Brilliant Light Power, Inc., founded by Dr. Randall Mills,....is he back again? I've been seeing him promise something like this, in one form or another. any day now for perhaps twenty years.
I myself was quite skeptical, although I note the quite bright UV light my welding produces. That, in fact, was what convinced me to look more carefully at the project.
I am yet unconvinced that Hydrinos are Dark Matter, or that Dark Matter even exists. But, the paper I read was substantive, and the technology seems solid.
I'd really hate it if you were right about this guy. I vaguely recall reading about it before, and not being convinced it was legit.
IF the claims about the amount of UV light that is emitted by the plasma is true, and not just fabricated data, then I see no other problems with the tech.
I tried to link the PDF I downloaded with the paper detailing the science, but PDF is not JPG, and Steemit won't let me =/
consider this... Dr. Mills says a device weighing about 250 pounds can produce 250 kw of electricity, and they can make it for about $25k
well guess what
...my caterpillar 3406e diesel engine( that I drove for 1.5 million miles)
put out 375Kw . It weighed about a ton and a half and cost....
.
(wait for it)
.
$25K...in 1999.(just the engine..the whole truck cost $150,000)
(cough)..
weight is a BIG thing for trukers...an engine that would put out the same power for one-tenth the weight...at the SAME PRICE?
What do you expect the truckers would do if that were offered to them?
Dr. Mills is a smart guy...right?
Oh...Hydrogen is possibly the most well understood of all the elements. Has anyone else EVER said anything about a Hydrino?
A sub-nuclear resolution microscopic accelerator just a few centimeters long and only a few nano-meter wide might theoretically initiate individually controlled fusion reactions without requiring thermonuclear temperatures or confinement.
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In the last few years, researchers have created precise atomic structures using atomic force microscope equipment (piezo electric and magnostrictive crystals used to position sensing probes and atomic position probes). Recently researchers at IBM have created an atomically perfect ring of copper atoms to create an electron standing wave pattern. Other researchers have created various other atomic scale structures such as nano-meter-sized-tubes and Buckminster Fullerenes.
Making such small but potent magnetic fields requisite to containing the energies released is an engineering problem, but at the nanoscale, which is where we go at this size, it is somewhat less predictable.
This is a very interesting concept, but at the same time, I am not convinced that the future energy needs will be provided by this technology. Further research will be needed on my end to formulate a more articulate response on the subject itself, but the focus on metal-ion batteries will likely remain for the foreseeable future. But if you do build one, I would love to see it in operation.
I have, I remember now, seen some (contentious) discussion of Dr. Mills and this technology before. As I am skeptical by nature, I remained unconvinced of the efficacy of the process.
In the video I linked, and the PDF I read (which I cannot post to Steemit. Note to devs: fix this!) there are much more convincing evidence that this does, in fact, work.
I note that @everittdmickey points out that no one else is talking about Hydrinos, and the videos could just be welders making UV, as all electrical welders do, and the data regarding energy released falsified. As I cannot do the calculus, I cannot turn to the math in the paper to ascertain if that holds up.
IF the UV light is released in such enormous quantities from welding damp Silver, then the rest of the technology makes sense, and the world is gonna know it soon. If not, well, clearly Hydrinos aren't Dark Matter.
Regardless of whether this works or not, batteries are still going to be necessary. Power needs to be used in places where these can't be installed, at the very least. So, batteries are still a sure bet.
Nice post, thanks for referencing my comment. Nice conversation with Everitt as well. I have been piecing together a list of the tech I want if I can ever afford to build my own house, your post inspired to write about it sometime. I too am waiting to see this actually hit the market, but I can only imagine that if it does work as promised, that the big energy companies are going to try and quash it. We'll see!
Brilliant Light Power, Inc., founded by Dr. Randall Mills,....is he back again? I've been seeing him promise something like this, in one form or another. any day now for perhaps twenty years.
Color me skeptical.
If he could do it...he would.
I am NOT convinced.
