In reply to James Bowery's message of Tue, 29 Jul 2014 14:22:19 -0500: Hi James, [snip] >OK was I was able to adopt an unreasonably open posture toward Mills's >presentation and spend time searching for the calorimetry in the >demonstration videos. What I found was intriguing enough to bother to do a >little more investigation and invest a bit of my personal credibility with >a physicist whose time I am hesitant to impose on but who is at least >somewhat open to looking at alternatives to "accepted" theory. > >Two outcomes: > >1) After a quick reading of key points of particular interest to him the >physicist is convinced Mills's theory is worthy of further consideration. > >2) In part 2 of the July 21st demo, very near the end, is a report from a >professor at the University of Illinois that claims to have reproduced >Mills's heat phenomenon with rigorous calorimetry. I went to the >University of Illinois and have colleagues there that are skeptical of >George Miley's work there. My impression of the of the UofIL is that when >a professor of engineering there says something in his field of expertise, >it is it is unwise to discount it before giving it serious consideration. > >I find this somewhat disconcerting because I've previously been relatively >skeptical toward BLP simply on the basis of its incompetently drafted press >release prior to its first demo of this year and the seeming appeal to 2 >"miracles" at once: > >1) The hydrino (the miracle here being that Mills has overturned most of >the 20th century's authorities in physics).
All breakthroughs are "miracles", yet without them science would never make a major advancement. > >2) That the hydrino explains the production of nuclear ash (columb masking) >of cold fusion experiments while at the same time providing substantial >energy (if not most of its energy) from hydrino chemistry. Why is this a miracle? Note that there are lots of Hydrino "sizes", and therefore different sizes are likely to predominate under different circumstances. This could go a long way toward explaining the variability in CF experiments. In the past, on this list, I have also provided many new "clean" nuclear reaction pathways that Hydrinos (or something similar) might make possible, such as IC like processes, fast protons, and Hydrino molecular cluster fusion/fission. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
