With due respect to Jed, and I do respect him and understand his viewpoint, one has to follow Nature and not one's wishes. My industrial experience, seeing several very large projects founder on technical and marketing features, gives me a compassionate view of what Mills is doing and the difficulties faced. BLP has already and repeatedly, with Rowan, achieved 1 MJ, 50 kW energy bursts, something unknown in LENR. In principle, the reaction is scalable, but a lot of work will be needed. Right now, many factors point to the need to work on a utility scale, with miniaturization to follow, perhaps in decades. There are no miniature LENR cells; to work an elaborate support structure is needed, as with the current BLP reactors.
BLP is targeting a 1/20 scale prototype in 2010, with water as a fuel. Essentially that means 50 kW average, not peak, power. One cylinder engine, with larger clusters to follow. The exact form will be dictated by Nature, not Jed's wishes. What needs to be *understood* about the battery technology is that it is rechargeable, like a lithium-ion battery yielding 3V. With hydrino compounds, the cell terminal voltage will be in the tens of volts, which makes a lot of difference in the energy capacity and the attached equipment. Being rechargeable, hydrinos are not a consumable as in a 'primary' battery. Jed has long anticipated a time when entrepreneurs will seize a technology and run with it: this happened with computers and software and he hoped it would happen with LENR. I anticipate after BLP mounts a 'water engine' demonstration the excitement will begin, both from the critics and from the tinkerers. There is nothing intrinsically complex about the BLP chemistry - read the Rowan reports. Lots of people will try. The tide Jed wrote about in his book can happen. Mike Carrell From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:jedrothw...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 6:53 PM To: vortex-L@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:BLP looking for "Battery Development Scientist/Engineer" Robin van Spaandonk wrote: >It would >solve the storage problem associated with wind and solar collectors, among >other things. If BLP have working Hydrino technology, then wind and solar have no future. Good point. And, if the hydrino technology can be scaled down to the size of an automobile, there is no need for batteries in cars, either. That takes care of pretty much all industrial-scale apps. Going below that, if you can make a BLP electric power device on the scale of a watch battery, there would be no market for batteries at all. If cold fusion can be controlled, I think it is likely it can be used in thermoelectric watch batteries, as I explained in the book, in the chapter on plutonium thermoelectric "batteries." (These are not actually batteries, in the technical sense, but they are functionally similar.) I assume they are developing the battery because they think they can get it out the door soonest, before a working generator. That would make sense. If it comes out at the same time as the generator it makes no business sense. But -- with due respect for Mike Carrell, and admitting that I have not been following the story closely -- nothing that BLP does or says makes any business sense to me. Not now, and never in the past. I know some experienced, wealthy businessmen who agree with me. But we have not inside knowledge so our opinions do not count for much. It is mostly an impression rather than a serious judgement. People often say that what has happened to cold fusion research makes no business sense. Especially in Japan. They point to things like Toyota's on-again, off-again support for the field, Mitsubishi's experiments, the NEDO project, Arata's involvement with Japanese far-right extremist kooks and the Chinese government (at the same time!). Here in the U.S. we have the fate of the National Cold Fusion Institute in Utah and the role of General Electric. I have considerable inside knowledge of these events and I can report with authority that these critics are right. These things make absolutely no sense! In fact, you can't imagine how bad they were! In my opinion the lure of money and power and the irrational opposition to cold fusion triggered behavior and business decisions that seem indistinguishable from lunacy. The same is true of U.S. researchers such as the late Patterson, and the late Les Case (pretty sure he is deceased). So I have a jaded view of the role of business in the cold fusion fiasco. No doubt this influences my view of BLP's actions. I assume they are as crazy as the others. I have gotten that impression of BLP -- only an impression, as I say! -- on the rare occasions when I have spoken with them or looked at their business plans. I cannot judge their scientific claims, but as for their business plans, I would be hard pressed to come up with a worse method of introducing the technology to the public. The only thing worse is to deliberately not introduce technology, with the Reding-Patterson-Case techniques taking it to the grave, ensuring there will be no knowledge of it and no benefit to anyone. Sorry to be disrespectful of the dead, but dying does not make a foolish man wise. - Jed ________________________________________________________________________ This Email has been scanned for all viruses by Medford Leas I.T. Department.
