James, thanks for the even-handed reply. The press release is technically correct, but for the Vortex audience us easily misunderstood amidst all the claims reverberating there. The energy pulse generated by the solid fuel reaction is both very energetic and very short. Power is defined as a *rate of energy production/use*, so it is not wrong to claim megawatts in a sort of cry of triumph in a press release. Also if such continuous power were inefficiently handled in a one cubic foot device, it would melt. The Vortex audience is accustomed to thinking of continuous energy devices. In electronics devices that handle lots of power in a small space are common. A critical issue for continuous operation is regeneration of the catalyst so it does not become a consumable. Mills' concept and chemistry provides for such. The execution in a working device is in the future.
Mike Carrell From: James Bowery [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 3:02 PM To: vortex-l Subject: Re: [Vo]:Understanding BLP: Chapter 4 Thanks for the review of BLP's history. We have to avoid conflating the, so-far enigmatic, demo of the day before yesterday with the long history of work at BLP. That long history of work would indicate that, from the public's point of view, BLP is in the same boat as Rossi, et al, except having been funded at much greater levels: There is a real phenomenon but the theory is either unknown or has not gone through an open scientific process of testing -- understanding that replication at the early stages frequently requires the participation of the original investigator and the science does not benefit from critics nay-saying regarding "independence". No one that I have seen has been particularly critical of the pulsed nature, per se, of either then experiment or of the eventual device (the press release even says the device can be made "continuous"). In a public demo of a _single_ pulse, you have to be in dimensions of energy -- not power -- and the calorimetry has to be static or bomb. So far, none of the verbiage has involved units of dimension energy and we have only indirect verbiage regarding the calorimetry. On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Mike Carrell <[email protected]> wrote: A familiar scene: critics who do not do their homework or claim 'objectivity' by moving goalposts and persistent negative spin. BLP in the years of study in the gas phase used microwave excitation and standard microwave practice with pure gases and commercial, laboratory grade instrumentation and water bath calorimetry. The latter was an insulated fish tan n in which the test cell was immersed, with a Joule heater, a stirrer, and a precision thermometer. With the Joule heater embedded with the test cell, it was possible to calibrate the response of the of the calorimeter to input power, and then to make accurate measurements of the energy produced by a test run. Outside qualified visitors observed and operated the system. This is a reliable way to measure energy from pulse reactions such as from the SF-CIHT cell, because the water bath integrates the energy produced in heating the apparatus. In posts to the BLP website about experiments, equipment used is identified. I have heard that BLP has accumulated $million in laboratory grade equipment with calibrations traceable to NIST standards, and a staff of Ph.D.s to desuighand perform experiments. Before the founding of B LP,, Mills commissioned experiments at universities and industrial laboratories with positive and negative results in a search for catalysts. "Independence" is a false standard. One wants others to repeat experiments, and run controls, which Mills has consistently done [if anyone was paying attention]. Experiments done by an antagonist who does not **duplicate** Mills is useless, for it is an imitation, not a replication. The tests by Dr. Conrads in Germany are notable, for he con firmed the effects claimed by Mills using means which differed in detail but were consistent in principle. The situation with Rowan and Professor Jannsson: See his home page and resume at http://www.rowan.edu/open/colleges/engineering/programs/electricalcomputert. I live an hour's drive from Rowan. It was once a small teacher's college, but with a $100 million endowment for a new engineering school, Rowan got naming rights. Since then, Rowan has grown in prestige and scope. Now a university, it is closely associated with NJ Rutgers University. Jansson was a technical scout at Atlanctic City Electric in a search for new investment opportunities. He was also the first graduate from the new Rowan engineering school. For his Master's thesis he chose replication of a BLP test, for which BLP lent him a Seeback calorimeter. I visited the Rowan library and read is master's thesis. I have also visited with Jansson who told me he recommended BLP as an investment for his employer t the time, Atlantic City Electric. As a reward, Jansson was allowed to make a small personal investment in BLP; usually the ante is in the $xxx,xxx. When Mills turned to solid fuels, one mode involved a chemical charge measures by a special calorimeter. A contract was given to Rowan to replicate *measurements* of this ecperiment, and for the chemistry depart to verify the reaction and arrange for NMR scans of the reacted material to verify the production of hydrinos. There is a clip on YouTube of Jansson conducting the experiment. Janssongot his Ph.D. from Cambridge University in England. The fact that the apparatus was furnished by BLP does not invalidate the authenticity of the results: to allege otherwise is to suggest bribery on the part of BLP and duplicity on the part of the professionals doing the work. Having an advanced degree is no guarantee honesty, lack of such credentials is no mark of virtue. Study and observation is required [i.e. Faraday, Edison]. The Papp explosion was pure theater. The pulsed reactions of the BLP solid fuels is an entirely different matter. IC Engines are devices to manage controlled repetitive 'explosions'. So is the BLP device under discussion. Continuous power is irrelevant. In principle, the MHD converters will efficient convert the reaction energy to electrical pulses without excessive heating of the device itself. Converting the electrical pulses to 60 Hz electricity is a known art: "switching power amplifiers and power supplies" do this routinely ad efficiently. Mike Carrell ________________________________________________________________________ This Email has been scanned for all viruses by Medford Leas I.T. Department.
