As with the earlier reaction announcement with NaH and Raney nickel, the
accompanying "Commercialization...." paper in What's New requires study and
is complex. I've read through it but will confess I don't understand all
that I read. There was much buzz on the HSG forum that the real energy came
from the Raney Nickel and not from the NaH reaction. Mills pointed out the
mistake by Eli, and I posted it to the forum, but was ignored.
The problem with the earlier reaction was that unexpected reactions left the
Raney Nickel in a state that was difficult to reconstitute without spending
more energy than the core reaction produced, so it was unsuitable for a
power plant. There was nothing 'proprietary' about the R-Nickel, it is a
standard industrial chemical. Preparation of the reactant charge for the
calorimeter had to be in a argon-fillled glove box at BLP.
It turns out, perhaps not unexpectedly, that there are many solid catalyst
systems, once you understand what to look for and how to set them up. The
operative word is 'heterogeneous'. The cited paper lists 3 catalysts, 11
oxidants, and 5 reductants. What is optimum for a power system is not
stated. Reconstituion via electrloysis of a molten salt, and by heat only,
is mentioned for different combinations. In my one-pass reading, I did not
sort them all out.
It is now stated that the system can extract 200 times the heat of
combustion from a given amount of hydrogen. The reaction temperature is
limited only by the tolerance of the reaction vessel. At a one point a 45%
heat/electric conversion efficientcy is assumed. We do not yet see the
structure of an operating reactor, but references to contiuous burn are
made. BLP intends to retainan an A&E firm to do the reactor design.
Rowan professors have stated that they have been able to make
hydrino-containing compounds from standard chemicals. Basically, the
prfeparation goes exothermic with the production of hydrinos.
Mike Carrell
----- Original Message -----
From: "OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson" <svj.orionwo...@gmail.com>
To: <vortex-l@eskimo.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Blacklight Power revamps their web site
From the recent BLP press release at:
http://www.blacklightpower.com/Press%20Releases/BlackLightPowerPhysicsGrandSlamFINAL081209.htm
http://tinyurl.com/q2dxos
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Excerpt:
“The advanced version of the solid fuel is very efficient at
liberating energy from forming hydrinos and requires essentially no
energy to reverse the chemical product back into the initial fuel.
Regeneration was achieved simply with heat. This is enabling of
continuous generation of power using simplistic and efficient systems
that use heat liberated by forming “hydrinos” to concurrently maintain
regeneration. The system is closed except that only hydrogen consumed
in forming hydrinos needs to be replaced,” said Dr. Randell Mills,
Chairman, CEO and President of BlackLight Power, Inc.
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At first glance this sounds way too good to be true.
The process of regenerating the compound through the application of
heat seems like a contradiction of terms, since one presumes the
process itself is being used to generate excessive heat in the first
place. I would presume a drastic change in environmental conditions is
also required (besides heat) for the regeneration process to complete.
I presume these environmental changes are "proprietary". ;-)
Would anyone like to hazard a guess as to what BLP is currently using
as their favorite "solid fuel?" I got the impression that a prior
promising concoction consisting of Raney Nickel turned out to be too
difficult to manage, or have I got my facts all wrong on this point.
Regards
Steven Vincent Johnson
www.OrionWorks.com
www.zazzle.com/orionworks
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