Brilliant Light Power Going To Market - Free Energy Generator

[Reality Check]

Mills assertion in 2009 was that just heating sodium hydride makes it absorb energy in multiples of his magical number of 27.2 electron volts to form hydrinos.
Loser: Hot or Not? (2009)

According to Mills, when you raise the cylinder’s temperature, the reactants form sodium hydride. This material acts as a catalyst, absorbing just the right amount of energy—a multiple of 27.2 electron volts—to produce sodium ions and hydrinos while generating lots of heat.

Other people talk about creating hydrinos using water, etc..
The implication is that pumping energy into just about any hydride will create hydrinos and the runaway process leading to "fusion reactions with other atoms" will happen !

 

[aleCcowaN]

It's difficult to trace everything back because for some unknown reason Mills seems to delete old accounts of success off the website every few years.

Good catch. I've just checked and Internet Archive doesn't have old versions of brilliantlightpower to show "due to robots.txt". By design, they don't want old versions of their site to be available. Nothing on blacklightpower either, same reason, of course.

 

[halleyscomet]

The implication is that pumping energy into just about any hydride will create hydrinos and the runaway process leading to "fusion reactions with other atoms" will happen !

THAT'S worth knowing about, both for the proposed research and the story I'm working on.

 

[Mike!]

I'll tell you what's missing from this whole BLP deal is a nice MLM connection, because there's an industry that's ready for a fresh new useless bit of sudo-science for people to throw money at. Harness the power of the Hydrino^TM to the inverse pyramid, you'll be unstoppable!

Que maniacal laughter...

 

[AlaskaBushPilot]

This is an example of how easy it is to make a business plan, feasibility study, or calculate benefit/cost ratio, rate of return, break-even etc.

I took San Diego as an example. Population 1.356 millon. At 2.86 people per household, it is 474,126 households. Average electric use per household is 10,812 kWh per year. Capacity requirement is 585,188kW. But there's the peak load problem. So we build 1.3 times the size. So 760,745kW capacity plant.

According to the various assertions, it will be under $100 capital cost per kW and 1/10th of a penny to operate per kW. Right now San Diego is charging 16.4 cents per kWh. So we have all the data we need for financial analysis.

It is an initial capital investment of $76 million.

We'll undercharge San Diego's current price by 15% for the first year. Then we have to keep reducing price further as this technology is spread wider and reduces rates everywhere. Let's say a 20% reduction every year after that. We can make very different assumptions - this is just to finally flesh something out.

I only did this for ten years, just to show the idea.


Payback on the initial investment is one month. Profit the first year is well over half a billion. It has a net present value of $2.5 billion. It's like picking $2.5 billion dollars up off the ground and putting it in your pocket, if the only thing you do is build that $76 million facility.

And after ten years you are only charging two cents per kilowatt hour. A lot less if you have a more aggressive price decline. And why not? Why be greedy.

 

[Klimax]

Thanks, I am by no means a physicist but I did take undergrad physics so even I knew that Bohr's model was superseded by the electron cloud and quantum probability.

That's high school level physics. (at least in this country when I was in school system)

Good catch. I've just checked and Internet Archive doesn't have old versions of brilliantlightpower to show "due to robots.txt". By design, they don't want old versions of their site to be available. Nothing on blacklightpower either, same reason, of course.

Manual work-around is by http://archive.is/ You can also search for old snapshots.

 

[MikeG]

From here:

Last year BlackLight announced that it had a prototype reactor capable of putting out 50 kilowatts of thermal power using a tiny amount of hydrogen. The company said that the device releases energy in one short burst and that it’s working to make the reaction continuous. It also said it planned to scale up for pilot operation sometime this year,

Sounds familiar, doesn't it. The date of the claim? Jan 1st 2009

Oh, and they've got some of it for you to test:

”We produce hydrino on demand,” he tells IEEE Spectrum, adding that his team has isolated and characterized hydrino’s properties using spectroscopy and has even created hydrino-rich materials it can provide for analysis.

 

[Aepervius]

2) Ditto, but 'decaying' into lower-energy (higher fractional) quantum states? If this requires some kind of catalyst, what? The potential danger is huge: decaying into much lower states would release far more energy than any proposed Mills engine would, so even a few grams of 'hydrino waste' could trigger something akin to a low yield atomic bomb.

