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 either as electricity or heat with the product being an inert, nonpolluting, very stable molecular hydrogen gas. The only consumable, the hydrogen fuel, is obtainable from water due to the enormous net energy release relative to combustion. Two hundred times more energy and power is released per H2 forming hydrino then forming water. Thus, water can be used as the stored hydrogen, generated on demand using 0.5% of the electrical output.
BlackLight Power has developed a breakthrough in direct production of electricity from reacting hydrogen to form hydrinos called a CIHT (Catalyst Induced Hydrino Transition) cell. The cost is forecast at $25 per kW with no dependence on the electrical grid, fuels infrastructure, sun, wind, or other external variable power sources allowing the CIHT cell to be autonomous. This clean sustainable technology, independent of existing conventional infrastructure can be directly deployed on site and is ideal to power smaller scale systems. Rapid dissemination of CIHT direct electric at nominal historic cost is expected by deploying many autonomous distributed units that circumvent the economy-of-scale constraints for thermal to electric conversion and the electrical grid. It is expected that CIHT will competitively, economically, logistically, and environmentally displace essentially all power sources of all sizes: thermal, electrical, automotive, marine, rail, aviation, and aerospace. For example, a CIHT electric car is expected to have a range of 1500 miles on a liter of water. This direct application of the BlackLight Process to motive power has the potential of unsurpassed capability in terms of range, capital cost, power, logistics, and pollution abatement to zero including zero carbon dioxide emission. Moreover, power systems become uniquely interchangeable (e.g. a motive cell may also be used for stationary power).
In addition, solid fuel chemistries have been developed that are very efficient at liberating thermal energy from forming hydrinos, and these fuels have been validated to be thermally regenerative. In principle, green thermal central and distributed power plants can be operated continuously as power and regeneration reactions of the fuel mixture are maintained in synchrony. Chemistries and engineering designs have been developed 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 per kW electric. The other comprises an array of reactor cells wherein power and regeneration chemistries occur synchronously, and each cell outputs constant power. The capital costs are projected to be about $1050 per kW electric.
Arising from the unique energetics and hydrino products of the reaction, other anticipated commercial applications of the BlackLight Process are in lasers and specialty chemicals.
Electrical power from the CIHT cells, thermal power from the solid fuels and their thermal regeneration, hydrinos from both synthesis reactions and as a product of the CIHT cells and the solid fuels, as well as the light signature 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.
Additionally, the Company has over 90 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.
BlackLight’s wholly
owned subsidiary, Millsian, Inc., is dedicated to developing computational,
chemical-design technology based on solving atomic and molecular
structures using the classical laws of physics as applied in the
GUT-CP. Millsian software is a molecular modeling tool built
on those solutions. Millsian 2.0 beta software, released
in July 2009, can build exact 3D structures and precisely calculate
the total bond energy and the heat of formation of almost all
organic molecules and the major classes of compounds, including
complex proteins and DNA of interest to pharmaceutical researchers.
By contrast, the majority of competitor molecular modeling software
is based on traditional quantum methods that resort to approximations
for even the simplest systems. The Company believes that
Millsian software will become an invaluable tool for conducting
research and development. Furthermore, the Millsian analytical
results which are more competitive in accuracy and acquisition
time relative to quantum-mechanical-based algorithms that rely
on approximations importantly validate the classical theory relied
on by the Company. There are currently over 2,000 users
of the Millsian software including academic and company notable
groups.
Rowan University scientists have issued their third report on the independent validation of solid fuels that on demand generated energy up to 6.5 times the maximum energy potential of these materials from known chemical reactions and thermally regenerated the reactants demonstrating their capability of a maintaining a continuous fuel cycle for power production. A new form of hydrogen was again confirmed to have formed as a result of the heat release. Read the results in the Rowan University Report "Anomalous Heat Gains from Regenerative Chemical Mixtures: Characterization of BLP Chemistries Used for Energy Generation and Regeneration Reactions" - 11/29/10
Identification of New Hydrogen States, R.L. Mills, J. Lotoski, G. Zhao, K. Akhtar, Z. Chang, J. He, X. Hu, G. Wu, G. Chu, Y. Lu - Review of large body of BLP's and independent's data showing conclusively that hydrogen can form more stable states called hydrinos.
Documentary Video of Rowan University’s Validation of BlackLight’s 50 kW Hydrino Thermal Reactor: Rowan University Engineering Professor Dr. Peter Jansson P. E. performs a live demonstration of the replication of BLP’s thermal power cell that on demand generated energy greater than that of combustion at power levels of kilowatts using BLP's solid fuel chemistry with business commentary by BLP’s CEO Dr. Randell L. Mills - reformatted from 10/24/08 on 11/29/10
Thermally
Reversible Hydrino Catalyst Systems as a New Power Source,
R.L. Mills, G. Zhao, K. Akhtar, Z. Chang, J. He, X. Hu, G. Wu, J.
