----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen A. Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 9:02 AM
Subject: Re: [Vo]:BLP Replication
Robin van Spaandonk wrote:
In reply to Stephen A. Lawrence's message of Mon, 20 Oct 2008
22:29:07 -0400:
Hi,
That makes a lot of sense, except for one thing. Why would BLP want a
research
group at a University to tell it something it already knew? IOW if the
report
was never intended for publication, then why commission it at all?
Easy. BLP is quite busy with arrangements for a major commercialization
project as announced in their earlier press release. They funded an off-site
parallel test at a reputable nearby university to do a independent
replication with a differetn crew. BLP simply released Rowan's report as is,
no editing. Critics here at HSG have been demanding independent
confirmation, and here it is. Comfirmaltions of BLP effects by other labs
have been going on for years, but publication rights belong to those labs,
not BLP.
Jones Beene has added a point that the work would not be published if it
were not positive. Several years ago, a team from Rowan which included
Jansson got a grant from NIAC [NASA] to inestigage the possibility of a gas
phase reactor as a deep space thruster. Despite hard work, they spent the
$75,000 without get a definite result and a Phase 2 award was not made. For
a more complete assessment of Jansson, see below.
Anticipating cries of "not independent enough", I can add some details about
Prof. Peter Jansson. He has a website with details about his career and
education. Go look at it. Rowan University was formerly Glassboro State
Teacher's College until Rowan donated $100 million for an egineering school
and naming rights, creating Rowan University. Rowan got his fortune from
Inductotherm, a NJ builder of industrial induction heating systems. Jasson
was the first graduate student of the enegineering college. For his Master's
thesis, he performed a BLP experiment with a Seeback calorimeter lent by
BLP. Rowan is about 45 minutes from my house, and I took the trouble to
visit the Rowan library and read his thesis, which was well done. I have
also conversed with Jansson in his office. Before his graduate work at
Rowan, Jansson worked for Atlantic City Electric to evaulate advanced energy
devices for possible investment. He recommended BLP and an investment was
made. As a courtesy, Jansson was allowed to buy a small stock holding in
BLP, whereas normally only wealthy "qualified investors" were allowed under
SEC rules for such a high risk venture. Pictures and diagrams of the
calorimeter are on the BLP website. BLP furnishing the raw materials assured
replication and avoided blunders such as others have made in attempts to
replicate BLP results.
The Rowan work satisifies all reasonable requiirments for an independent
validation of the BLP process. It produces a burst of energy. Implementing
that as a continuous power output for a utility boiler is another problem
whose solution BLP is not presently disclosing.
Mike Carrell
