Scientist's utilise vacuum energy from water.

[clarky003]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,3605,1627424,00.html

* Prototype power source allegedly generates up to 1,000 times more heat than conventional fuel
* The principle behind the source turns modern physics on its head.
* Inventor, Randell Mills, is a Harvard University medic who also studied electrical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
* Mills says: "We've got 50 independent validation reports, we've got 65 peer-reviewed journal articles"
* Company has tens of millions of dollars in investment lined up to bring the idea to market

OSEN,

http://www.blacklightpower.com/

Having exactly solved the atom using physical laws for the first time, BlackLight is the primary mover in advancing applications of a new chemical process of releasing the latent energy of the hydrogen atom, the BlackLight Process.

An ordinary hydrogen atom consists of an electron orbiting a proton. The BlackLight Process allows the electron to move closer to the proton, to which it is attracted, below the prior-known ground state. This generates power as heat, light, and plasma (a hot, glowing, ionized gas) with the formation of strong hydrogen products that are the basis of a vast class of new chemical compounds with broad commercial application.

The energy released from this process is hundreds of times in excess of the energy required to start it. The primary fuel is hydrogen gas, which can be created inexpensively via electrolysis from water. Energy is released as heat and may be converted to electricity using known methods. The process is scalable from small, hand-held units to large, fire-box replacements in large central power stations.

 

[OCybrManO]

http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=95406

 

[Raziaar]

Its funny... in these forums its like a contest to see who can be the first to post the latest breaking news. lol

 

[Hectic Glenn]

which can be created inexpensively via electrolysis from water.

Not sure who thought that, but electrolysis of water requires a vast amount of electricity and its very expensive to do, which is why we havent converted to hydrogen fuel in cars yet, as the energy needed to get the hydrogen is so expensive. Lies.

 

[OCybrManO]

Its funny... in these forums its like a contest to see who can be the first to post the latest breaking news. lol

It's more of a "don't clutter the forum with duplicates" thing...

 

[kirovman]

Let's hope some good can come of this.

Lies.

 

[OCybrManO]

 

[Razor]

Too many of these ideas are left by the layside or are forgotten about over a few weeks when you never hear anymore of them, i won't believe it until it's in New Scientist or in the mass media or in the shops.

 

[15357]

Not sure who thought that, but electrolysis of water requires a vast amount of electricity and its very expensive to do, which is why we havent converted to hydrogen fuel in cars yet, as the energy needed to get the hydrogen is so expensive. Lies.

Darn. 6char.

 

[the_lone_wolf]

unfortunately they're too late...

magnetic motors were giving out huge quantities of energy for nothing months ago

 

[Insano]

I hope some alternative energy source is going to succeed soon, and if it does:

 

[Nat Turner]

There really is one born every minute!

Randell Mills got The Guardian to chat up his imminent, world-changing breakthrough in energy. If they had spent ten seconds to Google him first, they'd have saved themselves an embarassing retraction. Suckers.

The Guardian article breathlessly describes Mills' 'breakthrough': "a new source of near-limitless power that costs virtually nothing, uses tiny amounts of water as its fuel and produces next to no waste". It goes on to say that "his company, Blacklight Power, has tens of millions of dollars in investment lined up to bring the idea to market. And he claims to be just months away from unveiling his creation."

Mills made the same claims in 1991: "when he claimed to unleash energy by "shrinking" the hydrogen atom's electron orbit to form what he calls a "hydrino."

The Village Voice was somewhat credulous, quoting him in 2000: ""I'll have demonstrated an entirely new form of energy production by the end of 1999," Mills responds." (Note the discrepancy in dates - and that The Voice did not ask him why he missed his self-imposed deadline.)

Here are some notes from Montclair State debunking him.

Why is he perpetrating this hoax? Investment money. Mills will never achieve his promised breakthroughs, but if there was a Nobel Prize for hucksterism, he'd win it. His company, Blacklight Power, has a jargon-filled website and a plant in Cranbury, NJ. Their main products are patents and potential. From the current Guardian: "Although mainstream physicists, including Nobel laureates, rankle at the mention of hydrinos, Mills has gathered $25 million dollars from investors for his startup, BlackLight Power Inc."

Having destroyed his credibility at home, Mills had to cross the ocean to find his present media victim. We don't know how long their story will remain up - they almost certainly will remove it. Bloggers around the globe are examining and (often) ridiculing this story.

His investors better find out if they can stop payments on their checks.

Greetings to Instapundit readers. The beauty of what Mills is doing is how he places the onus on those out to debunk his claims. If you're a physicist claiming his theories are impossible, he'll entice you with tales of how many scientists once said other past breakthroughs were impossible. The lure here is of greed, and of coming up with the must-have invention that changes the world. No one is completely beyond the reach of that lure, and it's nearly impossible to prove that something will never happen (not with the kinds of technilogical change we've seen in our lifetimes). What we'd ask investors to do is take a hard look at past promises, and to be willing to ask the hard questions.

That's what The Guardian should have done in the first place.

 

[Sulkdodds]

Dear oh dear.

 

[OCybrManO]

I think a is in order... followed by a

because it's not real... and finished off with a

directed at the starter of the hoax.

 

[Mr Stabby]

Not sure who thought that, but electrolysis of water requires a vast amount of electricity and its very expensive to do, which is why we havent converted to hydrogen fuel in cars yet, as the energy needed to get the hydrogen is so expensive. Lies.

also its the platinum anode/cathodes required due to highly reactive ions ( I think) that make its so expensive

 

[Hectic Glenn]

also its the platinum anode/cathodes required due to highly reactive ions ( I think) that make its so expensive

Yeah that would also be plausable, i think the anode is a carbon electrode though, so the negative oxygen ion is attracted to it and makes carbon dioxide as a by-product. But for the cathode, yeah your probably right. Honestly theres so many theories on the internet with no substance.

 

[Polaris]

Clarky003 "ZPE guy": Do you know something about "draining" ZPE from crystals? I am interested in alternative ( but not in unscientific) research of crystals, teleportation ...