Blacklight Power becomes Brilliant Light Power

The recent discussion of RCA reminds us that Blacklight Power moved into part of RCA’s satellite plant in East Windsor, NJ. They set about developing cold fusion as an energy source.

Recall physicists have spent big bucks trying to develop hot fusion with little success. They recently reported net power generation but follow-up reports have been sparse suggesting problems scaling up or running continuously.

Meanwhile a couple of chemists came up with cold fusion in abt $50 worth of laboratory glassware in a dishpan. It has to be a hoax. And physicists certainly think so. But Blacklight soldiers on.

As of last fall they changed their name to Brilliant Light Power and issued a business plan for very low cost electric power from “hydrino” technology. They are seeking funds for a pilot system.

No indication who has funded this company. If it was a hoax or a fraud they would have faded into bankruptcy in a few years. RCA was acquired by GE in 1987. Blacklight dates from 1991. How can a hoax survive for 35 years? There must be something to their technology.

In NJ in the early days the word was if you went to work for them your career was dead. You would never get another job.

Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi lasted about that long, and even lasted for many years after he was reported to the SEC.

A better question is why these guys don’t have a product after working on it for 35 years?

This is clearly a scam.

Like charges repel. Protons are positively charged. The only way to get them close enough to fuse is with high energies, which means high temperatures.

Yes, there are some ideas of using crystalline lattices, which supposedly would get the protons close enough together to overcome the coulomb repulsion. But I have never seen evidence that they can get net energy out of such a system.

As for the “hydrino technology”, it looks more like a hypothetical concept rather than something backed up by hard science.

It would be more cost effective to put some R&D into the newer advanced nuclear fission processes. We already know how to do fission, but there some advances that could be made. Using thorium as a fuel source is one of those advancement ideas.

_ Pete