The next Steorn Orbo?

[beowulff]

I don't know what to make of this. Sounds like another "free energy" scam, but there is too little information to even call it that.

[Sailboat]

Sure has the earmarks of fakery. Page after page of Google hits all seem to quote or link to the same press release.

[Mangetout]

Absolutely and without any possible doubt, a scam - it fails multiple criteria of the Baloney Detection Kit.

There's a Wikipedia page about it that gives some more details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklight_Power

[Colophon]

It's all about the hydrinos.

[BrainGlutton]

Laugh all you like! They laughed at the Dean Drive! Ha! Wait . . .

[TriPolar]

They laughed at Jerry Lewis too. Well, anyway, in France they laughed at him. But that counts doesn't it?

[Musicat]

A 100W unit is planned for completion by the end of 2012, and a 1.5 kiloWatt (kW) pilot unit that can serve the residential power market, as an initial target commercial application, is expected to be operational by 2013.

So they haven't built a working unit yet, and the first one they plan to built will (maybe, if it works) power a single 100 watt bulb.

Wanna guess that ground-floor dealerships are available for cash money?

[BrainGlutton]

Originally Posted by TriPolar

They laughed at Jerry Lewis too. Well, anyway, in France they laughed at him. But that counts doesn't it?

I saw this French comedy once, and lost all doubt as to the French appreciating Jerry Lewis.

[Ludovic]

I accidentally a whole Blacklight. Is this bad?

[TriPolar]

Originally Posted by Ludovic

I accidentally a whole Blacklight. Is this bad?

Yes. It's missing a verb.

[astro]

The amazing thing is how many entities he's gotten to give him money despite his claims being a huge pile of scientific nonsense. According to the wiki he's collected over 90 milion dollars.

[Darryl Lict]

I think it's rather telling that the article is in ECN which looks suspiciously like a fake copy of EDN (Electronic Design News) which is an old school electronic technology news magazine.

[BrainGlutton]

Originally Posted by astro

The amazing thing is how many entities he's gotten to give him money despite his claims being a huge pile of scientific nonsense. According to the wiki he's collected over 90 milion dollars.

. . . ermmm . . . It's still a dead-end, dammit! It can't compare or compete with BrainGlo, my safe, clean, matter-to-energy direct-converter! Now under development! Get in on the ground floor!

[beowulff]

ECN and EDN are both real magazines.
ECN is Electronic Component News, EDN is Electronic Design News.

[Darryl Lict]

Originally Posted by beowulff

ECN and EDN are both real magazines.
ECN is Electronic Component News, EDN is Electronic Design News.

Whoops.

[Andy L]

Originally Posted by beowulff

I don't know what to make of this. Sounds like another "free energy" scam, but there is too little information to even call it that.

This is a free energy scam that's been around for over a decade, which has the premise that there is a lower energy state for a single hydrogen atom than the ground state - and there's plenty of evidence that this is completely ridiculous.


<Correction> Over two decades - it started in 1991

[Musicat]

Originally Posted by Andy L

<Correction> Over two decades - it started in 1991

Crazy ideas never die, they just get legs.