Or worst it could contagiously communicate that sub rest state to other H, and we get a global catastrophe like ice-9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice-nine

 

[Porpoise of Life]

How fortunate. Because of these difficulties, we might have narrowly escaped widespread or even global contamination of earth's biosphere by a waste product, hydrino, that according to its discoverer has no way to contain it or filter it out, and whose chemical, biological, medical, and environmental effects are all but completely untested and unknown.

The Romans thought lead was a safe inert substance, and made their water pipes out of it. Marie Curie fiddled around with nuclear radiation until she (and others) died from the effects of the cumulative exposure. Mills is risking far worse and more widespread consequences.

Do you agree there should be a moratorium on all artificial sources of terrestrial hydrino release until its risks can be fully assessed?

Moratorium? That's government speak man. They're trying to keep Mills down because they know he's close.
This is all about sticking it to the Man, man. And they're so close. Just a few more *mumblemumble* and a few more of your dollars, and you too can create your own libertarian utopia.
Won't those big energy companies and governments feel stupid when you finally get your free energy and can tell them to shove off?
Just a few more dollars, man.

ETA: what I'm trying to say: this is all about feelings and not about facts. It's so trivially easy to find out that Mills is either a scam artist, or at the very least grossly incompetent, that there must be some kind of emotional investment that keeps his supporters loyal.

 

[jrhowell]

I suppose the first thing that you would do if you were heavily invested in hydrinos and got word of potential toxic residue would be to silence the EPA if you could. This is all starting to make sense now.

 

[Aber]

This is an example of how easy it is to make a business plan, feasibility study, or calculate benefit/cost ratio, rate of return, break-even etc.

I took San Diego as an example. Population 1.356 millon. At 2.86 people per household, it is 474,126 households. Average electric use per household is 10,812 kWh per year. Capacity requirement is 585,188kW. But there's the peak load problem. So we build 1.3 times the size. So 760,745kW capacity plant.

I agree with the approach, but your spreadsheet design is horrible.

 

[jaydeehess]

This is an example of how easy it is to make a business plan, feasibility study, or calculate benefit/cost ratio, rate of return, break-even etc.

I took San Diego as an example. Population 1.356 millon. At 2.86 people per household, it is 474,126 households. Average electric use per household is 10,812 kWh per year. Capacity requirement is 585,188kW. But there's the peak load problem. So we build 1.3 times the size. So 760,745kW capacity plant.

According to the various assertions, it will be under $100 capital cost per kW and 1/10th of a penny to operate per kW. Right now San Diego is charging 16.4 cents per kWh. So we have all the data we need for financial analysis.

It is an initial capital investment of $76 million.

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We'll undercharge San Diego's current price by 15% for the first year. Then we have to keep reducing price further as this technology is spread wider and reduces rates everywhere. Let's say a 20% reduction every year after that. We can make very different assumptions - this is just to finally flesh something out.

I only did this for ten years, just to show the idea.


Payback on the initial investment is one month. Profit the first year is well over half a billion. It has a net present value of $2.5 billion. It's like picking $2.5 billion dollars up off the ground and putting it in your pocket, if the only thing you do is build that $76 million facility.

And after ten years you are only charging two cents per kilowatt hour. A lot less if you have a more aggressive price decline. And why not? Why be greedy.

I just about choked.
Full power availability and payback in a month!! The Powercos should be lining up.

Makes you wonder why anyone would buy one for their home. 2 cents/kWh without an initial personal cash outlay and no concerns about being your own utility, or the heat and danger of having one in your home.

You did possibly miss a few things in capital costs. The generating station needs sonewhere to go and connection to the grid. I would suggest two locations, and a third as back up, each producing half the required power, just to minimize issues with SPF. That will cost money, not sure about land prices and the effect of NIMBY, but maybe triple your capital cost and nit realize payback and profits for ( horrors!) 3 months.

 

[jaydeehess]

That's high school level physics. (at least in this country when I was in school system)

I don't actually remember when I was taught it first. I do know it was at least reiterated in first year University. Valence orbits and excitation and all that was grade 11 Chemistry.

 

[Darat]

To be fair, even an oil barrel needs a match.

If you watch the video, what happens is that we only see a flare when it says ignition energy, what is then meant to happen is a self sustained reaction, but we never see that. He can only show the bright lights when he has the ignition on.

