Mike, > Mills' is reluctant to have any association with CF, LENR, CANR and nuclear phenomena.
Does that sound rational to you? Does that sound like the well-considered logic of a person committed to solving our looming ecological crisis? The cynic might say that it sounds more like an egoist being either selfish, or very deceptive. Does not any executive's responsibilities go beyond the stockholders to society at large? > MC: His path is alliances with large corporations where he appears as the consummate businessman with valuable patents which he can and will defend. OK. What large corporation has signed-on to develop, or to produce, a BLP product? > He need convince only CEOs and their immediate technical staffs, not the public, nor members of vortex or HSG. Has he convinced any CEO to become a manufacturing partner? He tried successfully to convince Capstone, the cutting-edge manufacturer of micro-turbines, and they were ready willing and able, but Mills could not deliver on his end - after saying publicly in 1998 that he expected a commercial product in 18 months. He also said in interviews 8 years ago that he was going public soon. The problem is, if you go public, then you can no longer hide behind a veil of secrecy. Isn't that the real reason why he has not done so? And BTW, has BLP not had at least one major defection from the board of directors? > MC: No doubt when it becomes "real" there will be a rush of imitators. But how many years of patent protection will be left by then? I think the point that you are minimizing here, is not the plodding pace of progress from BLP, but the urgency of doing something meaningful in a national or worldwide effort to begin to eliminate CO2 before it, in effect, eliminates us. If it requires BLP to use deuterium, then you bite the bullet and use deuterium. If it requires you to deal with the NRC, then you deal with the NRC. It is as simple as that. He has been using nuclear materials, and dealing with NRC in his medical research for 20 years. This no-NRC excuse is a big pile of stinking crapola, IMHO. The real point is that if it requires another 15 years for BLP to get a hydrogen-only product to market, then there may be no market left to buy it. OTOH, if it turns out that BLP *could have had* a Capstone turbine product on the market in 2000, one that did use deuterium and did require a license form the NRC, but that Mills did not do this for ego-reasons, then he could share real moral culpability for that little ego-trip. Especially if it turns out that a hydrogen-only product is not do-able at all but that a deuterium-fueled product would have staved-off what will, without question, be a global catastrophe if we delay progress into the next generation. Artic warming is a gigantic risk, a risk of extinction threatening all life on earth, unless something is done soon. This artic methane-release connection is a ticking-time-bomb, and if genius-level people like Mills cannot appreciate that, then our grandchildren, and his, will have no real future, maybe even no survival. Jones
