[extropy-chat] Blacklight pops up again

[Eugen Leitl]

On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 08:14:19PM -0600, Damien Broderick wrote:
> Still sounds like crap:

He's a notorious crank, and has been floating this for many years

http://www.hydrino.org/

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/h/hy/hydrino_theory.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrino_theory

I'm surprised physweb actually made the mistake of giving air to that
notorious pseudoscientist.
 
> 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." >

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