Lotoski, G. Chu- Using absolute water-flow calorimetry, the energy
balance for representative power and regeneration reactions of four
classes of hydrino catalyst systems was determined wherein the formation
of hydrinos has 200 times the energy release relative to combustion.
The thermal cycle of reactants to products thermally reversed to
reactants in a closed system is energy neutral, and the thermal
losses (~3%) and energy to replace hydrogen converted to hydrinos
(2%) are small compared to the large energy released in forming
hydrinos. Typical parameters measured by absolute water-flow calorimetry
were 2-5 times energy gain relative to regeneration chemistry and
7 W cm-3. The predicted molecular hydrino and hydrino hydride products
H2(1/4) and H-(1/4) corresponding to 50 MJ/mole H2 consumed were
confirmed by the solution 1H NMR peak at 1.2 ppm and XPS peak at
11 eV, respectively. The results indicate that continuous generation
of power liberated by forming hydrinos is commercially feasible
using simplistic and efficient systems that concurrently maintain
regeneration as part of the thermal energy balance.
In addition to the 91.2 nm (13.6 eV) and 22.8 nm (54.4 eV) continua due to H(1/2) and H(1/3) transitions, we report the extension of the range of q 13.6 eV continuum radiation from hydrino transitions to 10.1 nm (122.4 eV) by the observation of an additional continuum band from the decay of the intermediate corresponding to the hydrino state H(1/4). The continua spectra directly and indirectly match significant celestial observations. Click here for layman PowerPoint presentation.
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.
In this molecular modeling paper, the energies of exact classical
solutions of molecules generated by Millsian 1.0 and those from
a modern quantum mechanics-based program, Spartan's pre-computed
database use 3-21G and 6-31G* basis sets at the Hartree-Fock level
of theory, were compared to experimental values. The Millsian
results were consistently within an average relative deviation
of about 0.1% of the experimental values. In contrast, the 3-21G
and 6-31G* results deviated over a wide range of relative error,
typically being >30-150% with a large percentage of catastrophic
failures, depending on functional group type and basis set.
The
BlackLight Process
BlackLight Power, Inc. is the sole inventor
and developer of the "BlackLight Process", the patented
process of releasing chemical energy from hydrogen to form a previously
undiscovered new chemical form of hydrogen. BlackLight believes
it has solved the physical structure of electrons in atoms and
molecules, and this physics breakthrough has led to the invention
of the BlackLight Process. BlackLight's experimental results on
its process and compositions of matter are published widely and
have been replicated by independent groups.
Since certain proprietary catalysts cause the hydrogen atoms to
transition to lower-energy states by allowing their electrons
to fall to smaller radii around the nucleus with a release of
energy that is intermediate between chemical and nuclear energies,
the primary application is as a new primary energy source. Specifically,
energy is released as the electrons of hydrogen atoms are induced
by a catalyst to transition to lower-energy levels (i.e. drop
to lower base orbits around each atom's nucleus). The lower-energy
atomic hydrogen product called "hydrino" reacts with
another reactant supplied to the reaction cell to form a hydride
ion bound to the other reactant to constitute a novel proprietary
compound. Alternatively, two hydrinos react to form a very stable
hydrogen-type molecule called molecular hydrino. Thus, rather
than pollutants the byproducts may have significant advanced technology
applications based on their stability characteristics. For example,
hydrino hydride ions having extraordinary binding energies may
stabilize a cation (positively-charged ion of a battery) in an
extraordinarily high-oxidation state as the basis of a high-voltage
battery. Further, significant applications exist for the corresponding
molecular hydrino wherein the excited vibration-rotational levels
could be the basis of a UV laser that could significantly advance
photolithography and line-of-sight telecommunications. A plasma-producing
cell based on the extraordinarily energetic BlackLight Process
has also been developed that may have commercial applications
in chemical plasma processing and as a light source. BlackLight
has license agreements with companies to use its patented commercial
processes and systems in heating and electric power generation,
and is negotiating further power licenses as well licenses for
chemical and laser products.
Animations
of the Solid Fuel Reactor Process
Animation of the BlackLight Process
Detailed 3D molecular-scale animation of the BlackLight Process;
includes both atomic Li and molecular NaH catalyzed versions of
the reaction. Flash
Player required.
Diagram of the Solid Fuel Reactor
Overview of BlackLight's new solid fuel reactor cell assembly, showing
the reactor cell, heater, water cooled heat exchanger, and gas inputs
and outputs. Flash
Playerrequired.
Animation
of the BlackLight Process (2D) Animation of four steps: splitting water into its constituents,
dissociating hydrogen gas into hydrogen atoms, reacting the atoms
with the catalyst, and further disproportionation reactions. This
process generates heat, light, and a novel class of chemical compounds
called hydrino hydrides. Flash
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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.
The following summary slide shows with animations
are available in PDF format. These are large files which may
take a while to load.
Atomic
Physics
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.