Electricity generated from water: BlackLight Power announces
validation of its scientific breakthrough
Leading academic and industry experts have validated
BlackLight's new process that directly produces electric energy from the
conversion of water vapor to a new, more stable form of
Hydrogen. Experts agree that BlackLight's 'Hydrino theory' represents a
fundamental breakthrough in clean energy technology.
Adapted by
Sterling D. Allan from a press release
Pure Energy Systems News
Cranbury, NJ (May 22, 2012) --
BlackLight Power, Inc. (BLP) today announced a major
breakthrough in clean energy technology, which experts agree holds
tremendous promise for a wide range of commercial applications.
The announcement comes on the heels of BlackLight's recent completion of
a $5 million round of financing to support commercial development of its
new process for producing affordable, reliable energy from water vapor.
In six separate, independent studies, leading scientists from
academia and industry, with PhDs from prestigious universities including
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the California Institute
of Technology, confirm that BlackLight has achieved a technological
breakthrough with its CIHT (Catalyst-Induced-Hydrino-Transition) clean
energy generating process and cell. The Process is fueled by water
vapor that is a gaseous component of air and present wherever there is
any source of water. The CIHT cell harnesses this energy as
electrical power output and is suitable for essentially all power
applications including transportation applications and electrical power
production completely autonomous of fuels and grid infrastructure at a
small fraction of the current capital costs.
Their newly revised website
blacklightpower.com
states that they expect
the scaled-up price for energy generation to be 0.1 c/kW-h, which is at
least 40x cheaper than grid power in some of the cheapest energy regions
of the world. (Link)
"BlackLight's continuously operating, power-producing system converts
ubiquitous H2O (water) vapor directly into electricity,
oxygen, and a new, more stable form of Hydrogen called Hydrino, which
releases 200 times more energy than directly burning hydrogen," said Dr.
Randell Mills, Chairman, CEO and President of BlackLight Power, Inc.,
and inventor of the process. Hydrogen is not naturally available
and has to be produced using energy. But, H2O vapor is
ubiquitous and free, obtainable even from ambient air. Dr. Mills
says that BlackLight has achieved critical milestones in scaling its new
technology with typical electrical gain of more than ten times that
which initiates the process, operating over long duration at the 10 Watt
(W) scale.
A 100 W unit is planned for completion by the end of 2012, and a 1.5
kilowatt (kW) pilot unit that can serve the residential power market, as
an initial target commercial application, is expected to be operational
by 2013. The average usage in a US home is 1.5 kW, while peak
usage is closer to 15 or 20 kW; so a person would either purchase enough
units to handle peak load, or install a battery bank and inverter
system, which is by far the most expensive part of a solar power system.
Alternatively, if the unit is used with net metering, the excess could
be returned to the grid, and requirements for more could be pulled from
the grid; though that scenario wouldn't be making life easier for the
grid provider, who has to build its system to meet peak load. If the BLP
system is so cheap, it seems to me that just purchasing enough of them
to handle peak, and being independent from the grid would be the way to
go.
BlackLight has raised a total of $75 M for the development and
commercialization of its breakthrough energy technology, and has license
agreements with companies to use its patented commercial processes and
systems in heating and electric power generation.
The new BlackLight Process validation reports, including full
documentation and results of theory evaluation, replication and testing
of the CIHT systems, and Hydrino characterization, are publicly
available on their
site. The website also includes links to validator resumes and
to technical and
business support materials, including
recent
presentations that further explain the BlackLight Process and a
technical paper providing the detailed chemistry and identification of
Hydrinos by analytical methods, which laboratories can follow and
replicate.
Quotes from Academic and Industry Experts
- W. Henry Weinberg, who was a professor of Chemical
Engineering, Chemistry and Applied Physics at California Institute
of Technology for eighteen years, a professor of Chemical
Engineering, Chemistry and Materials Science at University of
California, Santa Barbara for six years, and co-founder and CTO of
Symyx Technologies for 13 years. "It would be irrational
not to be very skeptical, and I was extremely skeptical. However,
after having reviewed Dr. Mills classical theory, participated in
experimental designs and execution, and having reviewed vast amounts
of other data BLP produced, I have found nothing that warrants
rejection of their extraordinary claims, and I encourage aggressive
optimization and fast track development of a scaled up prototype,"
said Dr. Weinberg. "To be able to use hydrogen from water as a
cheap and nonpolluting source of power would represent one of the
most important technological breakthroughs in history."