I myself was quite skeptical, although I note the quite bright UV light my welding produces. That, in fact, was what convinced me to look more carefully at the project.
I am yet unconvinced that Hydrinos are Dark Matter, or that Dark Matter even exists. But, the paper I read was substantive, and the technology seems solid.
I'd really hate it if you were right about this guy. I vaguely recall reading about it before, and not being convinced it was legit.
IF the claims about the amount of UV light that is emitted by the plasma is true, and not just fabricated data, then I see no other problems with the tech.
I tried to link the PDF I downloaded with the paper detailing the science, but PDF is not JPG, and Steemit won't let me =/
consider this...
Dr. Mills says a device weighing about 250 pounds can produce 250 kw of electricity, and they can make it for about $25k
well guess what
...my caterpillar 3406e diesel engine( that I drove for 1.5 million miles)
put out 375Kw . It weighed about a ton and a half and cost....
.
(wait for it)
.
$25K...in 1999.(just the engine..the whole truck cost $150,000)
(cough)..
weight is a BIG thing for trukers...an engine that would put out the same power for one-tenth the weight...at the SAME PRICE?
What do you expect the truckers would do if that were offered to them?
Dr. Mills is a smart guy...right?
Oh...Hydrogen is possibly the most well understood of all the elements. Has anyone else EVER said anything about a Hydrino?
Exactly!
Also, regarding Hydrinos, er... exactly.
Now I suspect I just got sucked in by a paper fulla calculus I can't follow...
sorry...
my personal "I want it to happen SO bad" is Non-Statistical Fusion Reactions In Atomic Scale Accelerators
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In the last few years, researchers have created precise atomic structures using atomic force microscope equipment (piezo electric and magnostrictive crystals used to position sensing probes and atomic position probes). Recently researchers at IBM have created an atomically perfect ring of copper atoms to create an electron standing wave pattern. Other researchers have created various other atomic scale structures such as nano-meter-sized-tubes and Buckminster Fullerenes.
If you've read Asimov, you'll be familiar with the Second Foundation's particular expertise with microscopic fusion reactors.
This would be better than "Mr. Fusion", as they would be significantly smaller.
I wouldn't mind me some fusion-on-a-chip. I think Hari Seldon would approve.
Yup...I read Asimov...I don't recall 'fusion on a chip'..but I can't see any reason why it wouldn't work.
Making such small but potent magnetic fields requisite to containing the energies released is an engineering problem, but at the nanoscale, which is where we go at this size, it is somewhat less predictable.
This is a very interesting concept, but at the same time, I am not convinced that the future energy needs will be provided by this technology. Further research will be needed on my end to formulate a more articulate response on the subject itself, but the focus on metal-ion batteries will likely remain for the foreseeable future. But if you do build one, I would love to see it in operation.
Me too!
I have, I remember now, seen some (contentious) discussion of Dr. Mills and this technology before. As I am skeptical by nature, I remained unconvinced of the efficacy of the process.
In the video I linked, and the PDF I read (which I cannot post to Steemit. Note to devs: fix this!) there are much more convincing evidence that this does, in fact, work.
I note that @everittdmickey points out that no one else is talking about Hydrinos, and the videos could just be welders making UV, as all electrical welders do, and the data regarding energy released falsified. As I cannot do the calculus, I cannot turn to the math in the paper to ascertain if that holds up.
IF the UV light is released in such enormous quantities from welding damp Silver, then the rest of the technology makes sense, and the world is gonna know it soon. If not, well, clearly Hydrinos aren't Dark Matter.
Regardless of whether this works or not, batteries are still going to be necessary. Power needs to be used in places where these can't be installed, at the very least. So, batteries are still a sure bet.
Nice post, thanks for referencing my comment. Nice conversation with Everitt as well. I have been piecing together a list of the tech I want if I can ever afford to build my own house, your post inspired to write about it sometime. I too am waiting to see this actually hit the market, but I can only imagine that if it does work as promised, that the big energy companies are going to try and quash it. We'll see!