It would waste a million times more energy than it would save?
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I agree with that too. I think I’ve seen the same pic of that boiling vat every single time I’ve seen this presentation given. How about a second test? And a third? Where’s the demonstration project running in some building somewhere?
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Georgia still has lots of Love bugs; many insects are seasonal. Love bugs start up in May if I remember right. They are doing very well. Our bees and other pollinators are not so prevalent but still adequate. Florida should be doing ok or even better. There’s still lots of wilderness in Florida.
the video presentation begins to halt and stutter at approx 15 min. Did that last evening too when i first tried to watch.
This is the first time i have ever had problems with any of PP videos despite hearing of others with difficulty. We have mad no recent changes in our internet access; hopefully not an issue with the new site.
regrets.
Mike’s pic shows an autobiography of Laura Ingalls Wilder called “Pioneer Girl”.
We started reading these with my homeschoolers last spring into the fall. My daughter read the first 3 about Laura – devoured them! – and my son enjoyed Farmer Boy; I reread them with a fresh eye from my youth, taking mental notes on ‘what to do if X happens’ (e.g., digging trenches around plots to stop wildfires along with using wet canvas bags to hit the flames; or attaching a rope between the house and barn in a blizzard to have a guide to milk the cow).
I recently brought them up with the kids to discuss some of the challenges they run into that are facing us today, especially as my husband looks for a new job since academia is gone into DIE mode. Adaptation is key!
Really Enjoyed The Mathematical Analysis Of Not Only Gdp, But Kcal Inputs Req’d For Food 10 To 1
The broad scope as well as a useful knowledge base used to explain and connect (nobody knows everything, but going by what we’ve got, hey, it’s all we can do).
Whether ‘externalities’ such as Stalin style or Mussolini style solutions, or if energy sources do come online - these are not certain. I also like that you admit your 50% PM portfolio is, as you said, (I don’t recall your exact word/phrase), reckless and do not recommend it.
How To Motivate People/companies To Save The Environment
Chris presented an awesome episode (as usual).
I would like to add what I think might actually motivate the change and save the environment. Here it is: the profit motive.
Here are some examples:
- Houses can be built using the method Chris talks about (R40 walls,etc.) and be marketed and sold to a segment of the population. Also there is a concept called PassivHaus (Passive House - from the German). The Passive House uses next to nothing to heat or cool a house. The Passive House does cost 10-15% more in construction, but saves energy costs for years to come. Both examples of house construction can also be sold to billion dollar companies as a resource/investment for carbon capture credits or even ESG points.
- Solar Water Heaters are great too. Governments (state or national) in warm climates can promote this as fossil fuel savings, and local job creation (which also adds to the tax base). Solar Water Heaters also can be an investment for carbon credits or ESG points (similar to point 1. above)
- Permaculture and its products could be promoted the same way organic products have been promoted. Initially, Permaculture products could be considered niche (such as how Manuka Honey was 10-15 years ago), but at some point consumer demand will make it profitable. Permaculture has the benefit of being promotable as repairing the damaged environment. I think that there are a good segment of consumers that would buy Permaculture products for that “feel good” element (of repairing the environment). Permaculture is also eligible for the carbon credit/ESG idea. Note that I would describe Regenerative Agriculture the same way that I describe Permaculture.
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Chris,
Big fan of your work. I frequently search the web for the recent posts on “hydrino” and this thread showed up. I signed up as a member so that I could chime in with some of my knowledge around Brilliant Light Power and their technology.
I’m the CFO of a family office and am heavily invested in the company. I am also close friends with one of the company’s earliest outside collaborators who has done serious and wholly independent validation of various hydrino-related experiments.
