We need inventors that can think outside the envelope. This definitely is thinking outside of the envelope. M

BlackLight's physics-defying promise: Cheap power from water


BlackLight's physics-defying promise: Cheap power from water - Jul. 2, 2008



Fortune Small Business) -- Imagine being able to convert water into a boundless source of cheap energy. That's what BlackLight Power, a 25-employee firm in Cranbury, N.J., says it can do. The only problem: Most scientists say that company's technology violates the basic laws of physics.

Such skepticism doesn't daunt Dr. Randell Mills, a Harvard-trained physician and founder of BlackLight, who recently claimed that he has created a working fuel cell using the world's most pervasive element: the hydrogen found in water.

"This is no longer an academic argument," Mills, 50, insists. "It's proven technology, and we're going to commercialize it as quickly as possible."

For the first time in his company's 19 years of persistent trial and error, Mills says he has a market-ready product: a fuel cell that produces a chemical reaction to alter hydrogen atoms. The fuel cell releases heat that turns water into steam, which drives electric turbines.

The working models in his lab generate 50 kilowatts of electricity - enough to power six or seven houses. But these, Mills says, can be scaled to drive a large, electric power plant. The inventor claims this electricity will cost less than 2 cents per kilowatt-hour, which compares to a national average of 8.9 cents.

While his business has been working on the "BlackLight Process" since its inception almost two decades ago, Mills developed the patented cocktail that enables the reaction - a solid fuel made of hydrogen and a sodium hydride catalyst - only a year ago. (He recently posted instructions on the company's Web site, blacklightpower.com). Now that the device is ready for commercialization, he says, BlackLight is negotiating with several utilities and architecture and engineering firms, but he won't disclose any partners' names until the deals are finalized

Sounds just like any other chemical reaction to me, and as I recall, all chemical reactions balance, both in atoms and energy.

I forget where I saw this, but I find the argument as to why there is no way in hell that it would ever work far more compelling.

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Well, it comes down to these people convincing venture investors that the process works. And it will and we will see their product on the market, or it won't and it will go into the energy invention waste basket alongside the alleged car that runs on water.

You mean those evil capitalists that will quash this so Bush's cronies will have the oil market locked up?

I don't think I can pass a science call on this without more data. He's given us half of a reaction: H2 and NaH, a reactant and a catalyst. Without knowing the complete reaction, I don't think we can definitively say whether or not this is true or bogus. However, I'm leaning towards bogus. If he was really sure this is a working reaction, he'd patent it so no one could steal it, then reveal the full formula so that other scientists can verify his claims. But he hasn't done that; he's merely laid out some chemical names and some technobabble. Until he reveals more, I will be highly skeptical.

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Why would he do that? Bush was the one who originally began the push for alternative energy and hybrid cars a few years back.

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This is what is going to happen. Most investers don't know that much about physics, most are business grads and the such, not scientists, so they don't know all that well what they are doing, and they can easily fooled by someone that went to Harvard or somewhere that got a science education. He'll milk this from investors for a lot of money and keep loop holes in the contracts so that he can't be held responsible, and he'll make a lot of money for lieing. This isn't that rare, though it mostly comes from christian "scientists".

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Here's another one.

YouTube - Free Energy - No Fuel Magnetic Motor

This one is about a year old, and they said that in about a year (so about now) it will be on the market. Anyone see anything about it?

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Set your destination with your heart, get there with your mind.

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Then there was a crazy guy that was going to created compressed air propelled cars. No one believed him. But they now have small comuter vehicles in France, Italy and India run on compressed air.

You never know.