http://newenergyandfuel.com/http:/newenergyandfuel/com/2009/02/06/hydrinos-and-zero-point-energy-devices-get-more-real/

Hydrinos and Zero Point Energy Devices Get More Real

The concept of a hydrino, a hydrogen atom with a reduced orbiting electron is something that Randell Mills at Blacklight Power has managed to engineer such that researchers and customers are beginning to quietly line up especially now that Rowan University has confirmed that the device yields energy output. Cal Tech’s Bernard Haisch and Colorado University’s Garret Moddel are in receipt of a U.S. Patent for another device that is said to extract (Zero Point) energy. In this design the patent states in effect that disruption of the balance between Larmor radiation vs. absorption of radiative energy from the electromagnetic quantum vacuum will yield a release of energy. The Cal Tech-Colorado design is described in the patent (A very good document to understand the concept) as extracting energy at the location of the device and then recovering the energy out from the device or to quote, “In this way energy is extracted locally and replenished globally from and by the electromagnetic quantum vacuum.” The device, which is awarded the patent, is a set of cavities called Casimir Cavities that are contained volumes in which the electromagnetic modes are suppressed or restricted. When atoms are pumped (#22, 28) through the Casimir cavity device (#10) a decrease in the orbital energies of the atom’s electrons takes place. The device then captures the energy “lost” or released and expels the atoms out to recover the energy from the electromagnetic quantum vacuum. Surrounding the Casimir cavity device is a capture structure (#24), most likely a form of heat sink. The heat capture structure then moves the heat to something (#26) such as a thermal converter to electricity. Sounds simple enough. The key for the Casimir cavity device is in the cavity “size” being matched to the electron energy level so that an atom is suppressed significantly enough that energy of the electrons within is stripped away so that it can be harvested. The suggestion in the patent, page 14 referencing Fig. 3 could yield up to 21,500 watts of gross energy release from a Casimir cavity device only 1 centimeter cubed. It will be hot! All this is a stretch to the imagination. However, it seems Blacklight has managed to use the cavities within the nickel aluminum alloy called Raney nickel when the aluminum is etched or leached away in a specific process. Now the Cal Tech-Colorado device could be manufactured using the systems that make silicon chips. Silicon chip manufacturing is at the level now where etching is working at near single atom levels. Instead of making complex processors, memory and other chips the processes could be modified to simply carve channels for the gas atoms to flow at specified widths and depths. The hydrino and zero point energy harvests both rely on the reduction of the orbit of electrons. As of today only Blacklight has a third party confirmation of a net energy harvest. That bodes well for the Cal Tech-Colorado gentlemen’s design. The grief is coming from a physics community that in large part regards the whole things as impossible. Yet quantum physics is a field replete with theories that have come to dubious if not wholly dead ends, and that still needs researched to a sound working understanding. Dr. Mills has his own extensive thoughts on quantum theory and should his device prove workable will seriously upset the current state of quantum physics as he only starts with classical mechanics for his variation. Dr. Bernard Haisch and Dr. Garret Moddel at Cal Tech and Colorado University have carefully reasoned (very well explained in the patent) their theory on what can be regarded as “solid” quantum mechanics that is not nearly so disruptive yet if functional unravels a lot of assumptions. What is likely if these devices can be made to work is that working units exploiting the physics will set the stage for considerable physics community examination to precisely describe the activities within. That might open the door to even more energy solutions. The patent has been licensed to Jovian Corporation who at the latest information is running on Proof of Concept investments from Colorado University, Boulder with the aim to develop and commercialize the design with construction and testing of a device. So . . . That’s the very far outside the box view. Now the Cal Tech-Colorado guys have a circulation system for capturing the “jitter’ in the quantum vacuum. You’ll just have to forgive the word vacuum; quantum space should be an intensely busy place. What the guys have is a system much like an air conditioner or heat pump that moves heat. Instead of heat, the quantum system moves “an absent of some energy orbiting electrons” gaseous atoms, extracting the energy by the device, said energy then sent out to be used releasing the energy into the quantum vacuum, where absorbing the energy back from the quantum vacuum into the circulating gas atom’s electron orbits to be cycled again. That wasn’t so hard. Now if you’ve a mind to get a sounder grasp on this, here is a link to a lucid explanation of many physics topics by Marcus Chown with the quantum vacuum partway down. Once you’re through that if you need more, you likely already know where to look, but here is a link to get you started. Be warned, if you have a healthy curiosity you could be weeks getting to a workable depth of knowledge and still be frustrated, as this field isn’t fully worked out. It is looking more and more like a field for great careers and venture investment and soon even more creativity and innovation. Which leads to fun questions like: As the electromagnetic quantum vacuum could be thought to be a result of the big bang, is there an edge to it out beyond the sphere of the energy and matter expelled from the big bang, or is it limited to the part of the space the big bang’s results occupy? Whatever the results, should these either of these two efforts to draw energy from the quantum state succeed it would drive a need for better understanding. Should the devices perform well, then the fundamental energy of the universe would be in man’s hands, and that would really be incredible. A hat tip, and a bow in fact, for Brian Wang at Next Big Future for the post that triggered this one. Thanks Brian.

