Brilliant Light Power (Formerly BlackLight Power)

[OKIsItJustMe]

OK, Color me extremely skeptical…

http://brilliantlightpower.com/news-release-july-11-2016/

[font face=Serif][font size=5]News Release – July 11, 2016[/font]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

[font size=4]Brilliant Light Power, Inc. Announces the Validation of the Generation of over a Million of Watts of Power in the Volume of a Coffee Cup from the Conversion of Water Fuel to a New Form of Hydrogen. [/font]

[font size=3]Cranbury, NJ (July 11, 2016) — Brilliant Light Power, Inc. (BrLP) announced today that it has continuously generated over a million watts of power from a new primary source until the cell vaporized from the intense heat. The power released by the conversion of hydrogen atoms from water molecules in to a lower energy form called “Hydrino” or dark matter is manifest as brilliant-light emitting plasma wherein the light is uniquely and extraordinarily essentially all high-energy light in the extreme ultraviolet. Using four cross-confirming methodologies, five validators have confirmed over a million watts of plasma power developed by BrLP’s so-called SunCell® at power gains of over 100 times the power to ignite the Hydrino reaction, and at power densities higher than any previously known energy source. Dr. Randy Booker, physics professor and former Physics Department Chairman at University of North Carolina-Ashville said, “The power was measured using two optical power measurements involving three sophisticated spectrometers calibrated against a National Institute of Science and Technology traceable standard and two thermal methods involving a commercial calorimeter and the rate of the rise of the water coolant temperature of the SunCell®. All four methodologies cross-confirmed the production of megawatt scale power that was continuous in the case of the SunCell® with spectacular commercial potential. Moreover, the unique and characteristic spectrum from the optical tests of essentially purely high energy light emission over a predicted range confirms the hydrino reaction as the source of the power.”

BrLP subsequently held an invitation demonstration event on June 28, 2016 for about 50 guests from industry and academia wherein BrLP presented live demonstrations of the enormous power density and power gain by multiple methods. BrLP also presented an engineered SunCell® prototype having no moving parts that it believes is capable of producing 125 kW of electricity. BrLP anticipates having field trials in 2017 supported by several current engineering firm and manufacturer partners. It comprises refractory materials capable of the intense heat wherein the SunCell’s® enormous power density heats a blackbody radiator to incandescent temperatures to produce the effect of thousands of halogen light bulbs, and the light is converted to electricity with so-called concentrator photovoltaic cells that receive the light from the blackbody radiator and operate at incident light intensities of over one thousand times that of sunlight. Details of the SunCell®, the BlackLight Process, the video and slide presentation from the June 28, 2016 demonstrations, background theory, journal publications, and other support materials are available on the BrLP webpage (http://brilliantlightpower.com).

BrLP’s safe, non-polluting power-producing system catalytically converts the hydrogen of the H2O-based solid fuel into a non-polluting product, Hydrino, by allowing the electrons to fall to smaller radii around the nucleus. The energy release is over 200 times that of burning the equivalent amount of hydrogen with oxygen. Due to this extraordinary energy release, H2O may serve as the source of hydrogen fuel to form Hydrinos and oxygen. Moreover, the SunCell® is compact, light-weight and autonomous with a projected capital cost of 1% to 10% that of any other form of power. The anticipated cost is so low that BrLP intends to provide autonomous individual power for essentially all stationary and motive applications untethered to the grid or any fuels infrastructure. Dr. Mills announced, “This is the end of the age of fire, the internal combustion engine, and centralized power and fuels.”

