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There's a better way to get power or heat from hydrogen that is 200 times better than burning it: https://brilliantlightpower.com/shareholder-meeting-presentat

There's a better way to get power or heat from hydrogen that is 200 times better than burning it: https://brilliantlightpower.com/shareholder-meeting-presentation/ https://brilliantlightpower.com/shareholder-meeting-presenta...

philipkglass 2y ago
Brilliant Light Power is nonsense. They've been promising amazing products for nearly 10 years now. Here's a Wayback Machine capture of their home page from 2015: https://web.archive.org/web/20151122183613/https://brilliantlightpower.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20151122183613/https://brilliant... BrilliantLight has developed a commercially competitive, nonpolluting source of energy from water. A SunCell™ catalytically converts H2O-based solid fuel directly into brilliant light which is converted to electricity using photovoltaic panels. If they actually had this "commercially competitive, nonpolluting source of energy" they'd be selling the machines or selling the electricity by now.
- dave333 2y ago
  There have been a well documented series of engineering solutions to problems in the implementation that have taken time to solve. Melting electrodes due to too much power - solved by molten stream electrodes C 2016. Melting holes in the reaction chamber eventually resolved after many different things tried by quartz that is transparent to UV. Etc. Demonstrations are offered to qualified parties.
  - Dylan16807 2y ago
    They're not rewriting physics. Whatever's going on over there, it's fake. Though the main suncell page mostly just claims to be a solar concentrator? Like, okay, you can do that, but carefully aimed mirrors don't really save you any money over the same surface area of solar cells. Or twice the area of solar cells, looking at the efficiency claim on that page.
    - dave333 2y ago
      They have a new (since 1990s) classical model of atomic structure that is superior to the electron probability cloud model. It models the electron as a thin fluid shell that spins around the nucleus along all great circle paths. It allows calculations of molecular structure in closed form equations. You misunderstand the suncell - the source of UV light is a hydrogen reaction when it bumps into a catalyst able to accept the right amount of energy that pushes the "ground state" electron into a lower energy orbit nearer to the nucleus releasing said energy. Solar concentrator photovoltaic cells are used to convert the intense UV light into electricity because they are cheaper per kW and much smaller.
      - lambdaone 2y ago
        Their lack of progress in producing power from their system suggests otherwise. Meanwhile the standard quantum mechanical model of matter goes on making correct, testable predictions. Including in fusion experiments.
        dave333 2y ago
        Except for dark matter, dark energy, accelerating expansion of the universe, sun's coronal temperature, mature galaxies in the earliest times after the big bang...
      - Dylan16807 2y ago
        If they had a real UV thingy that acts as proof for a new atomic model they would send samples to major labs and become famous. The "Don't you want a Nobel prize?" argument is a very good way to detect pseudoscience.
        dave333 2y ago
        See engineering challenges documented above and https://brilliantlightpower.com/plasma-video/ https://brilliantlightpower.com/plasma-video/ and their video archive also they have hydrinos isolated in a test tube and have performed many analytical experiments to measure properties that definitively prove exactly what it is and matches the theoretical predictions.

philipkglass 2y ago

Brilliant Light Power is nonsense. They've been promising amazing products for nearly 10 years now. Here's a Wayback Machine capture of their home page from 2015: https://web.archive.org/web/20151122183613/https://brilliantlightpower.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20151122183613/https://brilliant... BrilliantLight has developed a commercially competitive, nonpolluting source of energy from water. A SunCell™ catalytically converts H2O-based solid fuel directly into brilliant light which is converted to electricity using photovoltaic panels. If they actually had this "commercially competitive, nonpolluting source of energy" they'd be selling the machines or selling the electricity by now.

dave333 2y ago
There have been a well documented series of engineering solutions to problems in the implementation that have taken time to solve. Melting electrodes due to too much power - solved by molten stream electrodes C 2016. Melting holes in the reaction chamber eventually resolved after many different things tried by quartz that is transparent to UV. Etc. Demonstrations are offered to qualified parties.
- Dylan16807 2y ago
  They're not rewriting physics. Whatever's going on over there, it's fake. Though the main suncell page mostly just claims to be a solar concentrator? Like, okay, you can do that, but carefully aimed mirrors don't really save you any money over the same surface area of solar cells. Or twice the area of solar cells, looking at the efficiency claim on that page.
  - dave333 2y ago
    They have a new (since 1990s) classical model of atomic structure that is superior to the electron probability cloud model. It models the electron as a thin fluid shell that spins around the nucleus along all great circle paths. It allows calculations of molecular structure in closed form equations. You misunderstand the suncell - the source of UV light is a hydrogen reaction when it bumps into a catalyst able to accept the right amount of energy that pushes the "ground state" electron into a lower energy orbit nearer to the nucleus releasing said energy. Solar concentrator photovoltaic cells are used to convert the intense UV light into electricity because they are cheaper per kW and much smaller.
    - lambdaone 2y ago
      Their lack of progress in producing power from their system suggests otherwise. Meanwhile the standard quantum mechanical model of matter goes on making correct, testable predictions. Including in fusion experiments.
      - dave333 2y ago
        Except for dark matter, dark energy, accelerating expansion of the universe, sun's coronal temperature, mature galaxies in the earliest times after the big bang...
    - Dylan16807 2y ago
      If they had a real UV thingy that acts as proof for a new atomic model they would send samples to major labs and become famous. The "Don't you want a Nobel prize?" argument is a very good way to detect pseudoscience.
      - dave333 2y ago
        See engineering challenges documented above and https://brilliantlightpower.com/plasma-video/ https://brilliantlightpower.com/plasma-video/ and their video archive also they have hydrinos isolated in a test tube and have performed many analytical experiments to measure properties that definitively prove exactly what it is and matches the theoretical predictions.