This must be what everyone is talking about. The description of the
power plant is rather nebulous. The section gets off on the wrong
foot with this statement:
"Atomic hydrogen ordinarily has a stable electronic state that is
much higher in energy than allowed by thermodynamic laws."
Even if you believe that you can violate the laws of thermodynamics,
you shouldn't say so in the first sentence.
This part gives me a headache:
"BlackLight intends to incrementally pursue commercial development of
power plants of all useful scales. This will be done through a
combination of internal engineering and development, external
consultants and outsourcing, licensed joint ventures and acquisition
of engineering and design companies. BlackLight intends to own an
interest in power production businesses at the distributed and
central power station scale (see Licensing Strategy). BlackLight
anticipates contracting for turnkey plants to be built and operated
by architect and engineering firms and original equipment manufacturers."
I have said it before, and I'll say it again: this notion of
"incremental commercial development" masterminded by Mills makes
about as much sense as letting the Wright brothers mastermind the
development of airplanes, or putting Martin Fleischmann in charge of
cold fusion. The Wrights wanted delay, delay and delay, and Martin
told me that in 1989 he wanted another five years of secrecy -- peace
and quiet, in other words -- before revealing the process. Blacklight
power has taken 20 years so far, and at the pace they are moving it
will take another 20 years. If the airplane had been developed at
this rate of progress, the first public demonstration of flight would
have been after 1933, and the first practical airplane would have
been scheduled for 1953.
This is lunacy. If their claims have any merit, and they can
demonstrate the effect on any scale large enough to be measured with
confidence, they could have every qualified laboratory on earth
working frantically on this discovery in 6 months. That's what
happened after the Wrights were finally forced to go public in 1908.
- Jed
