A familiar scene: critics who do not do their homework or claim 'objectivity' by moving goalposts and persistent negative spin.
BLP in the years of study in the gas phase used microwave excitation and standard microwave practice with pure gases and commercial, laboratory grade instrumentation and water bath calorimetry. The latter was an insulated fish tan n in which the test cell was immersed, with a Joule heater, a stirrer, and a precision thermometer. With the Joule heater embedded with the test cell, it was possible to calibrate the response of the of the calorimeter to input power, and then to make accurate measurements of the energy produced by a test run. Outside qualified visitors observed and operated the system. This is a reliable way to measure energy from pulse reactions such as from the SF-CIHT cell, because the water bath integrates the energy produced in heating the apparatus. In posts to the BLP website about experiments, equipment used is identified. I have heard that BLP has accumulated $million in laboratory grade equipment with calibrations traceable to NIST standards, and a staff of Ph.D.s to desuighand perform experiments. Before the founding of B LP,, Mills commissioned experiments at universities and industrial laboratories with positive and negative results in a search for catalysts. "Independence" is a false standard. One wants others to repeat experiments, and run controls, which Mills has consistently done [if anyone was paying attention]. Experiments done by an antagonist who does not **duplicate** Mills is useless, for it is an imitation, not a replication. The tests by Dr. Conrads in Germany are notable, for he con firmed the effects claimed by Mills using means which differed in detail but were consistent in principle. The situation with Rowan and Professor Jannsson: See his home page and resume at http://www.rowan.edu/open/colleges/engineering/programs/electricalcomputert. I live an hour's drive from Rowan. It was once a small teacher's college, but with a $100 million endowment for a new engineering school, Rowan got naming rights. Since then, Rowan has grown in prestige and scope. Now a university, it is closely associated with NJ Rutgers University. Jansson was a technical scout at Atlanctic City Electric in a search for new investment opportunities. He was also the first graduate from the new Rowan engineering school. For his Master's thesis he chose replication of a BLP test, for which BLP lent him a Seeback calorimeter. I visited the Rowan library and read is master's thesis. I have also visited with Jansson who told me he recommended BLP as an investment for his employer t the time, Atlantic City Electric. As a reward, Jansson was allowed to make a small personal investment in BLP; usually the ante is in the $xxx,xxx. When Mills turned to solid fuels, one mode involved a chemical charge measures by a special calorimeter. A contract was given to Rowan to replicate *measurements* of this ecperiment, and for the chemistry depart to verify the reaction and arrange for NMR scans of the reacted material to verify the production of hydrinos. There is a clip on YouTube of Jansson conducting the experiment. Janssongot his Ph.D. from Cambridge University in England. The fact that the apparatus was furnished by BLP does not invalidate the authenticity of the results: to allege otherwise is to suggest bribery on the part of BLP and duplicity on the part of the professionals doing the work. Having an advanced degree is no guarantee honesty, lack of such credentials is no mark of virtue. Study and observation is required [i.e. Faraday, Edison]. The Papp explosion was pure theater. The pulsed reactions of the BLP solid fuels is an entirely different matter. IC Engines are devices to manage controlled repetitive 'explosions'. So is the BLP device under discussion. Continuous power is irrelevant. In principle, the MHD converters will efficient convert the reaction energy to electrical pulses without excessive heating of the device itself. Converting the electrical pulses to 60 Hz electricity is a known art: "switching power amplifiers and power supplies" do this routinely ad efficiently. Mike Carrell
