Re: [Vo]:Where's the beef? was: Stupid Academic stunt

2008-04-08 Thread thomas malloy
Jones Beene wrote: --- Terry Blanton wrote: I'm sure all you have to do is go back and look to the people that handed over the first $20M. However, presently, since there are no apparent working prototypes from companies like AEI, who have an immediate commercial interest and are

Re: [Vo]:Where's the beef? was: Stupid Academic stunt

2008-04-08 Thread R C Macaulay
Thomas wrote, However, presently, since there are no apparent working prototypes What is beyond dispute is that BLP has spent a lot of money.. Howdy Thomas, Well.. err.. let's observe it was BLP that spent a lot of AEI et al's money. Back in the late '50's I invested in a deal like

Re: [Vo]:Where's the beef? was: Stupid Academic stunt

2008-04-07 Thread Jones Beene
--- Terry Blanton wrote: I'm sure all you have to do is go back and look to the people that handed over the first $20M. Well, only one of the prime early proponents of Mills was an 'ideal fit' for immediate use (proximity, need, resources, the whole enchilada) and that company is/was his

Re: [Vo]:Where's the beef? was: Stupid Academic stunt

2008-04-07 Thread Mike Carrell
- Original Message - From: R C Macaulay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Howdy Vorts, What am I missing in regards to BLP ? Our tiny company budgets $ 350,000. per year in research. No matter how great the idea, if we don't see something happen in two years.. bye bye idea based on the simple

Re: [Vo]:Where's the beef? was: Stupid Academic stunt

2008-04-07 Thread Mike Carrell
A lot of speculation on the head of a pin by Jones. I once had conversations with Dr. Peter Jannson of Rowan University. He was the first gradudate student of the newly-endowed engineering school at Rowan. For his Master's thesis, which I read, he performed a simple BLP experiment, using a

Re: [Vo]:Where's the beef? was: Stupid Academic stunt

2008-04-06 Thread Terry Blanton
On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you name any independent licensee of the energy technology who is investing enough money to move towards a real prototype? I'm sure all you have to do is go back and look to the people that handed over the first $20M.

[Vo]:Where's the beef? was: Stupid Academic stunt

2008-04-05 Thread Jones Beene
--- Mike Carrell wrote: As I dig into the new material on the BLP website, it looks as Mills is finally positioned for commercial development. His 'solid' fuel when heated releases H and K3+ Here is a picture of such a solid. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_hydroxide Which is

Re: [Vo]:Where's the beef? was: Stupid Academic stunt

2008-04-05 Thread Jones Beene
Speaking of Capstone - the once hot stock micro-turbine manufacturer, which had some kind of a tie-in to BLP ... and was featured prominently in one of Randy Mills' interviews ten years ago as being on the verge of a commercial product using hydrino energy... ... in the course of trying to find

Re: [Vo]:Where's the beef? was: Stupid Academic stunt

2008-04-05 Thread Mike Carrell
- Original Message - From: Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Mike Carrell wrote: As I dig into the new material on the BLP website, it looks as Mills is finally positioned for commercial development. His 'solid' fuel when heated releases H and K3+ Here is a picture of such a

Re: [Vo]:Where's the beef? was: Stupid Academic stunt

2008-04-05 Thread OrionWorks
From Mike Carrell: ... I wish I could, but such are quite proprietary. It would be reasonable to assume that discussions in that direction have been going on for some time. Even if interested parties duplicated some the effects documented by BLP, there are vexing problems with commercial

Re: [Vo]:Where's the beef? was: Stupid Academic stunt

2008-04-05 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Mike Carrell's message of Sat, 5 Apr 2008 12:02:25 -0400: Hi, [snip] Jones, you are a clever and sophisticated observer and can do better than that if you want to be objective. The voluminous journal papers and experimental reports are hardly 'vaporware'. They require study. The new

Re: [Vo]:Where's the beef? was: Stupid Academic stunt

2008-04-05 Thread Mike Carrell
, 2008 7:17 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Where's the beef? was: Stupid Academic stunt In reply to Mike Carrell's message of Sat, 5 Apr 2008 12:02:25 -0400: Hi, [snip] Jones, you are a clever and sophisticated observer and can do better than that if you want to be objective. The voluminous journal papers

Re: [Vo]:Where's the beef? was: Stupid Academic stunt

2008-04-05 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Vorts, What am I missing in regards to BLP ? Our tiny company budgets $ 350,000. per year in research. No matter how great the idea, if we don't see something happen in two years.. bye bye idea based on the simple premise that a blind hog can root up an acorn every once in awhile..

Re: [Vo]:Where's the beef? was: Stupid Academic stunt

2008-04-05 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to R C Macaulay's message of Sat, 5 Apr 2008 20:57:10 -0500: Hi, [snip] in awhile.. BUT.. 19 years ? I thought Mills started in 1986 - that would mean 22 years, not 19. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk The shrub is a plant.