The “validation” here is that they got some money for further development, and this is reported on a business site. Getting backers does not preclude them being, as Bob Park has put it, “investors with deep pockets and shallow brains”. The purported mechanism is the formation of Hydrinos, which is a state in Hydrogen below the ground state. Which is, needless to say, at odds with basic quantum mechanics.
BlackLight’s continuously operating, power-producing system converts ubiquitous H2O (water) vapor directly into electricity, oxygen, and a new, more stable form of Hydrogen called Hydrino, which releases 200 times more energy than directly burning hydrogen
If it’s “more stable” than regular Hydrogen, one has to wonder why we don’t see it everywhere. Oh, wait, we apparently do:
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.
Except, of course, that spectroscopy means photons, and dark matter doesn’t interact electromagnetically, because if it did, we’d see it. If you can get to this Hydrino state electromagnetically, why doesn’t it happen spontaneously? We should be up to our armpits in Hydrinos.
I have been talking about these frauds for years, in talks about pseudoscience. They publish just enough legitimate but pedestrian science in reasonable journals to maintain an appearance of credibility, but their main “product” is a cynical fraud – but they have a very professional-looking Website.
The quotes by “experts” range from seemingly generic:
“To be able to use hydrogen from water as a cheap and nonpolluting source of power would represent one of the most important technological breakthroughs in history.”
To nonsensical:
“BLP has successfully fabricated and tested CIHT cells capable of producing net electrical output up to 50 times that input to maintain the process”
And, to top it off, I love that the Google gives a prominent “This site may be compromised” warning for the homepage of the journal that they reference.
Half of me wants the company to be investigated for fraud and the other half just wants all the investors to learn a lesson. Is that a bad thing?