In reply to Jones Beene's message of Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:58:28 -0800: Hi, [snip] >here, mixed in with lots of potential BS. Caveat Lector. But remember, if you >do not adequately separate the wheat from the chafe... well, you get the extra >fiber, so that is not all bad, and helps keep you 'regular'...this is mostly >new from the BLP site. > >http://www.blacklightpower.com/pdf/Theory%20Pres%20020905%20std%202.pdf > The date forms part of the title. This is 2 1/2 years old. [snip] >Here is the tantalizing bit (not new, but certainly relevant to current >threads on vortex about how to best way to store energy, especially wind and >solar), for which Mills appears to be claiming as fact certain evidence which >he has not produced, despite many appeals, and therefore likely cannot produce >any time soon... but he hasn't removed or qualified the claims: > >Battery Comparison (from the BLP site) > >The energy density projection for BLP's battery is as high as 10,000+ >watt-hours per kilogram. The voltage of BLP's battery may be 70 volts compared >to the average voltage for a lithium-ion battery of 3.6 volts. BLP's battery >compound may release about 100 times the energy and 1,000 plus times the power >of any other conventional chemical used in batteries.
Personally, I doubt this will ever happen. The primary reason being that you don't get 70 V until n=1/16, by which time IMO, you get fusion instead, so there aren't going to be a whole lot of n=1/16 hydrinos lying around. Furthermore, the energy density is based on 70 V and the mass of the hydrino, if I don't miss my guess, but this appears to ignore the mass of the structural materials of the battery (but you may be able to make a battery that is qua volume and mass largely fuel). Besides, with disproportionation reactions probably taking place in any such battery, it's likely to overheat, and eventually, possibly explode. There is also the difficulty of working with hydrinos at multiple different levels of shrinkage concurrently, and the consequences this would have for battery voltage. > >If Mills could better document this, as well as many other of his claims, of >if anyone could reproduce them independently there would be... not millions, >not even a few billion, but tens of billions of dollars available to develop >the whole works. Instead, what do we have? More fancy papers and more vacuous >claims. The claim is years old. As time passes, Mills tends to leave these things on the back burner, and concentrate on what he believes is most likely to work best. If you want to benefit from his experience, then concentrate on what he is currently working on. > >At some point after 15 years of excuses, even his apologists are going to have >to drop the spiel that "these things always take longer to develop then people >realize," and ask themselves why, if there is any truth to it, that the public >should not demand government intervention, due to global warming and the >impending crisis of artic methane poisoning, etc and commandeer this research >(and pay Mills its worth, of course, after that has been determined) and >incorporate it into a new Manhattan project. The public rarely demands action on matters so esoteric (to them). In fact 99% (at least) of the public, has never even heard of Mills. Most of those that have, are sitting back and waiting for him to do the hard work, then when he's got something that works well, someone will steal it. > >If Mills claims were true, and there are growing doubts from many former >supporters, then the impending environmental crisis makes it that important... >that we by-pass the reluctant inventor and get some real action going, rather >than just more rhetoric and fancier papers and pdf presentations. There is nothing to stop others from doing development work. In fact there are a number of others who's work may well at least in part depend on hydrino formation (e.g. Betavolt), even if they are not aware of it (or in some cases don't believe it). The bottom line is that in the long run, "hydrinos" are going to be important primarily as a workable path to fusion and transmutation, the only direction in which Mills is loath to go (and possibly in some new materials). Regards, Robin van Spaandonk All SPAM goes in the trash unread.