I’d like to address a couple of points that you raise:
- BLP most definitely does not wave over the details as to where the energy from the hydrino reaction comes from. Here
Continuing from above:
- BLP most definitely does not wave over the details as to where the energy from the hydrino reaction comes from. Here is a link to a pre-print review paper by Dr. Mills that provides an understanding of where the energy comes from and discusses the many pieces of experimental evidence for hydrino he has accumulated over the years. There is absolutely no violations of fundamentals laws of physics with hydrino formation. The source of the energy release is just the potential energy of atomic hydrogen. In brief, the energy comes from two places:
a) Hydrino formation occurs when atomic hydrogen transfers energy via a resonant non-radiative energy transfer to an catalyst species. That catalyst species must be capable of accepting energy in integer multiples of m27.2 eV. The current iteration of the SunCell uses monomolecular H2O as a catalyst, which has potential energy of approximately 81.6 eV (327.2 eV). This resonant energy transfer process ionizes the catalyst. In the case of monomolecular water as catalyst, 81.6 eV is released as electrons are recaptured.
b) This energy transfer process causes an increase in the central field of the atomic hydrogen that transferred energy to the catalyst. This increase in central field causes the hydrogen atom’s electron to accelerate radially to a lower energy orbit, emitting continuum radiation with a very short cut-off as it does. In the case of H20 as catalyst, 122.4 eV is released as hydrogen transitions to the H(1/4) state. The total energy released by the reaction is 204 eV - 122.4 eV from hydrogen transition to hydrino, and 81.6 eV released as the H2O catalyst regains its lost electrons.
- The huge energy released by the hydrogen to hydrino transition causes a plasma to form in the reaction medium. Dr. Mills has successfully shown excess heat formation in a wide variety of test cells for many decades. However, up until 2013, the reaction rate, and thus reaction power density, was very low. A key discovery that occurred in 2013 was that running a large current through the reaction medium greatly increases the reaction rate, permitting a reaction with staggering power density. This paper that was published in the Chinese Journal of Physics demonstrated this convincingly. A careful reader of the paper will note just how straightforward it is to replicate the experiments discussed.
- BLP is very close to having a commercial prototype. The current iteration of the SunCell can be seen at this link. The big remaining task is to integrate a dome of concentrator photovoltaics around the light source seen in the video. I’m told that the optical power output of the prototype is sufficiently high to permit conversion of the optical power output to electricity such that a portion of the electrical output can be looped back in to provide the ongoing electrical input required to keep the reaction rate high, while still yielding substantial net electrical output. My guess is that the electrical input required in the prototype seen in the linked video is somewhere between 10 and 30 kW, and the optical power output is between 250 kW and 1 MW. Even higher power output is possible, but the melting point of the fused silica dome they are using is a constraint that puts an upper bound on the power output.
- Brett Holverstott’s book on this subject makes this hard to believe story a lot more believable. Brett worked for BLP for a period of time and has intimate knowledge of all aspects of the story. I’ve become friends with Brett and he is both extremely bright and as honest as the day is long.
The implications of all this are staggering beyond belief. It is an oversimplification, but not an exaggeration, to say that humanity is poised to replace oil with water. Because the hydrino reaction is 200 times or so more energetic than burning hydrogen, it is possible to get massive EROEI from the process of electrolyzing water to get the required hydrogen fuel, and then provoking the hydrogen to hydrino reaction. No one is ready for the amount of disruption this technology brings with it.
There is a lot of complexity and nuance to this story, and I’m happy to answer any more questions you might have.
We Are The Burgess Shale
The analysis is correct vis-a-vie the debt based money system in linear terms or 2 dimensional relationships with energy and growth; in terms of population growth, + productivity gains, novel technologies are different variable/dimensions (think calculous equation with X, y, z, some, squared (or cubed), and you get a non linear line and add a few axis of measures). Each variable has a differing limiting rider. Biologic populations are selected on a seemingly random basis (chaos theory), well described in the book on the Burgess Shale(Wonderful life by S Gould), definitely not linear. The assumption of knowing the relevant variables and their meaning seems logical but that doesn’t make it true. My bias is towards circular, which always seems pretty straight over a short enough window.
Overshoot
I’m curious, behind the paywall do you guys discuss overshoot with candidacy? If the rate of change is at all faster than folks can adjust to we will have millions/billions starving within what a decade maybe less?
Didn’t Chris just say crude prices would quadruple over the next 2 years (on Greg hunter) that’s games up as far as I’m concerned…I think we are at triage tbh. No solutions just survival on a basic level… unless the politicos come up with a plan ?
