Is Dr. Randell Mills' Alternative Energy Source the Future of Power Generation?

[Art]

Alternative Energy Source??

Anybody here familiar with the work being done by Dr. Randell Mills? I came across this article wherein it is claimed he has developed a process to create a new kind of hydrogen with a resultant release of massive amounts of energy. His work is controversial as it appears to violate one of the basic principles of quantum mechanics and yet his findings have been verified by independent scientists.
His company Blacklight Power Inc. expects to unveil a product utilising this new power source within a few months.

What has much of the physics world up in arms is Dr Mills's claim that he has produced a new form of hydrogen, the simplest of all the atoms, with just a single proton circled by one electron. In his "hydrino", the electron sits a little closer to the proton than normal, and the formation of the new atoms from traditional hydrogen releases huge amounts of energy.
This is scientific heresy. According to quantum mechanics, electrons can only exist in an atom in strictly defined orbits, and the shortest distance allowed between the proton and electron in hydrogen is fixed. The two particles are simply not allowed to get any closer.
According to Dr Mills, there can be only one explanation: quantum mechanics must be wrong. "We've done a lot of testing. We've got 50 independent validation reports, we've got 65 peer-reviewed journal articles," he said. "We ran into this theoretical resistance and there are some vested interests here. People are very strong and fervent protectors of this [quantum] theory that they use."

Dr Mills will not go into details of who is investing in his research but rumours suggest a range of US power companies. It is well known also that Nasa's institute of advanced concepts has funded research into finding a way of using Blacklight's technology to power rockets.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,3605,1627424,00.html
He has apparently already produced new compounds using his 'new' hydrogen atoms that have greatly interested the military amongst others;

Tests at Lehigh University are interesting, confirms Dr. Alfred Miller, a senior research scientist there who has tested BlackLight Power's compounds. Miller probed the energy levels of the atoms by bombarding them with X rays and measuring the energy of the electrons leaving the atoms—a technique called X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. "I try and exhaust all possibilities and there really aren't an enormous number of conventional explanations" for what he found.

Ricerca Inc.'s lab east of Cleveland was similarly flummoxed by what it found when studying BlackLight Power's materials. "They were inorganic compounds that have organic properties. That is unusual," says Dr. Yong-Xi Li, manager of Ricerca's advanced mass spectrometry lab. "We totally don't know what's going on. The reason is that I've never seen before these kinds of properties in all my career. Probably we have to do more work."

BlackLight Power and researchers at the weapons division of the Naval Air Warfare Center at China Lake, California, confirm that they are heading toward a research and development pact that would allow the navy to produce energy and materials from hydrinos and to develop applications of the new compounds. A spokeswoman for the Indian Head Division of the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Maryland says in ane-mail letter that after a meeting with Mills "there was considerable interest in the reported properties of the new hydrogen-containing compounds, and in obtaining samples for independent analysis and evaluation."
BlackLight Power's newest board member is retired vice admiral Michael P. Kalleres, who commanded the U.S. fleet in the Atlantic during the Gulf War and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's Striking Fleet. He's also a consultant for the Defense Science Board and the Naval Studies Board of the National Academy of Science.
"I feel very confident in what [Mills] has created," Kalleres says. He adds that he has no investment in BlackLight Power and takes no salary from the company, although he anticipates an option to invest later. After observing the company's practices for years, he believes that it's produced things of which the military should make use.
Ships with hydrino material cladding would likely be stealthy and rustproof, Kalleres says. Eliminating rust could radically reduce crews on some ships, savings millions of dollars.

In fact Blacklight Power are predicting more profit from the compounds they can produce than from the creation of cheap energy. Some members of the companies board have expressed fears that their research could be classified as secret by the US gov't because of it's far reaching military applications.

 

[Pengwuino]

I believe there are threads about this that heavily dispute his "findings". But then again, put up or shut up, if he can do it then woohoo more power to him.

 

[Art]

I believe there are threads about this that heavily dispute his "findings". But then again, put up or shut up, if he can do it then woohoo more power to him.

Looking at the company website it seems they are actually producing energy and new materials using this process so it seems difficult to discount it on the basis of it doesn't fit existing QM theories. Seeing is believing. Though it will piss off a lot of people who have devoted their careers to QM if he is proven right.

 

[Pengwuino]

I think there's some information in that anti-gravity patent that got through thread.

 

[ZapperZ]

There's MORE than enough discussion about this in the Skepticisim/Debunking forum. Please look there.

Zz.