BlackLight Power announces validation of its scientific breakthrough in energy

[Mageant]

Electricity generated from water: BlackLight Power announces validation of its scientific breakthrough in energy production

CRANBURY, N.J., May 22, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- 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.

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.

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http://www.marketwatch.com/story/electricity-generated-from-water-blacklight-power-announces-validation-of-its-scientific-breakthrough-in-energy-production-2012-05-22

I'm wondering if the media blackout on real alternative energy technologies has finally ended. Looks promising.

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[Foxpup]

Three possibilities:
1) This is a net-gain fusion reactor, which is impossible because the described process has nothing to do with nuclear fusion, or anything else even remotely plausible (the "theory" of hydrinos has been repeatedly debunked as pseudoscientific nonsense).
2) The first law of thermodynamics has been broken, which is especially impossible.
3) This is a hoax, just like Brown's gas and similar "discoveries".

My money's on number 3.

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http://www.blacklightpower.com/technology/ciht-cell/

They promise too much. I'm guessing this is a scam to defraud investors.

[Mageant]

There a quite a few reputed scientists mentioned in the article that have examined the results. I am quite sure somebody would have detected a scam if it were one, also considering this is an unusual claim.

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Three possibilities:
1) This is a net-gain fusion reactor, which is impossible because the described process has nothing to do with nuclear fusion, or anything else even remotely plausible (the "theory" of hydrinos has been repeatedly debunked as pseudoscientific nonsense).
2) The first law of thermodynamics has been broken, which is especially impossible.
3) This is a hoax, just like Brown's gas and similar "discoveries".

My money's on number 3.

Brown's Gas a hoax? Since when?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xHvEsUv0wg
This HHO Gas melts tungsten 13000 degrees in a very short time.

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There a quite a few reputed scientists mentioned in the article that have examined the results. I am quite sure somebody would have detected a scam if it were one, also considering this is an unusual claim.

Notice how the "reputed scientists" weren't invited to evaluate the device scientifically. Instead, they were invited to attend for a day or two, and write a report on what they saw.

These prototypes were producing milliwatts of power over a day or two. That's tiny! Notice how the construction depends on an anode, a cathode and an electrolyte? Notice how the construction includes nickel and manganese, typical components of a battery?

Like all these so-called "energy breakthroughs" where the owners do not permit serious scientific investigation, there's nothing going on beyond regular chemical energy.

If the developers really had what they claim, they would allow someone to test it for long enough to rule out chemical energy as the source.