It is two months till Easter, which brings to mind the question on almost no one's mind: has anyone heard news of the fractional-hydrogen (hydrino TM) battery? It is a slow day, and even a rumor will do.
Dead? Or merely Buried ? (note the distinction) Those who follow BLP with a critical eye were somewhat amazed over the years that the hydrino-hydride battery has not progressed - at least not obviously, and could have been dropped completely. Almost nine years ago we had this exchange on vortex. http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg07361.html But a year earlier, this better-battery facet of Mills technology seemed like it could be his crown jewel - the keys to the Empire. After all, it came along just as the Prius was getting major traction, and it promised to be a paradigm shift in batteries - in both lower cost and higher power density. Then poof! Gone! Alas, was this yet another failed promise by the master of failed promises? To be fair, so did another vaunted tech: EEStor fail miserably - after basking in its 15 minutes of fame. That one's demise (EEStor) fooled me badly, since the nano-dielectric capacitor, which was the technology behind EEStor was solid - and is not really dead, since work continues elsewhere. Which is good - because there is major synergy between an ultra-capacitor (negative charge carrier) and an battery (positive charge carrier). One day the two will be combined for much faster charging (actually this has been done already). And not so fast on the epitaph of the BLP battery, even if it did perhaps receive an untimely burial in Joysey. The great messiah of auto hi-tech may have arranged for its timely resurrection. And again, Easter is not that far off. In short - is there any possibility that the f/H battery found a miracle-working partner, circa 2005 - and did not suffer an untimely demise? IOW could years of silence from BLP indicate something completely different, like a more capable partner? Is the "bettery" now ready for Prime Time? Is Elon Musk the new Steve Jobs, the techno-messiah of our age? Yes, in case you are wondering, the above was intended to be sardonically (gravely) humorous, but the art of cynicism, if there is any - is to always leave the door cracked open. Reality is often stranger than fiction. Jones
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