As for using this thing to power solar cells, they are going to have to buy some specialist cells - maybe similar to those used on space vehicles.
Thermophotovoltaic cells, which is what Safire should use also. I think SAFIRE is cleaner (less maintenance) and more reliable than BLP and the management and team is top notch... we shall see. =)
I guess they can always resort to using a "wavelength shifter" - such as a phosphor coating (like the inside of fluorescent tubes), or some other kind of scintillator - followed by a UV filter layer.
The original company name was black (now brilliant) light power. May this name change did trouble Mills mind.
From day one on it was clear that you will need a photo window but no such window exists for his frequency range... Further the reaction will fog the window quickly.
Thus his latest try was to use IR like cells that convert the thermal radiation...
Such things happen if a fantastic mind also becomes chief engineer...
High concentration PV cells work in the solar UV range not in the XUV range...
Thermophotovoltaic cells, which is what Safire should use also. I think SAFIRE is cleaner (less maintenance) and more reliable than BLP and the management and team is top notch... we shall see. =)
I suspect that Safire are more interested in direct electricity production.
I suspect that Safire are more interested in direct electricity production.
The mentioned the traditional boiler steam generator but are firstly looking at nuclear water remediation of produced water from fracking. TPV is coming along nicely and might be viable by the time Aureon is ready.
I don't know how they would be able to do direct electricty...
I don't know how they would be able to do direct electricty...
Comment from Monty Childs in conversation- When we let the plasma collapse we recover an exraordinary amount of power..
I guess BLP would not show difficult feedback..
such as "Aren't you gonna toast your PV cells?"
They could spin a PV disc at high speed through the light, so it doesn’t melt, or maybe a Ferris wheel arrangement.
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I guess BLP would not show difficult feedback..
such as "Aren't you gonna toast your PV cells?"
Was wondering about that also. At 15:45 he answers a question about whether the materials can withstand the high power produced. He says they use to melt the "infrastructure in the bottom", but found "optically getting that power out of there" (through quartz) worked, so they don't have that problem anymore. Of course, once that power is transferred out...what about the PV?
Starting at 3:15 he discusses at length the "massive advantages" optical transfer in conjunction with the concentrated PV has over thermal transfer of the generated power. It does not sound as if the PV system is a problem the way he describes it at several points. All "off the shelf" tech according to him, and well within the PV industries capabilities. Somewhere he says they are working with 2 PV companies on that.
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Gadolinium gamma..XUV >>>>> visible spectrum
maybe BLP's next brilliant idea
wait for the patent
the way he describes
he sure can talk the talk,,but the walk is 33 years now
he sure can talk the talk,,but the walk is 33 years now
It might surprise many when I say I agree with you. After 33 years promising to be months away from a commercial product launch, he deserves the disbelief and sarcasm he gets with his latest sales pitch. It is up to him, not me, to convince everyone that this time it is for real.
That said, his story still baffles me. Really, the only aspect, IMO, that points to fraud is the 33 years you mention with nothing to show for it. After that, all the elements point to a brilliant scientific mind with a new discovery, who can attract enough investment to keep the lab lights on, but incompetent at running a business.
I don't think its fraud.
there is some novel energy release that is happening..
Perhaps the 1000 Ev dense hydrogen formation(= his dyhydrino)
but his brilliant mind is fixated on hydrinos
even though the 150 hydrinos or so have gradually whittled away to no hydrino
and one remaining dihydrino
brilliant minds are brilliant at rationalizing away the contrary evidence
and doing workarounds..
there's a team of them at ITER
I again say I don’t think is a fraud. Mills stumbled into something others have stumbled upon too, and he has invested his life in being right about the explanation he came up with for it.
Anyone looking at his earlier papers can see that his work, from the experimental point of view, is really close to what Cold Fusionists, and particularly Takaaki Matsumoto, were doing at the time.
In that sense, he has been greatly succesful on keeping funds flowing to keep his personal crusade to be proven right going on. This is not fraud, just misaligning between what the investors want and what Mills want.
No reason to be sarcastic
Sarcasm is always in order, as long as we get a good chuckle.
Starting at 3:15 he discusses at length the "massive advantages" optical transfer in conjunction with the concentrated PV has over thermal transfer of the generated power.
But liquid silver was so cool!
Gadolinium gamma..XUV >>>>> visible spectrum
maybe BLP's next brilliant idea
wait for the patent
he sure can talk the talk,,but the walk is 33 years now
Perseverance is the ability to keep doing something in spite of the obstacles. People who persevere show steadfastness in doing something despite how hard or how long it takes.
In that sense, he has been greatly succesful on keeping funds flowing to keep his personal crusade to be proven right going on. This is not fraud, just misaligning between what the investors want and what Mills want.
He did mention all the granted patents they have. Not sure if they produce a revenue stream on top of investor money. If they do bring in income, again unsure if it is used for research, or to reimburse investors.
At one point he claims $120 million has gone into getting to where he is now. If true, certainly he has been far more successful attracting funding than anyone else in the field over the last 34 years.
Comment from Monty Childs in conversation- When we let the plasma collapse we recover an exraordinary amount of power..
I would think that is in the form of heat like the sparadic outbursts they saw... I'm pretty sure the DC power supply they use wouldn't be capable of any sort of regen. That is an interesting choice of words though because heat wouldn't normally be considered recovery. hmmm....
I would think that is in the form of heat like the sparadic outbursts they saw... I'm pretty sure the DC power supply they use wouldn't be capable of any sort of regen. That is an interesting choice of words though because heat wouldn't normally be considered recovery. hmmm....
I was under the impression that the spike is an electromagnetic pulse; one that has effects like a nuclear bomb produced EMP.
Mark Pinnell -- No, we were talking about back EMF from the plasma collapse.