http://nextbigfuture.com/2009/08/rowan-university-publishes-further.html

Rowan University Publishes Further Confirmations of Blacklight Power

BlackLight Power, Inc. (BLP) today announces that scientists at Rowan University have for the first time independently formulated and tested fuels that on demand generated energy greater than that of combustion at power levels of kilowatts using BLP’s proprietary solid-fuel chemistry capable of continuous regeneration. So three Rowan University Researchers appear fully convinced and have done testing to confirm and are willing to publish to attest to Blacklight Power's claims. There is no product yet. Operating power systems using BLP’s chemistry, Rowan University professors have reported a net energy gain of up to 6.5 times the maximum energy potential of the materials in the system from known chemical reactions. In a joint statement, Dr. K.V. Ramanujachary, Rowan University Meritorious Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Dr. Amos Mugweru, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, and Dr. Peter Jansson P.E., Associate Professor of Engineering said, “In independent tests conducted over the past three months involving 10 solid fuels made by us from commercially-available chemicals, our team of engineering and chemistry professors, staff, and students at Rowan University has independently and consistently generated energy in excesses ranging from 1.2 times to 6.5 times the maximum theoretical heat available through known chemical reactions.” “Additionally, we have analyzed the reaction products and are confident that the procedures we have followed and chemicals we have procured and reacted are not capable of generating the quantities of heat we have observed with previously known chemistry. This significant disclosure by BLP makes it readily possible for other laboratories to demonstrate the repeatability of these reactions that produce anomalous heat regularly in our university laboratory. Moreover, we have also reproduced BLP’s tests that identify a novel form of hydrogen as the likely explanation of the additional heat evolved.” Based on the solid fuel used and power generated at scales of approximately 30 kW, the reaction appears scalable to any level. Moreover, BLP scientists were able to regenerate the fuel by simply applying heat. This breakthrough advances the commercial viability of the BlackLight Process as a new non-polluting energy source that was first announced by BLP in October 2008. Rowan University wrote 15 page pdf "Synthesis and Characterization Alkali Metal Salts Containing Trapped Hydrino," Rowan University wrote 20 page pdf "Report on Synthesis and Studies of “Generation 2” Lower Energy Hydrogen Chemicals," 82 page pdf "Commercializable Power Source Using Heterogeneous Hydrino Catalysts" by Mills et al

Proof of Power: The validation by the Rowan University team provides further evidence that the observed energy gain will enable the operation of commercial power plants by continuously replacing the hydrogen that is consumed by the BlackLight Process to form hydrinos. Hydrinos are a prior undiscovered form of hydrogen in lower-energy states produced by the BlackLight Process as latent energy is released by hydrogen atoms. The energy released forming a hydrino is over 200 times the energy required to extract hydrogen from water by electrolysis to produce the new hydrogen fuel consumed during the BlackLight Process.