 

[LTC8K6]

Already working and commercialized in 1992, and trying to get a contract:

BLACKLIGHT POWER, INC. The FIRST Commercialization of a New-Energy Device!

In the January 1992 issue of Fusion Facts Dr. Randell L. Mills was named as a Fusion Scientist of the Year 1991. Here is a quote from the article: "On April 26, 1989, Dr. Mills had filed a patent for 'Energy/Matter Conversion Methods and Structures.' Dr. Mills states, '...we scaled it up greater than a factor of a thousand and we have right now a cell running that is a commercial demonstration of this technology. We're pushing right now ... we have a contract we're pursuing that will give us a one kilowatt -- a one thousand watt home heating unit within four months. We have the electrochemical power cell -- it is running. It has the capacity of putting out a thousand watts. And we are waiting for the heat exchanger unit to interface with that [power cell] and we will have a prototype of a home heating unit.'"

http://www.padrak.com/ine/NEN_6_8_1.html

 

[CynicalSkeptic]

any day now.

 

[AlaskaBushPilot]

I just about choked.
Full power availability and payback in a month!! The Powercos should be lining up.

Makes you wonder why anyone would buy one for their home. 2 cents/kWh without an initial personal cash outlay and no concerns about being your own utility, or the heat and danger of having one in your home.

You did possibly miss a few things in capital costs. The generating station needs sonewhere to go and connection to the grid. I would suggest two locations, and a third as back up, each producing half the required power, just to minimize issues with SPF. That will cost money, not sure about land prices and the effect of NIMBY, but maybe triple your capital cost and nit realize payback and profits for ( horrors!) 3 months.

Yes, you're right on these points.

This is just one city too. It's in the trillions. Every city on earth. Someone earlier mentioned how many billions they have given up by not producing the 2009 technology commercially.

Exactly so. Payback in months. Each dollar produces 32.3 dollars in present day profit.

Now, we have a ten-year annuity here. Prudent skeptics know what to do with that. It's your money, use it when you need it. J.G. Wentworth, baby.

This annuity pays about $2.6 billion, the vast majority in the first few years. Old J.G. gives you an up-front payment today and you transfer the rights to the annuity to J.G. Wentworth. If these were Treasury Bonds for our annuity, old J.G. would just be earning 2.5% on whatever he invests in you. He'd be bidding the $2.45 billion. The present value of the investment.

But Treasury bonds are the so-called "riskless investment", and we don't have Treasury bonds here. We have Black Light Power. So how much will J.G. Wentworth pay for this enterprise?

 

[Squeegee Beckenheim]

Already working and commercialized in 1992, and trying to get a contract:



http://www.padrak.com/ine/NEN_6_8_1.html

I think I've discovered where the extra energy really comes from - this technology doesn't put hydrogen into a lower energy state, it eats time. See here:

Dr. Mills related that he had begun the theoretical work leading to his discovery in 1988, working about a year before beginning the over 350 experiments looking for tritium and optimizing conditions. That was seven years ago.

At the time the article was written 1988 was seven years before 1992. Now it's only 4. Where have the extra three years gone? Converted to energy.

After all: (E/m)^-2 = c

c is measured in m/s so: (E/m)^-2 = m/s

So: s(E/m)^-2 = m

So: s = m/(E/m)^-2
Which, obviously, proves that time is being converted into energy, matter and distance. The energy is what you see as heat and light. The matter is the dark matter he's sending out to people for analysis.

"What about the distance?" I hear you ask. Well, that solves our other little problem. One of Einstein's key findings was that space and time are not separate. They are, in fact, one thing called "spacetime". So the distance which is generated is still time, but different time to the time that is consumed. Time in a different dimension. And we know that things being in different dimensions can make them appear very different (what scientists call "perspective". Look it up, it's an interesting phenomenon). That explains why the four months in the article has thus far been stretched out to 25 years - it's the distance that's generated, seen from a different angle to the one it would usually be seen at.

Wonder no more why Mills has not yet won the Nobel prize - he's got the mechanism all wrong. He'll be so gutted when I win that prize out from under him.

 

[AlaskaBushPilot]

Already working and commercialized in 1992...

lol. Nice find. Fifteen years.

But any day now...

 

[Mike!]

lol. Nice find. Fifteen years.

But any day now...

Actually, it's Twenty Five years. AKA, a Quarter Century. Not that that makes it any better from any perspective.