I just finished with Robin and I find some of the same ideas here form Jones. (Deep breath) here we go again:
<snip> Instead the really frustrating information is the tantalizing stuff which appears from brilliant, well funded, probably genius-level researchers like Mills/BLP who will publish tantalizing bits of apparently apocryphal (at least certainly unattainable in the short run) speculation, but cannot produce any real evidence to back it up, and then have the gall to claim "independent verification" when everyone who tries to duplicate it fails. MC: Jones, I thought you were more perceptive than "everyone who tries to duplicate it fails" Who, precisely? Are you referring to the JAP paper the purportedly repeated Mills' H-Ar plasma runs without seeing the Balmer line broadening? Did you not follow my discussion of this on HSG,wherein I quoted Mills that conditions cited (pulsed high power exicitation) had not worked for him either. What Mills used was lower CW excitation, which did work, but that is not what the others did. They failed by not actually duplicating what Mills did, which is clearly spelled out in his own paper. MC: Duplication of Mills work is found in the Phillips papers and that of Conrads in Germany. Mills' name is on these papers as junior author as courtesy. That does not invalidate the work. I have also read the Master's thesis of Dr, Jansson, of Rowan University, which consisted of his own test of the BLP phenomenon using a calorimater from BLP. More on the hydrino battery at the end. But first, to consolidate two postings on Mills into one: In case you were wondering: How heavy is everything: The initial mass of the Universe based on the size, age, Hubble constant, temperature, density of matter, and power spectrum is 2 X 10^54 kg... give or take a few ounces How old is the universe? Infinitely old, as it oscillates on a long cycle but never collapses all the way: Thus, the observed Universe will expand as mass is released as photons for ~500,000,000,000 years to its maximum radius of 2x10^12 light years.. At that point in its world-line, the Universe will obtain its maximum size and begin to contract to its minimum radius of ~3x10^11 light years Immodest Conclusion: all from this TOE by Randall Mills Maxwell's equations, Planck's equation, the de Broglie equation, Newton's laws, and Special, and General Relativity are now Unified.. If you have the time to download this amazing document, along with some very nice visualizations, over 100 pages and a tasty mixed-grill... then by all means, indulge yourself. There is a lot of potentially brilliant information 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. MC: One can make a clear distiction, as I have, from Mills' TOE and the body of experimental work based on the so-called "sub quantum" stae of the hydrogen atom. Mills' papers in senior journals, and his latest patent application, do not depend on the orbitsphere model, now well illustrated on the website. http://www.blacklightpower.com/pdf/Theory%20Pres%20020905%20std%202.pdf To me, one of the more interesting images in this new material is the OS (orbitsphere) which now looks like a truncated sphere with both ends missing. Not what I had been thinking. 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. 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. 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. 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. MC: I have already responded to this in Robin's post, and will not repeat it here. Mike Carrell