Proof of Existence of Hydrinos: BLP also announces successful independent production and characterization of a new form of hydrogen by professors at Rowan University. In the study independently performed at Rowan University laboratories, Professor Ramanujachary and Professor Mugweru synthesized from base materials the previously undiscovered form of hydrogen and were able to characterize hydrogen atoms existing in lower-energy states – called hydrinos – as predicted by BLP. In further confirmation, the Rowan University team was also able to identify similar hydrino signatures from net energy producing systems operating in Professor Jansson’s laboratories. This represents the first time BLP has taught independent labs the techniques for making hydrinos from scratch. Dr. Ramanujachary remarked, “Recent advances in techniques at BLP in production of this new form of matter appear to make it straightforward for any lab in the world to synthesize sufficient volumes to characterize this previously unknown form of hydrogen.” Dr. Mugweru continues, “Knowing the starting materials of the synthesis reaction and fully characterizing the by-products, other than a new form of hydrogen, we were unable to make an assignment to known species for the signatures observed.”

Light Signature of Hydrino: BLP also announces today the publication of a paper, by Dr. Randell Mills, Dr. Kamran Akhtar, and Dr. Ying Lu in the Central European Journal of Physics describing a significant new confirmation of hydrinos. For the first time, BLP confirms direct spectral observation of transitions of hydrogen to form hydrinos. These experiments showing hydrogen spectral emissions below 80 nanometers, the previously known ground state, are decisive evidence of the existence of hydrinos theoretically predicted by Dr. Randell Mills. Describing the significance of the breakthrough, Dr. Mills said, “This is smoking-gun evidence of the existence of hydrinos, the light signature observed is from pure hydrogen and at much higher energy than deemed possible for this element in any known form.”

Background
- Blacklight Power has provided information and assistance to a blogger/chemistry professor looking to validate their process
- Venture Beat investigates Blacklight Power
- Rowan University study provides external confirmation of a substantial amount of extra heat from Blacklight Power materials.
- Blacklight Power Claims

Potential Applications for Blacklight Power Technology
- H2(1/p) Enables laser at wavelengths from visible to soft X-ray
- VUV photolithography (Enables next generation chip)
- Blue Lasers
- Line-of-sight telecom and medical devices
- High voltage metal hydride batteries
- Synthetic thin-film and single crystal diamonds
- Metal hydrides as anticorrosive coatings

FURTHER READING: Details of Blacklight Powers patent dispute in the UK. In upholding both of the examiner's objections, the Hearing Officer identified the question which he had to address to be whether the underlying theory of GUTCQM was true. In doing so, he identified three criteria which he had to consider in determining whether a scientific theory was true, namely whether: the explanation of the theory is consistent with existing generally accepted theories. If it is not, it should provide a better explanation of physical phenomena then current theories and should be consistent with any accepted theories that it does not displace; -the theory makes testable predictions, and the experimental evidence shows rival theories to be false and matches the predictions of the new theory, and whether -the theory is accepted as a valid explanation of physical phenomena by the community of scientists who work in the relevant discipline. Critically, the hearing officer went on to determine that he must satisfy himself that it was more probable than not that the theory was true. On this basis, the Hearing Officer found that he was not satisfied that the theory was true and therefore the claims in the applications which relied upon the theory were not patentable. The appeal focused on whether the Hearing Officer had been right in considering the appropriate test to be whether the theory was true on the balance of probabilities. Blacklight contended that the test that should be applied is whether the theory is clearly contrary to well established physical laws. In considering this, the examiner should assess whether the applicant has a reasonable prospect of showing that his theory is a valid one should the patent be litigated in court. In making these arguments, Blacklight accepted that on the material before the Hearing Officer the theory was probably incorrect.