From: Peter Gluck
… please tell what do you think/know about the Solar Hydrogen Trends technology, do you think they can really convert oxygen in hydrogen? The claim is completely false, Peter. Even laughable. The technology came from Armenia and is completely non-nuclear. Surprisingly, it may even be slightly gainful ! I talked to Jack about it before it hit the headlines and he was forthcoming about the problems. He is Armenian and was into Gold transmutation (alchemy) before this venture. He seems like an honest fellow who is being deluded by at least one of his partners. Konstantine Balakiryan, the “chief scientist” is another story. His background seems to be designing blue jeans for the Kardashians. There is a University in Armenia claiming the underlying technology was theirs, and that the patent has been misappropriated, but that controversy may have been settled by now. It is a chemical process - probably a superoxide process. The net gain has been mis-measured by Balakiryan, with the collusion of a smog check dud. One expert who was there believes some of these guys may suffer the same fate as John Rohner, when all is said and done. http://peswiki.com/index.php/News:Blog:Inteligentry_Raided_by_FBI But admittedly, there could be modest real gain in this technology, which could be their salvation legally. But they are using rather expensive chemicals which are consumed in the process. Superoxides are unique in the chemical world - and probably can be exploited. However, these chemical oddities are not nuclear, and not cheap in the USA. Given the price of natural gas, I see no way this technology could be economical or even close, due to the cost of consumables - but perhaps somewhere else, it may has value if properly marketed. If this is real, than a new gate was opened.For us it is like Mizuno NiD Sadly, as any high school student could foresee - it is not real – at least not to the absurd claim of converting oxygen to hydrogen. It is a mistake to even mention this next to Mizuno. That is playing into the hands of the Mary Yugos of the world. OTOH, there could be some level of gain in the Armenian technology, and to that extent, it looks like the same kind of scenario which Steorn was trying to pull, which of course still has many hoodwinked investors out there in the Pubs of Ireland who think that very soon now it will be demonstrated and they will all be rich. Sounds like a broken record in alternative energy…. Of course, to be fair, it is easily possible for someone to build a great financial scam on top of a slight energy anomaly, and many think precisely that is what Rossi is/was trying to do. When DGT found out, they broke away to pull off a better scam, or so the story goes. Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, and then there is the twist of fate. Consequently in the Rossi story, even if there is a kernel of truth to that strange scenario (financial scam built on top of a real anomaly) – it looks like Rossi found that the underlying anomaly was actually more robust than believed, and he has been able to demonstrate the gain well enough to sell it to sophisticated investors, who know what they are buying. We all await the so-called TIP2 report, or whatever it is being called. I am on record as making two predictions about it. One, the occasional gain will not be high: on the order of COP=2 when it is working. Two, it will not work constantly, and there will be regular intervals of no gain. Thus, it will need a lot more engineering to make it fully commercial. But one if these days, it will get there. Until then – the best hope, maybe the only hope for the future of kilowatt level LENR in the near term - is looking like Mizuno. Jones
