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25th May 2018, 01:54 PM | #161 |
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Self congratulations was not the point. The point is that the various people involved at Rowan, who performed experiments at Rowan over some years, were willing to stand behind their work in a press release. Simple as that.
It's fascinating that supposedly rational skeptics here are entertaining a wider and wilder web of conspiracy theory involving an increasing number of people in an increasingly fantastical scam over time. The rational alternative is that a genius has been running a company that has been making incremental and substantive progress for twenty five years in pure and applied physical and chemical research, and is soon to emerge from a largely ignored backwater eddy of results to appear as a tsunami in the science and technology sector. Neither is there a conspiracy against Mills to thwart his work. Again, how interesting that supposedly rational skeptics here are projecting such a mindset to Mills supporters. No, other than one or two people inappropriately using their influence in the patent office over a decade ago there has been nothing nefarious going on to hinder Mills work that I am aware of. Just the usual human responses of indifference, incredulity, deference to authority, and falling into the somewhat darker 'reputation trap.' From https://aeon.co/essays/why-do-scient...of-cold-fusion
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25th May 2018, 04:37 PM | #167 |
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Markie: When is Mills going to commercialize his cure for cancer that he had back in 1988?
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25th May 2018, 05:05 PM | #168 |
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We eat tinfoil hatters for breakfast. Your lame-ass attempt to make legitimate criticism of a small but effective con operation look like a conspiracy theory is adorable, but ultimately only reflects badly on you. In the end, you are admitting that you don't HAVE any independent verification to offer, just press releases and paid demonstrations you repackage. 30 years on and despite DECADES of promises that a device is just a few months away, Mills is still producing noting. There are only two kinds of people who take Mills seriously: 1. Con men who are in on the con. (Probably a small number, all of whom are on his payroll.) 2. Scientifically illiterate morons who are being fleeced because they don't know enough about science to see Mills for what he is. |
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I've not followed the thread closely, but can you use it to power an EmDrive?
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26th May 2018, 02:16 AM | #172 |
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It's been a few months I think, so time for me to check in to this thread again and ask my recurring question.
So, when can I get my BLP Free Energy Generator? I was led to believe they would be heading to market soon. |
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That is an incredibly apt comparison for this claim, it that shows that even when preliminary results would invalidate one of the bedrocks of science because other independent scientists can apparently replicate in part those results serious scientists and engineers got behind it. If Mills had been able to deliver anything that others could replicate over the past 30 years no matter how paradigm shifting others would have tried to replicate it.
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26th May 2018, 03:44 AM | #175 |
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I think Mills might have missed the boat - these guys seem to have it cracked. It's easier to donate to them, too.
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markie is talking about the genius who has been unable to devise a practical technology for converting thermal energy into electricity.
Before Mills can do that, he has to invent a practical time machine that will transport him back to the late 18th century, when James Watt and Matthew Boulton developed the Boulton and Watt steam engine. Mills will also have to transport himself to the 19th century, when several inventors, building on fundamental research by Michael Faraday, developed the dynamo. After announcing his success with time travel, Mills will then report that further progress must await a time machine that will allow him to visit the 18th and 19th centuries simultaneously. |
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To be fair, there is one tangible effect Mills has shown.
He is capable of making money vanish no matter what project he starts. He has a sort of anti-dollar field. |
26th May 2018, 10:17 AM | #181 |
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His version of the con has lasted a good 30 years, while it looks like Theranos won’t make it to 20. It’s all about reach. Mills is keeping just far enough under the radar that he’s not attracting regulatory attention. He’s also only hitting corporations for small values, making court cases to go after him more expensive than the funds that could be recovered. |
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Hahaha yes probably but ....
Lets not forget the Pyreolophore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyr%C3%A9olophore |
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February 26 2019 is still on my calendar as the date by which Mills will have demonstrated a closed Suncell prototype showing excess energy generation for a reasonable amount of time. Given the substantive direction changes in the design I'm not as confident as before that my timeline will be met. But in the end it will be worth it.
Mills has achieved excess energy - sometimes for months - with earlier cells over the last 20 years, but bluntly put they were not good enough for the marketplace. |
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A pumpkin left to rot on your front porch will also achieve excess energy for months. Interestingly, rotting pumpkins are also not good enough for the marketplace. Obviously the problem is the marketplace! We need a better marketplace, one that offers money for rotting pumpkins and SunCells and all other worthless crap! |
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How are you defining "demonstrated" here? What criteria will he have to fulfil in order for you to consider that he has demonstrated what you want him to?
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Mills has demonstrated many hydrino reaction environments over the years. None has met the threshold of achieving true prototype status, meaning something that could be seriously considered as a preproduction model for the marketplace.
In all cases but one before the Suncell they did not have sufficient power density to make it worthwhile. Big size, low power. In one case they had the power density but the reactants could not be reliably recycled, so the reaction could not be sustained for a reasonable length of time.
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Markie - while your dogged loyalty to Mills is in some respects admirable, this is insulting. Don't you remember the inter-digitating gear wheels with the high-current fuel reactions and the MHD power system? 1 MW in a 1 meter cube? Just a few years ago? Ring any bells?
Perhaps not. Mills has followed his Orwellian use of the Memory Hole, and there is no record of those claims. Convenient, no? |
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Wait what?!?! "closed Suncell prototype"?!?! Ain't the "Advanced SunCell® Design" supposed to "operate in air, no sealed chamber required"?
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Do you have any idea how utterly stupid the highlighted bit sounds?
Silver melts at 1235 K, it boils at 2435 K. That is about 1200 K in difference. So, either Mills is incapable of looking up basic physics facts (largely proven by his many 'theories') and thus uses FAR to much power to start his so-called machine, OR his machine produces power in massive excess which he then has failed to in any way capitalize on. Now he has also shown not to know how to turn heat into power, so this would also utter incompetence. So no matter how you look at him, the man is an incompetent in anything to do with engineering. |
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I'd like to see the photograph of the laboratory surroundings, all coated in condensed silver vapor. That would be something to see. I suspect, though, that no such photographs exist, because all the evaporated silver actually re-condensed at the local WE BUY GOLD AND SILVER shop. |
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Of course I remember the interdigitating gears. That was really the first iteration of the SunCell concept - which involved exploding metal hydrate pellets or slurry on the rotating gear mechanism which carried the high electrical current. It's all still on Youtube. There was no MHD involved then however.
The SunCell environment and mechanism has come a long way since then. Much more elegant. |
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