[extropy-chat] Blacklight pops up again

[Damien Broderick]

Still sounds like crap:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,3605,1627424,00.html

< Rick Maas, a chemist at the University of North Carolina at Asheville 
(UNC) who specialises in sustainable energy sources, was allowed unfettered 
access to Blacklight's laboratories this year. "We went in with a healthy 
amount of scepticism. While it would certainly be nice if this were true, 
in my position as head of a research institution, I really wouldn't want to 
make a mistake. The last thing I want is to be remembered as the person who 
derailed a lot of sustainable energy investment into something that wasn't 
real."

But Prof Maas and Randy Booker, a UNC physicist, left under no doubt about 
Dr Mill's claims. "All of us who are not quantum physicists are looking at 
Dr Mills's data and we find it very compelling," said Prof Maas. "Dr Booker 
and I have both put our professional reputations on the line as far as that 
goes." >