqa0dSJO0
Check out above link to a 2 and a half minute youtube video of a CNN report. What are the odds that the independent testimony below is fraudulent (not bloody likely unless you are a paranoid conspiracy theorist)? Here is a silver bullet technology: clean cheap and abundant energy.
In a joint statement, Dr. K.V. Ramanujachary, Rowan University Meritorious Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Dr. Amos Mugweru, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, and Dr. Peter Jansson P.E., Associate Professor of Engineering said, “In independent tests conducted over the past three months involving 10 solid fuels made by us from commercially-available chemicals, our team of engineering and chemistry professors, staff, and students at Rowan University has independently and consistently generated energy in excesses ranging from 1.2 times to 6.5 times the maximum theoretical heat available through known chemical reactions.”
Also, check out this article: http://green.venturebeat.com/2008/05/30/blacklight-power-claims-nearly-free-energy-from-water-is-this-for-real/
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