<Sunday's Sermon>
It ought to be clear to most Vorts that I have had a tendency to post optimistic perceptions of BLP's chances of eventually pulling the SunCell rabbit out of the hat. Clearly, my optimism is not based on my profound knowledge of the scientific evidence, nor the many exotic theories that have been debated here. When it comes my personal assessments of BLP's chances, it's based on a very different form of human perception: ... It's based on a feeling I get. Needless to say, I would not recommend investing a couple of million dollars on "...a feeling I get", not without some physical evidence to back it up. But then, I don't have a million dollars to invest, so I guess I've got myself covered in that sector. ;-) I have viewed the June and July demo videos several times. I had the time since I was on vacation for a good portion of July. This allowed me ample time to view and review the demos. It gave me time to listen to what the audience had to say and how Randy responded to their queries. For better or worse, the "...feeling I get" is based on the following personal observations: . The demos I witnessed were exceedingly primitive in nature. They all seemed to have been hastily assembled out of a combination of loose equipment laying around the lab, as well as components ordered from various industrial catalogues. All of these individual components struck me as having been slapped together with bailing wire and duct tape. The fact that the demos did not come off as slick circus performances is akin to the exact same development methodology I, myself, have followed countless times when designing new software applications. As a software designer, I've learned that it is prudent to test-prove the most primitive components independently of other variables. Do this before attempting to assemble all the individual components together in the hope that the final product will work. . None of the demos demonstrated as of June and July were capable of proving OverUnity. Not even close! That did not concern me. What I saw instead was BLP making sure that various individual engineering components on the most primitive level worked as they had hoped they would. If another one of the most primitive components works, great. Time to put together another pubic demo, even if it is nothing more than a small increment step. It helps keep your investors informed of the progress being made. Most investors will appreciate being kept in the loop. . After the demos a number of hard questions were asked of "the doctor". I noticed some observers (I assume: investors) repeatedly voiced a number of technical concerns about how the engineering staff would be able to construct SunCell prototype that would not eventually fail or fall apart, particularly under the extreme conditions of generating 2000 SunCell explosions per second endlessly. A 2000/second operating cycle seemed hard for many to swallow as being a realistic engineering goal. Randy's response was that the engineering firms he had contracted with have told them that designing the operational tolerances of a jet engine would be a far more difficult task to undertake. In the end I did not get a sense that these investors remained overly concerned. Granted perhaps most continued to take a wait and see approach - but not overly concerned nor alarmed. . I recall that Randy initially spent a large amount of time discussing his hydrino theory as if to help justify why the demonstrations ought to work. I think I would agree with Jed Rothwell in the sense that having done so may not have really contributed all that much to anyone's practical understanding. It's pretty clear to me that when Randy starts talking about CQM he goes into his own unique altered state of consciousness. You can see him rattle off facts, figures, and equations pertaining to the Hydrino theory as if he had regurgitated all the theoretical components a million times before... and I'm sure he has. I would suspect the vast majority of investors didn't follow much of Randy's highly complex train of thought. But no matter. Most did not come to assess the validity of CQM or CP. They came to assess the validity of the SunCell demonstrations. I think most came away feeling that BLP remains on the right development track towards eventual commercial success. . Last of all, I am astonished by the claim that the engineering needed to assemble a SunCell prototype appears to be an interpolation of well-understood technological and engineering principals. This includes the predicted electrical design that will be needed to exploit PV cells optimally. Apparently no major extrapolations of exotic new theoretical forms unproven technology that have never gotten past the drawing board are necessary. If this turns out to be true I would consider it to be an exceedingly rare gift from Mother Nature, a gift that conveniently fell into BLP's lap. BLP knows this. Personal speculations: . If I were to speculate, I still think it's possible that BLP may eventually assemble a more advanced prototype capable of demonstrating OU in their own BLP facilities... perhaps by the end of this year. However, I'm not holding them to such a deadline. It would probably be assembled independently from the other prototype currently being built on contract at another engineering firm. I think it logical to assume that some technical feedback would occur between BLP labs and the contracted engineering firm. If BLP's own labs are successful in assembling their own prototype, I would imagine the contraption will NOT have been designed with mass production concerns in mind. It will both look and behave primitively. The BLP demonstration would focus primarily on proving to their audience that they have successfully shown that OU really occurs. Perhaps such a demo would not last very long. Perhaps a few of the engineers will be keeping their fingers crossed behind their backs. The device will probably resemble the face of a "butt-ugly" bulldog, the aesthetics that only a BLP engineer could love. . I remain skeptical of the deadline BLP has currently imposed on itself for receiving the first SunCell prototype around December. Of course, they did give themselves some wiggle room. Current delivery date may be subject to change. While I understand making deadlines is crucial in the making of business plans - fortunately for me, I'm not subjected to the same constraints. I'll be happy if they can get'er'done in 18 - 24 months - assuming the engineers don't have to incorporate an unanticipated extrapolation of several crucial (and unproven) engineering technologies. Conclusion: It matters little to me that BLP has accumulated a long history of prior predictions that failed to pan out. I'm well aware of them, but I don't care. All I care about is whether SunCell technology will eventually work - or not. Quite honestly, I don't know the answer to that mystery, and I suspect neither does anyone within the Vort Collective know either if they are going to be honest with themselves. The way I see it: It will either work... or it won't. And that's what I have to live with. I realize some might dispute my rationale for continuing to give BLP some slack here. Some might conclude that I'm behaving in an exceedingly naive way as well. Nevertheless, I see no reason to judge the provenance of BLP's still-developing SunCell technology based on the company's long string of prior failures. If I were to have applied the same rationale, the same judgment to the score card of own life-goals, my own hopes, and achievements, I probably would have found a way to have taken myself out of the gene pool back in my mid-twenties. Actually, I did follow such a rationale for a while. The results were not impressive. In the end it was fortunate that apparently I was too stupid... or perhaps too naive to have realized what a ridiculous I fool I had been to continue to muck along, failure after failure. For now, I continue reading posts, especially the skeptical ones derived from the mysterious Mind of the Vort Collective. It's important that I do. Why? Because I could still be proven wrong about the "feeling" I currently harbor. To be proven wrong about "... a feeling" I might harbor, while potentially deflating to the ego, is no reason to taken as a failure of one's soul. </Sunday's Sermon> Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson svjart.orionworks.com zazzle.com/orionworks
