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8 months ago
in Blacklight Power claims nearly-free energy from water — is this for real? on VentureBeat
Still willing to bet?
I refer you to "BLP Announces Rowan University Validation of New Energy Source" and "Water Flow Calorimetry Experiments, Validation Tests and Chemical Analysis of Reactants for BlackLight Power Inc." Both documents have links at http://www.blacklightpower.com/new.shtml.
I refer you to "BLP Announces Rowan University Validation of New Energy Source" and "Water Flow Calorimetry Experiments, Validation Tests and Chemical Analysis of Reactants for BlackLight Power Inc." Both documents have links at http://www.blacklightpower.com/new.shtml.
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shane
And both are pure hokum. No spectroscopist in the world will accept their interpretation of the IR and XPS results, they are laughably bad.
1 year ago
in Blacklight Power claims nearly-free energy from water — is this for real? on VentureBeat
A complete hoax? Unlikely. More likely it turns out to be uneconomic. Even if the latter is so, Dr. Mills will have made three generations of nuclear physicists and cosmologists look like mentally masturbating monkeys, as he will dear VC Watcher, who is apparently an escaped BDS patient. I am giving 3:2 odds that it is ABSOLUTELY TRUE.
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Philippe Bradley
I'll take those odds!
1 year ago
in WTF-of-the-day: Friday 30th May ‘08 on Over The Counter Culture
I would watch this. Dr. Mills has an M.D., but also studied electrical engineering at MIT. His B.S. is in chemistry. None of his detractors doubt his advanced mathematical abilities; they just think he has made fatal mistakes in his calculations. And besides, Quantum Mechanics is "proven".
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Philippe Bradley
I suppose I could rephrase - rather than say something along the lines of 'his maths is bad' to 'his maths isn't good enough for quantum physics and was riddled with errors', would that be more appropriate? I thought that was close enough.
The optimist in me desperately hopes that despite the valid cause for scepticism here, the guy is right (and so are his backers), and the physics world needs to update its theory; this technology could be absolutely fantastic for humanity. Sadly though I think for the time being my cynicism has the edge on my general view of Mills' claims.
The optimist in me desperately hopes that despite the valid cause for scepticism here, the guy is right (and so are his backers), and the physics world needs to update its theory; this technology could be absolutely fantastic for humanity. Sadly though I think for the time being my cynicism has the edge on my general view of Mills' claims.
1 year ago
in Blacklight Power claims nearly-free energy from water — is this for real? on VentureBeat
"...the company fell more or less silent, with the exception of scientific papers released by Mills and others, and an updated version of his book..." Sheesh, what more do you want?
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Chris Morrison
As in, they stopped looking for public attention, or at least appeared to. No press releases, etc. The community that reads those sorts of papers isn't exactly enormous.
shane
These are not peer reviewed papers. Thus, labelling them "scientific" papers is totally misleading. They haven't submitted this paper to any reputable journal. If it is science, let's treat it like such and review it.