“The commercial potential for SunCell® technology is enormous. The promise of a cheap, clean and unlimited source of electric power is on the verge of commercialization. SunCell® components are based on well-known technologies from electrical lighting, photovoltaic, semiconductor, refractory and aerospace industries, and use widely available materials. What is new is Brilliant Light Power’s theoretical and experimental breakthroughs, protected by patents and proprietary know-how. Albert Einstein is looking down, smiling: I told you so, He does not play dice”, said Former World Bank manager Gerhard Pohl. Dr. Joseph Renick, former Chief Scientist at Applied Research Associates added, “It is understandable why even the best of scientists have difficulty taking seriously that which has been accomplished by Dr. Mills and his team at Brilliant Light Power because of how completely it transforms our understanding of atomic and molecular structure, dispels of all the strangeness associated with quantum theory so cherished by quantum physicists and chemists and then to boot delivers to mankind a new source of essentially unlimited inexpensive clean energy. The novel techniques, materials and processes developed by BrLP in the last few years are making this new source of energy a reality for all of mankind. The rest, however painful it will be for many in the natural sciences, will follow.”

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[Warpy]

1. Do they also have a Mr Perpetual Motion on the shelf?

I could use one of those for all kinds of things around the house.

(color me extremely skeptical, also, but I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that the EM Drive has been tested and found to produce thrust in a hard vacuum)

[OKIsItJustMe]

3. You know, just last week, I was reading about overcoming zero-point energy…

http://www.fz-juelich.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/UK/EN/2016/16-07-07atomic_bits.html

[font face=Serif][font size=5]Atomic Bits Despite Zero-Point Energy?[/font]
[font size=4]Jülich scientists explore novel ways of developing stable nanomagnets

Jülich, 8 July 2016 - So-called "zero-point energy" is a term familiar to some cinema lovers or series fans; in the fictional world of animated films such as "The Incredibles" or the TV series "Stargate Atlantis", it denotes a powerful and virtually inexhaustible energy source. Whether it could ever be used as such is arguable. Scientists at Jülich have now found out that it plays an important role in the stability of nanomagnets. These are of great technical interest for the magnetic storage of data, but so far have never been sufficiently stable. Researchers are now pointing the way to making it possible to produce nanomagnets with low zero-point energy and thus a higher degree of stability (Nanoletters, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b01344).[/font]

[font size=3]Since the 1970s, the number of components in computer chips has doubled every one to two years, their size diminishing. This development has made the production of small, powerful computers such as smart phones possible for the first time. In the meantime, many components are only about as big as a virus and the miniaturization process has slowed down. This is because below approximately a nanometre, a billionth of a meter in size, quantum effects come into play. They make it harder, for example, to stabilise magnetic moments. Researchers worldwide are looking for suitable materials for magnetically stable nanomagnets so that data can be stored safely in the smallest of spaces.

In this context, stable means that the magnetic moments point consistently in one of two preassigned directions. The direction then codes the bit. However, the magnetic moments of atoms are always in motion. The trigger here is the so-called zero-point energy, the energy that a quantum mechanical system possesses in its ground state at absolute zero temperature. "It makes the magnetic moments of atoms fluctuate even at the lowest of temperatures and thus works against the stability of the magnetic moments", explains Dr. Julen Ibañez-Azpiroz, from the Helmholtz Young Investigators Group "Functional Nanoscale Structure Probe and Simulation Laboratory" at the Peter Grünberg Institute and at the Institute for Advanced Simulation. When too much energy exists within the system, the magnetic moments turn over and the saved information is lost.

"Our calculations show that the zero-point magnetic fluctuations can even reach the same order of magnitude as the magnetic moment itself", reports Ibañez-Azpiroz. "This explains why the search for stable nanomagnets is so difficult". There is, however, also a counterpart to this, in the form of an energy barrier, which the moment must overcome as it rotates. The height of the barrier depends on the material it is made from.

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"We found the smallest fluctuations in materials with a strong magnetic moment which at the same time interacts weakly with that of the carrier material. Furthermore, the material should be chosen so that the energy barrier that prevents the rotation of the magnetic moment is as large as possible", summed up Prof. Samir Lounis, the physicist heading up the Young Investigator Group. "This knowledge has practical application: For example, grouping atoms together enlarges the total magnetic moment and an insulating carrier material should be selected instead of a metallic one".

