Re: Junk Physics? More on Blacklight Power

["Frank R. Borger_(FRB)" <frb@gammex.com>]

Happened across this on the site, and I think it describes things perfectly.

"Remarkably, Dr. Mills has developed his theory and its energy generation application as an entrepreneur -- without  largesse from the US Government, and without the benediction of the US scientific priesthood. Because his enterprise does not suffer these two impediments, it just might succeed. If so, Mills will be the next Thomas Edison." - Shelby T. Brewer, former Assistant Secretary of Energy (top nuclear official in the Reagan Administration)

Considering that TAV was (IMHO) 

a) mostly a huckster, taking credit for work by others
b) not a scientist, (look at his fanatical insistence on DC power transmission)
c) really a tinkerer, (he discovered the "Edison effect," but could think of no earthly use for the first diode vacuum tube.)

I think Brewer's comments describe things well.


Frank R. Borger - Physicist, Gammex RMI
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>>> "Joseph W. Moon" <jwmoon@attglobal.net> August 19, 2000 06:35 >>>
Can anyone refute this work?
<http://www.blacklightpower.com/>

At 04:30 PM 8/18/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Two items for your Friday afternoon amusement from:
>WHAT'S NEW   Robert L. Park   Friday, 18 Aug 00   Washington, DC
>
>BLACKLIGHT: SUIT AGAINST THE PATENT OFFICE FAILS.  BlackLight
>Power's plans to go public with an estimated $1B stock offering
>are presumably on hold.  You may recall that on 15 Feb BLP was
>awarded a patent on a process for putting hydrogen atoms into a
>"state below the ground state," shrinking them into teeny little
>things called "hydrinos" (WN 18 Feb 00).  A second patent dealing
>with hydrino chemistry was set for issuance two weeks later.  But
>on 17 Feb the Patent Office withdrew the second patent, and
>opened up the first for reexamination.  One patent official was
>concerned that the BLP technology involves perpetual motion and
>"cold fusion."  With its intellectual property somewhere in
>patent purgatory, BlackLight filed suit in Federal Court against
>the Commissioner of Patents.  Tuesday, Judge Emmet Sullivan ruled
>the Patent Office action was "neither arbitrary nor capricious." 
>

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