Having missed the recent hydrino thread, let me add one observation (which is almost as redundant as some of Randy's 'ground states')
The good news: this recently peer reviewed and published paper shows convincing calorimetry evidence of excess power from hydrogen (OU). "Water Bath Calorimetry on a Catalytic Reaction of Atomic Hydrogen" Mills et al. Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, Vol. 32, (2007), 42584266. The bad news: After 19 years of trying, and this being the latest and greatest: i.e. the featured paper on Mills' website (presumably if there were better evidence, it would be presented there instead of this one)... yet... ... the excess power shown is both small in watts and is only 28.5% more than the input power. "Using water bath calorimetry, an excess power of 2.85 W was measured with Sr and Ar as catalysts, compared with controls (10 watts input)" http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V3F-4PCH46R-2&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=270f9bc7aaa53437e1723d1380224b99 What makes this particularly damning from a comparative standpoint vis-a-vis LENR is that the "control" is defined as "no catalyst present AND no hydrogen present." Translation: there will be some OU with hydrogen alone (since it is self-catalyzing according to Mills).... The cynics out there should be justifiably irritated that after burning through many millions of dollars and nearly 20 years of time, the OU demonstrated by BLP in this featured paper, is still FAR less than what is routinely seen and reported from a variety of international experimenters, in LENR calorimetry. For instance, McKubre reported at ICCF13 on results from a joint research project with Energetics Technology, ENEA, and SRI where roughly 60% excess heat was produced. Swartz has seen and reported a far greater (percentage-wise) excess than this figure. OK neither is not going to solve the energy crisis without another breakthrough and/or without scaling-up significantly- but OTOH the LENR results are routinely over double what Mills is showing, and with probably $40 million less money having been spent to do it... PLUS in the McKubre results, the excess heat was accompanied by He4 production in good correlation. More evidence that is hard to dispute. Now admittedly, other observers like Mike C. will be able to but a different 'spin' on this comparison, but the reported facts speak for themselves - with the result that two sad things about this state of affairs emerge, from one independent perspective (neutral or trying hard to be neutral): 1) the company with most of the money, and possibly the best theory, refuses to use deuterium, which is more reactive. 2) the hydrino theory may be involved as a precursor step which allows two deuterons to fuse into He4 IOW - Mills could be so right that he is wrong... but we will likely never know. ... "so right as to be wrong" ... vanity of vanities, saith the preacher ... makes one ill at the stomach... Jones