- Dr. K.V. Ramanujachary, Rowan University Meritorious
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry. "BlackLight's CIHT
electrochemical cell harnesses this fundamentally new primary energy
source as electrical output by using a catalyst to cause hydrogen
atoms of water molecules to transition to a lower-energy, Hydrino
state, resulting in a release of energy that is intermediate between
chemical and nuclear energies, and a nonpolluting product," said Dr.
Ramanujachary, who conducted one of the validation studies. "The
CIHT cells constantly output stable, very high-gain electrical power
for more than a month, with H2O as the only source of
fuel for the process. The trace H2O vapor was supplied
by a water source, or alternatively, it was extracted directly from
the air, resulting in generation of electricity from water alone.
This process and system that I have confirmed is truly exceptional."
- Dr. Terry Copeland, former manager of product
development for several electrochemical and energy companies
including DuPont Company and Duracell. "BLP has
successfully fabricated and tested CIHT cells capable of producing
net electrical output up to 50 times that input to maintain the
process," said Dr. Copeland. "Some cells have produced steady power
for over one month. The power generation is consistent with Dr.
Mills' theory of energy release resulting from Hydrino formation.
No other source of energy could be identified. The CIHT cell will
use cheap, abundant, nontoxic, commodity chemicals, with no apparent
long-term supply issues that might preclude commercial, high volume
manufacturing. The capital cost of the CIHT cell based on
optimization of the cell dimensions is estimated to be under $100/kW
compared to at least ten times that for fuel cells that further
require a source of hydrogen or hydrogen gas and a fuel
infrastructure."
- Dr. James Pugh, Director of Technology at The ENSER
Corporation. "Representatives from the ENSER Corporation
witnessed the assembly and operation of multiple CIHT cells, and the
results showed excess electrical energy, up to 100 times that used
to maintain the process in cells run as long as sixty days," said
Dr. Pugh. "There is no apparent difficulty in assembling single
cell and multi-cell units, in a production scale environment. By
carefully designing and optimizing the CIHT cell, a one-liter volume
could generate 3.3 kW. This is greater than that necessary for
motive as well as stationary electrical power applications."
- Recently, the prestigious European Physical Journal D selected
as a highlighted article, the Company's results of the predicted
characteristic high-energy light emission from hydrogen forming
Hydrinos using a high-voltage pinched pulsed plasma source that
further reported the replication of this signature by CfA
spectroscopists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
(CfA) under a study contracted by GEN3 Partners. The Physical
Journal D article and other supporting articles also are available
on BlackLight's website.
About BlackLight Power
BlackLight Power, Inc. was incorporated in 1991 and is based in the
Princeton area of New Jersey. It has received 62 patents including
four in the U.S., and has more than 100 pending patent applications for
its innovative processes, process applications, and products. The
BlackLight Process uses a novel catalytic process to generate energy
from water vapor, releasing the latent energy of the hydrogen atom by
forming a more stable form of hydrogen called Hydrinos. The
Process is applicable to essentially all power applications, including
thermal, electrical, automotive, trucking, marine, rail, aviation, and
aerospace.
For more information about the Company, please visit
http://www.blacklightpower.com/.
Glossary:
BlackLight Process: A novel chemical process
invented by Dr. Mills that causes the latent energy stored in the
hydrogen atom to be released as a new primary energy source.
Hydrino: A new form of hydrogen, which was
theoretically predicted by Dr. Mills and produced and characterized by
BLP. Hydrinos are produced as energy is released from the hydrogen
atom as the electron transitions to a lower-energy state, resulting in a
smaller radius hydrogen atom. (Note: The identity of the dark
matter of the universe as Hydrinos is supported by BlackLight's
spectroscopic and analytical results as well as astrophysical
observations.)
CIHT Cell: Comprised of a positive electrode, the
cathode, a negative electrode, the anode, and an ion-conducting
electrolyte that also serves as a source of reactants to form Hydrinos.
A Hydrino-producing reaction mixture creates electricity from H2O
as the reactants are constituted with the migration of the electrons
through an external circuit and ion mass transport, through a separate
internal path through the electrolyte to complete an electrical circuit.
The CIHT cell was invented by Dr. Mills to release energy from forming
Hydrinos directly as electricity. It uses water vapor as its sole
fuel source.
Spectral Emissions: Spectral emission of an atom
such as hydrogen is its unique signature that serves as a fingerprint of
its characteristics. Each line of the spectrum is characteristic
of and identifies the energy levels of the atom. The Hydrino
signature is unique in that it comprises a continuum of wavelengths, as
opposed to discrete lines, and the energy is in the soft X-ray region.
This indicates that hydrogen has more stable states than previously
thought possible or accounted for by the historical theory of quantum
mechanics.
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