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Blake Tempest's avatar

Am I alone in wondering why the best a company that hopes to take over a trillion-dollar market can do is provide a grainy screenshot of a phone video as evidence of their breakthrough? To be clear, I’m excited by the promise of BLP but completely nonplussed by their consistently uninspiring promotional material. OK so one shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, buuuut …

_Jim's avatar

Can I surmise that you may not be aware of the incremental progress and related reports shown the last number of years as shown in in-house validation runs (even doing in-house development one must have metrics to measure progress!) and detailed therein in a number of released detailed reports?

To those of us who have paid attention to those reports (I began investigating this tech in 2016 (shortly after Mills' and team vaporized Tungsten electrodes in a test) and decided I would take a year to look at his methods and science before rendering an opinion ... most other 'wildcats' in the new energy field can be evaluated over the course of a few weeks and conclude yea or nay as to validity (in science and physics) and holding promise for development in the future.

So when a continuous high-power 40 minute run is announced, I KNOW the shortcomings they have overcome in the previous attempts in a given hardware build/configuration ... and longevity approaching an hour at high, continuous power outputs is a milestone.

If you were expecting visual imagery of a walk-on-water moment, sorry for the disappointment.

Blake Tempest's avatar

I've also been following BLP for the best part of a decade, read books by people who worked with Mills, watched the many videos of electrodes burning out, black boxes turning red & bubbling cauldrons of water, listened to Dr Mills lecturing at Universities & business meetings, even tuned in on the odd shareholder investment meeting. I'm a 'believer' - I just don't understand how something with so much potential which should be stirring interest in the highest circles just seems to be so poorly promoted. I mean here we have a major announcement, but not even the customary video of a blazing box of white light - just a screenshot from someone's phone.

It doesn't make 'selling the science' to skeptics and naysayers any easier - and sure maybe for some of those people nothing will but beyond ones own excitement, surely it cannot do any harm - or even be that hard - to provide a few fireworks to go with the fanfare?

Think Tesla (Nikola) - it may not be "pure science", but sometimes a little showmanship goes a long way.

The USAofRATS's avatar

Look at Helion Fusion- Uses Magnetic RFC to extract energy-no primitive boiling water to spin turbines- First 50KW working device under construction Still flawed grid based power generation- Consider the extreme suppression faced by Mills , plus Global Petrochemical control syndicate activity to keep using fossil energy

Ian Visser's avatar

On the surface, a great acheivement. But, as has been said, light on detail. I would ask a more important question - if the initial goal is a repeatable one hour, why was it stopped after 40 minutes? Did it all melt down or was there a small, fixable problem? Remember, the ultimate goal ins 24x7 for years! Having said that, 1 hour is not insignificant.

Andrew Moore's avatar

You can loads of glossy material on fusion - but it will never work - Mills is giving you straight from the lab insights! When its an hour with about 150kw net power with an outside measurement it will be interesting, he's got about 3 weeks to go until the ASM