BlackLight Power, Inc. Overview

Documentary Video of Rowan University Validation - 10/24/08

BlackLight Power, Inc. is the inventor of a novel catalytic chemical process, the BlackLight Process, of causing the latent energy stored in the hydrogen atom to be released as a new primary energy source.  This allows the negatively charged electron that is otherwise in a stable orbit to move closer to the naturally attracting, positively charged nucleus to release large amounts of energy with the formation of a prior undiscovered form of hydrogen called "hydrino".  This patented process of releasing chemical energy from hydrogen generates power, heat, and proprietary new hydrino compounds.  BlackLight Power has developed a breakthrough in solid fuel chemistries that are very efficient at liberating energy from forming hydrinos and can be thermally regenerated.  In principle, green power plants can be operated continuously as power and regeneration reactions of the fuel mixture are maintained in synchrony using known industrial processes, and the only consumable, the hydrogen fuel, would be obtained ultimately from water due to the enormous net energy release relative to combustion.

Independently validated, commercial-scale devices demonstrating means of extracting the thermal energy and thermally regenerating the fuel have been operated in batch mode at BlackLight and off site.  BlackLight believes that results to date indicate that with the regeneration of the solid fuel the process will run continuously using currently available commercial systems and eventually provide economically competitive products in a wide range of applications including thermal, distributed, and central power generation, and motive power.  Chemistries and engineering designs have been developed using the corresponding experimental parameters for power and regeneration for two thermal-Rankine systems.  One comprises a multi-tube thermally interacting bundle of cells wherein cells producing power provide heat to those undergoing regeneration.  As a system, the power output is constant.  The capital costs are projected to be about $1400/kW electric.  The other comprises an array of reactors wherein power and regeneration chemistries occur synchronously, and each cell outputs constant power.  The capital costs are projected to be about $1050/kW electric.  A third design called CIHT utilizes many options of tested chemistry and comprises the direct production of electrical power from the formation of hydrinos.  The capital costs are projected to be about $25/kW electric with no infrastructure requirements, and the system is deployable for essentially any application at any scale.  The Company has hired external engineering firms to develop power system prototypes and pilot plants, and intends to hire additional firms to accelerate commercial development.  BlackLight has licensed the use of the BlackLight Process to utilities to enable the production of heat and electricity.  Arising from the unique energetics and products of the reaction, other anticipated commercial applications of the BlackLight Process are in lasers and specialty chemicals.

Power from the solid fuels, hydrinos from synthesis reactions and as a product of the solid fuels, and spectroscopy of the formation of hydrinos and other signatures of the BlackLight Process have been independently validated.  Additionally, the Company has over 85 peer-reviewed publications including 14 theory publications and the reviewed book GUT-CP.  The Company continues to confirm its findings and submit its results for peer review with the publication of ten journal articles and three manuscripts currently under review in the past twelve months.

Summary of Recent Advances

Commercializable Power Source Using Heterogeneous Hydrino Catalysts, R.L. Mills, K. Akhtar, G. Zhao, Z. Chang, J. He, X. Hu, G. Chu, Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, Vol. 35, Issue 2, January 9, 2010, pp. 395-419, doi: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2009.10.038 and may be purchased at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2009.10.038.

This paper reports a breakthrough solid fuel comprising a catalyst, a source of hydrogen, a conductive support, and oxidation-reduction reactants that releases 200 times the energy of burning hydrogen by the formation of a prior undiscovered more stable form called "hydrino". The resulting power scaled linearly to 35kW. Proton NMR, ToF-SIMS, and XPS confirmed the product hydrinos. The solid fuel components enable the action of the catalyst by removing charge that seems to be a rate-determining step. The solid-fuel chemistry has the important feature that it's regenerable using methods such as molten-salt electrolysis. An advanced version of the solid fuel, the EuBr2 oxidant system, is very efficient at liberating energy from forming "hydrinos" and requires essentially no energy to reverse the chemical product back into the initial fuel. Regeneration was achieved simply with heat. This is enabling of continuous generation of power using simplistic and efficient systems that use heat liberated by forming "hydrinos" to concurrently maintain regeneration. This development is anticipated to result in a significant decrease in the time to commercialization.

