RUMOR CENTRAL Take the following with a grain of sodium hydride... oops make that sodium chloride ;-)
Coming on the heels of BLP's recent announcement of a "solid fuel" power plant ... does this development represent oneupsmanship from our friends to the East? Is there a hidden agenda or strategy behind it? Is the Japanese auto industry secretly involved? I could not help but notice several things - from all the info (mostly anecdotal) that I have been able to gather from sending out about a hundred emails to friends-of-friends and associates-of-associates (only two responses so far): 1) this story is real, and probably represents a unit recently on display at a trade show - which splits water, generating H2 and O2 - which gases are then immediately recombined in an adjoining fuel cell but at significantly OU -- which is in the same range as BLP (almost) claims to have seen (COP = 40). The last part is inference based on how long the catalyst lasts. 2) It is a very small output device- and they have possibly gotten it up to 500 watts electrical, from 300. 3) The company seems to have come out of nowhere, but some of the staff mysteriously has connections with the Japanese auto industry. 4) The system (2 linked devices) was looked at, but initially turned-down (apparently) by some heavy hitters (Mitsubishi ??) and that is possibly because they have already licensed something similar from elsewhere or are close to having their own LENR reactor... or else they want to see what kind of legal reaction this generates in the USA. 5) There is a mystery ingredient which needs to be replenished periodically. Unlike the gallium-aluminum process from Purdue University, recently announced which does split water: http://www.autobloggreen.com/2007/05/16/purdue-professor-on-the-aluminum-enabling-hydrogen-economy/ this one (reportedly) does not rapidly consume the secret ingredient. ... which could be a catalyst for redundant ground states ... or not. It will be interesting to see what happens... Jones