Good comment. Profit motives are what destroyed our world, but of course can be used to save it too hopefully. As we all know, people respond to incentives, so you just have to fine-tune the incentives to get the outcomes that would be best for us all.
Looking Forward To Parts Remaining
Excellent. I downloaded the video just so I could re-watch it just to remind myself that every thing is connected to everything else.
Ratel
Really like ideas Ratel is promoting, coming from profit side of things. I’d say problem is that those are all “long term” and a lot of corporate giants don’t want to invest into something that will become profitable in the long future. I’d love for companies like Amazon to put more effort into environmentally friendly stuff(maybe adding something to listings that would put those on top of normal items, i.e some sort of listing optimization like A+ (learnt some of this stuff from Weby Corp http://webycorp.com/) that would feed your search with a more bio-friendly stuff
Chris,
The excess energy comes from hydrogen’s single electron falling from a higher orbit to a lower one, which releases electromagnetic radiation such as light see Atomic electron transition - Wikipedia
There is no loss of mass, just like TNT can explode in a vacuum thereby releasing stored chemical energy or a battery can release electrical energy.
The hydrogen goes to a lower stable energy state which Dr. Mills baptized as the hydrino particle, because classical physics said this state was not possible.
In the meantime dozens of universities which criticized him had to admit that he was right.
As with many revolutionary theories, the world at first cannot conceive such a radical change through their Overton window.
The hydrino also has the same signatures as the dark matter in the universe, so the lowest energy form of hydrogen which originally had a higher energy state.
I have been following Brilliant Light Power (formerly BlackLight Power) for more than a decade now, and am personally convinced that this technology will work and is capable of disrupting the world’s existing fossil energy ecosystem (provided that big oil does not put this or Dr. Mills himself in the fridge…)
Recently they also received funding from a major US bank (JP Morgan ?) which should say something, on short term they do not even need an IPO.
In the past I had a brief email exchange with Dr. Mills, he is definitely genuine unlike the nuclear fusion snake oil salesmen.
It will still take some years to solve the many engineering issues such as encasing the extreme temperature plasma with a transparent window, and then decades to introduce the technology into the whole world.
P.S. I just became a member of your tribe, keep up the extraordinary work !
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Is this saying there’s something lower than the ground state?
Also:
Yes energy is released when electrons drop from higher to lower energy level. But energy has to be input to raise the electron to a high state to begin with.
The ground state of the hydrogen atom is the core of the invention. Dr. Mills discovered that it is possible to bring hydrogen’s single electron to a lower orbit, contrary to classical physics which says this is impossible.
So hydrogen as we know it is metastable, meaning it can be brought to a lower energy state by a catalyst just like explosives need a detonator to release energy. There is no need to first inject energy into the hydrogen because it already contains the potential energy.
Dr. Mills wrote over 100 peer reviewed publications about it, made spectral analysis compared to celestial dark matter, did practical and theoretical energy release analyses on the orbital electron drop, calorimeter power measurements on the hydrino reaction at 200kW power, X-ray spectroscopy, electron paramagnetic resonance measurements, Raman spectroscopy and other tests to prove the existence of the hydrino particle.
Here a pdf of the analytical physics :
Wikipedia is still very skeptical, and not a word about it in the legacy media although the peer reviewed publications show black on white that the hydrino particle exists. This I consider a good sign, most people cannot accept a change in the status quo and simply refuse to look at it with an open mind. Just like their continuing claim that a certain injection is safe and effective.
Here BLP’s business presentation from 2 weeks ago (see for instance p. 15 for a practical steam generator test) :
The hydrino reaction releases 200 times more energy than burning hydrogen, it has that much excess energy that the reactor can make its own hydrogen fuel by electrolysis of water. The reactor is compact enough to be used in mobile applications so that the EV battery handicap is solved. Instead of charging the EV from a home, the home can be powered from the EV since the reactor is on board.
They have obtained 80+ global patents while 100+ are pending.
This is not just another alternative energy story. This is it.
P.S. Sorry for the time lag in replying, my location is Belgium.
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