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[yourpaljoey]

6. Does the EM drive contain a saucerful of secrets?

[OKIsItJustMe]

9. No, but it seems to violate the (known) laws of physics

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/08/heres-why-scientists-havent-invented-an-impossible-space-engine/

[font face=Serif][font size=5]Here’s why scientists haven’t invented an impossible space engine[/font]

[font size=4]Actual peer reviewed papers aren't making "Earth to Moon in four hours" claims.[/font]

by Steven Thomson / The Conversation - Aug 9, 2015 4:00pm EDT

[font size=3]What if I told you that recent experiments have revealed a revolutionary new method of propulsion that threatens to overthrow the laws of physics as we know them? That its inventor claims it could allow us to travel to the Moon in four hours without the use of fuel? What if I then told you we cannot explain exactly how it works and, in fact, there are some very good reasons why it shouldn’t work at all? I wouldn’t blame you for being sceptical.

The somewhat fantastical EMDrive (short for Electromagnetic Drive) recently returned to the public eye after an academic claimed to have recorded the drive producing measurable thrust. The experiments from Professor Martin Tajmar’s group at the Dresden University of Technology have spawned numerous overexcited headlines making claims that—let’s be very clear here—are not supported by the science.

The idea for the EMDrive was first proposed by Roger Shawyer in 1999 but, tellingly, he has only recently published any work on it in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, and a rather obscure one at that. Shawyer claims his device works by bouncing microwaves around inside a conical cavity. According to him, the taper of the cavity creates a change in the group velocity of the microwaves as they move from one end to the other, which leads to an unbalanced force, which then translates into a thrust. If it worked, the EMDrive would be a propulsion method unlike any other, requiring no propellant to produce thrust.

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Eagleworks, a NASA-based group, built a prototype and last year reported 30-50 micronewtons of thrust that could not be explained by any conventional theory. This work was not peer-reviewed. Now, Tajmar’s group in Dresden say they have built a new version of the EMDrive and detected 20 micronewtons of thrust. This is a much smaller value, but it's still significant if it really is generated by some new principle.

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[yourpaljoey]

11. One more thing that does not fit within the paradigm

[Warpy]

12. Only that nobody can figure out how the hell it works

[yourpaljoey]

13. Correct. Perhaps a new window on the world will open.

It works... must work for a reason.

[Schema Thing]

2. This is written in scam style.

[mackdaddy]

4. When they cut their cord to the power grid, maybe I will believe it.

These are fantastic claims, and will require extreme levels of evidence.

“It is understandable why even the best of scientists have difficulty taking seriously that which has been accomplished by Dr. Mills and his team at Brilliant Light Power because of how completely it transforms our understanding of atomic and molecular structure, dispels of all the strangeness associated with quantum theory so cherished by quantum physicists and chemists and then to boot delivers to mankind a new source of essentially unlimited inexpensive clean energy. "

Anytime the quote is all the other scientist are wrong, I still say - then prove it.

[OKIsItJustMe]

5. I hear you

http://brilliantlightpower.com/plasma-video/
http://vimeo.com/151151194

[eppur_se_muova]

7. This company is a TOTAL scam. They've been around for years.

They keep changing their name, changing their claims, suckering in new investors. Just Google "hydrino scam" for a quick background.

They've shown up on DU a few times, where some have swooned over the promise of UNLIMITED FREE ENERGY!!1! and others have sneered in disgust at what is obviously the same old scam rearing its ugly head one more time, trying to draw in more investors suckers:
https://www.google.com/search?q=blacklight+power&sitesearch=democraticunderground.com&gws_rd=ssl

And DUer NNadir actually visited their facilities:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=115&topic_id=223493&mesg_id=223629

[OKIsItJustMe]

8. Hence my headline and intro…

I am unreserved about my skepticism.

What I found surprising, was I saw an item on Engineering.com:
http://www.engineering.com/AdvancedManufacturing/ArticleID/12664/VIDEO-Can-We-Create-1-million-Watts-in-the-Palm-of-Our-Hands.aspx

[eppur_se_muova]

10. It amazes me that they keep getting positive coverage from "serious" news outlets ...

you'd think somebody would be in jail by now.

Apparently, the simple principle that "if it sounds too good to be true, it probably isn't" does not get much exercise when revenues depend on hot news updates.