BlackLight Power, Inc. Announces Sustained
Production of Electricity Using Photovoltaic Conversion of the Millions of
Watts of Brilliant Plasma Formed by the Reaction of Water to a More Stable
Form of Hydrogen
BlackLight Power, Inc.
today announces that it achieved sustained electricity production from a primary new energy
source by using photovoltaic technology to transform brilliant plasma, with
power comprising millions of watts of light, directly into electricity. By
applying a very high current through its proprietary water-based solid fuel
in BlackLight Power’s breakthrough Solid
Fuel-Catalyst-Induced-Hydrino-Transition (SF-CIHT) technology, water ignites
into brilliant plasma, an extraordinary bright flash of extraordinary optical
power that has a power density of over 1,000,000 times that of any prior
controllable reaction.
Remarkably, the light
emitted from the plasma is nearly a perfect spectral equivalent of the Sun,
but at 50,000 times the intensity. BlackLight Power has now successfully
converted the brilliant plasma directly into electricity using photovoltaic
cells (solar cells) which have been increasingly perfected to convert the Sun
spectrum into electricity for more than five decades costing an estimated $1
trillion.
Using a proprietary water-based solid fuel confined between opposing roller
electrodes of a SF-CIHT cell, and applying a current of 12,000 amps through
the fuel, water ignites into an extraordinary bright flash of optical power.
The fuel was sequentially fed into the electrodes to produce pulses of
millions of watts of power in a volume that is one ten thousandths of a liter
corresponding to a power density of over an astonishing 100 billion watts per
liter. As a comparison, the electrical output power of a central power
generation plant is typically 1 billion watts from a boiler 100 million times
larger.
The H2O-based fuel
ignition produced brilliant plasma, an essentially fully ionized gaseous
physical state of the fuel comprising essentially positive ions and free
electrons. From a spectroscopic signature called a blackbody curve, the SF-CIHT
cell plasma was determined to have the same temperature as the Sun emitting
the same solar spectrum of light, but at extraordinary power equivalent to
50,000 times the Sun’s intensity at the Earth’s surface. Optical power was
converted directly into electricity using photovoltaic cells (solar cells).
Simply replacing the consumed H2O regenerated the fuel, and the fuel can be
continuously fed into the electrodes to continuously output optical power
that can be converted into electricity.
Our safe, non-polluting power-producing system catalytically converts the
hydrogen of the H2O-based solid fuel into a non-polluting product,
lower-energy state hydrogen called “Hydrino,” by allowing the electrons to
fall to smaller radii around the nucleus. The energy release is 200 times
that of burning the equivalent amount of hydrogen with oxygen. Due to this
extraordinary energy release, H2O can serve as the source of hydrogen fuel to
form hydrinos and oxygen.
Based on a
spectroscopic technique called Stark line broadening, the power was
determined to be in the form of fully ionized brilliant plasma, a gaseous
brilliantly glowing ionized physical state of the fuel comprising essentially
positive ions and free electrons. The plasma particles recombine to emit
light that can be converted directly to electricity using commercially
available, mass-produced photovoltaic or solar cells. Very high-power, high
efficiency cells are commercially available to convert the SF-CIHT cell
optical power directly into electric at its 100 billion watts per liter power
density.
Using readily-available components, BlackLight has developed a system
engineering design of an electric generator that is closed, except for the
addition of H2O fuel, and generates ten million watts of electricity, enough
to power ten thousand homes. Remarkably, the device is less than a cubic foot
in volume. The SF-CIHT cell uses cheap, abundant, nontoxic, commodity
chemicals, with no apparent long-term supply issues that might preclude
commercial, high volume manufacturing. Moreover, the power converter is
mass-produced for the solar power industry. The SF-CIHT cell power is in the
form of light that has the same spectral composition as sunlight.
With the discovery of
the photovoltaic effect by Becquerel in 1839 and the invention of the first
modern solar cell by Bell Labs, an era of cheap clean energy from the Sun was
envisioned for mankind. Realization of that vision is enabled by the
invention of the SF-CIHT cell that overcomes the impediment of the very low
power density of sunlight. With advances since its inception, solar cells
have demonstrated the capacity to convert light into electricity at tens of
thousands of times higher power levels than sunlight at much higher
efficiency at high versus low light intensity. At 50,000 times brighter than
sunlight, the corresponding reduction in the area of the photovoltaic
converter gives rise to a projected cost of the SF-CIHT cell of about $25/kW
compared to over one hundred times that for conventional power sources of electricity.
Applications and markets for the SF-CIHT cell extend across the global power
spectrum, including thermal, stationary electrical power, motive, and
defense. Given the independence from existing infrastructure, grid in the
case of electricity and fuels in the case of motive power, the SF-CIHT power
source is a further game changer for all forms of transportation: automobile,
freight trucks, rail, marine, aviation, and aerospace in that the power
density is one million times that of the engine of a Formula One racer, and
ten million times that of a jet engine. The energy release of H2O fuel,
freely available in the humidity in the air, is one hundred times that of an
equivalent amount of high-octane gasoline. This technology is enabling of a
conventional-sized and powered car to travel 3000 miles on a liter of water
without producing pollution.
To protect its innovations and inventions, multiple worldwide patent
applications have been filed on BlackLight’s proprietary technology. The
disclosure of one of BlackLight’s patent applications that was recently-filed
worldwide, its 10 MW electric SF-CIHT cell system engineering design and
simulation, an automotive application simulation, high-speed video of
millions of watts of SF-CIHT cell plasma, and a video of the pulsed
production of millions of watts of light with photovoltaic conversion into
electricity are publicly available on BlackLight’s webpage (http://www.blacklightpower.com/).
About BlackLight Power
BlackLight Power, Inc. is the inventor of a new primary energy source
applicable to essentially all power applications such as thermal, electrical,
automotive, trucking, rail, marine, aviation, aerospace, and defense. The
BlackLight Process, the power source, is the process of releasing the latent
energy of the hydrogen atom by forming Hydrinos. The SF-CIHT cell was
invented by Dr. Mills to release this energy directly as electricity from
water as the only source of fuel.
For more information, please visit http://www.blacklightpower.com/
Glossary
BlackLight Process: A novel chemical process invented by Dr. Mills causing
the latent energy stored in the hydrogen atom to be released as a new primary
energy source.
Hydrino: Hydrinos are a new form of hydrogen theoretically predicted by Dr.
Mills and produced and characterized by BlackLight. Hydrinos are produced
during the BlackLight Process as energy is released from the hydrogen atom as
the electron transitions to a lower-energy state resulting in a smaller
radius hydrogen atom. The identity of the dark matter of the universe as
Hydrinos is supported by BlackLight’s spectroscopic and analytical results as
well as astrophysical observations.
SF-CIHT Cell: Each SF-CIHT cell comprises two electrodes that confine a
highly electrically conducive H2O-based solid fuel that serves as a source of
reactants to form Hydrinos. A low-voltage, very high current (about one
thousand times that of household currents) ignites the water to form hydrinos
and cause a burst of brilliant-light-emitting plasma power of millions of
watts that can be directly converted to electricity using proven photovoltaic
cells that are commercially available for converting light to electric power.
Photovoltaic or Solar Cell: Each cell comprises a flat panel of a
semiconductor material that exhibits the photovoltaic effect, a method of
generating electrical power by converting radiation such as solar radiation
into direct current electricity. Light absorption in the semiconductor
material creates energized charge carriers of opposite polarity that are
collected at corresponding negative and positive electrode contacts on
opposite sides of the flat panel to create a voltage that can deliver power
to an external load. |
