Jones Beene,
You may well be right. I can think of some other possibilities. I am
sure that Dr. Mills would prefer the official version to come out first
and so, for example, could have placed an embargo on others until does.
You seem to have a down on BLP. My take is kinder.
From other remarks, it is clear this will not be a demo of the device
described in the interview with Sterling Allan, but I suppose a demo of
one or more pulses that in the finished device would take pace almost
continuously. Others have speculated that getting a small MHD device to
work is harder than he claims.
Like everyone else I have been disappointed by the lack of a commercial
device from BLP over the years. But consider that Dr. Mills has gone
about it in a way that many critics say is how it should be done.
He started with the theory. Indeed has published three physics books
that cover a completely new look at the atom and how it works. A theory
that calculated many fundamental constants is a simpler way. I get the
feeling his theories have been dismissed by academia more because they
overturn the old theories than because there is something wrong with them.
He then conducted a series of experiments in a careful way and had the
results replicated by others. I don't buy the argument that Rowan
University doesn't count, and they were not alone.
He published a number of papers describing his progress but otherwise
kept quiet, not going the public demo route of Rossi that many here
criticize.
I find it unlikely that he could get so much money without verifiable
demos to the backers, and this current demo is probably another one of
those. I can imagine that he has no love of the blogs that are
universally damning of him, so he has no great incentive to satisfy the
bloggosphere. Pearls before swine. I find it likely that he has a new
source of energy but still have to be convinced it works the way he says
it does. But he knows much more about it than I do.
He has fully described the process, all the materials and what has to be
done to get the power he claims. It will be most interesting to see the
video of the demo when it actually surfaces.
Adrian Ashfield