This paper is a decisive report on the evidence of the formation of hydrogen in lower-energy states than previously thought possible. The evidence includes a large scope of analytical analysis on chemical and gas products including liquid NMR on both that is definitive. Power measurements were made on the systems using a solid hydrogen fuel that formed the products for analysis to a scale of 50KW. The results indicate that H could provide commercial power with an energy yield of 200 times that of combustion without creating pollution.

This paper is historic in that it reports direct proof that hydrogen forms hydrinos having energy states below the "ground state" using a catalyst. Thus, hydrogen can be used directly as a new energy source. Specifically, we report the experimental confirmation of four predictions for transitions of atomic hydrogen to form hydrinos: pumping of the catalyst states due to energy transfer form atomic hydrogen, extraordinary fast H due to energy transfer from a H undergoing catalysis, H continuum radiation at energies below the "ground state", and isolation and identification of lower-energy hydrogen gas by NMR. These results have profound implications theoretically, scientifically, and technologically in that they (1) confirm GUTCP in the prediction of hydrinos, (2) directly disprove atomic theories such as the Schrödinger and Dirac equations based on the definition of n=1 as the ground state, the defined state below which it is impossible to go, (3) offer resolution to many otherwise inexplicable celestial observations, and (4) directly demonstrate a new field of hydrogen chemistry and a powerful new energy source. Click here for a layman PowerPoint presentation.

The BlackLight Process

Animations of the RT Plasma Reactor Process:

Theory and Technical Presentations

Theory Presentation
Toward the end of the 19th century, many physicists believed that all of the principles of physics had been discovered. The accepted principles, now called classical physics, included laws relating to Newton's mechanics and Maxwell's Equations. However, some difficult-to-solve and perplexing discoveries caused physicists to abandon the work of physically and mechanistically explaining the workings of nature at the atomic level. Rather they took an easier approach to mathematically systematize observations adopting the philosophy of Ernst Mach, that reality is what is perceived devoid of physical principles. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, an inequality defining the limitations of the existence of physical reality requiring that physical laws such as Maxwell's equations, Newton's laws, conservation of energy and angular momentum be not obeyed, replaced the exactness and determinism of classical physics. This approach has led to countless nonsensical consequences that are accepted on faith based purely on mathematics, and has ultimately proved to be a dead-end towards unification of the fundamental forces of nature providing a coherent, predictable understanding of nature. In contrast, Dr. Mills has shown that physical laws that are the foundation of our modern existence can indeed be shown to predict nature on all scales from the building blocks of matter to the scale of the universe itself.

The theory upon which BlackLight's technology was developed is the classical laws of physics. The Company recently released the finalized Grand-Unified Theory of Classical Physics that comprehensively addresses many of the basic problems in chemistry and physics using these physical laws without using approximations or pure mathematics, devoid of physics, as is the case for the incumbent atomic theory of quantum mechanics.

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Atomic Physics - Updated 08/02/10
GUT-CP model of the electron and the photon, used to solve atoms and their states and the subsequent closed-form solutions of the fundamental experiments of atomic physics.

Molecular Physics
The solution of the 26 parameters of hydrogen molecular ions and molecules from two basic equations, one to calculate geometric parameters and the other to calculate energies, and the extension of these results to solve the majority of the important functional groups of chemistry that serve as building blocks to give the exact solutions of the majority of possible molecules and compositions of matter.

Collective Phenomena, High Energy Physics & Cosmology
Collective phenomena such as statistical thermodynamics and superconductivity; nuclear physics; cosmological implications such as absolute space; the origin of gravity, particle masses, and large scale dynamics of the universe; and wave-particle duality.

Technical Presentation

Technical Presentation - Summary
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Recent experimental results and overview of BlackLight technology with updated animations.
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