Terry
> Considering that the mass release of hydrinos into the environment is > totally unknown, it's my bet that you will see hot fusion before you > see a hydrino powered generator go online. If they exist at all, and if they can exist as extended-lifetime particles, they will be extraordinarily valuable and would be collected at all cost- never released. Mills could probably give the power away *free* and make a tidy profit on any deeply redundant hydrinos he produces. If you want today's informed and evolving opinion from an objective observer: (or even if you don't ;-) here is a point-of-veiw that is probably not shared by anyone else, on either side of the aisle (which means to the contrarian, that it probably has some elements of truth which nobody wants to hear): This is the scenario IMHO which best fits all the facts available: 1) Hydrinos are real, can be produced in numerous different ways, are common in cosmology, the solar corona, and are a major component of earth's core and a lesser component of earth's oceans, where they will eventually be harvested... but in all of the above cases, these particles are deeply redundant. 2) On earth, they require extraordinary conditions to produce with the kind of "catalysis" method which Mills believes-in (i.e. via high vacuum and energy holes), 3) Mills theory is incorrect in many places 4) Hydrinos are short-lived at the first two or three levels of redundancy. 5) Deeply redundant hydrinos are approximately identical to the Dufour/Vigier hydrex concept of virtual neutrons. 6) In the case of deuterons, that atom can 'shrink' only one or two levels but cannot proceed to deep redundancy; instead at some early stage - the inherent nuclear instability caused by the close electron insures that the neutron of the deuteron will be easily shed- and this is the basis for the Oppenheimer-Phillips effect. There you have it ... (until tomorrow ;-) Jones
